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12d ago

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Honestly, getting banned from a big subreddit for a climate data post made me switch to my own blog, and the control is way better.

Does anyone else worry about losing your domain if you forget to renew it one time?

12d ago

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Question about using a router on end grain for a big sign

Climb cutting really does take all that chattering out of the equation. Once I got used to the feel, I couldn't go back to conventional on most cuts. You tried it on aluminum yet?

15d ago

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Caught a podcast snippet about pricing psychology that clicked for me

30 clients is a pretty small sample size to be drawing big conclusions from. I bumped my freelance rates by 15% a few years ago and lost 3 out of 12, which stung way more than the extra cash from the ones who stayed. Could be your market in Akron is just less price sensitive than mine down here in Columbus, or maybe those 2 clients were the ones who always complained anyway. Just saying, maybe don't base your whole pricing strategy on one podcast guy's example.

16d ago

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Got a reality check from an old timer about my drafting layers

1998, I was trimming a big pecan tree for a lady in Wimberley. I had 14 different chainsaws in my truck, thought I was real prepared. She said "son, you only need two. One for cutting, one for backup." Took me ten years to realize she was right. Layers and tools stack up but they don't always help.

17d ago

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Saw a live demo of AI voice cloning at a conference in Austin and it freaked me out

...and I think that's the wrong way to look at it honestly. The comparison to photoshopped images doesn't hold up because you can at least look at a photo from different angles or ask someone who was there. With audio, if your mom calls you crying and says she's in trouble, you're not gonna stop and check a blockchain watermark. You're gonna panic and send money. This tech takes away the one thing we had left that felt real which was hearing someone's actual voice. We're not ready for that and pretending we can just watermark our way out of it is wishful thinking at best.