I imagine he would make a good Dalinar in 20 years or so.

No

For me, Lemmy is a bit of a mixed bag, but I’m still not returning to being active on reddit. Lemmy is very tech centric and sometimes it’s a bit much. While I am interested in tech, I am also interested in art, literature, history and sports. For those subjects there aren’t many posts and no, I don’t want to create and mod a community. I’m just not that type of person.

I do go on reddit sometimes, when I’m bored with Lemmy or when I want to know more about a specific subject that is non-existent or very niche here. But without user account. All in all it’s ok here, and it’s growing. It will probably slowly continue to grow, but it’s probably too complicated to go mainstream, which is a good thing imo to maintain the quality of the platform, but a bad thing for content diversity.

The rag called metro making news from random stuff again, I see. This is not even news. It’s literally “reporting” that something is not happening.

Like this: “Intel not buying AMD for 6B$” Industry insiders report that Intel has decided not to buy their rivals for 6B$. The CEO of AMD has reportedly stated having no interest in selling to Intel. Their spokesperson, when confronted with this breaking news, replied “WTF have you been smoking, Pringles?” We will continue to report on this story as it continues to develop.

I just tested it on my work laptop and it’s ridiculous how much faster search is now. Gonna propose to implement it company wide on workstations. I mean, I would do so in a heartbeat, but I still want our CIO to sign off on it.

For servers though, I’m creating the policy first thing in the morning. The slow search has been the bane of my existence for years (although admittedly I could’ve googled it many times and never did, so that’s on me).

AR glasses would fix that

I use an HP microserver gen 8, which I bought second hand (300$) and upgraded with a better CPU (20$ from ebay) and extra ram (80$) and 4 2TB SSD’s (100$ per). I installed Windows server on it because I just wanted it to work in a way I’m familiar with, but a colleague of mine installed Synology OS on it. You can use the cd drive bay for the OS disk (with some tweaking). Since you already have the disks, this would fit your budget.

But that’s not fighting and some people have that sense of humor. Feel bad for them if they are unhappy, but if they are happy, why not be happy for them?

One song that recently has been putting me into a very good mood every time I put it on is “Read my mind” by the Killers.

I have 4 cats and I do this with 3 of them. They usually give you a befuddled look. The 4th one is just difficult to pick up in general, do it’s never really an option.

That was a fabulous comment though

It’s not cheating when everything is a salad: https://saladtheory.github.io/

I have never experienced this. Where do you have ads at gas stations?

Displaying the price you will pay at the counter is my personal benchmark for civilized society. No price tags? You’re a medieval backwater. Wrong price tags? Go see a shrink, USA. Correct price tags is the way to go.

If the drinking goes on long enough, I will go through all of these phases.

Reminds me of a script a colleague has where it would sometimes accidentally wipe the entire production folder on a server. I pointed out the risk in his script and explained how to correct it like 2 years ago, give or take. He said he did, but then last week it happened again because apparently he had several scripts like that and only corrected one.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.

I had to learn to not go overboard with nutmeg, because it’s a very strong flavor that quickly overpowers a dish and when it does, it doesn’t taste nice. But in the correct quantity on the right dish, it’s brilliant.

Does he enjoy backgammon by any chance?

150/20 over LTE. It’s good enough, although we used to have 1000/150 when we still lived in an apartment. Upgrade of living came with a downgrade in internet speed.