u/Standard_Level4814

Hey everyone.

Wanted some advice. Should I stick with Proton Sheets / Docs or go fully back to LibreOffice?

Once in a blue moon, I share secure / private information to family via Sheets (flight info, etc.) so Proton is nice in that sense. Or it's great if I want to take secure notes for calls about insurance / taxes, etc.

But Proton Docs / Sheets remains buggy, despite having used it for a year and trying to wing it out, I still encounter small bugs that can be frustrating at first (however, I understand). I love how Sheets & Docs has a nice UI and just the features I need, so it's easier to use in my opinion! : )

BUT, I do love how LibreOffice works offline, has more features, and I can just back it up to Proton Drive. Most my family are elderly / don't know how to use tech, so Proton Sheets / Docs is easy to share with them.

I hate to switch back to LibreOffice because I love the simplicity and interface of Sheets / Docs, and I want to support Proton in any way that I can, so using LibreOffice makes me feel like I'm cheating a bit lol!

Hey everyone.

I recently graduated college. I was making $22/hr at my last job (retail, no supervisory experience).

I was in the process of training for another role in the travel industry, and the pay was going to be $30 to $40hr, unfortunately was dismissed due to failing to demonstrate a drill evacuation properly as I was dealing with a flu/bug.

Now I have no jobs lined up, and this job market is trash. I don't want to go back into retail (I know I can't be picky in this job market). Loved my previous job where I was making $22/hr and they said they'd welcome me back, but I already left once, transferred around to multiple locations with the company, and coming back (and maybe leaving again) to fulfill that that last role I was trying for may not look as good, especially if I tried for that other travel industry role in a few weeks/months.

The only experience I have are retail, and volunteer work, and "projects" I've done in classes but I've feel bad it's only helped me to an extent.

Any advice? My major is public policy, and I've tried nonprofits / government jobs in the area but I've been getting a bunch of rejections. Really would love to work in either sectors, or even academia.

I started a job at a cafe nearby where I just only work weekends. I started less than a month ago, and I'm not really feeling it or liking it. I've barely worked less than 5 to 6 shifts since then. Should I give a one week notice or a two week notice?

My schedule is already published for this week and next week. Should I give my notice before the next weeks schedules are pushed out?

For some reason, I feel kind of bad for leaving so early, but I just want to use my mental energy in applying for real jobs.

Manager is chill, there are some coworkers that I'm not too crazy about and working food service again is not fun.

I'm a recent graduate, and while I know the job market is bad, I don't necessarily need to work now as I have money saved up to get me by from my last job for a couple of months. Just wanted to have something to do.

Hey everyone.

I have Georgia Access insurance. I left a great job to start a new job, but was unfortunately let go (due to nothing bad but a specific job requirement by the company). For a short duration, because I was in an initial phase I was paid Georgia minimum wage (the job itself later on paid much, much, much more though). As soon as I reported my minimum wage, my tax premium went up so high, just because I was making sooo much less ($486/month!) Mind you to now, I have 0 income right now.

However, I am now completely unemployed unfortunately. I'm trying to find another job in the meantime to make enough income to qualify for the APTC, but that may be harder with the job market.

I don't qualify for Medicaid per the state apparently. And, I fear if I stay with Marketplace, and I don't find a job soon I'll lose eligibility to get APTCs and pay even much, much, much more for health insurance.

I'm pretty young, I've gone without health insurance before and I'm healthy, barely need to see the doc / nor have I ever used prescriptions. But it's just scary to know that I may go without it again.

I've considered going back into retail, but I just graduated college recently, and this job market search just has me drained.

Should I just go without insurance? Any advice?

Hey guys.

I have a Wyze Cam V4 outdoors. It's plugged in (inside) but the camera is outside sitting on a window sill (gently closing on top of it). Is that safe long term?

We also have a Wyze Cam V3 by our front door. Both the cables and camera are outside. We have an outlet that is covered by rain because of an awning over the doorway. Additionally, the electric outlet has a plastic cover, but the cable kind of causes it to be left open a bit.

