It’s all about the money…

“I had my whole life planed out.” “And then I had you.” Great thing to hear a mother say.

No, I enjoy respectful discussion and learning. There is a huge difference. When you get to the raised voices, snide remarks, and it feels like your hair is on fire the whole time it’s arguing.

I lived with a woman who loved to constantly bicker and argue, sometimes to the point where there were screaming matches over stupid stuff. You didn’t dare defy her. She was in a family that constantly fought and argued over pretty things. I was stuck with it and arguing with her boyfriends who 80 percent of the time were not all that bright. I hated arguing by the time I was in school.

That was my mother. When I finally left I could eat a meal and be sick, vomiting a green slime because of the constant fighting and crap. My son a few months prior had passed away at 9 days old, we had been homeless because of her decisions to not pay things, and her latest winner of a boyfriend kept picking fights with me because I was younger so obviously I knew nothing and he knew it all.

This man screwed up so many things because he could do it all. He did a brake job on a car and had to treat it apart again because he messed something else up. Not to mention he didn’t torque the lug nuts. My mother’s previous boyfriend would hand me a part and tell me, “the pickup needs tree water pump replaced, go do it.” When I had never done one in my life without telling me how pre internet and had no problem. From around 9 to i was 18 that guy who was a former biker, maybe draftee, and spent 15 years in maximum security prison for beating the crap of of his ex and her new man then taking a TV and slamming it on the man’s head nearly killing them both so also seemed to hate my guts.

I finally left not long after she got drunk and pissed off at me for something and told me how her life had been ruined because she had me.

I can’t stand fighting and arguing. I can’t stand taking on the phone either, my mother loved yelling and slamming them too she had the 50 foot cord and loved the cordless ones.

The only time I had fun with arguing was in WoW… have some public fight and be breezing through, then stir the pot and leave. Come back hours later and they were still at it. My favorite was for the grammar nazi’s, a simple, “There, their, they’re… it’ll be ok.” Was my favorite.

And if someone is put in a supervisor position and can’t handle those tasks either? I didn’t say they didn’t know my job, they literally didn’t know what THEY were doing.

Yeah, looked at one for around 5K. Good for about 30 miles because the battery pack needs replaced which increases the price by nearly triple.

Exactly, we have two vehicles. One is 11 years old the other is 23 years old.

Bought an old slum lord house for 18K. Doing all the repair work ourselves. Couldn’t afford 1K a month for rent on an apartment

A new car at 900 plus per month isn’t in the books at all. Plus when it’s 10 years old it will only get 1/4 of the original mileage on a single charge.

Option C

Linux

Yep

Worked construction. Was told I would be an excavator operator… they neglected to say that it was a manual excavator. Nearly wore that shovel to a nub that summer.

I had worked at a theme park a couple summers. I operated one of the rides during a state inspection. It wasn’t a simple push the button and off it goes kind of thing, you manually controlled it. There were three big hydraulic motors with tires that powered the moving portion. The goal was to never equal the tires and I was good at it.

A new supervisor was promoted only because her sister was a manager already. She didn’t know how to properly operate the ride and was training others. I walked past one day to hear it roaring around one direction then the tires started screeching as it was hammered the other direction. I put in my notice the same day as that was my tipping point of stupidity, I wasn’t going to be there when someone was hurt or worse.

The supervisor who promoted her only did it to kiss ass, she complained she hadn’t had a single day off all summer because the new supervisor couldn’t perform the job.

Just because someone was made a supervisor it doesn’t mean they know what they are doing.

On April 1st I’m getting on an airplane and heading to Cozumel for a few weeks of diving.

Same. I don’t own much anyway. The only thing that I am working on that will have any value will be classified as a 501c3.

Exactly. When my wife passed away the only thing we owned were personal items and one vehicle.

The collectors were sending demand letters for an estate of which there was none. Eventually I quit opening the letters and carried a marker with me to the mailbox. When something was sent to the estate of the address was blacked out, they had “return to sender - no estate” put on the front, and they were put in the outbox. After a few months they stopped coming.

If someone was coming to the door (didn’t happen in my case) I would simply have a page written up to hand them that states the person they are looking for is deceased and if they didn’t own anything that there was no estate. It would go on to say that they personally, along with any person’s they work with or for, as well as any subsequent agents are trespassed. If they contact you for the matter again law enforcement will be contacted. It would be handed to them and a picture of them would be taken after which the door would be closed.

The only way a family member can be held liable for a debt is if they have cosigned the debt.

The only issue I’ve had was when I switched to Linux. I set a static IP address in the printer when I first got it and always connect it via Ethernet. I’ve had it for a while but since Samsung sold off their printer brand a couple years later to HP I’m obviously not recommending them.

No they don’t, Samsung sold their business to HP a few years ago. Mine was one of the last models that was actually Samsung made iirc.

I have been lucky enough that I can refill the toner cartridges and just replace the chips. Only major issue I have had is pulling through cardstock on a long run but that is something I rarely do and have learned to deal with.

I can’t say much about brands, I bought a Samsung color laser years ago and still use it.

What I will say is being able to network print is amazing and well worth having. I can print from my tablet, phone, or desktop.

If you feel that instance are not free enough you can roll your own.

When you do that you have control over everything. Be aware that your host may have rules about what can be held on their hardware so if you truly want free speech and say anything you want you will need to self host. On top of that most ISP’s will have rules about what can be transmitted on their network so you will need to find an ISP or colocation farm that doesn’t have those pesky rules…

Here is a post to get you started https://lemmy.world/post/993816

Good luck in your journey.

On a lot of subjects I keep my opinion to myself.

I’ve found most people don’t want to hear it.

As an example on reddit when Notre Dame burned I made a statement that it wouldn’t be long before a GoFundMe would be created and it would be rebuilt. I ended up with hundreds of downvotes and comments that I was wrong and stupid and stuff about the catholic church’s ownership among other things.

For sure. We had one of the AMC Theaters movie pass things and I couldn’t bare to sit in a theater to watch it. The only thing that got me up and out of bed in the morning was her dog. I still have boxes with some of her things in them I can’t go through that were packed up when I moved 5 years ago.