nothing major.

we have pretty hard water here, it was killing one of the generic charcoal pitcher filters within a month. the filters in this one haven't had any problems by the time they are scheduled to be replaced.

a couple possibly annoying things:

• the reservoir is on the back, so it's not great against a wall under cabinets. they have a little cart you can buy explicitly to help with that, but it felt silly so I just put it somewhere else
• you can't just top up the reservoir, you have to wait for it to finish, dump it out, then refill. annoying when there's just half a tank left. I end up just trying to use an entire pitcher by dumping it into kettle/espresso machine whenever I use any water so reservoir is either entirely full or empty. afaik true of any of them that aren't plumbed in.
• don't love the fact that I'm locked in to the manufacturers' filters. there don't seem to be any third party ones available if they ever discontinue them

fwiw I've had this one for like 3 years now, no complaints. think it's slightly cheaper on ex amazon tho https://aquatru.com/products/carafe-countertop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

yeah as far as I understand communism in China doesn't mean good social safety nets and such as much as it means central planning. in the US at least it seems like the exact opposite. or just a general boogeyman as seen above lol

this entire account seems to be automated llm slop posts, not sure what the goal is

systemd timers are definitely nicer than cron for this (and basically all cron jobs). there's both a restart on failure with backoff if you want it to handle the retry, or a way to schedule it based on the last exit time so the script can manage the backoff like you are doing now

on the last part, page numbers are hard to trust. I assume you don't have a choice, but that's why I prefer next page tokens when designing an api instead of numbered pages. then you know the data you're getting is exactly after the previous data

I love nix but "subset of json" is an absolutely insane thing to say

the same way I'd recommend installing bash, wsl

that can't be right (assuming USD), the highest US number I can find is 800k per child in San Francisco, but otherwise the national average is 300k.

this is the default compaction method in omp now. afaik it's exploiting the pricing structure of the big providers more than anything

i bet ur typing this on a pervert phone right now. i hear ur pervert computer does the same thing but faster. we should ban computers. this is not an exaggeration.

mortgage prepayment penalty fees are reasonably common and happen if you pay too much on it too early