neidu3
@neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone? 22 hours ago:
A friend of mine avoids smartphones as he is (rightfully) very concerned with his privacy when it comes to big tech. So he has a PC and a dumbphone.
- Comment on [deleted] 23 hours ago:
On a different Lemmy board I usually serve users with a temporary ban for “Hit&Run”. While it’s not explicitly against the rules to delete one’s own posts, removing content once a few answers have been provided seems very selfish, it’s not fair to the ones who reply and want to read a full thread, and it’s especially infuriating to the ones who write a lengthy reply only to find out after the fact that nobody will read it. It goes against the spirit of the community in general and it’s really annoying at best.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 day ago:
Instructions unclear: Ran a marathon, got disqualified for defeating the other runners instead of running past them.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 day ago:
Å weapon to defeat metal gear
- Comment on It's the dream 3 days ago:
Don’t worry, with those flower stuffs already in the bath, a few slices of cucumber won’t make much of a difference. Bringing a tablet into a bathtub was already a bad idea to begin with, so a submarining android was the expected outcome anyway.
- Comment on what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet? 5 days ago:
I’m convinced there’s no right answer to this. Whatever works for you. The internet will never agree no matter what you do.
Personally I put it on the stove just to heat it up slightly, and them I rinse it under hot water while scrubbing with a light plastic brush just to get and chunks and gunks out. Once done I put it on the stove to burn/polymerize any leftover grease and add to the seasoning.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 5 days ago:
That makes sense - I never looked into why bin/cue was sometimes used. Would that mean that bin/cue is better for multitrack and mixed mode CDs?
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 5 days ago:
Ripping it to an ISO file is basically the “industry standard”. Something else I used to see when sailing the high seas back in the day is bin/cue pairs, but iso was by far the most prevalent. I have long since forgotten how this is done on windows, but on Linux it’s basically dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/studmuffin2000/somecd.iso
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 1 week ago:
I can confirm that this works. I have four.
- Comment on not today, my dudes 1 week ago:
Reverse Lemiwinks
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 1 week ago:
I don’t think they’re edible
- Comment on a horrid little graph 1 week ago:
Back in n 2009 I was working nightshift on board a ship in Nigerian waters. I was stuck where I was, operating the machine nery, so I radioed to n if someone could please bring me a coffee, because I was sure I just saw a flying dog.
“Oh, those are fruit bats, you’ll see more of them” they replied from inside, knowing exactly what I was talking about without needing more details.
And yes, I did see more of them over time; they liked hanging from the back deck work crane when it was not in use.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
The money behind the hype went into “AI” instead
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Especially the Ø... 2 weeks ago:
Yes. From my knowledge of danish: Æ: Not pronounced.
Ø: Similar to Norwegian. Å: Similar to Norwegian, except you need to swallow a whole potato while saying it. - Comment on Especially the Ø... 2 weeks ago:
Æ = Like the A little n “asshole”.
Å = Like the A in “awful”.
Ø = Like the U in “Ugly”.As a Scandinavian, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses Ø instead of O because it looks cool. Sure, whatever, but it makes reading it really tiresome. Imagine if someone typed your name as UnduBrani and expected you not to trip over decades of reading practice.
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- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 2 weeks ago:
No. It looks too silly. Other than that, there’s no problem.
However, if your micronuker is interfering that much, you should get a new one.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 2 weeks ago:
First order of business would be to somehow exchange it to nto a currency I can actually use.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 weeks ago:
Valid. There’s no practical way of implementing a blanket ban on VPN. Hell, I’ve set up a VPN tunnel to the UK that I use for work. I wish them the best of luck, while I grab my popcorn.
If a ban were to be implemented, there would be no way of enforcing it.
- Comment on Hillsborough bereaved urge Keir Starmer not to appoint ex-Sun editor to senior role 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, more than just Hillsborough survivors should call for the same. I’m not even British, and even I know how scummy The Sun and it’s editorial staff is.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t. I just ended up here, and eventually landed myself in a position I enjoy and is quite comfortable.
STORY TIME!
I’ve always been into computery stuff. Started tinkering with FreeBSD in late 90’s and later migrated to linux. This became a bit of a hobby, and I hosted a few websites in the early 00’s. But I never finished school, so I don’t have any formal education. I took a year of private school in a relatively big city, where I got my CCNA, that’s all.
Come 2007 and I wanted to move back to the previously mentioned city. I looked around for any job, and I landed what in retrospect is the worst job I’ve ever had - “truck driver”. I don’t mind driving trucks. In fact, I quite like it. It’s just that 95% of the time was spent loading or unloading. And the cargo in question was copying machines. And you can bet that whoever needed the machines never wanted them on the ground floor. Literally backbreaking work for shit pay. The only hilight of my day was chatting with the guy who set them up. Given my aforementioned hobby, many cups of coffes were drank while talking about postscript and spooler daemons.
Come 2008 and I desperately needed a new job. The hours at my shit job had been reduced to almost nothing, and I couldn’t say I missed it anyway. I stumbled across a listing on monster.com titled “Seismic Survey Technician”. I had no fucking idea what it was, but I applied anyway as it listed some things that seemed interesting; travel, ships, computery stuff, heavy machinery. So I put my application in just because why not.
A few weeks later I was awoken by the phone at the crack of noon. It was an unknown number. I picked up, and in was the technical manager (Let’s call him Bob. He’ll be relevant later) of the seismic survey company. Turned out my application was interesting despite my complete and utter lack of formal education. Turned out my upbringing around farm equipment and computer hobby was the kind of combination they were after. He confirmed that I was still interested, and let me know they’d be setting up an interview. I’d receive further instructions via e-mail.
