ITGuyLevi
@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
- Comment on Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠 3 days ago:
Name brand did that shit too so at least Kroger kept it going for a while.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 2 weeks ago:
Here in the southern US, pigs in a blanket is typically made from little cocktail smokies wrapped in about 1/3’rd of an uncooked pilsbury cresssant, then tossed in an oven until done. I really thought a sausage roll from Tesco would be similar but it was not… That’s when I realized y’all have pretty bad food there (no offense), why did you guys start putting hotdogs in pizza crust? As an aside, I love how orderly everyone queues up for stuff there, almost like a country with functioning adults that teach their kids how to wait their turn.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 2 weeks ago:
I like OAuth for simplifying my login process mainly. I use Authentik for a lot of my home services (calibre, nextcloud, freshrss, etc), and not having to deal with Plex’s authentication service would be awesome. In fact a few months ago my work started blocking Plex, not my home domain though so I can access the webplayer but not login now (so no morning local news in the background now that I’m back in the office).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, been a lifetime Plex pass holder for a long time, it was fun but it still doesn’t support OAuth and now they are forcing ads before local TV streams now. I realize the latter is probably more on the Roku side of the house as my shield hasn’t started doing that yet.
Really live TV is the last thing holding me onto Plex, well that and I really do love Plexamp and the sonic analysis bit Plex can do. Plex’s days are sadly numbered for this selfhoster.
- Comment on Had to look this up 3 weeks ago:
Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!
Thanks again!
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 weeks ago:
Totally not trying to sow discourse but I don’t think the person you are replying meant that any meaningful search has occurred beyond our planet. I believe they may have just been saying that over the course of human history so many people have been trying to prove it and none of them have made any real progress.
Now we have museums showing people living with dinosaurs because enough people wouldn’t believe the bones were buried by the devil to test our faith… I’m all up for any evidence someone has, history is terrifying beautiful, and the bible has some interesting stories, but it doesn’t seem very grounded in this reality (personal opinion I suppose).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That makes sense! I always forget about those types of salads lol. Thanks!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I feel like he might be referring to Miracle Whip as it is (or at least was when I was paying attention in the 80s/90s) sold as “salad dressing”. No clue why they called it that but it was a cheap alternative to mayonnaise that had a tangy zip.
Now I have real mayonnaise made with eggs in my house (my mom was always weirded out by non-refrigerated egg products).
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 month ago:
I’m in a similar spot, my closest teammates are about 80 miles away and everything is over teams. My only solice is the fact no one works in my building so it’s really quiet (almost too quiet at times).
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 1 month ago:
So many memories getting posted lately.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 months ago:
I’m not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic ‘Helo Moto’ ringtone.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 3 months ago:
I bought my wife a cheap Lenovo laptop when she needed something that supported the “Lockdown” browser (no Linux support). Didn’t realize when I bought it what “S” meant (and I’ve been an IT guy for over 20 years). Got it home and realized what was up, it couldn’t even run that browser because it had to be the preconfigured browser from her school and not one from the MS store. An evening of fiddling and a $3 grey market key and she was back onto a normal Windows install.
On the plus side the laptop was only like $299 or $399 and really isn’t too bad on the hardware side.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 4 months ago:
The only air conditioned room at my first duty station was a closet they called a server room… No one wanted to do the computer stuff when the cool toys were on the airstrip.
As for advice… Don’t be scared, every adult you meet is faking it to some extent and it took me a long time to realize it. Also, be wary of random advice on the internet lol.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 4 months ago:
It was 81 degrees (27 for the rest of the world) out this morning on my drive to work before 0700. I didn’t have air conditioning growing up so maybe my memories are skewed but it seems way hotter now than it was in the 80s/90s (Captain Planet warned me about this).
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 4 months ago:
You get heavier, totally anecdotal evidence on my part but I’ve stepped on the scale in the morning, let a glorious one rip, and the number went up by 0.1.
