https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3tgxwdSjRI

Do you not earn interest on any accounts? No loans on which you pay interest? Are you a student?

Bit expensive, but I run all Ubiquiti network and camera equipment.

For you and me to live in

If they keep it up, people might pack up and go

Yea I keep hoping for a 3D Chrono Trigger remake, but square keeps putting out garbage instead of revamping one of their greatest IPs.

You keep saying 200 and 250k, where are you getting these numbers? In my 20ish years in IT, I haven't seen or met anyone making that. The only jobs I heard about that paid anywhere near that were overseas during the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. Defense contractors were paid insane amounts of money to do next to nothing other than be near an area of conflict and render simple IT services.

I've read about some engineering positions in big tech companies that made 200-500k, but we are literally talking about .01% or maybe even .001% of tech jobs making these amounts.

It's not impossible that a household is pulling this, but you are also talking about 2 potentially highly educated and highly employable people able to make 100-125k each to make those numbers.

These 100k+ positions are also usually found in higher costs of living areas. It's not like these people are pulling in these salaries, but paying the cost of living equivalencies as in rural areas. If you don't already live in a major city in the US. I want you to do the math, double or triple your salary until you cross that 100-125k mark then look at the nearest major city to you (ie San Fran, Atlanta, NYC, DC, LA, Houston, Philly). Then look to see if you can afford a house/condo, food, utilities, transportation for your family in or near that city to live a lavish life like you seem to be claiming.

People seem to think that all of these workers that make more than them are in the same position for cost of living as them. Or have all of the same resources that they do. You need to think outside of your own little bubble and realize that not everyone is like you. As others have said above, you should direct your anger and frustration to people making insane amounts on money that they will never use or have a need for.

Fresh plants that we've bought from all of our local stores do not keep, even in the fridge. Anything fresh we have found needs to be eaten within 2-3 days before it starts turning. I'm not about to go to multiple stores 2-3 times a week to get what I need, only to waste money if I don't have the time or energy to make a fresh meal every day of the week.

Anything plant based that's pre-prepared and/or frozen tends to be anywhere from $6-12 per "meal". I'm over 6'2" and 215lbs and the "meals" are more like half a meal for me.

Unless you are ONLY eating beans or rice. Yes, from what I've seen, eating plant based diets is very expensive.

I am interested in the one comment mentioning replacing chicken with tofu though. Some of the pre-made tofu meals I've had were pretty good. I've never cooked with it though. My family hasn't really eaten beef or pork in years since all of the studies came out linking red meat to cancer. I also have a liver condition that docs recommend avoiding red meat entirely as well.

Since you haven't gotten an answer yet. I thought I'd chime in. I'm not great with home improvement, but a coworker told me this:

Find the stud that the nail is in.

Use a drywall screw and screw it in near the nail into the stud.

This should pull the drywall closer to the studs and make the nail stick out a little more.

Pull the nail out and fill the hole with putty.

Sand, finish, and paint after the putty has dried.

Got my 10TB NAS stood up, just got encrypted cloud backups working on B2. Next thing to do is set up Nextcloud and I think I'll be good. Also use proton for mail, VPN, and personal cloud storage.