That’s great, I’d love to have my docs that early! I think I had to wait til nearly the end of February for some of my 1099s this year.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten my W2 before the end of January

Some providers do digital distribution now. I didn’t get any physical documents from my employer or investment account, just PDFs this year.

I don’t think it’s possible to do taxes in January, most places don’t have documents ready before the end of the month. I had to wait a few extra weeks for the documents from my investment account too, so not everything is always available on Jan 31.

I did mine in February this year. I’ll probably wait and do it later next year, like mid-March, as I ended up missing a document that would have slightly increased my state return (not enough to go through the headache of fixing it).

Last year, I needed an extension, as it was first time doing it myself and my situation was fairly complex.

I think is people don’t like it they don’t need to use it.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity. They have no say in the matter.

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

My life flashing before my eyes was an expression, but in that moment i truly believed I was going to die.

I did also piss myself, but the typical expression is brown pants, not yellow.

Phone front right, wallet and earbuds front left. My keys go on a retractable carabiner attached to a belt loop but sometimes get tucked into the nearest pocket to reduce jingling.

Not spooky per se, but it scared the shit out of me:

I was 16 or 17 at the time and worked for a DJ pushing road cases and setting up/striking equipment. One winter weekend, upon striking everything after a wedding, I stepped outside around 2am to find myself in the middle of a blizzard. I had borrowed my dad’s F250 with AWD for the evening, so in my infinite wisdom, I decided it would be fine to drive the 20 or so miles home.

There was absolutely nobody on the road, not even plows/salt trucks. Like many teenagers, though, I thought I was invincible, so I drove way faster than was reasonable in those conditions. About halfway back, I’m on an overpass across a major highway and hit a patch of ice. Cue the fishtail, then panic as my life flashed before my eyes. I ended up spinning about 2.25 revolutions, and come to stop perpendicular to the road with a few inches between my front bumper and the outer barrier of the overpass. Too bad I wasn’t wearing brown pants.

I managed to get the rest of the way home without incident, but I have never taken any chances driving in suspect conditions again- I figure I used up all my luck surviving that event.

Does that mean I can’t ask it?

Read the sidebar and rules of the community before you post. Rule 6 clearly states no US politics, so no, you should not have asked it.

Call screening is actually one of the reasons I’ve been thinking about going back to a Pixel, I had that on my Pixel 5 and Fold.

Fortunately, the Google messages app (default for Android) does a half decent job of filtering spam texts for me. I go through the filter every couple days and just report them to my provider en masse.

The registry only works for legitimate companies that are playing by the rules. That is to say that it does jack shit, at least for me

I get dozens of spam calls and texts a day, mostly political in nature but with some good loan scams mixed in for variety.

Layaway on groceries, doordash, and now on paying your friends. Do we need any more recession indicators?

Iirc, HC is pretty explicitly a troll instance

The thing that made federation make sense to me was comparing it to email. Email is a shared protocol and anyone who has an email address can send one to any other email address. There are lots of providers, like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc, that all offer access to an email address.

I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy.

You might make a Google account because gmail is the first email service you heard about, and realize that you disagree with the company or want different features, so you go make an email on Proton instead. From either platform, you can still receive email from Yahoo users and send it to them. However, you aren’t necessarily able to just ‘transfer’ your email account from one provider to another.

sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it?

Sometimes, other providers might have rules about who is and is not allowed to send email to their platform. This is usually to protect against spam.

Where those actions are automatic upon receipt with email, that isn’t always the case on Lemmy. Reddit had similar rules in many communities, where people with new accounts or low karma weren’t allowed to post.

Edit: fixed a typo

Also, I’d point out that there’s a difference between learning how to drive and being able to take apart and reassemble a motor. Learning to drive is a fundamental requirement for operating a motor vehicle and is often unintuitive at first- it’s only through practice that we become comfortable with driving.

Read the article.

Raising the recommended RAM requirements is not because the Resolute Raccoon requires more resources than before, not directly – this is not a 2GB RAM jump solely to load the OS and nothing else.

Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, here’s a few to get you started:

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

Edit: fixed a link format

Literally do not use it if you don’t like it, it’s really that simple.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity.

Totally depends on what you’re comfortable with. I personally will wear shorts down to around 40°F (4.5°C).

I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Imo looks unintentional, just an unfortunate result of the circuit traces being arranged as they are.

Did you read the megathread pinned at the top of the community?