geekworking

@geekworking@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You merely adopted the hustle, this guy was born with it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t Gooch Gary Coleman’s bully on Different Strokes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a lucky crab⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL that Linux users are a bunch of lucky crabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe wake up, new VLC update just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The upgrade looks like a pain in the ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Every Public Classroom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

  The very first words of the First Amendment that these fucktads go around screaming about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on where the office is in relation to your home.

  Before covid and going WFH, the office was only 5 miles away on roads with no traffic. I would go back to this, no problem. Just enough to keep you on a schedule and get out of the house.

  The biggest benefit of an office is that when you leave, you are gone until tomorrow.

  When everyone is WFH, you never completely leave the office. I know boundaries, but in many cases, the lines can get a bit fuzzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tech support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The always relevant xkcd.com/806/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Fxctory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.

  Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus for the toilet right there in the bathroom with no door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People watching at a mall in 1996⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The kids in the strollers are about 30 now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoops⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am old enough to remember when they only had manual screw drivers and thicker wood screws that needed to be pre-drilled and lubed with soap.

  Go buy a modern “cheap” wood screw. Not a deck screw. An actual wood screw. Pre-drill the correct size hole, including the countersink, and use the correct size manual Phillips screwdriver. You will never strip out the screws.

  Now take a 500 RPM impact driver that has almost enough torque to remove lug nuts, a worn or wrong size bit, and a thin shank screw that was only designed to hold down deck boards and the slightest slip or misalignment and have this photo.

  We all do it because it is fast/easy. Just understand that you are doing things the convenient way instead of the right way, and you have to expect the stuff to sometimes not work aa advertised because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meow_irl⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bring your cat to court day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. The Russian Mob will give him bailout money just like they did for his failed casino and property business. They just need to figure out the best way to launder the money with a regulator watching the business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use find instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems so simple⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a long swing out arm for the TV. Swing it 90 degrees. [LikeThis] (a.co/d/htnnZWA)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've No More F***s To Give!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love open mic night at Men’s Warehouse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play Spot the Cold Solder.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use a tool to push sideways on the joints and from the component side.

  Bad looking joints can still have a connection even if they look bad. If the connection has truly come loose, there will be some movement in the joint.

  When we were working on surface mount boards, we would use a sewing needle and run it down the pins, and listen to the sound. The needle crossing a solid pin will make a sharp sound. If solder joint is not good, the pin moves, and you will get a duller sound. Dink, dink, dink, dut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play Spot the Cold Solder.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if just glare, but a lot of these look like one side has too little solder like you didn’t use enough and/or it wasn’t flowing correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry ChristmaX⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he could go it operations where every day is “a bad day to stop sniffing glue” because you are the only thing keeping the house of cards up while dev and network squabble over who’s foot cannon broke shit this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this monstrosity?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knock off version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile for guys with little weiners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinese cakes, desserts, etc use less sugar and are generally more bland than western recipes. It is a matter of different cultures having different tastes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lying in court is perjury, which is a criminal offense.

  That being said, making a mistake on something like a date is a valid defense. Trump immediately recanting gives him a good way to claim mistake.

  There’s more value to prosecution to make him seem deceptive and stupid than wasting more time with something like a super weak case for perjury. You also don’t want to give them more ways to draw out and delay the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War Pigs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, it was a false flag operation to justify a war with the opossums. The military swine complex stands make millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hybrid is only good if the employee has the choice.

  Pre-pandemic I was in an office of people I liked about 10 min from home. I’d go back to that, no problem.

  My prior job was 1-2 hours each way due to traffic, and I was in a room by myself. I wouldn’t go back to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A fine fish bone is also not big enough to block the airway by itself. Heimlich can clear enough of whatever is stuck with the bone to at least partially open the airway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨goodidea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …And get naked first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But my WiFi is just fine!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  All of money and downtime I save from replacing broken RJ45 plugs more than covers the $10 tool and extra $2 that it costs for a keystone jack and wall mount box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But my WiFi is just fine!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why Pro level is to terminate all of your permanent cabling with punch down jacks and patch panels, then use throw-away patch cables from jacks to devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a food being like 'high in B6 vitamins' or whatever actually mean anything or make anyone feel tangibly different?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You acting to defend vitamin claims actually proves my point.

  The word “essential” is chosen to lead you subconscious through the path of if we know that humans need vitamins to survive, and this snake oil has vitamins, then humans must need this exact product to survive.

  This is meant to implant a suggestion and not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

  When product marketing calls out stuff like “essential vitamins” it is technically true, but it is generally a horrible and/or unnecessary source compared to just eating normal foods.