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Huge Ubiquiti display and demo area. I didn’t buy anything today because the checkout line was too long. My daughter liked the Magna Tile selection in the toys area.

Really great to have this much selection nearby.

The calendar view looks like a useful innovation.

Thanks for sharing it! I use Looks, NDI, and Resi in ProPresenter most of the time yet I am eager to see where this project goes for all kinds of new productions.

LCD Soundsystem is great for this.

But for your last two questions: Yes, it’s Yahoo Mail under the hood! That is still the case. Yahoo provides email hosting services for AT&T Internet users under a contract between Yahoo and AT&T.

However, all customer support for AT&T Yahoo Mail is handled by AT&T, so the best resource for help for those accounts would be AT&T customer service or their help site: https://www.att.com/support/topic/email-support/

Have you checked out CFL? If users mark sender’s messages as spam, it can impact that sender’s deliverability. The CFL can help avoid these recipients by understanding spam reports.

More best practices for deliverability: https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/

Yes, this can happen after 12 months of inactivity for free accounts. Policy: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2018.html

For context, Gmail has a policy which allows for deletion after 2 years of inactivity: https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/

I’m sorry the service didn’t meet your expectation, but for others here who are curious, there are some options for keeping email storage active! These days there are paid Yahoo Mail accounts available which retain email for as long as you have the subscription active. (Or you can log in once a year with a free account.)

You can also use a IMAP app to save a local archive of all of your email. This works for all accounts, even free ones! More: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN5033.html

I was replacing hard drives every few months until I used a UPS. Once I replaced all the drives I’ve been good ever since. UPS is essential for a NAS.

Been using this model since 2019. Just replaced the batteries for the first time this week after the UPS threw code E02 and had a very hot battery compartment. The cells were bad and there was no battery backup possible anymore. Things cooled down a lot after the battery was replaced and the battery backup works again. I’m happy with it.

It connects over USB to the Synology to tell the server to shut down on low battery.

Building relationships takes time. Restarting new relationships every couple years via job hopping can impede such a conversation and make it feel more transactional than mutually beneficial. Since short tenure is more common, this may be another reason Walter finds his colleagues’ experience common.

When negotiating, I knew I was solving the right problems for my superiors and I wanted to keep working to solve their problems but for wages which were more competitive. My bosses understood, wanted the same, and used the offers from other companies to make the case for a raise or promotion.

I would not advise going into a negotiation simply with the notion “I can get paid more over here.” That wasn’t the point of the negotiation. If you go about it that way I believe it would be damaging. A conversation only about pay feels transactional which is damaging to these kinds of long-term relationships. Instead, I was truly desiring to continue my good working relationship with my bosses, but for more pay, and the negotiation was the way for both of us to win.

Over a long time, relationship building snowballs and can be even more effective. The last time I did this after working at the same place for a decade, I got a call from the company’s CTO a few hours after my talk with my manager. He was traveling on business but made time for me to discuss my concern since he knew my work. The call was the start of a satisfying new career direction in a new department.

I have used a better competing offer multiple times to negotiate with my employer of 13 years. My relationship with my superiors improved each time…

I believe how you go about this negotiation will determine if it damages the relationship, not if you do it or not.

I believe it’s okay not to be “normal.” Do what is restful for you, which may not be normal at all. Then be looking out for others who like those things too.

Folks say relationships take time, but I believe it’s something which can happen gradually and then suddenly.

I don’t know what you enjoy doing outside of code. But doing things which are not code helps me rest and helps me find other folks over time who also like that rest. And the friendship grows deeper with these shared experiences.

A new job or address can help you meet new people. But think about what’s restful for you and then be looking out for people who like doing that.

I say restful because then the activity is motivating even without a friendship, but as you go do those things you tend to bump into people who also enjoy those things. And who doesn’t want to be around people who are just as motivated about something as you are? It’s a joy I wish for everyone and I believe it happens gradually and then suddenly. :)

I don’t do a lot of fixed unchanging automation. I do a lot more ambient status and voice assistant integration.

It actually was really nice when my lady moved in after our wedding because my HomeKit things were able to work right away with her Google Home she was used to. :)

The webcam hall status light was to know when either of us are in a meeting. We are both working from home so it’s like a free/busy signal.

I just send the same commands to all the dimmers so they all show the same thing.

It’s connected as a USB serial device to integrate into HA. The HA forums have a custom component for it.

This can be useful for monitoring the entire home power. No load center clamps needed, it communicates with my power meter over Zigbee.

My dryer is gas so I don’t need anything special. Would maybe check out the smart Leviton load center mentioned in this thread for new construction.