I don’t agree whole heartedly, but I understand where you are coming from.

I recently installed Win11 for work related reasons. Not entirely happy with that, but keep learning or die. If I’m gonna have to support Win11, I should probably run it for a while, lol.

I will say it was nice to just install steam, vortex, download game and mods, and just play without any further tinkering required.

I’d love to see Linux have that sort of native support, not just from the gaming industry, but the community as well.

I use an erig for concentrates.

Typically 545 F.

I know on days where I have the luxury to smoke more than usual, I end up kinda wheezy with my breathing. Then again my usual is typically a super small dab to aquaint my throat/lungs, and something more normal sized. Then another normal sized one before bed. I predominately use it for anxiety, appetite booster and anti emetic, and sleep. I don’t have like cancer or aids or anything, just a shitty touchy stomach that has plagued me my whole life. Eating pretty much anything is guaranteed to make me nauseated.

But when I first got into it (as opposed to flower) I was way overdoing the amount I loaded each time. Ended up wheezy every day.

I’ve now cut it back to a fraction of what I used to load, and am having a much better experience over all.

Something about vaping it (carts, erigs, dry herb vaping) makes me cough a lot, where as burned flower does not generally. The exception is massive bong hits, but the bong I bought is fucking ridiculously overkill for personal use. I just had the money at the time and wanted something nice lol. Then one of my buddies had to quit for work reasons, so I’m looking forward to him coming over and trying it out when he can.

The only code I fuck with is my own. I’m not a Dev, but I write things for my convenience.

Sometimes it gets the attention of those above me, and I get some sweet sweet time off the phones, blasting whatever music I’m in the mood for through noise canceling ear buds while I add a little form to the function, so to speak.

So mostly, its a challenge to myself while working night shift, also part of why I enjoy night shift.

That’s a symptom of capitalism as a whole.

The whole perpetual growth, and being legally bound to try to provide that to shareholders, means only “safe” ideas are given any traction.

The only time any “innovative” comes out is when billionaires have a pipe dream.

However, they lack the skills or expertise (or even common sense) to execute them.

Musk had ideas, bought his way into leadership, and essentially had to be corralled by handlers while other people did the actual hard work.

Then, at the platform formally known as Twitter, with no handlers… Well, the world has seen how an unleashed Musk handles that. Spoiler: not well.

Slower? Sure, I’ll grant you that.

However, there are some things in life I’d rather not do, even if it resulted in being bored out of my mind.

And I hate, hate, being bored.

I nearly killed a group of people one night.

Full on slamming of brakes and trying to not have another sort of accident.

Roughly 3am, a major major highway, and a group of people decides to dash across.

Dark clothing. Crossed between where any lights were.

Everyone involved was very lucky in that moment.

Insert AlwaysHasBeen.jpg here.

To be fair, Tesla is owned by a South African who immigrated to Canada, then the US - and had apartheid slaves do the hard part of precious stone mining.

Much like the former cheetoh in chief, completely removed from the realities others face, and never had to deal with consequences.

It isn’t a solely American thing, though we may be the world champs at it.

I’ve got the hardware to use VR on my gaming rig.

But between the entry cost for the actual VR equipment, and the sheer lack of games that look interesting I don’t see the point in it.

Then again, the lack of games that look interesting isn’t just a VR problem - to me at least.

Repeating patterns of slight upgrades to visuals, mechanics I grew bored of a decade ago, etc.

I used to rip on Madden/FIFA/Sports games in general for that crap, but it seems to be the trend.

That being said, I’ve felt jaded about games since I was a teen, and that was a long time ago, but there was always something to keep my attention.

Don’t really have any other majornhobbies though, so I’m at a bit of an impasse on that subject. I do spend more time with my wife though, lol.

The growth as developers from the first Witcher game to Witcher 3, and this kind of PR is why SOOO many people were disappointed with Cyberpunk 2077.

Old fans probably, to an extent, did grow with them to. It felt like a betrayal honestly.

You didn’t clean them weekly?

Man I did, but they were hockey skates (ice was not a thing here at the time) and I wanted to get every ounce of performance out of them.

Cleaning bearings, rotating wheels, relacing them cause my feet grew crazy for a while.

I was a weird kid though. Now I’m just a weird adult.

I know a little linux, but obviously I’m still learning. I’ve picked up everything I know on my own, for the most part - internet guides from the linux community tend to be pretty solid, and I know enough to not totally FUBAR my system.

Is there a listing of standard linux directories and what they’re for? Lite /etc, things like that. Because I seem to find bits of different stuff in a variety of directories.

I’ve recently moved to linux on my gaming rig, which is my daily driver - that being said, it is mainly for gaming. Anything can surf the web or play videos and shit, for the most part.

I find in kinda funny, in the darkest way, that Israel has done so much damage to the publics’ perception of Jewish folks, at least based on news like this.

Also, that Israel seems to be taking plays out if Hitler’s book when it comes to damaging and othering their neighbors over petty shit.

Fascism cropping up in a conservative ethnostate? You don’t say. Insert shocked pikachu meme here.

Why invest in tech when there are so many red shirts around?

Everquest, the original.

Two guilds come to mind.

I was younger, too young to work, so one summer break I joined up with a European guild to raid with. Lots of fun, learned a but about British (primarily) culture. Lots of fun, even when I joined another guild I raided with them from time to time.

The other was a family guild. It eventually fell apart as the adults got busier with their careers and kids and shit. But the inner circle, so to speak, were invited to a bulletin board and we all talked for years after that. Eventually lost contact with them as I grew up and got busy with life.

Lots of fond memories, and a couple not so fond (RNG hates me, in every way). But they were along when RNG screwed me time and again, and were always willing to try again. Lots of love for those folks.

Performance isn’t key. But I like performance, lol. I also wasn’t aware of their more recent practices. So thank you.

I’ll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.

I just can’t afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I’ve spent more on worse ideas lol.

Cost and a personal bias, also I’ve seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.

I’ve done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.

I’ve seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.

I have a Pi 2 from way back. I’ve thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don’t run into any problems I didn’t personally create while learning or through human error.

I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don’t see the benefits outweighing the negatives.

Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.

I’ve got enterprise level hardware, rack moubtable all that jazz.

Between the cost of power, and the heat it generates (which uses more AC and thus power) its not feasible to run it.

I’m looking into clustering some raspberry pis for a more power (and heat) efficient hardware as my next project. Barely scratched the surface of research though.

So hey, if anyone has any tips or links, it would be much appreciated.

Personally I prefer simple connectors, but I’ve been making cables for 20+ years.

I understand OPs frustration though.

Then again, I’m the type to put in my own drops at home, and include a service loop so I can repunch/crimp whatever I need to without yanking the cable from upstairs to down lol.

And as a former admin for okta (as in admin access within a enterprise) I can also say their implementation can be a pain in the ass, especially if you adopt the system after someone else was fired for, in part, screwing it up.