MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 days ago:
Oh yeah. I’m only really taking about the commercial bakery stuff. Anything store-brand or made “in store” is all bespoke and unique to whatever store it is.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 days ago:
Yes I do, it’s right there.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 days ago:
Fun fact: I used to work with a bread distributor as a stocker for a local grocery. You see, some parts of the grocery store are stocked by industry people, not by the stores staff. Notable examples that I’ve seen are bread and chips.
As far as I’m concerned, you can do whatever the hell you want with those clips. Use them, don’t use them, I assure you that neither I, nor the bread industry gives any shits about it.
Those clips aren’t made for you, and by the time you get the bread in your hands, their only remaining use is to keep the bread closed. All other functions have already been fulfilled.
Now, recently, in my area, they moved to paper based clips, which I can only imagine is driving the bread workers completely insane, because by comparison, they suck. To put it simply, there’s two main pieces of information on the clip that I would care about while working as a stock person: the date on it, and the color. The date, is obviously the “best before” aka “sell by” date. Anything after that day would be considered stale and should be thrown out. The color actually indicated the day it was made. Usually we kept things on the shelf for about a week before it either sold, or the sell by date passed… Not all the time, but often.
I don’t remember what days were which colors, but 90% of the bread coming in on a particular day had the same color tag, say it’s a Monday and Mondays color is red. So before I put anything up, I’d check for red tags on the shelf. If I saw any, I’d check their sell by date and if it’s today (or before today), they would get tossed. Everything else would be sorted by color and shoved off to the side as I stocked each item. I would put a line of fresh product in the back and place the older stock in front, tags out. Rotating the stock as I went.
This made it really easy and quick to see what’s old and needs to be placed front and center to give it the best chance of being picked up by someone who doesn’t give a shit about the sell by date. Every day was a different color, so it was hard to get wrong. Almost everything with a particular color had the same sell by date on it.
In the years following my adventure in bread stocking, I had a very easy time finding a fresh loaf. I wouldn’t need to waste my time checking every tag, I’d just shift the front row around to see what’s at the back and what color the back row tags are. If they were the same color as the tags up front, I knew all of the bread on the shelf was from the same day, and it didn’t matter what one I picked, they would all have the same date.
So while all of you are checking tags individually (or giving up and taking whatever), I knew I had the freshest loaf every time.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 days ago:
Not true, we know it’s there now too.
I’ll keep your secret. I can’t say the same for the rest of the degenerates on this site. (This is sarcasm, in case some lemmings can’t tell)
- Comment on Be nice 4 days ago:
Congrats, everything has doubled in price overnight.
- Comment on Be nice 4 days ago:
I would have just gone with housing.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 days ago:
How I feel about this:
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 6 days ago:
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It’s hard to compete with analog since analog doesn’t really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That’s right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that’s played is compressed to all hell and back. You don’t really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I’m not crazy over vinyl, I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don’t have the money they’re asking for a new player; so I’m firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 6 days ago:
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
Does anyone want to talk about the “share with Facebook” and other similar social media links that track you?
No?
Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
- Comment on mensa 1 week ago:
I think their entry requirements are doing exactly what they’re supposed to.
The problem is that intelligence, even if we could measure it correctly, doesn’t and shouldn’t imply what a person knows, nor their experiences and the wisdom that they carry.
Someone can be learned with a low IQ. Someone can be wise and similarly low IQ. In the same way, someone with a high IQ can be unwise.
The problem with having only one individual metric for a group which believes themselves to compose the smartest people, is that they’re arrogant. I know plenty of people who are so extremely intelligent that I am certain that they could be a part of Mensa; yet, they are not. When they looked into it, they decided it would be unwise to become a member, given the requirements and the attitudes of, and about, the group.
Hell, there’s a decent chance I could get in. I’ve never tried and I don’t care to, for all the same reasons, so I would never know if I could “make it” or not.
Their arrogance and hubris is their undoing.
- Comment on mensa 1 week ago:
… Or wisdom.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
In the instance you specifically cite, depending on the laws in their specific jurisdiction, that can certainly happen. I’m aware that there are laws in some/many areas (honestly not sure how common it is), that I’ve heard referred to as “Romeo and Juliet” laws. They specifically exempt people from such charges if their ages are too similar.
Of course the specifics are going to depend on the laws in the specific jurisdiction where it happened, when it happened… But I’m aware such laws exist.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
I was hoping that’s how it came across, since that’s what happened. So thank you for the confirmation.
I’ve never been much for dating significantly younger women, since they’re usually a bit unpredictable. By the time my SO and I got together, we were established in our careers and just looking for someone that wouldn’t constantly stir up drama. Our relationship has thankfully been extremely drama free. If there’s a problem we talk about it like the adults we are.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Y’know what? Not the worst idea I’ve heard.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Oh good. More stress.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
True. I made an assumption, you have a point.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but I would call out a point of clarity, that youth is far more fetishized for women.
