u/throwawatty6

One of our cars has died, and we're looking to replace it with a mid-sized SUV. I'd prefer another car, but for safety we figure an SUV, (if you're going to be hit you're better to be in something bigger).

So far, we've decided to stick with something Japanese (that's Kia and Hyundai out). The wife wants an X-trail, but I don't want that CVT. That counts the Outlander out as well. The RAV4 is about as appealing as warm wallpaper paste (hired one for a couple of weeks when on a project).

As a bit of a car guy, I'd really like something a bit warmed up. I'm not going to get anything fun in this range but the CX-5 comes in a turbo variant, which seems like it could be at least a little interesting. Budget around $35k.

Any thoughts?

So, I was excited to sign up for GitLab and move away from GitHub after so many years, but the sign-up process requires a credit card - which I'm not happy to give.

Further, I had to run through eight prove-youre-not-a-robot choose-the-prize-in-the-claw matching games (which I did because I thought the skip option was hiding behind them - it wasn't).

I don't know much about this company, but they're not the one for me. No idea why anyone is with them at all with this level of intrusiveness.

So, less than a year ago, I bought a K860. Was a bit steep in cost, but I figured it's worth it now that the Sculpt has gone the way of the dodo.

Yesterday, my MX570 died. No problem, just ordered a MX Master 3S figuring it would connect up to something less than a year old, right?

Wrong. Something about new technology for the dongle.

Now I have a mouse that doesn't work.

So, this is a middle finger to Logitech. Whatever your reasons for shafting your customers, it's a dick move.

It seems like more than half the posts are from people who are "not selling", and "looking for feedback" - when they're all clearly just trying to sell their GPT-generated idea in a GPT-generated wrapper on their GPT-generated platform and thinking they've got something.

Either we've found ourselves attracting a whole lot of pond scum, or business is about to get a whole lot easier for many of us, as this is the state of our competition.

So, I ask you, has this sub just become a group of morons all eating beans and complimenting each others' flatulence?

For the record, I'm a very basic level programmer. I've got some infrastructure, some Linux, and some basic programming experience, and I've decided to build-slash-vibe-code a saas. Because why not.

A question for all you more experienced devs, do you prefer to leave things fixed in code or make them dynamic in the database for your calculations? Sorry if I'm not using the right terms here.

What I mean is, I have an action that takes place after a series of criteria are met. User clicks a certain button, and if they day ends in y a service takes action x. Supposing action x, and if the month has more than 27 days, a different service will then take action z. So sort of daisy chained, I guess.

My question for you devs is this: do you prefer to leave determination of 'a day ending in y' and 'a month with more than 27 days' as conditions in code, or do you put them as params in the database and have the app make a db call when the services run?

Obviously fixed code has less overhead without the db call, but dynamic calculation allows for changes later on without significant overhaul.

My instinct is to leave it in code unless it's designed to be changed in which case the database is the way to go - but I'm trying to build a runway so that changes can be made in future - particularly if tenanted users wish to have their calculations done based on different parameters.

Any input appreciated.

Edit: looks like it's being taken. Cheers.

Anyone want some free IT stuff?

From the closure of a small company recently.

I have two boxes here, mostly CAT5e/CAT6 cables, around 1-2m in length.

Also a whole range of other stuff in there - HDMI cables, 3-pin power cables, a couple of vga and dvi cables, some parallel printer cables, a 10/100 5-port network switch, 4/5 keyboards, a couple of mice, etc etc.

We also have a colour printer/scanner, an old PC case with nothing in it (ready for a build), a few 24" monitors, and maybe a couple of other things.

You can have them for free if you want. I had them listed on marketplace until recently, but my wife doesn't want to muck around with that anymore so we're throwing them away. Must take the lot, this isn't pick'n'mix.

We're in Algester (South Side) and they're being thrown out tomorrow morning.

Was thinking someone who wanted to start (or already has) a marketplace selling business could get a few dollars for them, or possibly someone who is into IT might appreciate it. 20yo me would be horrified if he knew, that's why I'm making this post before chucking them.

Send me a DM, or reply here and we can work something out. Hope this isn't against the rules!

Edit: Looks like it's being taken, everyone. Hopefully the new owner will get some good use out of it all.