hereiamagain
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- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 4 days ago:
Just because tying them up doesn’t hurt or stop the overall operation, you still wasted that one guys time and probably hurt his metrics 🤷♂️
Still not worth it to me
- Comment on What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage? 1 week ago:
I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.
10/1.5 was tough but doable.
1.5/300k was impossible.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 week ago:
Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.
After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.
Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.
Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.
But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.
This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.
Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.
We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.
Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.
Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.
The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.
The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.
The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.
I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.
So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.
He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.
Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.
So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.
He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.
So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.
When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.
Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.
Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 1 week ago:
Obligatory “Android had it first”. That is all, carry on.
- Comment on What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage? 1 week ago:
Funny how perspective changes things.
Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.
We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.
We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.
Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.
I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.
I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.
I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.
I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷♂️
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never installed tiktok. And I got rid of Instagram years before shorts. Additionally, while I enjoy long form YouTube videos from non-brainrot creators, I haven’t used the official app in years, so I avoid shorts there as well.
I’m not bragging, it’s just relevant to my next statement:
I too feel like my content consumption isn’t long enough. I think the instant gratification of moving to the next thing minutes after the first is bad for our brains.
In the last couple of months I have started reading again. Audiobooks mostly, and I know it’s not the same, but it engages my brain while driving for work.
Additionally, in the last few weeks, I’ve changed our TV habits. We usually watch 2 or 3 hours of TV in the evenings, which is probably too long by some metrics but I’m not ready to cut back yet, personally. What I have done, however, is stop binging.
Normally we pick two, maybe three at most, shows we want to watch. Then we burn through them, episode after episode. Churning through the seasons until they’re either gone or we’re caught up with it’s production.
Lately, I’ve done the opposite. We watch one episode of a show we like. Only one. We can watch one of another show if we want. But thus far we haven’t added more shows to the rotation, hard to keep track, might negate benefits, IDK.
When we’ve watched one episode of one or two shows. We either change gears and stop watching TV, or watch a movie.
By that time, the time for TV is more of less over.
Already I’m seeing benefits, small, but I’m happy. The next day, in my idle thoughts, I’ll find myself thinking about what happened in the show, and making connections and predictions that I otherwise wouldn’t have made. I enjoy this.
Plus we have a backlog of movies, we’re really bad about dedicating time to movies, even though we’d gladly waste that time watching several episodes in a row of a show 🤦♂️ So I’m glad to be getting into some good movies too.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fair assessment.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
IDK man, I bought a 10 pack of cheap thumb drives on Amazon a year ago, just big enough for giving to friends full of files or installing Linux or whatever. They were microcenter brand… Not high quality.
The other day I used the last two, took them to work. Went to buy another pack? More than double the price I paid last week.
Yeah yeah it’s flash, not HDDs. I don’t think it matters. Everyone is riding the “computer get more expensive” train. And once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down.
We’re boned.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
My TV is a 50" I think? 1080p from 2013. It was cheap then, and it’s worth nothing now, on the market. But it works fine.
The backlight is evenly distributed, which is good, that’s a pet peeve of mine. But otherwise it’s unremarkable.
Honestly, I’d really like to try those new HDR TVs, a mini LED or OLED or something. But I just can’t justify it. Why? Because the TV I have, works fine 🤷♂️
If it magically died tomorrow, I’d upgrade. But I definitely don’t need 8k. Heck I don’t need 4k. I barely watch any content at 1080, it’s mostly 720 🤷♂️
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Knew what it was before clicking. Gotta love chubbyemu
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 month ago:
Oh for sure, do what you want to do. I’m just saying, while everyone has their opinions, some people like to follow the crowd of popular opinion, and the crowd is moving away from Ubuntu. Maybe not everyone knows that 🤷♂️
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 month ago:
Ubuntu has kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of people, myself included. It used to be my go to, then I went mint, now I run fedora Bluefin.
- Comment on AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3) 1 month ago:
That’s extremely frustrating. Like, it’s literally your job to get that number correct…
People are lazy.
- Comment on “Infinite” scroll not working for others? 1 month ago:
Same for me with boost right now
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 month ago:
While I disagree with you, I appreciate your take. And the windedness is just right, if not short winded, for this thread.
