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2d ago
inAppreciation post: Finally got approved after 14 months of waiting
Read your story and man, that hit close to home. Its wild how the system makes you fight for something you clearly need, but then you get a judge who actually pays attention to the little stuff like dropping a sheet pan. That part about your hands going numb is exactly the kind of detail that shows the real day to day struggle, not just some doctor's note. I've noticed a bigger pattern with this whole thing - people think disability is always this big dramatic thing you can see from across the room, but its the small failures nobody sees that add up and wreck your life. The judge who asked about specific tasks gets that its not just pain, its losing the ability to do the simple stuff that makes you feel normal. Good on you for sticking it out through the whole fight, thats a long damn wait for some closure.
3d ago
inTried manual drafting vs digital for a basement remodel and digital won by a mile
Made me feel real stupid when a free app fixed my mess in minutes.
3d ago
inPicked a hands-on demo over a fancy presentation at a vendor summit last month
The CEO jumping in to fix it himself is the part that sticks with me... that tells you way more about company culture than a perfect demo ever could. Kinda makes you wonder how many polished presentations are just smoke and mirrors.
5d ago
inPSA: My old iPod Classic needed a new battery or a full drive swap
Start with the battery swap and you might miss the real problem. I did the full iFlash swap on my 2nd gen mini and it turned out the old drive had already started corrupting some tracks without me noticing. @robin_foster1 is right that sometimes fixing one thing buys time, but with these old iPods the drive is usually closer to dead than people want to admit. The drive in mine started throwing errors about six months after I changed the battery. That clicking noise is basically the drive screaming for help.
5d ago
inPSA: Stop using "password123" for your home router admin panel
Nah, I'm gonna push back on this. Default passwords are fine for 99% of people. My dad's had his router on "admin/admin" for like 8 years and never had a single issue. You're only gonna get hacked if you're clicking on weird links or giving out your WiFi password to strangers. The real threat is people falling for phishing emails, not someone sitting in a van trying default router passwords. I say let people keep their defaults. Less headache for everyone when you need to factory reset.