My Brother B&W laser printer is a beast. I’ve had it probably eight years now and am only, two months ago, on my 3rd toner cartridge despite my relatively low use. That counts the starter cartridge which I am told isn’t full.

My Brother color printer on the other hand is a pain. The yellow toner always runs out first and it won’t print without it. Well, it can, if you finagle things, but then it only does for like 3-4 weeks. Annoying as shit.

But, overall, better than any HP or Canon I’ve ever used.

I charge at home for $0.058/kWh. The company that provides it is also local and it does create local jobs.

I resemble this…sort of. Except my car is already paid for and I really don’t think it’s a wise decision to just blow money on another car simply to get out of a current vehicle that more than meets my needs.

I actually encountered an issue earlier today where my important wasn’t working…and it was because another dev had already added a more specific important.

I deleted their important.

Super weird, still haven’t seen an ad in Sync and don’t use any sort of ad blockers or anything. Is it regional maybe?

…holy crap, same. This makes me uncomfortable.

$20 one time for a well developed app that I use multiple hours a day is inexpensive.

I pay almost as much to multiple streaming services PER MONTH for a shitty experience and sometimes not a completely ad-free experience.

Anyway, in all honesty I chose the $1.99/mo because it gives the dev $24/yr into perpetuity. I also donate to instances. I also use Connect and Jerboa and Liftoff. It’s whatever.

Or for any major treatment or injuries you have to watch 6 ads first, if you bleed out before they’re done, so be it.

Here in the US, there are a plethora of web dev jobs available once you hit the mid / senior level. I’d say on a high-level that about 80% of them offer pretty good work-life balance. Every web dev job or gig I’ve had in the last 7 years has been extremely flexible.

Happy to answer any other particular questions you have.

I put electrical tape over all of them. They’re unnecessary, they’re annoying.

I tried my best to build a new computer without any LEDs and I couldn’t. So now I just keep a piece of cardboard in front of my glass case side so I don’t have to look at that bullshit.

Yeah, yeah, it probably causes it to run hotter. I’ll take a little more heat, less performance, and possibly shorter overall component life over having to deal with those stupid lights.