Zink

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah girl! 🤘🏻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same demographic here. Suuuuper traditional looking. Single earner for my family, wife is a stay at home mom and very involved with the elementary school, and my husky bearded self was outside all day building shit with power tools and tending to my animals.

  And fuck all that judgey hateful angry negative bullshit.

  Touch grass, he says? So tolerating the existence of blue-haired libruls is an internet recluse thing and getting out there in the real world will set you straight?

  When is the last time you touched corn stalks? Pet a dog? Pet a dog-sized fish or turtle? Sprayed yourself with a hose to cool off? Stared at the clouds? Gazed at the stars? Played with a child or an animal? Cared for others?

  It’s funny, you know. I remember a time when I would have answered like you. But the more stuff I learn, the more people I meet, and the more I listen to voices on the left & right while observing their actions, the more the blue-haired trans lesbians seem like me and the more voices like yours (including decades of experience with the trumpy parts of my extended family) are not just off-putting but kinda disappointing and sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I am not going to contradict any doctors when it comes to the risks, but for my ears and the way I do it, I haven’t ever hurt myself and my PCP says my ears are completely clear at each checkup.

  I think I’m fortunate to have pretty light thin wax though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anybody else just get LOST flashbacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my MBA almost a decade ago, several years after getting my software engineering master’s first. We hadn’t started a family yet, and my employer had amazing tuition reimbursement.

  It didn’t work on me though, even though there were some interesting systems, math, and psychology to learn about. I am still an individual contributor writing code daily, helping the younger engineers, and growing into my generalist graybeard best self.

  Unfortunately my dark side training hasn’t given me much insight that you don’t already have yourself, most likely. I guess it’s worth pointing out that while most probably live in that fantasy world, there are some smart nerdy people in that world who might be driven to optimize their business like they’d min-max a dungeon crawler build. There’s just something else that went wrong along the way, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us are real go-getters and realize we can bring the farm to us long before we retire! I am currently typing this on my Linux couch computer wearing lightweight clothes with literal dirt smeared on them, on a dinner break before I return to the back yard and continue today’s construction project. Sometimes being a “farmer” also means becoming a carpenter!

  Granted, it works much better for the suburban homeowner than anybody living in a city and/or an apartment.

  And when I refer to myself as a “farmer,” all my animals are family pets cared for as a hobby. There is 0% business plan. Well, probably negative %. When we have too many animals (usually too many fish in the pond) we give them away for free!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I played about 75 hours of it back in 2019. Most of the time I was driven by the same thing that drives me to spend dozens of hours in open world RPGs wandering and finding stuff before doing the main quest. It also helped that it had good VR support, and I had just played a ton of Skyrim VR that same year.

  But of course in NMS, there is no main quest to return to when things on the open road get slow. And you do not have the same had designed locations and loot to stumble across.

  In retrospect I can see parallels with f2p games that are just an infinite numbers-go-up grind. The game is designed such that you do the same shit forever. (If my info is out of date though, I welcome corrections)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very well put!

  So many people would agree that the idea behind “stop and smell the roses” is a good and healthy one. And so few people would actually do it in real life.

  I would even expand what you said to include things like living intentionally and experiencing the moment are part of that general skill of finding fulfillment in a world that will never be unbroken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My son just started third grade. It is actually super easy to answer questions like this if you’re a kind person who allows others to keep their humanity if they are different, and if you actually cultivate a relationship with your child.

  Explaining how two women parent a child? Wow, that must be tough my snoop guy. Better to just hide from the public like a little bitch, as you might say.

  I mean, I’ve had to address things like the topic of death because of a grandparent dying young and a future sibling ending in a miscarriage. And the original due date recently passed too. oof.

  But thank fucking god that in my family’s weakened state, none of us were assaulted by the vile image of two women holding hands and kissing a baby on the head at the same time.

  Check this out though Dogg: if you were sent back 50 years in time with white skin and no memory, within a week you’d be fighting to bring back segregation. Cunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I made an IEWMD for a gender reveal it ruined the whole evening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “kids these days” part doesn’t do much for me but the central point of “everything is amazing and nobody is happy” absolutely does.

  It resonates with me because I find more wonder in the everyday stuff we take for granted than I ever did getting getting dragged into church as a kid. My first flight was 35 years ago and I still sit by the window and look at the world from that “chair in the sky” perspective the whole time.

  And just to be clear, yes of course the world is full of bad shit. Our amazing technology helps is be hyper aware of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “WELCOME TO CLOCKO COM

  ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using a modern package manager in Linux after being used to windows for a decade or two was absolutely stunning.

