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"I feel so defeated, got a $5,185 cell phone bill."
"Just like the Title says. Got my cell phone bill for $5,185 instead of the usual $385 and I could have sworn it was an error but no im getting screwed 🙃 and have to pay the bill. My daughter met someone on Roblox and wanted to chat so they called & talked. She didn't know she was making a international call and talked and talked. I do even have 5K in my savings and I feel so screwed and defeated."
"Algerian car dealerships run their business on paper and WhatsApp. I spent 6 months building them a native desktop ERP. Here's what it looks like"
"I came from web development. 4 years of Next.js and Framer Motion. At some point I wanted to see what happens when you bring that UI sensibility into a native desktop app instead of reaching for Electron, so i used Qt to achieve that The target users are Algerian automotive dealerships,specifically ones that import vehicles from China. Most of them run everything on paper, WhatsApp groups, and Excel sheets. No proper tooling exists for this market. Runs fully offline-first, as internet reliability is inconsistent in Algeria so the app stays operational regardless of connectivity. * Showroom with vehicle configurator with front, side and back views, color variants, live inventory per trim level * Showroom operations such as selling, acquisition, exchange and consignment * Client management with fuzzy search, filtering and document storage. * Order management with custom payment terms and scheduling, as well as contract and payment receipt generation * Inventory management for brands, models , trims, vehicles and presets. * Container management with vehicle assignment and cost management * Advanced analytics with portfolio breakdown by brand, model and trim * User management and role-based access. * Backup and restore functionality * Company Info and brand color personalisation with accent colors propagating across the entire UI Currently in production at two dealerships, with official launch this april [) Built with QtQuick + C++ frontend, Go/Gin backend, PostgreSQL, Nats JetStream"
"I turned myself into a foraging Neanderthal because my fridge and pantry are a binge hazard and I have zero self-control"
"Trying to practice mindful eating and portion control is a complete joke for me. If there is good food in my house it is a goner and within minutes/hours it will just vanish into my stomach. I cannot be trusted with a stocked kitchen because I will always overeat and I will always go straight for the garbage. If there is an apple and a box of unhealthy cookies, those cookies are getting demolished every single time. There is no having just one for me. If I buy a family size bag of chips I become the whole family. I will eat the entire sleeve of biscuits, devour a block of cheese like a starved rat, and wipe out four days of meal prepped chicken on a random Tuesday afternoon. Luckily I live in a country where we actually have sidewalks and walkability, which I know is wild to Americans who have to drive twenty minutes just to see a vegetable. Because of this I have resorted to living like a literal hunter gatherer and I keep absolutely zero food in my house. My cupboards are totally empty and I live my life pretending I do not even own a refrigerator. Every single day I leave my work from home cave, walk 10 min to the grocery store, and forage for exactly the amount of food I need to survive for that specific day. Once I cook it and eat it the kitchen is closed and I go to sleep because there is literally nothing left to scavenge. The only catch is that where I live everything is legally shut down on Sundays and holidays. Saturday afternoon is my most dangerous time of the week because I am forced to buy enough rations for thirty six hours and I have to fight off the urge to eat Sunday's lunch at two in the morning. Internet dietitians love to tell you to heal your relationship with food but my relationship with food is basically the same relationship a feral raccoon has with an open dumpster. If the junk is not in the house I cannot inhale it, so living like a daily forager is the only way I can survive a caloric deficit without completely stuffing my face."
"Is it normal to feel like I am intellectually rotting in a "golden cage" role?"
"I have been a Senior Analyst with my current firm for about six years now and I have officially hit the ceiling. I am at the top of my pay bracket , the benefits are incredible (100% remote , great 401k match) , and my boss loves me. On paper , I should be thrilled because I have basically automated my entire workflow. I can finish a weeks worth of reporting in about 8 to 10 hours if I really focus. The problem is the boredom is starting to feel like a physical weight. I spend most of my days just checking Slack or laundry while waiting for an email that actually requires my brain. I know I should probably look for a new challenge , but the thought of jumping back into the "hustle" culture , proving myself all over again to a new team , and losing my current flexibility makes me want to cry. I feel like I am losing my edge and becoming less marketable every month I stay here doing nothing. Has anyone else dealt with this guilt of being overpaid and underutilized? How do you stay sharp when your job literally asks nothing of you anymore?"
"Everything is so Expensive! I can't afford Life!"
"It seems like everyone is rich but me. I make $19.50/hr which used to stretch a little but not anymore. Dead broke. Don't have enough money to live and am older so body can't handle more jobs. One is enough. This inflation has crushed me. How do people have 6 figures saved and pay a mortgage in $400k houses? I just can't figure it out."
"There is no Carefree-Childfree time when you have a breastfed infant"
"I appreciate the invite, I understand the restrictions, I won't bring my 6 month old if that's what's the deal. But don't tell me it's because you want ME to have a relaxing time. Because if I don't have my husband and infant shadow me all day, what I will have to do instead is: pack an electric pump and a cooler/cooler thermos, find somewhere to pump for 30-40 minutes 3 or 4 times throughout the day, depending on scheduling of the events, and then rejoin people after I'm done pumping. That is the Opposite of relaxing. Because not having my infant will Not negate my need to feed him and remove milk to protect my supply. I'm the only person in this group with kids and the only one with a newborn and I think they just Don't Get it. And I'm not going to cause stress or drama, but just don't give me that. Be straight up. This is about you having a fun time and you don't want to hear a baby fussing or have to think about anything that goes with it. Edit: Dudes I just needed to vent. Explaining anything to them is asking for emotional labor on their behalf that doesn't make sense. There's enough that goes into party planning without worrying about the one person in your closer circle that has kids. I'm going to what I can, and being sad I'll miss what I can't."
"I got tired of hiding my screen in cafés. So, I scrambled my entire Gmail inbox."
"I work from cafés a lot, and I didn't realize how much energy I was spending on this constant low-level paranoia - checking who's behind me, tilting my laptop, minimizing windows whenever someone walks past. Privacy screen protectors didn't work for me (dark, awkward angles, headaches). So, I tried something different: I made my emails look like complete gibberish unless I actively reveal them. The weird part: after a couple of weeks, I can actually read them without revealing anything. It's like my brain adapted. I didn't expect that at all, but the biggest change is I just stopped thinking about people around me. Curious, how do you deal with this? Or do you just ignore it?"
"Unpopular opinion: NPM is the biggest weakness of the internet today and it will still cause a giant catastrophe"
"The number of dependencies people add to the dependencies they're creating is ridiculously large. Before NPM, we treated adding dependencies as something selective, something we had study and to choose very carefully. Now, with NPM, I install a popular library and it comes with 300 other unwanted dependencies, some of which don't even seem to make any sense for the tool I'm downloading. The problem is that most of these sub-dependencies don't have maintenance regimes that are anywhere near acceptable, and many open-source ones don't even have adequate code review policies. For someone to simply look for a widely used library, rummage through its dependencies, and then maliciously "contribute" to the project in order to indirectly affect other libraries, it's not that difficult. We've had cases in the past, we'll certainly have cases in the future, this is, if there isn't already some vulnerability being exploited silently at this very moment. Now with AI and the level of PRs increasing absurdly, to the point where the AIs themselves are conducting the reviews, it's only a matter of time. NPM needs to address this as soon as possible."