Casual AF. I’m here to get shit done, not take any shit from my OS, not pay permanent rents to run my computers*, and do things my way. Protecting my privacy, fulfilling the promise of general purpose computing, and lack of DRM are just icing on the cake.
*Totally happy to donate on the regular to the open source apps I use!
Like the ones embedded in the sink perimeter? If so, those always tasted terrible to me; descaling them is a pain. I can’t bring it over to my brewing setup. All the ones I used had a fixed temperature that was too hot for delicate teas and too cold for light roast beans. Also, for making a proper pour over coffee, you need a scale to precisely gauge how much water you’re putting through the beans.
Are Crocs with socks Gentoo?
A handful of my co-workers are Gentoo loyalists, and they wear CwS year-round. Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.
Frame? Has to pass through the caliper, which it won’t.
When I was a child, my family visited a Chinese restaurant in Washington DC, and we received hilarious gag fortune cookies. Mine said “If you’re reading this, the poison hasn’t worked yet.”
My mother’s asshole boyfriend got one that said “Some people have it, some people don’t. And you don’t.” He lost his shit. Fumed for days, and I laughed my ass off.
The comic book was an interesting premise and what-if. https://archive.org/details/robocop-vs-terminator-vol.-1
Oh, yup! I totally missed the approximately sign.
Except… that it doesn’t. Serious question: am I OOTL on a joke?
Edit: I totally missed that it was an approximately sign. Derp.
I love when someone writes a pleasant “this is my experience and what worked for me.” And then people downvote. ITT some real night owl/daywalker tension. :D
Just to add some crunchy bits to the batter, your circadian rhythms will most likely shift as you age. For example, I used to be hardcore night owl, and couldn’t imagine my life ever going differently. Then I couldn’t do it anymore and managed to become a second-shifter. Now I’m all about getting in bed early and up early.
Electric murder racquet FTW! Mosquitoes and houseflies don’t stand a chance.
Whenever even a slight amount of water flows, it spins. Shut off all the faucets and spigots, and it should not move. If it moves, you have a leak.
Oh, it’s unreal. You probably know this, but for anyone else reading the thread: water meters have a leak indicator. On analog meters, it’s a small spinning indicator; it could be a dial, needle, or just a spinning icon.
Humorous on face value, but that’s not what utility companies do. In every utility district I ever lived (and it’s a lot), if the meter readers were “unable” to read your meter, the consumption was estimated.
I had many conflicts about this because I traveled a lot for work and knew that there was no possible way I could have consumed as much electricity as they estimated. It turned it that meter readers could just claim the meter was inaccessible, and their job was considered completed.
Ah, yeah, that makes way more sense. TIL mirror wrap is a thing.
I collaborate with other people who are also on DRS. Before I had teammates on DRS, I tried using Blender, Openshot, Shotcut, KDenLive. Those NLEs are just not there yet.
I actually started my solid modeling/parametric journey on FreeCAD, and I prefer the parametric workflow. I switched to Inventor when FreeCAD kept crashing when the object tree was ~60 primitives even on my monstrous workstation. I would love to go back to FreeCAD, because fuck AutoDesk in its ear, so hopefully they get the stability + complexity under control.
Rant on, bruddah! I am also in the “must use it for work” group, and I despise my work laptop with the fury of 1000 suns. In my personal work and prior to this new job, I was staying on Win 10 for Inventor, AutoCAD, FL Studio (and a bunch of VST synths I bought), and DaVinci Resolve Studio. My experience with my work laptop has spurred my nearly-complete jump to Linux.
FL Studio has been replaced by Bitwig, new learning curve and loss of the VSTs just being the cost I have to eat. I almost have DRS running in perfectly in Aurora Linux. And my two Win 10 machines will just go into an isolated network until I can figure out workarounds/replacements for the Autodesk garbage.
If this is real and setting aside the steaming pile that is the Cybertruck… The effort required to polish that much stainless steel to that level of finish is astounding.
Poor taste but amazing execution!
So this is a cool thing to notice as you go about your life: there are no unexploited corners in a balanced ecosystem (reference: Sylvia Earle); take note of what in your locale consumes what. If there is energy to consume, something has evolved to consume that. Ants are amazing at making use of small caloric particles that other organisms will ignore because the bits are too small.
Plastic is an interesting case. Plastic is made of long chains of lipids (an energy storage molecule), polymerized into somewhat durable longer molecules. When some critter learns to crack those molecules, things could get very interesting for humans if we’re still around.
Holy hell, I feel this viscerally. I recently inherited an enterprise codebase with a new job and that pic is exactly how I imagine the consulting company reacted after hand-off. The code is actually quite clean and mostly makes sense, but it’s completely undocumented (including a lack of specs and XML comments for endpoints). By and large, it’s mostly SOLID, but there are abstractions on abstractions, handlers for handlers for handlers. Configuring to run locally or against the dev environment is a huge rigamarole that I’m trying to simplify before trying to bring on any more SWEs. The bright spot here is that I’ve been given a long runway to come up to speed.