40 / M / Straight / INTP-T / Kalamazoo MI USA

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Virginia still has cheap areas and is a blue state thanks to the DC area and Hampton Roads, but the cheap areas suck and don’t necessarily have broadband access or mobile coverage.

    Are you a blue voter or do you just like blue areas?

    https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/places-to-live/601488/25-cheapest-us-cities-to-live-in

    Michigan isn’t a friendly place for taxes on middle-class families. Things have changed with the influx of people from neighboring blue states. For example, my hometown of Grand Rapids, which once had an average midwestern cost of living, is now no longer affordable:

    • So-called affordable housing in Westside is around $2000/mo
    • Rooms start around $800/mo, which is more than my mortgage payment an hour south in Kalamazoo
    • Houses under $500,000 are plentiful, but you’ll be a belligerent in a bidding war to get one. Furthermore, you won’t be getting a palace at that price.

    Also, if you are looking for somewhere temperate, you’ll only have that here May through August.




  • UPDATE: Apparently Infinity still works across-the-board.

    F-Droid keeps nagging me to update Infinity (which I refuse to do). Currently my Galaxy A32 5G is running v5.4.2 and it’s still showing up-to-date content every time I refresh. I know from a security standpoint this is a bad idea, but until we come up with a better solution, F-Droid still has it.

    ml.docilealligator.infinityforredit
    SHA256
    0e788e7fd58ef583b32613c61efbba5898ded0ac2aaf7c4919a3b67e61182588 *base.apk

    Both the APK I download directly from F-Droid and the one I pulled from my phone via ADB share this SHA256SUM hash.