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I bought my first MiniDisc device (Sony MZ-R55 💽) with my employee discount at Circuit City in November, 1999. I was already the privileged owner of an Aiwa shelf stereo with 3-CD changer, dual tape deck, and TOSLINK optical output, so I was able to create seamless digital mixes of tracks from my favorite albums and artists *long* before anyone I knew had even heard of burning a CD, much less done it themselves.
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#MiniDisc #Sony #VintageAudio #RetroAudio #Audiophile #Recording #Dubbing #Mixtape #Musician #Guitarist
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I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)
My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.
Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!
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@divya
How utterly arbitrary and pointless. I was diagnosed with #ADHD as an adult in 2009 by my primary care physician at the time, and do you wanna know what the official diagnostic process was? A simple, 10-question self-assessment form with a cumulative score at the end.THAT'S IT.
I answered truthfully, got my diagnosis, and I've been receiving treatment ever since. It makes me absolutely #furious that patients seeking an ADHD diagnosis nowadays are being subjected to such a ridiculous process, which seems deliberately designed to prevent them from being diagnosed!
Making an untreated ADHD patient jump through countless administrative and scheduling hoops is like asking a #blind person to solve one of those traffic light #CAPTCHAs, or asking a #deaf person to name the title and artist of a song playing on the radio.
Seriously, I'm losing my cool over here, and it's not just my #hyperactive sense of #injustice. This kind of policy should be straight up illegal. 🤬
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@AlSweigart
Wow, they just went full #GlengarryGlenross, didn't they?I was #RadicalizedAgainstCapitalism in 2012, while working at a #JPMC branch. #Corporate gave us a bunch of ridiculous, unattainable sales goals and called them #commitments, even though they never asked for our opinion, or if we were willing to make those commitments.
Naturally, these unattainable goals were not met, and corporate started accusing us of "failing to meet our commitments." They framed it as a moral failing on our part instead of a failure on their part to actually do the research and determine what amount of sales they might reasonably expect from that branch.
My team was composed exclusively of highly experienced #bankers with long track records of exemplary sales performance. But corporate, rather than accept that maybe they had made a miscalculation, just gaslit and systematically fired us, one by one, until they had to close the branch.
I've been #AntiCapitalist ever since.
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@BruceMirken
But if you have any #Starbucks #GiftCards lying around, use them up, because until you do, that's money of yours that they already have, and they will continue using it to lobby for anti-#union legislation and funding the campaigns of anti-union candidates. #MakeThemPay #SBUX