  But it was not unique. I see that kind of difference all over the OS as well as in FOSS vs commercial apps.

  The difference in design motivations and important stakeholders is pretty obvious!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh jeez, lol. Edited to fix for any future readers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Celeron was overclocked and all, but sometimes that stuff just took too long and I tested the changes in fullbright!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern user-friendly Linux in a nutshell:

  “Hey that kernel update finished in the background, unless you were bored enough to stare at this window for the last 3 whole minutes. It would be best to your machine as soon as it repels for you, boss! 😎”

  Please note however that modern user-friendly linux does not use emojis in notifications about system updates. That was just for fun.

  I use mint btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New project, new energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A few rapid fire ideas.

  Don’t rule out medication. It can be the thing that lets you get over the first hurdle so you see what it’s like on the other side.

  Go for variety. I’m a software engineer but I am doing very physical and mechanical things in the evenings, at least until winter. Then I can do some tech shit

  Be intentional with your time and resources. Think about what benefits the journey of your project will have for your personal well being. Being conscious of the benefits of an activity lowers the the threshold for the effect of “just push through and then you get used to working on it and keep going and now it’s your hyper focus.”

  Own your decisions and keep them to yourself at first if you have to. If it’s a hobby you’re interested in, you will probably do a good job learning and you will produce good results, and that will help build the kind of deep fundamental confidence that you can’t just decide to have.

  I am very much an ADHD + Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria type. There’s a related issue called Avoidant Personality Disorder. I have gone nuts on my conduction projects for my hobbies without constantly including family and friends like is typical in my circles when doing big yard projects.

  So while my advice inevitably will not work for everybody – we’re all different and we have to reverse engineer our own brain & body manuals – hopefully some of this will make sense in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monthly challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the trick though, especially as you get older. The stuff that sounds like an awesome relaxing reset and will surely be nice at the time, is not always the activity that will actually leave you feeling better afterwards.

  A frustrating example is being tired in the middle of the day on a weekend when I wanted to be productive in my hobbies & house work. If I take a nap, will that save me evening or ruin my evening?

  There’s a lot of trial and error, since we’re all different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is correct about platypuses, but this IS generally how you handle snapping turtles and you are much more likely to deal with one of those.

  Their dangerous trick has nothing to do with their legs though. It’s their neck. It is very long, very flexible, and fast. If you hold them the wrong way, they can hit you with a reach-around that is very much not the friendly sex move.

  Stay tuned for more wildlife handling tips from me, your local halfway engineer-turned-farmer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They'd just appear out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I occasionally get them and mine feel more black & white than color, the the jagged shape and the arc around the center of your vision is spot on.

  And remember the jagged arc is always in your peripheral vision. You can’t look directly at it and study the details because it moves when your eyes do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to see a subtle shift where one more character evolves into a crab between each panel of the comic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Server browsers and dedicated servers are subjects that make me want to start with the old man “back in myyy day” style comments.

  I saw somebody mention CS, which is a good one, but for me the peak was in Quake 2 because of personal circumstances like getting into overclocking and then moving to a university network connection when modems were the norm at home.

  Certain servers running certain mods were awesome late-night hangouts. I have a few really fun memories of all of us coordinating to do goofy stuff rather than play whatever the game at hand was. Then somebody new would join the server and start wrecking us until we caught their attention with the text chat and got them involved too, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permian Park⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh hell yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks. That was a good one in retrospect, so apologies for the ignorance, lol.

  I wasn’t even trying to figure out the initialism. It wouldn’t have been a difficult one. My brain was stuck on “is this a misreply?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just item #731 on the long list of things that we in the US do objectively worse than the rest of the world, but not badly enough to get into the news or make people want to do anything about it.

  Plus, you know, ignorance. If we polled the American public with the question “The US electrical plug design is the best in the world” I think the results would make us all have the same reaction as everything else coming out of the US: Not surprised, but still shocked and disappointed to have the ugly truth confirmed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get what you mean with the trains. Just a europe reference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permian Park⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dimetrodon represeeeent!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sixt wants to store a scan of my face⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a mix of convenience for business travelers and a way to sate one’s anxiety for control freaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE wants to know your location

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say that if the workplace is harsh and the IT guy would get fired for telling you, in his place I might not say anything and then immediately apologize. And apparently get blocked with no discussion.

  But damn, letting you pay?

  And it’s kind of irrelevant because you acted as if you already knew anyway, lol.