I do like Sisko, I should rewatch ds9. I just grew up watching TNG so it’s burned into my brain, love it
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 month ago:
I don’t know what it says about me that I already knew what a hurdy gurdy was lol
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 month ago:
I agree wholeheartedly. I like the original characters enough, they fill their purpose. I’m a little sad when the changeover happens, but quickly fall in love with the new ones. A very well done show, infinitely re-watchable, in my family’s opinion. We grew up watching it, and we all rewatch it every other year or so.
In fact, I’m due for a rewatch right about now.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 2 months ago:
The shadow of the van feels… Off to me. Like yeah, at a certain angle you won’t see the slope of the windshield, but I don’t think the light is low enough for that?
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 2 months ago:
It was about that time…
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 2 months ago:
Makes sense. I work at a different type of repair shop, we just had a brand new $400 battery go up in smoke on first power up. Ridiculous.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 2 months ago:
They got away with it. I bought the part months ago after bodging a fix on the stock connector. By time the bodge failed, the return window closed. It was $5 so unfortunately not worth my time fighting it.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 2 months ago:
My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.
I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.
I should’ve known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it’s just a headlight 🤷♂️
Now I’ve got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 2 months ago:
So my SO really wanted to try this. We were vacationing in Mexico and bought it at Walmart of all places.
We were at an Airbnb and were gonna make it, but we chickened out. Afraid of doing it wrong and getting sick.
It’s like, with chicken, I’ve prepared it enough times that when I crack open the package, I can tell pretty easily if it’s gone bad. Or when I cook it, I know to cook it long enough so it’s not pink.
But that stuff? There’s so much we didn’t know, and were too afraid to try. A missed opportunity for sure.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 months ago:
I have no experience with any type of backend mail management or anything like it.
But I do have a corporate email through Microsoft exchange. I hate multiple apps on my phone, so I have it as an extra account in my Gmail app.
And it sucks. I don’t get a lot of emails, only the last 3 or 4 emails actually show up in the app.
But my biggest, angriest problem… Is mail getting stuck in the queue.
If I’m sending a short email? Fine, I can use the app. Fire it off and it’ll send immediately.
But if I write a long email? It will say it’s sending, it’ll sit in the outbox, but it will never… ever… send. Ever.
No amount of Wi-Fi cycling or data cycling, cache clearing or phone restarting will ever ever get that email to send. It will just sit there silently failed. Not even acknowledging it’s failed when you poke at it, let alone with a notification or something.
The first time I realized it happened, it was an unfortunately important email.
Would you like to guess what the problem is? I pulled my hair out for like a day before figuring it out. I’ll put it in a spoiler tag so you can guess.
spoiler
When you write a long email, at some point it saves a draft. For some reason, that draft is what holds everything up. If I remember correctly, even deleting the draft doesn’t make it send… If ever I forget, and it happens again, I have to copy my whole email to the clipboard, open exchange in the web browser, find the draft (which is never complete, always only half or less of what I wrote) paste my full message into the draft, and then manually send it.
I guess technically it’s my own fault, I could just use the exchange app and it would probably solve this. But I don’t want to, and I shouldn’t have to, email is not new. But it is terrible. Like printers. Bah.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
Yep. Annoying. A few weeks ago I didn’t realize all of this was starting, I wanted another 16gb ddr4 for a computer I was converting into a server.
Was annoying to discover the price increase for seemingly no reason.
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 2 months ago:
Can confirm. Cat loves the 2nd story balcony. Yells at us every year when “we turn the snow on again”, making it so he can’t enjoy the balcony.
We are rude.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 months ago:
Gotcha! No worries. Networking gets more and more like sorcery the deeper you go.
Networking and printers are my two least favorite computer things.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 months ago:
That makes sense. I haven’t used an ISP configured router in over a decade. At my parents house, their modem/router combo didn’t support bridge mode so I put it in a DMZ and slapped that to the WAN port on my router. Worked well.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 months ago:
Oh you mean DNS server, yes ok that makes sense. Yeah I totally understand running your own.
If I understand correctly, DHCP servers just assign local IPs on initial connection, and configure other stuff like pointing devices to the right DNS server, gateway, etc
