r/Reno
Hi,
we’re four guys, and we’ve put together Westminster’s restaurant scene in an app called Vota. The concept is simple: you see two places side by side (for example Famille vs. Kachina Southwestern Grill), you choose the place you’d rather go to, and the ranking updates instantly. The more people vote, the more accurate the list gets over time. There are still a few duplicates here and there, but I’m continuously cleaning up the data.
Here’s the iPhone version, with categories that actually fit Westminster’s food scene:
https://apps.apple.com/app/vota-restaurant-ratings/id6744969212
And here’s the Android version (finally live):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vota.app
P.S. I’m not from Westminster (I live in Gothenburg). I’m not collecting data, not selling anything, and the app does not use AI-generated content. I’m posting in a few different subreddits because we now support more regions, and I genuinely want honest feedback from people who actually know the area.
Reno Costco food court
The food court was being renovated and the original dated to be done was 8/15/2026. Has anyone been to Costco lately to know if it's open yet?
This morning's harvest...
...looks like the day before's. I've pickeled, dried, candied, jarred all I can and most of them are too hot for my crowd. Still feeling glorious!
https://mynews4.com/news/local/fire-officials-warn-of-rise-in-unauthorized-flights-disrupting-wildfire-operations
I know this was mentioned before, but the news talked about it again.
The fire air support has to stop when they see the unauthorized drone.
Why don't they have someone shoot it down and get the information to find the owner? I realize if you own a drone, you may think this is extreme. However, the owner would know it shouldn't fly at that time.
What is the underground rave scene in reno like?
I just moved here for college (18F), but super into EDM (not these little shitty "raves" at alpine) and anything techno. I like house too. I came from sac so the scene there is decently active if you know where to look. I found some good suggestions on a post from 8 months ago but alot of the events or venues are 21+. Any actual underground- weird location- stuff that pops up? I have some friends that are into this stuff too and are from LV so the change to reno has been a slow down.
Late night eats in Reno?
Hi all, our band is playing in Reno in a couple weeks and I'm wondering if there's anywhere to eat later at night (post 11pm). We're from Oakland, and outside of just a couple places there's nothing here anymore.
KATO USA No.1986 and Southern Pacific 4448
No.1986 is N Scale and the 4448 is HO
'Humiliated': Cafeteria Worker Who Was Allegedly Stripped of Duties Because White Teachers Didn’t Like the Sound of Her ‘Black Voice’ Wins Settlement from Nevada School District
atlantablackstar.comFound the breakdown of registered voter counts by party affiliation in Washoe interesting. More Nonpartisans are active registered voters than either Dems or Reps
Context with presidential elections: Washoe has voted blue since 2008 (though some just barely).
Did some digging to find numbers for past few years or so, for context. Source linked here. Numbers rounded up.
- Feb. 1, 2026, in Washoe:
- Dems: 92K
- Reps: 103K
- NP: 98K
- Next highest was Independent at 15K
- Feb. 1, 2025, in Washoe:
- Dems: 102K
- Reps: 112K
- NP: 100K
- Independent: 17K
- Feb. 1, 2024:
- Dems: 97K
- Reps: 104K
- NP: 94K
- Independent: 15K
- Jan. 31, 2023:
- Dems: 95K
- Reps: 100K
- NP: 82K
- Independent: 14K
- January 2020:
- Dems: 100K
- Reps: 103K
- NP: 62K
- Independent: 13K
- January 2017:
- Dems: 96K
- Reps: 99K
- NP: 53K
- Independent: 12K
(God, I hope I didn't mistype anything; promise I double-checked myself!)
hiking tallac for sunrise
Guten morgen! looking for tips on hiking tallac for sunrise. just want to know what time people have left the trailhead! is the top where it gets rocky easily marked in the dark? give me yo tips, cheers!
Appeals court upholds Sigal Chattah’s disqualification as US attorney in Nevada
Another case of MAGA cheating to take power. Nevadans deserve better. Vote for honesty and respect of the law: vote Blue!
Davidson Academy ranks No. 4 among nation's best high schools for second year
A Reno-area high school has once again landed among the top high schools in the country
Entire article...
"A Reno-area high school has once again landed among the top high schools in the country, with Davidson Academy ranking No. 4 nationally in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
The school held the same spot in the publication's 2025-26 rankings, making this the second consecutive year Davidson Academy has been ranked fourth in the nation.
