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Oh I love this. This is like Taylor Swift Ticketmaster level interest. Can’t wait to see what people start finding over the next days.

Huggies diapers fucking say “up to 100% leakproof” on the box.

I just want to see a picture of the face of the person that thought that was reasonable.

I think the more interesting version of this question is “how long can really good sex keep you from noticing all the bullshit?”.

Everyone has blinders on at the start of a relationship, but once you reach a point where the amazing sex is “your regular sex”, when do you start to have uncomfortable conversations about your future?

If the bubble doesn’t burst in 10 years, it might be that it’s not a bubble.

I’ve been hearing about the housing bubble for my entire life. It hasn’t burst. I think maybe we’re using the wrong word there.

AI is weird one because there’s such a mind boggling amount of investment in something that hasn’t brought any financial returns yet. Either the Visionaries see something we don’t, or it’s going to collapse or contract after one or two more earnings calls.

I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

Do you automate that or just check the list manually every once in a while?

Sizing is unacceptably insane. There has to be an explanation other than “everyone in the clothing industry is an idiot”, but I haven’t seen one.

Just got underwear for an 18-24 MONTH old and they’re bigger than my 14 year old niece’s underwear.

Serious answer:

If the internet didn’t exist, I’d be peer pressured into following whatever norms are followed by all the people in my physical surrounding. I’d take my cues from what my parents and family and classmates told me were “right” and I wouldn’t question outside it.

I’d probably spend more time “socializing”, which as an introvert would exhaust me. But I wouldn’t know any different, so it would just be The Way It Is.

But you asked if my social life would be “better”, and better is hard to define. Better for… general community compliance? Probably. Better for my general mental health? Probably not.

I like spending 15 minutes catching up on my Lenny communities and reading what you degenerate fucks are up to. I am less excited about “going out with friends” every night and “doing something”.

A Way Out was the weakest of the bunch but it was also their first. That studio is absolutely rocking couch coop.

I do backups with a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB SD card and leave it on all the time. The power draw is very small and I think reasonable for the value of offsite backups.

My personal experience with WOL (or anything related to power state of computers) is that it’s not reliable enough for something offsite. If you can set something up that’s stable, awesome, but if your backup server is down and you need to travel to it, that suuuucks.

And one clown, as the old joke goes.

The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”

I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?

People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.

My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.

Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.

I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.

“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

It’s like when they say “we have apps for your phone” when they mean “we have an app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store”.

I’m sitting here clutching my Nokia Lumia 640 yelling at them.

I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.

I use a combination of calibre-web-automated for metadata management and calibre-web-automated-book-downloader for downloading from Anna’s Archive. Book read progress and status is synced from my Kobo.

It works really well but you need to manually request books one at a time. The readarr feature I miss was the ability to subscribe to a GoodReads list.

I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of guys each awkwardly holding like 40 of those green laser pointers off AliExpress. They all wave them around vaguely in the direction of the aircraft and figure one of them is gonna hit.

Then how can you even tell if your toilet is online?!