I am not saying that I gained 0.1 lbs, just that afterward the scale rounded it up instead of down.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 5 months ago:
Umm… Around the year 2000 I worked at a couple of different convenience stores in the south, ours were never cleaned, shit they were rarely changed with the exception of Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper because our regulars would tear through them. I remember the lines being clear…ish? They had the embedded nylon or whatever in the clear tube but ours were way nastier than my 18 year old brain wanted to realize.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
That’s messed up. Just on the basis of it being a picture of a different door is grounds for a refund, that clearly shows they did not deliver it to the address they were paid to deliver it to. Super frustrating and I hope it all gets worked out for you.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 6 months ago:
I think being able to summon a 60 ton object falling from orbit could do a bit more than kill just one person. Definitely an interesting use though!
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 7 months ago:
Do you signal before you observe what may or may not be where you are wanting to go? Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but I don’t signal until I’ve observed where I’m going and determined if it can be done safely. People driving for miles with their turn signal on make me worried (you can never tell if they are planning to go now, later, after their invited, or if they just forgot it was on).
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 8 months ago:
I’m okay with servers being shut down eventually, my issue is we don’t know when. If they want to call it a license and that it will be revoked later, well fucking plan it out and tell people. Did the game get cheaper as the clock ran down? Did the people buying 10 years of access pay more than people that only got to play it once? I’m pissed for the people like me that sometimes take a few years to get to playing their games only to find the servers are gone and they thought they were buying something (or at least licensing something) they would get to use.
Of course they would probably find that if they told people how long they could use it, a lot of people wouldn’t pay them for it (i.e. their business would fail without intentionally deceiving their customers).
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 9 months ago:
I was a fan of leaving the orientation normal, but moving the start bar and setting it to auto-hide. A long time ago I put a simple bat file (like “shutdown -l -t 0” or similar) in a coworkers startup folder… I guess that was a step too far though and he thought I broke his computer. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
- Comment on Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so? 1 year ago:
Came back to drop a link (sorry for the delay) and it seems others have already provided it. Dropping it here again just because it’s an amazing talk by an amazing dude that was taken too soon.
- Comment on Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so? 1 year ago:
You’d be surprised how insecure they are (or were) from the non-physical side. Check out Barnaby Jack’s talk from DefCon 18 (Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines Redux).
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 year ago:
Someone tried to send me a picture they took and it looked like hot garbage until they sent it over email. Not because it couldn’t be sent without feeding it through a potato first, because Apple wants a worse experience for anyone not in their ecosystem.
When they are the oddball in the group though, it just makes iPhone’s look like a worse option.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 year ago:
Is it invisible to accessibility options as well? Like if I need a computer to tell me what the assignment is, will it tell me to do the thing that will make you think I cheated?
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 year ago:
I liked to play where if my players tricked me, well they got me, we’ll adjust and keep going. They always realized that I may ask a similar question to them though, and it could always go the same way.
In this specific case, I’d let it happen and they’d probably going on an adventure for a wish in the next session (depending on how important the NPC is to the story, they might need to have him as a humanoid). Just like if you have an asshole paladin, they might find themself trying to atone to get back their favor with the gods.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 year ago:
Haven’t played since 2e… Polymorph should have been a way higher level spell with how it was written. Mice fail saving throws constantly… Super useful to derail a campaign.
- Comment on Burning Up 1 year ago:
This is the first time I’ve heard about a “human feeling” scale so sure, 50 must be perfect.
- Comment on Burning Up 1 year ago:
Why would you pick 50 for the perfect temp? Genuinely curious why land on that number.
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 1 year ago:
I remember it being iffy when I used it back then, the 8320 didn’t have GPS so it was trying to use cell towers to figure out the turn by turn. It was slower, but not as slow as the connection speed would seem because every page load wasn’t dependent on a thousand different CDNs and a hundred different trackers.
A dedicated GPS was essential for cross country (if you didn’t want paper maps or printouts).