Now I have ice maker envy 🙄

I tend to agree with that. But with the way customer service is going these days, its still a gamble. I like longer warranties if only because it seems like the manufacturer has some confidence in what they produced

If your roof is not shaded by trees, a light colored roof makes a huge difference. This can be accomplished a number of ways. Replacing your roofing material with a lighter color is ideal but expensive. Coating it with something like Henry Tropi-cool is durable but the product is also a little pricey. The absolute budget way to do this on an asphalt shingled roof is with a slurry of masonry lime. I’ve experimented with all of these methods and the results are dramatic. In my case the coating paid for itself within one season and made the house noticeably more comfortable.

Same! Only get to Lemmy when I’m on the throne!

Everything you’re feeling is normal. Stay optimistic. We were in your shoes not that long ago and went through the same thing. Keep breathing, deep breaths, maybe take up some breath focused meditation for 15-20 mins a day. Or even some yoga can calm your nervous system. There will be unexpected setbacks but you’re going to work through it all and come out the other side just fine. Personally, I’ve had to redirect my attention to just tackling one thing at a time and keep plugging away so I don’t get overwhelmed with the magnitude of all the issues together.

How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Anthony Bourdain. Still have a hard time watching his shows. Haven’t yet watched the last season of Parts Unknown

What about the Mullvad browser? Seems to work well and is very privacy focused. I’m surprised no one else has mentioned it yet…

Eternity. I’ve tried them all and it was the best. Dev is too busy lately to maintain it. So I’m using Connect in the interim.

Really, you just gotta try them all to find the flavor you like best!

“…one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Makes my skin crawl everyday I hear this coming from the local grade school

I’m in a similar boat. Spotify is infuriating for a variety of reasons. For one, I just cannot understand how they screw up their android app so frequently. It’s constantly riddled with new bugs almost every update. And I hate how little they pay the actual artists.

I’ve been reading the buzz about music streaming services for a long while now. Qobuz is what I’m going to try next.

I also keep Pandora because their recommendations algorithm is the best in the business, in my experience.

Honorable mention for https://odysee.com/ I still use YT but I also like Odysee. And I use Freetube on my Linux laptop for YT, works great! Edit: format

Fleksy has gif support built-in. It’s the only one outside of Gboard and SwiftKey that does afaik