Hyacin (He/Him)

Logic, the entire universe, and a million studies: “Working from home makes people happier, healthier, and more productive!”

My dumbass company: “We’re going to force you back to the office now, k?”

I mostly agree, and did the same with my second gen lab build - instead of shiny new NUCs like I had used round 1, I bought old off lease Dell Xeon boxes. SO MANY PROS -

• Got them up to 14c/28t each
• They can take GPUs and actually do heavy transcoding/ML work
• They can take up to like, 128GB of memory, which is GREAT when they’re all hypervisors

The downsides can’t be denied though -

• Even without the GPUs and beefed up CPUs, they are power hogs - the CPU alone uses more than an ENTIRE NUC
• They run HOT
• They run LOUD

The same holds true for off-lease SFF stuff, Lenovo and the likes …

So while reuse/repurpose is absolutely of the utmost importance, no question - when it comes to technology and how quickly it advances and miniaturizes, a thorough and logical pros/cons list is often required.

I’d add another option though - if you do need what a Pi brings to the table - do you really need a shiny new Pi 5? Is it possible a used Pi 3 or Pi 4 would do the trick, and check the reuse box?

Yes.

English.

omg I did that when I had COVmonia last year and many times figured I’d rather just be dead.

I’ve heard many right wing folks complain, because in this country at least (Canada), the right LOVES to brain wash them into believing government should be smaller, socialism is bad, and high taxes are evil (even though when they get in they only give tax breaks to their rich friends).

I, one of seemingly few rational thinking humans left in this country, have always understood, believed, and told those people at every opportunity - “THAT IS WHAT PAYS FOR OUR SERVICES”

I remember before I deleted my FB account one tool on there complaining about an incoming ‘digital services tax’ (i.e. Netflix subs and such), and I quickly skim his wall or whatever, and he was collecting the “oh noes, I lost my job cause covid, please give me money government” benefit we had just like, a year prior - they SERIOUSLY just do not understand they very benefits and services they rely on and complain aren’t big enough or good enough, ARE FUNDED BY THOSE DAMN TAXES.

As infuriating as all that is - it’s even worse to see an entire half of our government fanning the flames of this idiocy, reinforcing it, and teaching them it is right!!

Nice try Facebook.

Deadpool and Wolverine

You seem ill.

This. Just block and move on. jfc some people have issues.

“YOU’RE NOT DOING THINGS THE EXACT WAY I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE DOING THINGS, WAH WAH”

Who thinks they’re the centre of the world here exactly?

Edit/P.S. Glad everything worked out - and I not only wouldn’t have answered the door, but wouldn’t have bothered to check the camera after either. It’s always door-to-door bs of one form or another around here … or car thieves.

Take my meaningless upvote!

I agree and clicked to say the same thing, until I read “I’m scared of breaking something” - if you want to get good at Linux, then do what you’re scared of, and break things, because that is how you learn.

If you do not want to - which is 100% perfectly fine and acceptable - not everyone has to be a Linux expert and some people do just want to use it - then I wouldn’t bother unless there is a specific need.

I have, and I love it (though I’ve never seen that brand).

It was recently brought to my attention though that all grocery store 'plant milk’s are ultra processed, and have a lot of stuff in the ingredients list I can’t pronounce :-/

So, while the company may be gone or out of business as far as I can gather - I found a Nutr on eBay and will start exclusively making my own 'plant milk’s once I finish up my backlog of store bought stuff!!

Oat milk just goes the hardest anyway, even more so than milk

I’m sorry, I’m old and don’t know what this means, or if it is good or bad. Could you provide the old person translation? ;-)

The fallout afterwards and the insane fascist backlash from the overlord is what drove me here. Also never looked back as far as daily use goes, but sadly searches and specific niche cases (SFW, lol) still bring me there occasionally.

Mail search is SO BAD - on EVERY DEVICE I make a database on.

I really wish I’d known that before I moved like 15 years of Gmail (and other accounts) over!

SO BAD. smh.

Proton, but I’ve been questioning that of late :-/

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Hooked me and then I explored lots of the rest of the series!

Not anywhere near a recent version in my experience

“Movie released in 2024/2025 beats movie released during pandemic at box office”

What makes headlines these days boggles the mind.

I saw 3 just yesterday, and personally I thought it was the worst one so far?! But my now 14 year old son disagreed and thought it was the best one so far. Metacritic seems to agree with him too.

I don’t know, maybe I was having an off day or something. I felt like it was aimed at a slightly younger demographic than the last couple? Like, pre-teen at best? I didn’t get that feeling from the first two.

I know this doesn’t rest in my hands alone.

It does not rest in your hands at all. NO ONE can or will stop ANYTHING until THEY want to. And they have to REALLY want to. Just going to rehab once or twice doesn’t indicate that specifically. I was in rehab with someone who was there because if he didn’t “do something” his work was going to fire him. I don’t think it was his first - I know it wasn’t his last, he was in there again while I was still in aftercare. That was 12 and a half years ago now … I just found out a couple months ago that he died, drinking.

The real kicker is he’d completely reset his life - he’d moved 6 hours away from here - HE WORKED AT A TREATMENT CENTRE - complete “success” story on the outside, but clearly there was some shit going on inside that he wasn’t talking about or dealing with.

We can’t fix other people. All we can do is be there if and when they reach out for help, and hope for the best. It’s sad, but it’s life.