I’m usually off social media Fri-Sun, weekends are busy and I’m not around the computer or on my phone that much, but had to log in to make the daily!
Are you still looking for a way to automate these posts? I’d be happy to do it. I was a lurker on r/fire.
That’d be fantastic if you could!
Done! Right now it’s set to post at 8 am Eastern Time (12 pm GMT).
Is there a way to automate posts here? I would really love to be able to do that for my group, would you be able to point me in the right direction to find out how?
Unfortunately, I don’t know of any established tools. There are a number of libraries for various languages, or you can make API calls directly. But if you don’t have programming experience, none of those are really an option.
For now, if there’s an extremely simple action you want done on a schedule, I’d be happy to add it to the script I’m using for c/fire. Just let me know what you have in mind. In time, I’m sure people will make powerful botting tools that don’t require as much technical knowledge, but they’re just not here yet.
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately my programming experience is about 40 years out of date. I’m working on learning a bit more, but it is rather complicated figuring out where to start. At the moment I’m still at the stage of working out what applications I need to use, so every little bit helps🙂
By the time I figure it all out the tools to do more easily it will probably be available, but a bit extra learning is never a bad thing.
Absolutely. I wish you all the best with your project. :)
Frugal Friday:
Ever since I moved in with my spouse, I’ve been using a spare IKEA desk chair they already owned. Pre-COVID it wasn’t an issue because I only used it when the weather was bad. Once I started working from home full time, I realized how uncomfortable it was but never did anything about it.
Three years later, after sitting in it daily, I finally replaced it. I was at a garage sale and they had an office chair right up front. $25 later and it is mine. I sold the old one for $10, so all in the new chair cost $15.
As I sat down in it Monday morning, I realized this was an incredibly overdue decision. I am so much more comfortable now with a better chair; all for the price of a single movie ticket.
Apparently I have mod powers now. I’m still not really sure what that means, but I’ll try not to abuse it.
On other news, I’ve been really busy at work recently, so that kinda sucks.
Sort of a half day at work today as we have a team building activity at TopGolf. It will be really nice to see people I haven’t seen since before COVID, since I never go to the office anymore.
Not FIRE-related, but I wish I took the money that I spent on a Switch a year ago and put it toward a Steam Deck. I mostly play Rocket League and Apex Legends when I’m traveling and woof… it’s rough.
That’s a bummer. Can you sell the switch and put the money towards a steam deck?
Probably could, but that sounds like work. For a while I bought/sold on r/hardwareswap but I’m continuing my protest. I’m lazy :)
FWIW, I have both a Switch and Steam Deck and prefer the Switch honestly. The Steam Deck can do more and take advantage of better sales, but we find ourselves using the Switch far more often
Makes sense! Truthfully I’m not a huge handheld fan. I have a Miyoo Mini + to play some Gameboy and SNES games on the go. Otherwise I just want something that I can plug in when I visit cousins or BIL.
I actually have some leftover laptop RAM and a Ryzen 3400g so I may buy a Deskmini X300 for my travel PC. It’s not quite as powerful as the Steam Deck in gaming but it would only cost me $150 versus $400+
