For me it was getting a CDL. I went through Swift Transportation to get mine, though most trucking companies either have a trucking school or have tuition reimbursement. Back in 2008, it cost me $800 upfront (going to the state for testing and licensing) plus 2 years working for Swift.

Pay was shit starting out, but at this point in my career I’m making $60,000 a year. I could be making more, but I shifted to running a yard truck instead of running routes.

If you’re not having any luck getting into the trades, that is the direction I would look. Swift literally hired me 30 minutes after I put in the application, in the middle of the night. The trucking industry as a whole tends to be really fast to hire as well. The longest I’ve had to wait to hear back from a company I’ve applied to was 72 hours.

Other options would be to check with local construction companies and farms. Both are probably really hurting for people right now due to ICE. Might also check with HVAC, plumbing and electrician outfits. I know that Alabama, in particular, has been short handed in each of these fields for a while, so they may be willing to train on the job.

Contact the companies themselves, not the unions associated with their fields as the only union I’m aware of that handles job placement as well as training is the Boilermakers. I’ve applied to them once, didn’t hear anything back from the Boilermakers for 3 years. They is a bit slow.

edit: fixing a typo

I looked into this a few years ago. At that time, if you had a “c wire”, there were several options that would work directly with HA.

I don’t have a C Wire so that didn’t help me.

Without a c wire, I was only able to find a single option. A “Sensi” brand that could run on batteries, but wouldn’t work directly with HA. Tou had to control it though Amazon Alexa or through their app. Neither option turned out to be particularly reliable.

Screw striking. Waste of time when the government will just call it an illegal strike.

When the bullshit outpaces the pay, walk away. Find another job.

I have 2 that I use regularly. PIA to unblock things on the internet (and change how things are logged) and Tailscale to access my home network remotely. I’m happy with both of them.

That is a bit disturbing.

I think I first noticed that phrase about 10 years ago. Not sure where it came from.

Take their money. Give your very best every moment you’re at work. And find a job that you can better live with. Or better yet, build one.

Your first priority should always be to take care of and protect yourself and your family. Build systems that enable you to be as self-reliant as practicable. You can’t help others if you, yourself, are are constantly being knocked flat on your ass.

I did notice there are no conservative subs

They exist on Lemmy, though your home instance may be blocking them or their home instances, or you just may not have seen them. lemmy.world has a fair few instances on their block list. I’ve had to block a few of the more egregious MAGA communities myself.

Remember, Lemmy (as a network) is censorship resistant, not censorship free.

In my experience, only a few care about size. Most, just care about whether a guy is able or willing to get them off.

So, what would be the community that is the opposite of buy it for life?

Seriously, I get that internet is ubiquitous in some areas, but everything should have the ability to function correctly without internet access.

I believe it, I’ve just never had any luck with plugin compressors, or really, any automotive 12v device. They’ve all either been a bit knaf or killed the outlets.

Spec sheet on the Ryobi pump says it can do 160psi, though I’ve never had cause to test that. Highest pressure tire I have is on my yard truck at work (100 psi), and they have a built in air compressor. At some point I should see if the Ryobi can actually bring those tires up to pressure.

If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

I’ve never had any luck with the plug-in 12v compressors, personally. Seemed like every time I needed to use them the 12v outlet in the car would fail at that exact moment.

The 3rd time that happened, I bought the first gen of Ryobi’s 18v air compressors. It’s a reliable piece of kit. That was 12ish years ago. Currently that one is in my wife’s car and I picked up their latest generation for my car. I’ve used the new one a few times so far. Neither one has failed me yet. The older compressor with a full 2ah pack would fill a stock F-150 tire from 0 psi to 32psi, just. Recommend a 4ah pack if you have a pickup. Newer one seems more power efficient, but haven’t used it enough to be sure.

Looking at Home Depot, it looks like there are battery powered compressors available in all your favorite colors. I would imagine they are all similarly reliable.

If I had to pick a plugin compressor, though, I would probably pick Husky simply based off of my history with the brand. They’re not flashy, but generally make good kit.

Of course they did.

Well, I own, but what I would do is go ahead and rent the new place and then give notice on the old place. You’ll wind up paying rent on two places for that month, but on the upside your move won’t need to be a chaotic rush.

Very much depends. I host the digital music collection for my entire family (6 people) all with very different tastes in music and very large music collections. According to Jellystat, I’m hosting roughly 52,000 tracks taking up just shy of 2 TB. I used to keep track of how many albums I had but I’ve long since lost track.

On average, a CD ripped to FLAC seems to run around 300MB. MP3 or OGG would generally be smaller (but with quality loss), dependent on the bitrate, call it 50MB - 200MB.

In short, a person hosting a normal sized personal music collection is unlikely to run into space issues.

You can. I started my Jellyfin server on a RPi3. Not great hardware for video streaming, but it will work fine for music. Could also use Navidrome. For local network only, that would be all you need.

To stream your media collection outside your home network, you’ll want to set up either a reverse proxy and set your ISP’s modem to forward the traffic to the reverse proxy, or set up a VPN like Tailscale. Tailscale would be the simpler option most of the time and is more secure for the average self-hoster.

Only if you only get your news from social media. There has been other stuff going on. US economy is weakening, there has been a Nissan recall, some tech news, apparently another bank either has or will soon fail. Same old, same old.

My social media feed though are nothing but protests, ICE misbehavior, and propaganda from all sides.

Might want to pick an actual news organization to follow to see what else is going on in the world. Lately, for me it has been apnews.

I don’t disagree that we need people like the Colonel to stay in, but the man has served faithfully for 24 years. More than long enough to reach retirement. We have to trust in the training that he has given the men and women that have served under him, and hope that it will prove to be enough.

Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it’s either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.