I’m a dude, but as far as I can tell, guys need a bit of luck in the looks category (not the most important thing, but not looking disfigured generally helps), ambition, and success (mainly money). I had terrible luck with women. I’m not the best looking guy out there but I’m certainly not the worst either… And I could find relationships, but it always quickly fell apart. Once I decided to improve upon myself, and go to college in the pursuit of a well paying job, I found that my ambition was generally enough to keep people’s attention, romantically.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
I accidentally ended up with a very young lady. I know how this will sound, and all I can do is assure everyone that, at least for my part, everything I say is the absolute truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I went to college late, I was 23 by the time I applied to college, and turned 24 shortly after starting classes. My birthday is in the first quarter, or so, of the year.
Anyways. I think I was in my second year of college when I met this girl, I don’t even remember how I met her honestly; it wasn’t a dating app, those things barely existed at the time and I haven’t ever used one; I just haven’t seen the need… Anyways, everything seems cool, she’s telling me she’s 17 and has a bday coming up. At this point I’m 24/25, and I’m thinking that’s a bit young, but since she’s basically 18 at this point, I don’t really see a problem with it… Anyways, birthday happens, Yay, and life goes on. After a few months as things get more and more complicated, as happens in most relationships, I come to find out that her birthday, was her 17th birthday, she was 16 when we met. I’m suddenly very not ok with everything.
It didn’t last super long after that. She was also preggo with her exes kid and never told me. The relationship was only like 5-6 months long. She lost the kid, I believe it was a miscarriage, and I’m sad for her that happened, but too much weird bullshit and deception was happening so I called it off.
She wasn’t a good person. She’s on a short list of exes I don’t talk to anymore. Most of my exes I still consider good friends, even if I haven’t seen them in a long time. I’m in a stable, long term relationship with a more age appropriate partner, for… Gosh, it has to be 10 years now? Time flies. There’s… 6? ish years between our ages, and we met when I was 30-something… I’m much happier now. Heh.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
What an idiot.
Has he put himself on the poor house yet by spending all of his money to appease the young women he wanted a booty call from?
Because that kind of behavior seems to be rather expensive.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
I want my mortgage to be paid off.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
Chaos.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
I’m half on one side, half on the other.
The line I draw is between safety and convenience. On the safety side, I want things to be very manual. I don’t want some app or external system managing whether or not the lights stay on, or whatever, on the convenience side, I 1000% want a way to manage things like the lighting from an app.
So anywhere that safety is a concern, like the kitchen, bathroom, a handful of other places… There’s zero “smart” anything. Everywhere else, yeah, I can turn off my lights from an app.
When I’m in my office/living room, where safety isn’t really a concern, I don’t have to get up to turn on the lights, I can yell at my Google home to do it for me, or use an app. If I want the lights to be some shade of turquoise, I use the app…
In the kitchen, as an example, no such control exists. You have to push the light switch, and you get basic bitch white light. You don’t get an option. You want the light off? Take your fingers and do the thing that makes the light switch go click and turn off the lights.
The decision to make anything smart relies on whether or not I’m going to be in danger if the lights go out and there’s no way to turn them on again because the Internet is down.
- Comment on Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
Jes, estas dekoj da ni.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
Saluton.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
This. Entirely this.
If they had just gone “woo hoo we’re on the TV thing at a concert! Woohoo” … Like everyone expected them to, then nobody would have given a shit.
They’re just people having fun at a concert.
Meanwhile, they freaked the fuck out, the guys on stage pointed it out, and everyone went full Psycho trying to figure out what was going on. And now they’re in the daily dose of Internet.
GG guys. Ĝis poste
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
I remember renting a game, and it was on a high density 5.25" inch floppy at a whopping 1.2MB; but or family computer only had a standard density 5.25".
So we went to the neighbors house, who was one of the first computer nerds (I’m not sure he’s still alive now), who copied the game to a 3.5" high density 1.44MB disk, then we returned the rental because we couldn’t play it on the 1.2 MB HD 5.25" floppy.
… And that was the first time I was party to piracy.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience with Samsung. I had a bunch of evo 870 SSDs up and die for no reason. Turns out, it was a firmware bug in the drive and they just need an update, but the update needs to take place before the drive fails.
I had to RMA the failures. The rest were updated without incident and have been running perfectly ever since.
I’d still buy Samsung.
I didn’t lose a lot of data, but I can certainly understand holding a grudge on something like that. From the other comments here, hate for Seagate isn’t exactly rare.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
Why do you wound me like this?
