It sucks that everything's packaging is shrinking and becoming more expensive, but I really appreciate how toothpaste tubes are practically endless. I thought my toothpaste was about to go empty last week and I'm still able to squeeze some out no problem

gahhh I rented a car for a couple days a few weeks ago and specifically chose to pay all tolls with cash to avoid crazy rental car toll fees, but I still managed to get slapped with a pay-by-plate-only bridge and a toll booth that was closed with instructions to pay online, but the online portal rejected payment because the car is registered to the rental car's transponder already.

$4 worth of tolls turned into $28 worth of tolls + fees, for my "convenience"

After almost two years with the LG DualUp being my daily driver monitor (and eventually settling on using it rotated 90 degrees so it's 18:16/2880x2560) I think a 28 inch 3:2 monitor would be my endgame. Huawei used to sell a 28.2" 3840x2560 monitor but I don't think it's available in the US anymore. I'd do dirty things to get my hands on one now.

jesus christ I was originally marked as exceeds expectations for my performance review but my manager told me she had to drop me to meets expectations to match guidance because "I was only promoted a year ago," which I later learned is bullcrap since plenty of people on Blind are reporting they were promoted 6 months ago and still got exceeds. Now I got my compensation statement and it's a 0% base pay raise and a peanuts equity grant, which is also way out of band according to Blind. I'm seeing people with lower performance ratings in cheaper regions with already-higher TC getting bigger raises than me. I don't even know how to respond to my manager's "I really appreciate all the great work" message attached to it.

Literally the only reason I haven't bought a PS5 is because of the hideous Alienware-like gamer aesthetic that can't fit in any living room. I really hope the PS5 Pro doesn't make the same mistake

I have an irrational hatred of error messages that start with "oops!"

stfu you're not a person. you never will be.

My company's been able to approve using Github Copilot for a couple of months now and I'm generally pretty mixed about it in the IDE, but GitHub Copilot in the CLI has been a total game changer for me. I haven't had to Google any git, adb, or ffprobe commands in a long time, and it's so much better at explaining a command and its arguments than searching Stack Overflow for an explanation of each individual argument.

Ugh, apparently E*Trade doesn't include the right cost basis on my company's 1099-B forms which means I overpaid last year's taxes by over $3000. Filing an amendment is such a pain in the butt since I have to do it manually through the mail and this might affect this year's filing. I hate how tax filing works in the US.

I am the king of tax loss harvesting. Not because I do any of that bullcrap with selling losses while selling gains, but because I have so many losses that I am always offsetting any gains by default. I think I'm the only person that has lost significant money on NVDA calls lately, somehow.

ah screw it, I'm buying an $NVDA lottery ticket

I'm booking a trip to Japan, and trying to convert and consolidate rewards points from five different rewards programs for flights/hotels plus figuring out cash vs. buying points has got me feeling like

I was in the interview loop for Xbox and thought it was going pretty well but then suddenly got ghosted. I'm hoping these rumors of Xbox announcing leaving the console space next week turn out to be true and hope I was ghosted for restructuring reasons and not I-suck-at-interviewing reasons.

I just discovered you can bypass The Wall Street Journal's pay wall by using their text-to-speech accessibility option and it'll just read out the full article, lol

Palworld is really fun

Kids these days will never know the struggle of playing a console game at a friend's house or seeing it online/on TV, then getting "the same" game for the GBA or DS only to find out it's a completely different game on portable. It's wild that cell phones and the 7-year-old Nintendo Switch can run the same games as a PS5 with just lowered graphics and some limited functionality when we used to lose an entire dimension in our mobile ports.