Grace Knight (u/grace_knight70)

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Last Tuesday I fixed a server by unplugging a single dusty fan and the client paid me $400

The whole office was overheating and their network kept dropping out, so I show up and find the intake fan completely caked in 4 years of dust bunnies, blew it out with compressed air and everything ran perfectly again, has anyone else had a ridiculously easy fix that made you feel like a wizard?

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c/agency-partnerships•

grace_knight70•12d ago

TIL a simple referral fee split changed my whole partnership game

I was stuck for months with a big web design agency that kept sending me small projects. They'd throw me a $500 site build here and there, but nothing steady. Last month I finally sat down with their account manager and proposed a 15% referral fee on any project over $5,000 that came through them. I thought they'd laugh me out of the room, but the manager said 'that actually makes it worth our time to push bigger deals your way.' Within two weeks they sent me a $12,000 e-commerce rebuild. The trick was putting a dollar amount on the referral incentive instead of just hoping for good will. Has anyone else tried a performance based split like this with a partner agency?

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c/cybersecurity-tips•

grace_knight70•13d ago

Password manager vs memory: my wakeup call after a work incident

Honestly, I used to just memorize my passwords and thought that was fine. Then I locked myself out of our company CRM at 2 PM last Tuesday because I mixed up two similar ones. Switched to Bitwarden and it took me maybe 20 minutes to set up, now I don't even think about it. Has anyone else found it hard to trust a password manager at first?

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c/budget-travel-hacks•

grace_knight70•16d ago

That whole 'skip travel insurance to save money' advice backfired hard on our trip to Thailand.

I spent 14 hours stuck in a Bangkok hospital waiting for a doctor after a motorbike fender bender because I listened to folks saying insurance was a waste, and now I wouldn't skip it again for a 3-day weekend, let alone a month-long trip - has anyone else had a similar hospital nightmare change their mind?

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c/cybersecurity-tips•

grace_knight70•19d ago

Talked to a white hat hacker at a coffee shop last week

Guy next to me noticed I was checking my bank app on public wifi. He said "free wifi is great until someone's logging your keystrokes." Hit me hard because I never even thought about it. I use a VPN now even at home. Anyone else got caught slipping on public networks?

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c/board-game-geeks•

grace_knight70•20d ago

Can we talk about people who call every game with dice "luck based"?

I keep seeing folks in meetups write off games like Castles of Burgundy or Troyes because they have dice, saying it's all random. Doesn't that ignore how much strategy goes into managing those rolls and planning around probabilities? I've been playing these games for about 2 years now and the same players keep winning, so luck can't be the whole story. Where do you draw the line between dice games that rely on skill versus ones that are just rolling and hoping?

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c/daily-what-ifs•

grace_knight70•21d ago

Shoutout to the random stranger who stopped me from ruining my birthday cake

I was at the grocery store last Saturday grabbing stuff for my kid's party and dropped a full carton of eggs right in aisle 7. A lady handed me her half-used pack without me even asking, which saved me from having to run back across the store with egg goo on my shoes. Has anyone else had a total stranger just fix your day like that?

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c/estheticians•

grace_knight70•1mo ago

Stopped at a hotel spa in Sedona and their steam room setup was next level

Was there for a friend's wedding last weekend. The steam room had a big bowl of fresh eucalyptus bundles right inside the door. They were real, not some oil diffuser. The whole room smelled amazing, and the leaves were still wet. It made the steam feel so much more effective. Anyone know a good supplier for fresh eucalyptus like that?

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

grace_knight70•1mo ago

My cousin's wife in Denver called my sourdough 'sad' after one bite.

She said it tasted like I'd baked it with tap water, which honestly stung because I'd been working on that starter for 6 months. Anyone else had a 'helpful' comment that just wrecked your baking confidence?

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c/board-game-geeks•

grace_knight70•1mo ago

My friend insisted we try a 'cooperative' game and I was sure I'd hate it.

He brought over Pandemic Legacy Season 1 last month, and I thought it sounded like a boring group project. We played the opening game, and by the third turn, we were all huddled around the board, arguing about the best move to stop an outbreak in Tokyo. The shared tension and planning completely changed my mind about games without a single winner. Has anyone else had a game type they avoided that turned out to be a favorite?

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