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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, Humble has been spiraling, and this is one of the largest symptoms. If they’re out of stock, they shouldn’t be allowed to list the game for sale.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Force is the last refuge of the incompetent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

He literally said it’s because they are still paying for the building and feel it’s being underutilized.

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. That’s always what RTO mandates were about. Companies were trapped in long rental contracts with office buildings, and wanted to use the space they were renting. And office space owners had zero incentive to actually release those contracts, because they saw the writing on the wall and realized their land value was going to plummet if office space demand dropped.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Update 1.2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Cloud saves are still broken for OneDrive users, eh? Seems like it would be a simple fix, (in fact, you can even work around it relatively easily with a simple symlink) but I guess it’s not a priority.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hedgehog X-ray⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
One of the hardest parts of a veterinarian’s job is the fact that your patients can’t tell you what’s wrong. They may try to communicate in their own way, but oftentimes they’ll actually go out of their way to mask discomfort or hide pain. This is especially true for pack animals (like dogs) where standing out too far from the norm can mean being excluded; From a natural selection standpoint, downplaying discomfort means you still fit in with the pack and can continue to benefit from them. Luckily, the vet immediately knew something was wrong in this case because the patient kept exploding into piles of gold rings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I own the same car, and it does tell you the car will turn off after an hour. As soon as the door is opened, you get a “car will automatically turn off after one hour. Do you want to disable this” type of message. It also pings you with the same message in the app.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The truly diabolical way is to add an image to your resume somewhere. Something discrete that fits the theme, like your signature or a QR code to your website. Then hide the white text behind that. Even a human reader won’t see it when they highlight the document, because the highlighted text will be behind the image.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wasn’t in IT, so my hands were tied. If I tried running a network scan, I’d have been able to hear the screeching all the way from city hall.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Americans use electric kettles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You microwave the water with the tea bag already in it? At least drop the bag in after microwaving…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Source: Former IT guy here, who had to ensure that updates ran at the most convenient times possible for thousands of users.

I used to work at a theater owned by a city. So we used the city’s IT department, and their network. During COVID, live-streaming took off. The city wanted us to install a streaming video package. After a month or two of installing a full video system, we finally get around to testing the stream. Boot up AWS, and it runs fine. We’re streaming in full 4K. Great!

So the show rolls around. It’s Saturday, 7:30pm start time. We start the show… And the stream instantly shits the bed. Like we go from full gigabit upload speed, to less than a single megabit. We’re lucky to get 56kbps speeds. We’re getting one or two frames per second if we’re lucky.

Sunday, we test the stream ahead of time, and it works flawlessly. Show starts, and the upload speed drops to fucking dial up.

Monday morning rolls around, and IT strolls in to check their tickets. Sees a hundred from us, and gives us a call. They run a test on their end. No issues. They run a test on AWS. No issues. They run a test on the fiber backbone between the theater and city hall. No issues. They call the ISP. ISP said they didn’t have any issues over the weekend. IT shrugs, and marks the tickets as solved.

Next weekend, same thing. We’re wondering if IT is automatically throttling us, or if we have a malicious user on the network. We’re asking about QoS, or maybe automatic port control kicking in when the stream starts. Monday rolls around, and IT marks it as solved again.

Third weekend, same thing. This time, the city manager’s office is getting calls from angry patrons who paid for streaming and can’t watch their streams. Monday morning, IT rolls up. They run some more tests, and still can’t find anything wrong. They swear up and down that it’s nothing on their end, and it must be something on ours.

After four months of this back and forth, IT finally admits that they have all of their maintenance tasks to run at 7:30 over the weekend. Every single computer, server, and fucking toaster connected to the city network begins their updates at exactly 7:30. Thousands of city devices, all singularly focused on devouring our upload speeds. Servers run off-site backups. Those backups consume all of the upload speeds for the entire city network. IT refuses to change the time, because “this is what works for us. It’s after city hall closes, so we don’t have any users who are affected. It hasn’t been a problem in the past.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My point is that the “planes are safer” stat is, at best, disingenuous. Any single trip is going to be more dangerous in a plane. But people tend to fly less than they drive, so cars are cited as being more dangerous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Driving is orders of magnitude more likely to kill you at any second you’re in a car, than flying is at any second you’re in a plane.

