OMG, preach! Louder for the kids in the back!

People are far too eager to identify under monolithic cults that demand perfection, instead of just, doing their best at what they feel is a good thing.

This is how I feel about work. I got a new job, I liked a lot of the tasks, they feel meaningful and it’s a heckuva lot better than the one that I used to have!

Less than six months in and I’m like "Okay, this is no longer new to me. I’ve already peaked here. Sure it generates currency but I have to come back already?? "

I’m trying to remind myself I don’t want a job that’s consistently a new and novel challenge, because that will burn me out on choosing new and novel challenges for myself.

Still! Frustrating. If this was skilled work like the 2014-ish tech industry I could just jump in 6 more months and double my salary, but it’s not. Lol

I think I ended up with a hybrid of your approaches haha. I run Proxmox with a VM running Open Media Vault, and that VM ended up hosting all my Docker apps because it has a REALLY nice interface for managing all of them!

I only have my PiHole and 3D printers on separate VMs

Downside right now is, a lot goes down if that OMV server does, so reminder to everyone (including me lol) backup lots!

Yeah as a warm blooded human being I’m all for a little spicy entertainment, but I feel like the mainstream of that industry is becoming even more depraved and unhealthy because, like everything else, it relies on the attention economy and prioritizes addiction. It’s also notoriously cruel and exploitative of its talent.

That’s SO cool.

I always hoped one day I could make creative things as gifts that people would actually think is valuable, but not just like in that…“I’ll hang it on the fridge” kinda way hehe.

It’s like leaving cookies and milk out for Adam Jensen or J.C Denton ❤️ lol

Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it’s a “store”, and “shop” for something I haven’t played.

Small psychological trick that…seems to mostly work. :)

Also if you wanna go real oldschool, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity go for like 70¢ occasionally. :D

Caption Appropriately

Ummm…

“Arch users about to update without reading the news page”

How’d I do? Lol

I’m definitely not an expert, but yeah that’s kinda the case.

Basically Mint will update core packages and security updates and such, but when Canonical gets another “bright idea” for Ubuntu like opt-out telemetry, or amazon results in search, or proprietary packaging formats (Snaps)…

…Mint will basically just leave that stuff out, and it never reaches the users.

Maybe a comparison could be like one of those “Debloated Windows” OSs with Classic Shell that actually works and isn’t super hacky. :D

the democrats have ignored their voters like this and sided with the republicans.

“ReAcHiNg AcRoSs ThE AiSLe”

This but at a larger timescale.

“Well today is work and tomorrow is work and the next day is some thing I gotta do and the next day is errands and then work again and then…the month’s basically already over.”

I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

This makes so much sense hahaha.

Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p

Mmm MM!

Sandwiches is a good hyper focus. <3

I think they meant “reference number” like some sort of “remember this code if anything goes wrong or we won’t refund you” to return a product or something lol.

I think this is a major issue with such things though. There’s so much paper mail especially where it says “keep for your records” but it’s like… between some fuzzy limbo of necessity and garbage.

…so it either gets scanned to PaperlessNGX or gets stuffed in a “I want this stupid paper off my desk and I’m not sure if I should keep it” box that I’ll go through when it’s full. Lol

I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason,

Oh my gosh what is this.

I want it.

This is going to end up an enormous chunk of my server space isn’t it. :3

I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser

I think this is just a side effect of how mobile browsers seem to work. Every quick little lookup I do is in its own tab, and I close the browser instead of the tab when I’m done, so if you’re like me, it builds up to an absurdly high number very fast.

If I haven’t gone back through that list in like a month I just take a deep breath and hit “close all tabs”.

I’m gonna try this Karakeep though. I’ve tried traditional bookmarks in Firefox and…I never actually reference them. Lol

Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key

…h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*

*Before 98 came out? Lol