Reminds me of when I was getting pissed off that Windows would randomly close Teams Windows and browser tabs, exactly every 59 seconds.

Till I found out that the windows version of caffeine hits the F15 key every 59 seconds by default. I had previously set up PowerToys to map an “extra” key on my keyboard to do Ctrl+W. That “extra” key actually turned out to be F15.

My HS History teacher was exactly like that and I had a dream with him in it the other night. Really weird timing since I hadn’t been in highschool for over 20 years. Also he died a couple years ago.

PIA has OpenVPN or IPsec profiles (I forget which) that can be imported into NetworkManager. You just have to put in your account info.

I don’t think every location has one…but a lot do.

Wait till you realize that the point of homework is delayed-gratification, prioritization, and self-reliance.

AIO PCs were and remain a terrible idea…the keyboard PC is a cool novelty reminiscent of the Commodore 64/128 era but kinda stupid nowadays. Would be cool in a C64 shell as a dedicated emulation device tho.

No bryndos…I’m saying when he’s ready, he won’t have to.

Yes! Thank you! Separating conversation from ambient noise. That’s a part I struggle with.

And my wife wonders why I can never hear her over the air conditioner/sink/etc.

Ditto, I would like to know more.

Whoa whoa I never heard of apd before and it sounds like something I might have.

I hear things just fine…hearing test was good. But I tend to not “hear” things, if that makes sense.

Like sometimes people sound like they’re talking jibberish/mumbled, or it takes a long time to register and I say “what” but I’m just buying time to respond.

There are hearing aids for that?

Proof of concept fails in a spectacular fireball?

Fuck it, owners are too invested, ship it anyway.

Feels like I work for the same company.

Why repair the plane on the ground…if it’s a real problem, we can fix it mid-flight.

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Cool.

I had an icebreaker event at like a new employee orientation thing where we did two truths and a lie.

One person said “I have cancer”. That turned out to be her lie.

Who the fuck lies about that? Like everyone knows someone who has or had (and possibly lost to) cancer. That’s in incredibly bad taste. There’s morbid humor and then there’s…something else.

She didn’t last long there.

A lot. I had a Packard Bell 486 that came with 3.1 and a free upgrade. Except I would constantly get “Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” error.

One day I decided to compress the hard drive and for some reason, that fixed it. It never happened again.

You laugh but I’m glad Ive got a picture of my driver’s license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.

Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can’t remember my own driver’s license number.

I’ve been using Linux for like 18 years and I still hop. I got a better idea of what I like to use for different situations though…but there are so many great builds/derivatives now. I’m pretty well settled into Bazzite and Nobara, or regular Fedora and Fedora Blue, depending on specific needs now though.

Yeah but your Rule 34 insurance premiums are less if you have a license.

The idea is to have four stacks of cards at the top. One for each suit, ace thru king. Once you get that you win.

You can move cards around the bottom by stacking them in descending order (King thru 2), in alternating colors (red, black).

You can move multiple cards to a new stack if it’s suitable.

You can turn the upside down cards on the bottom once there are no face-up cards covering them.

When the bottom stacks are empty, you can start a new stack in that spot, but only with a King.

The draw pile at the top is where the different sets of rules come into play…some people draw 1 at a time, some draw three at a time. Some people also play with a limit of how many times you can loop through the draw pile.

There’s also a scoring system but that’s unimportant for most people unless they really care. After all, solitaire is a one player game.

I know, I know. I’m just busting your Bibles.

Sacrilege. Op, if you want Bibles in the pour, you can certainly do that. I’d recommend Leviticus.

Part of me really thinks that our entry into Vietnam was partly because there wasn’t enough jobs for all the baby boomers that were coming of age, and they needed to cull the numbers a bit.