Davidson Academy serves profoundly gifted students and is a public school in Reno. The school was established to provide an advanced educational opportunity tailored to students' abilities, strengths and interests.
The latest U.S. News rankings place Davidson Academy behind three schools nationally. The Reno school is followed by School Without Walls in Washington, D.C., at No. 5.
The recognition puts a Nevada school among the nation's highest-ranked high schools again, while other schools across the state also performed well in the latest rankings.
U.S. News' annual Best High Schools rankings compare schools nationally and by state. More information about the rankings and individual school results is available through the U.S. News & World Report."
Grey squirrel on my hike
Cool squirrel found on the galena creek trail.
Golightly and Vannah
DO NOT HIRE THIS FIRM — I FEEL COMPLETELY LET DOWN AND MISLED
On October 24, 2024, I was rear-ended on Sparks Boulevard. My vehicle was totaled, and the consequences of that accident have affected virtually every part of my life.
I lost my ability to get to work and ultimately lost my job. I also lost the small cleaning business that had provided approximately 60% of my income because my back injury now prevents me from doing the physical work required. I have a permanent bulging disc in my back that causes daily pain and significantly limits my activity. I cannot lift more than approximately 20 pounds, which has made finding work extremely difficult. My financial situation has been devastated, and even my car payment has now doubled.
I hired Mr. Golightly because I believed he and his firm would advocate for me and fight to get me fairly compensated for what I had been through. Instead, I feel that I was completely failed by the very people I trusted to protect my interests.
Most disturbing to me is that I believe Mr. Golightly lied to me about my case. I was given the impression that my case was being handled aggressively and that the firm was working toward getting me back on track. That is not how this experience turned out.
After months and months of waiting, I finally received my settlement paperwork and was shocked by what I saw. My total payout was only approximately $6,000 — after everything I had lost and everything I have continued to suffer with. What made it even more upsetting was seeing that Mr. Golightly’s fee from my case was greater than the amount I ultimately received.
I cannot understand how an attorney can take more money from a client’s case than the injured client receives and consider that a successful outcome.
What makes this even harder to accept is that, to my understanding, the driver who rear-ended me was texting while driving. Yet my case was never taken to the point of suing him. I was left waiting for months for a settlement that barely amounts to a down payment on another vehicle today.
I feel like I was treated like another paycheck rather than a person whose life had been utterly destroyed.
The advertising and promises made by personal injury firms can make you believe that someone will fight for you when you are injured and unable to fight for yourself. That was what I expected. Instead, I feel that Mr. Golightly did the bare minimum while presenting it as though he was going above and beyond.
The stereotypical image of a greedy lawyer: the attorney walked away with more money than the injured client whose life was ruined by the accident.
The car wreck didn’t just destroy my vehicle. It changed my ability to work, destroyed my small business, reduced my physical capabilities, caused ongoing pain, and created serious financial hardship. I am now facing the possibility of disability because I cannot physically do the work I used to depend on.
And after all of that, I received roughly $6,000.
I am still angry because I don’t believe Mr. Golightly had my best interests at heart. I trusted him during one of the most difficult periods of my life, and I feel completely screwed over by the outcome.
Do not hire this firm!
I hired this firm because I needed an advocate. I needed someone to fight for me when my life had been turned upside down.
I do not feel that I received that advocacy. I feel misled, financially exploited, and abandoned by the people who were supposed to be fighting for me.
Based on my experience, I would not recommend Mr. Golightly or this firm to someone who is already vulnerable after a serious car accident.
To the man who took is own shirt off his back as I wept over my sorrows
You're an angel walking on earth. I've been struggling getting out of here because I'm stuck, and you sat there and listened and you literally took your own shirt off your back in public and gave me a new shirt. Thank you brother. I needed to shout you out.
God bless.
Spectrum internet DNS changes
Most of you probably won't know what I'm talking about, but I'm putting this out there just because. I work in IT and I find this highly suspicious. Forgive the rant.
A few months ago I started noticing my home internet was being extra shitty. It'd work normally for a few hours, then randomly just quit responding for a while. I understand that this is the norm for some people, but I've had Spectrum in my same location for over 6 years now and this particular annoyance is a very new thing for me.
