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4grams

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I have fleas.

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4grams,
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It’s Debian based so gets a pass, so long as it’s headless.

4grams,
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absolutely nothing, it’s my preferred distro (and I have the grey beard to match). what I mean is that despite not using Ubuntu (or honestly even liking it that much), I give it a pass since it’s the offspring of my preffered flavor.

4grams,
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bingo, I enjoy the stabilty and simplicity for my servers but I wouldn’t run vanilla debian for a desktop. ironically I tend to use Linux Mint for desktop which I guess is a grandchild then, since it’s based on Ubuntu :). oops, I use LMDE, not Mint… forgot that I switched a while back since it’s directly debian based.

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does the job I suppose. I don’t use desktop enough to have any useful thoughts about it. I like that it’s a decent gui over what I’m used to.

4grams,
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I feel like they belong in separate categories though. Lawnmower man was regular bad, like it started as something that had value but effects and writing just weren’t up to where they should have been resulting in a hilarious, guilty pleasure mess.

Battlefield earth never stood a chance, everything about it was cursed start to finish and was a complete vanity project by a religious weirdo. There’s just plain guilt with it, no pleasure.

4grams,
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Pretty much. At this point a religious weirdo is a religious weirdo no matter what flavor they prefer.

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6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

4grams,
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Nature has a much harder job creating the perfect rock. I’ll take it and keep my eyes out for another perfect stick.

4grams,
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I know, right. I honestly do not believe in reality anymore. This shit is too fucked up.

4grams,
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Funny how there’s always a valid reason and it just so happens to always favor the orange turnip.

4grams,
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I have an m2 iPad pro. The last thing it needs is more processing power, what it needs is better software to make use of the power that it has. I’d love to run full OS X on it considering I paid more than some MacBooks.

4grams,
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I feel the same way. I feel like we used to buy things and hold onto them for a while, nowadays, everything seems to be designed to have a single year lifecycle. I like AirPods but now that their battery died and I can’t replace them, I’m looking at going back to the cord. But now of course we’re in dongle hell since there’s only one port…

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I’m someone who vastly prefers to work in an office. It’s kind of a pain in the ass dealing with remote workers, meetings having gone to teams instead of in person, it just feels impersonal and as a former manager it is harder to maintain and keep your staff engaged.

But this is the modern workforce, and we have plenty of evidence that productivity is still there with a hybrid or remote office. When I was a manager I had to change my strategies, I had to adapt and learn, just like everything else I do in my professional life. Now that I am part of leadership but without direct reports, it’s just more adapting and learning that I am doing to stay relevant.

poor management is why all these companies are trying to force people back, it’s just people who cannot adapt.

4grams,
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lol, was kinda going for that :)

4grams,
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Everyone knows “11 strikes and you are out”.

4grams,
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Well played.

4grams,
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botox

4grams,
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just look at the abortion debate, folks are celebrating that AZ now has a 15 week ban instead of a full ban.

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Feels like the automotive world is in utter chaos. I do believe in EVs and hybrids but manufacturers have focused on the premium segment to their own detriment. If they had started with the MVP instead of a flagship things might be in a different situation.

Yes, I am an aware of the Tesla strategy of starting high end but they seem to have abandoned that goal in favor of prestige meme wagons.

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It ain’t just young people. I’ve got a lot of lefty friends and family who have been lost and are willing to gamble on turnip because they think there is no way to handle things worse than we are now.

4grams,
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you won’t get any argument from me. these folks are the same ones telling me that I’m pro-war (generally in not such nice terms) because I want to avoid the abject horrors of a dictatorship; but apparently I’m just paranoid and overreacting.

4grams,
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goldfish.

4grams,
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Right, first thing I thought when I read this is “where can I get some of that ‘cheese’”

4grams,
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IMHO, he’s hedging his bets. turnip isn’t exactly a barr fan so he’s calculating that he’ll stay off the list after the next election. he knows that nothing he says matters and so is laying the groundwork to keep his head.

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Well, I’m grateful for the callout anyway :).

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