Good point
it is "incrementally free," although I guess if you count tire wear and tear that's not even true.
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You're just gatekeeping.
ThinkPad with a generator? Nothing wrong with that
maybe add LoRa, get a ham license and add some packet radio or digital modes and you have a neat disaster setup.
MacBook that you don't want to scuff? Well, I'm not that precious with my gear, but you do you. Many Mac laptops last a very long time, and the performance of modern Apple silicon is really, really impressive
and you have UNIX out of the box. Plenty for a tech enthusiast to like.
Eating this spicy Klingon-Thai curry is an honorable battle; but the battle the next morning...that is a battle without honor.
A lot of non-graphical utilities
basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.
I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is "developer friendly"
tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.
Your local city college may or may not offer free classes (in San Francisco, you just need to show proof that you live in the city with some legal status).
Some public transportation is free for certain groups (youth and folks experiencing homelessness can get free passes here).
"First X of the month" at the zoo/a museum/whatever
lots of venues have free events.
A jog, bike ride, hike
lots of great stuff outside!
I believe some TIC agreements are structured as HOAs, which is perfectly reasonable
but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're referring to here.
It's not all bad
remote work policy is now a major topic. You'd be laughed out of any number of job interviews for asking about remote work policy, whereas now it's a completely fair question.
Having a CC doesn't mean you have debt...
"Why the HELL should I have to press 2 for English?"
bumper sticker I would see on my bike commute back in the day.
The bank doesn't own the house, they just have a significant lien against it. Maybe a potato potato situation (how are you supposed to spell that phrase 🤔), but it is an important distinction.
Landlords can get pissed if you paint the walls/change appliances/remodel/etc., but so long as the property is properly insured (and you make your loan payments on time) the bank probably isn't going to bother you.
Landlords can
and do
place restrictions on quiet hours, guest policy, who is allowed to live there, etc. Owning is definitely different.
If your baby isn't super fussy, the transportation difficulty (in our experience) is more in the logistics getting to/from airport, and dealing with other ground transportation. We just flew 5+hrs (coast to coast, US) with a 2mo and a ~3yo, and it was a piece of cake (typing that, I've jinxed the return flight...).
We haven't done international travel with our kids yet, but we will eventually. When I was 2 my family went to Europe
some countries were meh with respect to kids, but Italy (from my folks' retelling) was fantastic, as there is (or was) a big cultural love for young kids.
YMMV of course, but it's absolutely doable! Kids
even starting as babies
have personalities, and you'll get a sense of what's appropriate with yours. Good luck!