This is an oft-repeated factoid that comes straight from the airlines bending statistics to meet their desires. It’s true that on a per mile basis, planes are safer. But on a per trip basis, cars actually win on safety.

And this makes some sense once you think about it. A car ride is typically going to be a frequent, short distance. Whereas air trips are infrequent and cover huge distances. So the accident-per-trip stat is watered down with cars having lots of trips, while the accident-per-mile stat is watered down with planes covering a lot of miles per trip.

And airlines conveniently only ever quote the accident-per-mile number when comparing safety statistics, because they have a vested interest in making airplanes seem statistically safer. If anything, seeing this factoid repeated is just a reminder that even math can be intentionally biased to fit a certain agenda.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I improve this? It's my current living and bedroom.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is dumb from a logistical standpoint. Professional lube-users mix their own hang powder. Because shipping water is expensive. The powder to self-mix this entire 275 gallon drum would fit in a grocery bag.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Odd to think that Limewire (shut down in late 2010) and the 1070 (released in mid 2016) were separated by a smaller gap of time than the 1070 and today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ready for another week of abuse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Here’s a reminder that the 40 hour work week was intended to have a partner at home, to take care of the housework, errands, bills, etc while the employee was at work. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and like you don’t have enough time in the weekend, it’s because the weekend was supposed to be free. But since wages haven’t kept up with inflation, everyone in the house needs to work, meaning nobody is available to be a homemaker.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even in medicine, there are big blind spots between specialties. My radiologist who did my wife’s sonogram was like “yeah I got into this because I fucking hate needles. If I wanted to go into nursing I’d need to use them a lot. So here I am, doing all of the non-invasive stuff instead.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA for those in America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
AI detectors don’t work, and often just end up flagging autistic people as AI.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at the players using their own rules against them, that’s the GM’s fault. I can’t begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTube’s algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so that’s what he’s doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles aren’t meant to be super descriptive or helpful. He started doing it in his meetings at Blizzard, because he found that any visual aid was good at keeping executives’ attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, he’d use MS Paint every few minutes to keep them focused.

And now he does the same with his viewers. He busts out MS Paint every few minutes, just to refocus the viewers and keep them engaged.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for work? Need a job with good pay and benefits? Have any sense of ethics? ICE is hiring and has low standards. Sign up for ICE and be the most incompetent agent in history.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I know you posted this as a joke, but the CIA’s Simple Sabotage handbook recommends doing something exactly like this. If you can’t risk your cover with active sabotage, you can still contribute by getting a position in middle management and doing everything in your power to grind the gears of bureaucracy to a halt.

Let’s say there’s a company that is manufacturing war supplies. You can apply for middle management positions, and then do the typical “middle management is so inept” thing to slow down production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, there’s always the “time and place” consideration to be made. If you tried to start a fight every time someone disagreed with you, you’d never get anywhere in life. But that’s really a different discussion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, this is why allies are so important. It’s the ally’s job to be angry and belligerent when the targeted group can’t. When the targeted group needs to keep their head down, that’s when allies should be the loudest. The ally’s largest point is that they’re beyond reprisal, because they don’t belong to the targeted group.

If someone throws a slur at your friend, that friend may not be able to speak up out of fear of further harassment and/or retaliation. Also, any anger they show will be DARVO’ed around and used to paint them as the aggressor. It will be used to confirm any stereotypes that the bigot already holds; fascists and bigots regularly weaponize decorum, by saying/doing awful things to marginalized groups while pretending to be civil. Then when those people get angry, the fascist turns it around and makes the targeted group look unreasonable. When the victim needs to maintain decorum, that’s when the ally should step up.