Sorry, I forgot to add - for this door setup, no matter how much it's rained - I've never seen a sprinkle of rain in that area (thankfully) as the awning covers it. I'm just scared that if a big wind came, and water somehow went up and under the cover, it'd be a hazard somehow.

Just wanted to make sure it's safe long term, and not necessarily a hazard of some sort.

Thanks!

Hey everyone.

I have a MacBook Air M4 (2025). I have an issue that occurs randomly when I try to click or type, the computer starts making that "error/beep noise". It happens randomly, been going on for about a year, since I bought the Mac really.

The mouse will move, but it doesn't click? I was confident it was a software issue at first, but after reinstalling Mac OS / factory reset, I suspect it's a hardware issue now as it's still occurring.

The only way for me to fix it is to leave the app, open another application, and come back to the app that I was having the issue in.

Restarted multiple times, completed reinstallation of MacOS, and even did factory reset on the computer, issue is still persisting.

Accidentally closed car door on laptop as I was coming out of the car, there's no significant cosmetic damage, but I'm curious if maybe it caused internal issues? Apple Store representative said if any damage was a result of that, it'd have been visible by now.

Any tips, ideas what's going on?

Hello everyone.

Odd question, but I’m trying to replace my digital calendar with my typewriter.

Does anyone have any suggestions or tips as to how I could or how I should format it?

I know I can freestyle it and that there’s no right or wrong way to do it, but I’d love to learn or know how they were done traditionally in the past if possible, or learn how others have been doing it there own way.

Hello,

Does anyone know where I can find examples of how people used to track financial records / expenses or would budget on a typewriter? (E.g - template, archive, examples)?

I’d love to use my typewriter to help me manage and track my expenses but thought it’d be cool to do it the traditional way.

Hey everyone,

My MacBook Air M4 randomly stops clicking. This happened after that most recent big software update a year ago, just been too busy to want to fix it lol.

I'll randomly be using Notion, email, Safari, etc. and the mouse stops clicking in that specific application. The only way for me to fix it is to open another app, force quit it, then go back that app and it suddenly starts working again.

Tried restarting my Mac, and the software is up to date.

Any advice, tips on how to troubleshoot?
Thanks!

Hey everyone.

I love Proton / Notion. I've made some really aesthetic / beautiful functional "tools" using Docs / Sheets. Right now it's just understandably still a bit too glitchy for me to use, despite trying and trying and trying to make the system work for me.

I shifted from Notion 100% to Proton (Drive, VPN, Docs/Sheets, Calendar). But I'm thinking of maybe doing a hybrid flow of still using Proton Products but going back to Notion.

A huge reason why is because I do a lot of budgeting, and me and my family do a lot of trips. With Notion I can have them download offline pages automatically, and the user interface is a bit more user friendly, or compatible across most devices, without having them open Drive / Docs / Sheets constantly and manually downloading things each time.

I just feel like I'm going "backwards" but I also want to continue supporting Proton (I have a paid yearly plan). But I also want to make use for what I pay for.

Weird question, but just open to any ideas / suggestions. Also, no bashing against Proton - I love Proton, just wanted some ideas! : )

Hey everyone.

I love Notion, and I personally want to use it with family as we travel often. Love the idea of being able to create databases and everyone can just have their information all in one place, especially offline. Especially a place where we can put our expenses to help pay our fair share of whatever.

Also, I've made really cool things with it like a functional and aesthetic budgeting spreadsheet, books tracker, love the way I can make "apps" with Notion. So I really do miss it, and it's been about a year that I haven't used it.

The problem is I pay for Proton $120 a year (which I absolutely love too). And I've been trying to move away from big tech primarily, but also just really cut it down to one suite since I don't have university anymore.

For those of you who are concerned about privacy / data harvesting, any tips or reasons as to why you still prefer or choose Notion?

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Notion and data collection is inevitable. But as I'm trying to break away, I feel like this is backwards for me in a way?