For as long as I can remember, Spectrum's Reno DNS servers have been verifiably geolocated in the Reno area. Makes sense, right? Now, suddenly, DNS services are being provided from COUDERSPORT FUCKING PENNSYLVANIA. Now any network engineer will tell you that there are times when routing traffic to a different stack is beneficial, but most would agree that routing all the way across the country just for Domain Name services is generally sub-optimal. (For those who don't know, Domain Name Servers are what translates your request to go to "youtube.com" to what ever the actual IP address of Youtube is. They're generally meant to be one of the first hops in the chain, and you generally want them to be low latency.)
When I contacted Spectrum support to point this out/ask questions/complain, I got put on an immediate runaround with someone who kept suggesting I have a technician come out to check my connection. When I told them that it wasn't a connection problem and that I had experience working with IT systems, I got a very dismissive reply of "oh, don't the systems you work on tell you this stuff?"
There are a few things that bug me about this, in no particular order.
This has notably lowered performance and latency and results in periods of effectively total network loss on a daily basis.
There's no legitimate reason to route your customers' traffic across the country like this.
Coudersport, PA was previously slated to be the site of a brand new Palantir datacenter, which is officially currently on hold with "no official plans" but there are several other datacenters being built in the general area.
The customer support "person" (probably a bot) was very dismissive after I explained what the actual issue was in more technical detail, as if it were intentionally wasting my time.
ANYWAY! If you've noticed Spectrum getting worse in the past few months, or if you just feel so inclined, open a command prompt or your network settings and look for DNS server addresses. If it starts with 71.10, congratulations, you're still using the OG Reno servers. If it starts with some 209.18 bullshit, you're being shunted to Dickandballs Pennsylvania. I manually set mine back to the Reno servers, and like magic, all of my internet problems went away.
OG Server IPs:
71.10.216.1
71.10.216.2
My favorite ice cream restaurant closed down
Baskin Robbins in Wingfield Springs got closed down, and google only recommends places downtown or far away. I have looked in reddit, too, but this is a more recent event. Is there anywhere closer to sparks? Yeah there's frozen yogurt, but I really prefer ice cream.
Thanks!
111 Signatures in less than 6 hours to SAVE OUR RIVERWALK.
I was able to accumulate 111 signatures in 5.5 hours, between Saturday and yesterday night.
By standing in place on the Riverwalk, and pointing two blocks over, I was able to convince people from across the globe that signing was the right thing to do.
All I had to say was: "We're trying to save our Riverwalk from being permanently blocked and abandoned by our City from AT&T to Lake Street."
The moment I said those words, people would turn back around and listen to what I had to say.
I explained all we're doing is demanding the City to file for an injunction and let a Washoe County District Court Judge resolve the property dispute legally. Easement by Prescription, Common Law Dedication.
I explained the detour, the history, the legal agreement, the bikeway master plan, the lost riverwalk plan, the Army Corp of Engineers flood control plan, the ADA accessibility plan, the terms of the deed, the property owner's admissions and his failure to post required signs, the Auto Museum's lost revenue, the risk of permanently losing our Easement at AT&T, and most importantly our homelessness / housing issues with balancing everyone's rights to free access to our public rights-of-way. Everyone got it. They understood.
Tourists and visitors from other places were concerned they weren't allowed to sign. But this isn't a ballot initiative, I explained. This is simply an informal petition to present to City Council to show that the public cares about our infrastructure and to fight this. This isn't a hard issue to understand.
United Kingdom, Canada, Massachusetts, Florida, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Oklahoma, California, and many Nevadans... everyone understood no matter where they were from that we can't allow the City to just roll over, give up, and allow us to lose our Riverwalk without putting up a fight.
Please sign this petition.
ALL of the details are there.
I am also asking for help. Can people please help me canvas the area and collect real-world signatures? I have the signature sheet PDF as well as the flyers I produced on Google Drive.
Or just spread the word.
There is a big meeting happening in two days. The Mayor directed the City Engineer to have me give a walk-through tour of the neighborhood to the City Manager, Planning Dept, Public Works, Redevelopment Agency, and most importantly the City Attorney's office at 12 PM Wednesday.
This is Reno and Joe Hart will be there. Fil Corbitt from The Wind will be there.
I am going to show the issues of not just this walkway but also the encroachment at the Auto Museum and deactivation of retail use from Lake Street which is required by law.
If I was able to acquire 111 signatures in less than 6 hours, think of what we could accomplish in two days? Think of the mandate that would show the City that we mean business.