I mean, that seems pretty normal? I'm about 70% sure they must have shown some of those 250 or whatever gallon tanks that get filled monthly or so at some point, and having that as a recurring bill rather than ordering it every month seems entirely reasonable
Also, at least here in Japan, some of the houses use LP gas and some of those are just a large propane tank outside of the house that a company replaces on a schedule.
It may not be monthly but there are companies that will monitor your levels and schedule refills as needed. If you're getting refilled per month you probably need a bigger tank. Most people are using propane for heating and don't need it refilled in the summer.
There are also options to spread the cost over the year so you're making payments each month. That is sort of a subscription but when I think subscription I think of a service you're charged for whether you use it or not and not financing.
I got a 250 gallon tank. I don't have it hooked up to my grill, I just use the 5 gallon tanks for that. It's more of a pita to hard plumb that than it's worth, plus if I forget to turn the grill off I'm out 5 gallons, if I hard plumbed it to my main tank...
Buck Strickland would get Hank to go along with it (maybe even enthusiastically) for the initial "Good" stages where they try to make propane delivery far better and more streamlined for customers blah blah blah. Buck would hide/skip over the "Taking investment money, while not making any profit" parts
Eventually Hank would start getting a few questions popping up in his head when he starts realizing the propane is being sold cheap, too cheap. He'd go to Buck and Buck would be able to shift Hank away.
Then the enshittification stage hits and Hank realizes what's going on, after a while of "Bucks got this" he'll get infuriated when Bobby shows him online comments from people complaining of the now crappy service. He goes to confront Buck, only to find him drunk AF at a stripper club and not giving AF because he's gonna be rich.
Meanwhile Peggy, infuriated at these online comments from people, makes Bobby show her how to get one of "these new social applications" and proceeds to defend her husband online, while discovering that she finds it addictively fun.
Hank will try to confront him again the next day, only to find Buck freaking TF out because things aren't working out like he thought and beg Hank to fix things like usual.
Hank sits down and cranks out a solid and reasonable plan for profitability, makes Buck pay back the investors to take back control and restores things back to profitable normalcy. When he gets back home after, he finds Peggy stuck on her phone desperately fighting against a storm of trolls, he just takes the phone and turns it off and carries her to bed
... Sorry. The "X" to close the image was over the "a" in "catfish" and matched the background color, so it looked like censoring. I didn't think about it because I use the back button on my phone to close images rather than the X.
First of I run linux on my personal machine.
Second, I shut down my work machine at the end of the day and if there is an update - let it update. The result? Not a single problem with windows updates in years! Strange, I know.
Sidenote: I always thought people were partially making fun of windows updates because you have to reboot all the time. I have to log out to switch from integrated to dedicated graphics in Linux and pretty much 90% of all updates require a reboot. And to conserve battery I have to shut down the laptop anyway, since hibernation is but a dream. But whatever, it's not a competition.
When you have a nice setup in programming (compiler, database, diverse docs, shells etc), you don't want to shut all that down. If you can, good for you!
My dev VM is almost entirely disposable. Could be up and running again, fresh in 30-60min, not counting time to pull the repo. Why use a local db server? Seems weird to me but, I came to development through SysAdmin and support stuff, so, was used to not owning the machine that I was on. That probably has heavily influenced my workflow.
Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing a bit any the languages/frameworks and workflows that you are using? I'm mainly using Go, C++, Python, and a few others and just having trouble figuring out how I'd arrive at a situation like that. No CI/CD and test systems?
Well if I shut down visual studio, it takes some time to relaunch it, it uses a distant unix server to compile.
I usually have a bunch of explorers open on distant repos for checking traces. Some soft connected to a database (with tables open), shells open on servers, or inside a docker on that server, all that goes away at reboot.
Nothing crazy, it's just convenient to just continue working instead of having to set it all up in the morning.
CI/CD, thats for integration and should IMO be on a server somewhere 😁 not on your PC that you shut off in the evening!
I do mostly C/C++, linux/windows. Database, gui, etc.
Windows Update is just dogslow and forces a reboot. For me even a significant distro update takes much less time and it doesn't force you to reboot (nor to update for that matter).
I don't have to reboot after an update very often, almost never really. It's kernel updates where I have to reboot, other stuff I can restart and avoid it that way if I still want to keep the pc on.
I know on some systems hibernation (suspend-to-disk) can be fiddly. For me it worked out of the box which was nice.
Yeah that's complete bullshit. The word you're looking for is partner. As in we're doing things together and there just aren't gender roles in the house.
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