A great example of this in action can be found here. Rep Sarah McBride is openly transgender, and Keith Self intentionally misgenders her during her introduction. Sarah throws back a quick “thank you Madam Chair” (misgendering Self) joke in response, but then leaves it at that. Rep William Keating quickly recognizes what is going on, and asks Self to repeat the introduction using McBride’s chosen pronouns. At this point, McBride steps back and doesn’t say anything else; Any anger or belligerence she shows will be used by Self to justify further marginalizing trans people. Self tries to come up with a loose explanation, but quickly flees the situation when it becomes obvious that Keating isn’t going to let the flimsy reasoning stand. Self immediately adjourns the meeting, but he only does this because Keating is the one pushing back; If McBride had been the one to push back, Self would have dug his heels in and used it to grab anti-trans soundbites for later campaigns.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glitter Bats!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My buddy is from South Carolina, and I distinctly remember the first time he said this. We were hanging out in his living room with some other friends, and it started to storm. He dropped the “devil’s beating his wife with a frying pan” line, and I swear it was a record scratch moment for everyone in the room. Every single person instantly stopped what they were doing, trying to process what he had just said.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My office is bad about the cookie thing too. My office is split across two different buildings.

I have worked here for several years, and we only found out a month ago that the main building has free bagels in the break room every Monday morning. The main building never bothered to tell us, because it’s donated from the local bagel shop as a “there until they’re all gone” situation. And the office drones in the main building didn’t want to share, so they just never told any of us in the secondary building.

We only found out because the bagel shop wanted to do an event in our secondary building. The main building was extremely pushy about us making sure it went well, and offered a bunch of free shit too. We finally chatted to the bagel shop owner about how odd it was that the main building was so invested. She casually dropped the “oh that’s probably just because of all the free bagels we send y’all every week haha” type of comment.

Did some digging, and sure enough the owner sends like a hundred bagels over to the main building every Monday morning. She always assumed that they were sharing, because it’s way too many bagels for just the primary building… But it turns out the employees over there were just hungry hippo’ing the break room table and taking like six bagels home every week.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I’m a manager and I fully encourage my staff to take tips and gifts even though it’s against company policy. If a client offers a tip, I normally respond with something like “I don’t take tips, but if you and the part-timer want to to walk around the corner where there’s no security cameras, I’ll stay right here so I don’t see any money change hands.”

The part-timers need the money more than I do anyways. $50 won’t make a huge difference to me, but could be the determining factor in whether or not the part-timer has enough gas money to get to class next week. Plus they’re the actual boots on the ground making sure the day-to-day runs smoothly. I’m just doing paperwork and hanging out in case any big issues pop up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are great “no difficulty curve” games. Just the same shit on a massive map.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Times change, but I stay the same.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fair warning, magic doesn’t scale well into the later levels. The way the game is programmed by default, your magic levels only change how much mana the various spells cost.

So for instance, as your Destruction skill increases, Destruction spells cost less. But the issue with this is that it doesn’t actually adjust your damage output; It only changes how frequently you can cast the spells. But this means later enemies start to feel extremely damage-spongey, as they have more HP and better defenses, so you’re having to throw more and more spells at them.

For other combat skills, your skill level increases the damage you do. But not the magic skills. There are mods to change that, but the vanilla experience isn’t great.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only a class war when we fight back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My literal first thought when I saw the meme was “Oh hi there feddy bois”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a weird apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is it sad that I haven’t watched her content in like a decade, and still knew exactly who you were talking about? Like I didn’t even remember her name, but instantly went “oh yeah that one emo chick who used to be all over YouTube…”

Did some googling, and she looks even worse than she used to. Apparently people on TikTok are worried that her body is rejecting water now, which means she’s basically in the organ failure death spiral.