No illusions on my part. RAID5 NAS with periodic disk archive backups.
Got what I need locally and intend to keep it that way. I’m sick of sites like Amazon with “Buy Now” buttons that are really “rent now via restrictive terms and only via devices we approve until we decide you no longer need access.”
Weird. I wonder if quality is regional. I have a pair of Skechers sneakers I’ve had since 2023 that are still in goods shape, as well as a pair of boots from 2022. The sneakers are kinda worn at this point, but not to the point they need replacement yet. And I’m not exactly easy on my stuff, I live in a rural area and the terrain is rock and soil mostly.
I’ve found sketchers to be great. I wear wide and double wide, and they always fit to size.
There’s some great modern jazz coming out of Japan these days. Check out the likes of:
Also, UK too, check out the Ezra Collective.
Plenty of modern jazz out there, it’s just not mainstream anymore.
Edit - forgot about Ibrahim Maalouf. Dude is incredible on the trumpet. Between him and Kuroda, trumpet jazz is alive and well.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for the original PlayStation. All these years later it’s still an amazing standout.
Neat write up.
Power consumption is a big reason I ditched my full size server for an AMD mini-PC. Way more efficient with a tdp of 25w, and idles pretty low (sub-10w, I forget the exact wattage).
I’m not really doing a lot with it, it’s mostly for Plex and Jellyfin, and I’ve got a separate VM hosting home assistant. It’s running Proxmox, and plenty of headroom if I needed more VMs or containers.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. President Camacho was not smart, but he was well meaning. As soon as he knew there was someone smart enough to fix their problems he put them on task and worked to improve people’s lives.
There’s nothing well meaning from the current administration and anything good that possibly comes of it is happenstance. The current administration is not idiocracy, it’s a kleptocratic authoritarian nightmare.
Basic headset would be good for sim racing.
I use an AMD mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.
I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).
I’m a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.
If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.
This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.
Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue smart lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.
New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:
Move forward, not backward. Not sure about the red flags, but could be you were just comfortable in the old job, and the new one is stretching your comfort zone.
If you want to go back to the old company, grow and apply later in a new role, from a position of strength. If you go back now you’re negotiating from a position of weakness and admitting you will accept less.
I cancelled Netflix years ago and never looked back when they released Cuties, because I don’t want to see (or support) 11 year olds shaking their asses.
Some of these fuckers would probably sign up just for that content.
After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.
Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.
Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.
En dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course (though for compound words it’s technically a hyphen). It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.
Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.
Fun fact: En dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably (in fact, I did so here because screw trying to remember the ctrl+### combo for an actual en dash), while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.
Every accusation is projection.