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This is the only relevant subreddit I follow that allows polls, and I remember Tamler expressing a deep-seated hatred of his Roomba, so that's why I'm asking this here. I don't know why I'm curious about this, but I'm really high and just wondering.

We named ours Frank (in honor of IASIP) and use he/him. It started as a joke, but now we just keep doing it.

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I'm starting therapy for the first time in about a month. One of my issues is that I believe I will tell my therapist my thoughts and feelings and so on, and they will basically conclude that I'm an asshole or a shitty person.

For example, I often imagine terrible things happening to people close to me merely so something in my life is more convenient. I really do feel like I want these terrible things to happen, and I also feel like I'd be able to go on with my life, just a little bit happier as if nothing of significance had happened. I feel like this is fucked up, but at the same time I can't feel differently.

That's just one example, but I have others.

My therapist is a human being, s

I always like seeing these Sankey diagrams of job searches, so I thought people here might want to see the results of my recent search for a Senior Technical Writer role. I applied exclusively to remote positions because I've been working remotely since before the pandemic, and it's awesome. I'm sure some number of those No Responses would turn to rejections or maybe even interviews if I waited a couple weeks, but I have the motivation to do this tonight, so here it is.

Requirements: Tech industry and $100k base salary minimum

Timeline: It was about 4 weeks from when I sent my first application to accepting an offer.

Background: I have 6 years total of technical writing experi

My wife and I moved into our house over two years ago, and our internet has generally been fine. However, we recently had a tankless water heater installed right near where our cable comes into our house. Since then, we've had extremely slow speeds, dropped connections, and random disconnects from the modem.

We used to get 700Mbps wired/200-300Mbps wireless, but now we get 150Mbps wired and 40-50Mbps wireless (if we're lucky). Router logs show tons of uncorrectable codewords, and the second downstream OFDM channel is never locked. From what I understand, neither of these things are good, yeah?

I'm wondering if the technicians installing the water heater somehow did something, but I don't

I need a little help on figuring out the best way to setup my office. This'll be an office for both working and gaming, but I don't know if the setup I want is feasible (or if this is the best place to ask this question).

Here's the situation:

• I currently work on a PC owned by my company. I have to do my work on this computer for a few reasons.
• My work PC is connected to two 27-inch monitors (company-owned) and a 2.1 speaker set (mine).
• I'm planning on getting an ultrawide monitor, connecting it to my work PC, and using all three monitors for work going forward.
• I would also like to bring my gaming PC into my office, connect it to the ultrawide, and game in my office.

If I had a m

My fiancee has decided that she is going to renovate our entire bathroom herself--except for cutting the porcelain tile. She has enlisted me to do that. We're both sort of handy and have done minor work around the house, but nothing to this extent.

Anyway, she bought an angle grinder with a diamond blade for the cutting. I did some basic safety research and watched a handful of youtube videos before trying it myself. But as soon as I started making the first cut, a lot of sparks started shooting out during the cutting. Like, a lot of sparks. None of the videos I watched had any sparking whatsoever.

What's going on here? Did she buy the wrong blade? Is this normal when cutting certain types

I'm having some trouble getting pass through to work with my PC and am hoping someone has a solution. My setup is PC (3080) > TV (B9) > Soundbar (Q850T), with the PC connected to the HDMI 1 port and the TV and soundbar each connected via the HDMI eARC ports. Audio obviously works fine from the native TV apps, but I get no sound at all from my PC. The only way I get sound from the PC is by setting the Digital Sound Out to Auto or PCM, but Pass Through is required for true dolby atmos, right?

I've tried changing the HDMI Input Audio Format from Bitstream to PCM, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Tried running the Windows troubleshooter and reinstalling drivers, which also had no e

Finally! The patch (5.00.02) for the LG B9 to enable G-Sync and full HDR with 12 bpc at 4k 120hz is live. Not sure if it rolls out everywhere in North America all at once, but I'm in the US, and the update auto-downloaded on my TV about 10 minutes ago. Everything appears to be working. These are the settings I changed after the update downloaded:

1. On the TV, enable Ultra Deep Color in the HDR picture settings.
2. In Windows, enable HDR in the display settings.
3. In the Nvidia settings, make sure to turn on the G-sync option.
4. Select 4k @ 120hz for the resolution.
5. Use the Nvidia color settings and select these:
   1. Highest (32-bit) for the desktop color depth.
   2. 12 bpc for outp

I'm finally starting to see some progress. None of it looks amazing, but given what I was starting with, the results aren't too bad.

Front yard, backyard, and far backyard

• Total area is about 30,000 sq. ft, but maybe 3/4 of that is visible in these pictures.
• I cut everything down to 1.5 inches, scalped some areas, bagged the clippings, used a tow-behind aerator and dethatcher, and spread starter fertilizer+seed in one day. This entire process took about 12 hours. A week or so after, I added some Milorganite too.
• Seed is from Outside Pride. I used two blends. One with 90% TTTF / 10% KBG (25lbs), and the other was all fine fescue (50lbs). My yard has a lo