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Landlords Throw Party to Celebrate Being Able to Evict People Again
  • Housing Providers should provide houses to the Unhoused.

  • What are you Reading (September 2023)
  • I'm on the third book in the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. It's excellent 👌

  • Welcome to the 'nepo' housing market: 40% of homebuyers under 30 get family money to cover their down payment
  • Obama (or Illinois?) gave me 10k down payment in 2009 and I got a tiny townhome at 23 right after I got a job outta college. I stayed in it for 10 years and traded it in for a bigger house like a crab after I got married.

    I was not money conscious at the time but my dad pretty much forced me to get a house if I had the means. I'm glad he did.

    So I guess I was also gifted my down payment from my parents and other tax payers parents.

  • What temperature do you keep your thermostat at?
  • Western suburbs of Chicago, IL. Summer it's 77-79f (25-26c). Winter it's 65-69f (18.3-20.5c).

    In summer we open the windows at night and let the cooler air in and when the sun comes in I close the windows and run a dehumidifier to quickly bring down the relative temp upstairs especially. Helps a bunch.

    When our new kid comes I will have to def adjust these numbers much closer to 72f (22c).

    I was talking to friends who live nearby and essentially keep it at 72f (22c) year round and almost never open their windows they were using like 1040kwh-1600kwh per month last month where we were using 309kwh or about 50 bucks a month. This was for July. I think we may be the weirdos and we will have to get more on their level with a newborn.

  • Bob Barker, longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host, dies at 99
  • Other than the same memories you all have of being sick and watching during elementary school, when I was older my friend and I had off campus privilege in high school and we would go to her house quick where her grandma would make us sandwiches and we would watch him the price is right.

  • feels like 117...? 95
  • Aurora il is 115 feels like. 2nd floor is a bit too hot.

  • We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST*
  • I use jeroba and I would at least love the option to turn off infinite scroll

  • Routes?
  • I think it's just generally another super terrible roll out. Some people are getting them some aren't yet. By the time everyone gets the ability to make a route all the routes will be made.

  • YouTube Premium individual plan now costs $2 more for all subscribers in the US | TechCrunch
  • its like $2 in some territories and even thats almost not worth it. $14 is definitely not worth it

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  • midwest.social is chill

  • What are some good browser-based games you've liked?
  • Yep. Browser is also where you can play the beta patch when it's going on and you can play as a guest.

  • DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
  • i would use this but some of the channels i watch the most number their thumbnails and dont do clickbait like this. if i could pick and choose per channel somehow it would be more helpful to me. i do agree with the sentiment though!

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
  • "Money I got, time I don't."

    My dad said this offhanded joking remark to me 30 years ago and it lives rent free in my head. It's a privileged view point for sure but I took it to mean save and be prepared but don't be frugal toa detriment. Spend on things you love and spend away on things you hate. Don't waste time if you can afford not to.

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    open source baby activity tracking app

    lemmings.world Baby Journal - Open source app for tracking baby activities - Lemmings.world

    A while ago I made an app for tracking baby activities because I became a parent and was horrified at how many permissions the existing apps required and how much tracking they contained. Both the app and the server are open source. This is a web-app which also has an Android version in the Play Sto...

    im a soon to be dad and was looking through those apps and was disturbed by how much some of them cost or require subscription for features. this looks simple and easy enough to start out with when the time comes. hopefully it helps someone else too.

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    Baby Journal - Open source app for tracking baby activities
  • This super relevant to me. Just looking through all those apps in the store and how annoyingly they push subscription and in app purchases of dozens of dollars for basic features. Thanks for this. Hopefully more new parents find this.

  • Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
  • Is it possible to share the content

  • Person of Interest
  • ive watched this show probably 4-5 times since the finale. such a good show. sometimes i sneak up on my wife and go DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN You are being watched

  • Every time I type "r" in my browser
  • yeah its taking a while i auto complete reddit then stop and hit midwest.social instead

  • Google Pixel devices finally have a real default weather app
  • I hope it comes to the pixel phones soon. Though I enjoy wunderground it would be nice if that weather widget was more helpful.