jubilationtcornpone
@jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 day ago:
You would “clear it” by “opening” the action. A firearm cannot be fired with the action open. What that looks like depends on the type of action.
- Comment on Tips 2 days ago:
That’s pretty much my littlest one. He got forced out into the world and he’s been pissed about it ever since.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 3 days ago:
I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.
Same problem. I actually use Mint on my laptop but the desktop still has Windows 10 because some apps are still just not useable or fully useable on Linux. As much as I wish Libre Office was a full replacement for MS Office, it’s not. At least not for power users.
- Comment on Tips 3 days ago:
You spend too much money in electricity. Have you thought about just freezing to death?
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 3 days ago:
I had an old buddy who served in Vietnam. One time I asked him what it was like to kill someone. I’ll never forget his answer.
“You know, when you’ve got your rifle trained on somebody, there for a split second you’ve got the power of God in your hands. You get to decide if that person lives or dies. Nobody should have that kind of power. I only wish I had known that before I had done things that I couldn’t undo.”
He said he still had nightmares all the time, even 45 years later.
- Comment on Huh? 6 days ago:
Totally get it. You wanna be where you can see your troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.
- Comment on Annual merit increase 6 days ago:
You guys have jobs??
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 1 week ago:
If it were, “Share your stuffies and go out for ice cream”, it would be far from the worst marriage advice I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 1 week ago:
Playing video games with my nephews
Me: Get obliterated because I suck
Nephew #1: “Ha ha!”
Nephew #2: “What a fucking noob.”
Wife: Appears seemingly from nowhere “Excuse me!? Do I need to talk to your mom about your language?”
Nephews 1&2: “No ma’am.”
Me: 😏
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
“Lets use Oracle DB for that.”
Statements made by the utterly deranged.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
No. But there are a number of advantages of using PostgreSQL over the others.
- Comment on The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie 1 week ago:
My Dad: Whips open copy of “Grays Anatomy” (the medical textbook)
“…So the egg travels down the Falopian Tube…”
Me: 😳
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thankfully that was a long time ago. I’ve had a chance to heal and I learned a lot from that experience, especially about myself. I’m doing good now. I appreciate the good vibes though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Same for my ex wife! Except I would never send her this message because I never want to see her miserable face again for as long as I live.
- Comment on Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent 1 week ago:
I hate places that drop ship from Amazon.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 2 weeks ago:
My electric bill last month would have been $1,700 at that rate. We would just have to freeze to death.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 weeks ago:
What’s funny is their attempts to rebrand Office have just fallen completely flat. Kind of reminds me of when Willis Group bought the naming rights to Sears Tower and all the Chicagoan’s were just collectively like, “Yeah, No. We’re still going to call it ‘Sears Tower’.” Hell, nobody that I know of calls it “Willis Tower.” Nobody calls Microsoft Office “Office 365”. Nobody is going to call it “Microsoft 365 Copilot.” This is just a huge waste of effort by a tech firm that has long since run out of ways to be innovative.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always found it interesting how brands that are either not household names or have been mostly forgotten shaped technology that we use every day. You can find LED bulbs or cheap electronics with the Curtis-Mathes brand nowadays but back in the 60’e and 70’s, they set the standard for repairable TV’s, at least in the US. They basically modularized everything to where there were like 10 replacable parts and the repairman carried all of those with him. They could swap out a bad component in minutes.
Another one that was never a household name is Allen Organ Company. They make electronic pipe organs, which replicate the sounds of an actual pipe organ, sans pipes. In the early 70’s they created the first fully digital organ. It had a small computer that generated the tones. Even though it had a several large PCB’s and a pretty big footprint for its limited capabilities compared to computers today, at the time it was a pretty impressive feat.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 3 weeks ago:
Salesforce needs no help ruining their own image. Their software is just a giant smoldering pile of shit.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 4 weeks ago:
In some ways, yes. At 36, I have a wife and kids whom I love and enjoy. I’m a very lucky man in that respect. During my 20’s and my first (God awful) marriage, I resigned myself to the idea that I would never have a family.
My job is not particularly fulfilling. In fact, when asked in interviews which parts of my career I’ve enjoyed most my answer is, without hesitation, “the jobs I didn’t get paid for.” Volunteering for things that had a meaningful impact on people’s lives has always been very satisfying. Sadly, I haven’t had time to do much of that in recent years. In my experience, there is a lot of truth in the statement, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” I hope to get back to doing more volunteer work when my younger kids are a little bigger.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 4 weeks ago:
I often VPN to my home network while on the go. The overall web experience is so much worse without DNS level ad blocking.
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 4 weeks ago:
Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream…
Joseph: “Holy mother of God!!”
Angel: “Yeah, funny you should say that…”
- Comment on Router VPN? Express put to rest 4 weeks ago:
Those Protectli Vaults are neat little devices.
- Comment on Router VPN? Express put to rest 4 weeks ago:
It definitely makes it more difficult to switch endpoints manually. I have multiple VPN connections with different exit nodes configured for failover in case one (or more) of them is unreachable. I don’t run into geoblocking issues very often but I also don’t route all my WAN traffic over VPN. Just some of it.
What you can automate depends on your routers capabilities. Mine is a Mikrotik which does have fairly extensive support for custom scripts. However, detecting Geoblocking is probably going to involve parsing HTTP responses which is beyond the capabilities of almost all consumer grade routers. You would have to effectively do a MITM attack (aka deep packet inspection) in order to accomplish that on something other than the client device.
TLDR: I manually change routes to a different VPN if needed but I very rarely run into Geoblocking issues.
- Comment on Attitudes 4 weeks ago:
Relegated to a random shared drive, never to be opened again.
- Comment on Router VPN? Express put to rest 4 weeks ago:
I exclusively use my router as the VPN client for a few reasons. There are multiple services on my network that use the VPN. I’ve got static routes configured which effectively act as a kill switch and I can use QOS to prioritize traffic. It’s pretty much set it and forget it. You can use any VPN service as long at they offer a protocol your router supports. I use Proton via WireGuard and have for years.
- Comment on Attitudes 4 weeks ago:
I’m here because I find fulfillment in creating spreadsheets and having my expertise routinely ignored.
- Comment on Can I use your shower? 5 weeks ago:
Depends. Is that what you want us to be talking about?
- Comment on Get ready for... 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can I use your shower? 5 weeks ago:
Smells like a tossed salad.