A day or so later I got the e-mail. Time, date, and plane tickets for me to fly down there (different city). The catch: The date conflicted with some army-related plans (I was part time in the army at that time. Think of it kinda like national guard), and while I could get out of it, I had kinda looked forward to it. So I asked the people if they could change the date and rebook the ticket. I expected them to say “no”, but I didn’t care. It wasn’t like I was gonna get the job anyway.
Next day I got a new mail. Updated tickets for a rescheduled interview. OK, cool, there were a bunch of people in that city I hadn’t met in ages, so why not. It gave me a few hours of free time, so I might as well go to the interview for the free trip down there. Fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The day of the interview arrived. It went OK. Nothing particularly good, nothing particularly bad either. Before leaving I asked as a formality when they would expect to have reached a conclusion. They told me end of the month. I bid them farewell, and went to a bar on the other side of the town where I got way too drunk at such an early hour. Fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The month ended. Nothing. The day after I phoned them up, as a formality, just to ask about the status. Well, it turned out that it was just a manner of way more applicants than they expected, so they still needed some more time before deciding. They gave me a new date. Well, fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The new date arrived. Nothing. Normal work hours were over, so I concluded that I didn’t get the job anyway. I was sitting by my PC that night and suddenly an e-mail ticked in. 21:30. I read through it. I read through it again. It was a job offer, already signed on their behalf, listing starting pay higher than I’d ever dreamed of. The only thing needed for this to become real was for me to print, sign, scan, and send back to them.
I kicked in the door to my flatmate. “Hey, I need to borrow 1000 bucks.” When he asked why, I told him straight up “We’re going out to celebrate that I won’t have to borrow any more money from you. Also, I need to buy a scanner tomorrow.”
The job was pretty interesting, and it did involve the combination of heavy machinery and computers (Mostly linux), and it took me to the far corners of the world. However, I decided to leave in 2012: The company wasn’t doing that well financially, plus I’d just gotten my first kid. Time to get a “normal” job so I could spend time with my family.
It took me until 2019 to conclude that normal jobs are for normal people. I missed the travel, the freedom, and the substantially higher pay of what I thought was a chapter I’d closed for good. I asked a former coworker of mine what he was doing and whether they were hiring. Well, he was still in the industry, but for a different company (the old one had folded). Turns out they weren’t hiring, but he’d forward my details just in case.
A few days passed and I got a phonecall, again at the crack of noon. Turns out it was Bob, and he’d happily hire me again. I spent a few rotations offshore, but as Covid hit, there were drastic changes in the company. This somehow resulted in a promotion for me. I was no longer what we often referred to as a “backdeck monkey” - They needed someone to handle the shoreside support of the production system. That became me.
And to skip a lot of corporate stuff that I can’t be arsed typing out, a few colleagues and myself were poached by the competition to support their current survey system as well as design the next gen setup. So that’s basically what I do nowadays - Computery stuff. I still joke that I want to drive tower cranes when I grow up. But I’m 42, and I honestly don’t think I’m going anywhere.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 2 weeks ago:
Closest thing NG I can think of without any research is Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On
Don’t be scared of the title, though: Without the context of the rest of the album, it might seem like it’s about heaven and all that gooey christian stuff, but it’s a concept album centered around a reincarnated person.
From the open.spotify.com/track/2Wv2cZkKS1AR5VTpGuB25C be version of the same album you might find the solo-ish section interlude relevant: [Spotify] (open.spotify.com/track/2Wv2cZkKS1AR5VTpGuB25C) Youtube
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 2 weeks ago:
“Have you tried usibg MS Excel instead?”
*Looks at industrial robotics with a proprietary TPU that needs a firmware update.*
“Yes”
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 2 weeks ago:
My previous employer was bought by a huge company. I liked it in the small company, because I had freedom to do it what was needed without much questions, and I was trusted to make the relevant decisions.
When we came under the big corpo, we got an email of all the software we used/needed, so that it could be added to the whitelist that big corpo worked with. Anything not in the whitelist simply couldn’t run.
I gave them the list, but spoke to my on-shore It guy that out in the field we often needed to install something that we didn’t need before on short notice, and waiting for a ticket to be resolved for an administrative matter had the potential to stop production.
They found it easier just to make an exception for my work PC. I just had the promise not to VPN in to the office while running “weird” stuff, otherwise the higher ups would get upset.
That’s fine. I had my own VPN for only the stuff I needed anyway.
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Silky Smooth 3 weeks ago:
I feel that this can only be properly answered through tests wherein the lab rats sewed and put the pants on themselves.
- Comment on Is the periodic table still getting new additions? 3 weeks ago:
Yes-ish. The elements “exist” in a theoretical state: The higher the atomic number, the more unstable they are, so you won’t find them in nature.
However, they can be created temporarily in labs, and they exist a short amount of time before they decay into more stable particles. When a previously unibserved element is created, it gets added to the table.
What makes an element stable or unstable is beyond the scope of this question, but in general, the heavier an element is, the more unstable it is, and we’ve already discovered the lightweight ones. The Island of Stability has been theorized, so once we reach the tech necessary to create elements from there, we might see a large amount of new elements added.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 3 weeks ago:
The only similar meeting I’ve been in was how to handle the aspect of of the job that could not be done remotely.
While Wfh was common, even before covid, there was workshop jobs that could not be done remotely.
The conclusion was to rotate who went in so as to limit infection risk. One at a time.
- Comment on Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser 3 weeks ago:
A legend no longer walks among us
