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billwashere ,

I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices. I really think AR is a neat idea especially for someone like me. I have a terrible time remembering people’s names likely related to my ADHD. I mean people that I have worked with for years. It’s just like my brain freezes up. And forgetting words. And a hodgepodge of other little mental quirks.

Having a little bubble appear over their head with name and maybe other customizable info would be greatly useful. Of course an always on display that pops up random notifications directly in my field of view would not have any deleterious side effects… no none whatsoever. 😋

billwashere ,

I believe you’re definitely right about that. The whole AR thing has so many potential uses.

California's 'click to cancel' subscription bill is signed into law (www.engadget.com)

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed California’s “click to cancel” Assembly Bill 286 into law to make it easier for consumers to opt out of subscriptions. The bill, introduced in April 2024, forces companies that permit online or in-app sign-ups to allow for online or in-app unsubscribing as well....

billwashere ,

Well shit… that’s an amazing idea.

billwashere ,

I swear sometime he really seems like he is personally trying to kill twitter/x/xitter whatever it’s called.

billwashere ,

How do people like this have jobs?

billwashere ,

Omg!!! I needed that.

billwashere ,

Unless you’ve had training, 100yds is a very long shot.

billwashere ,

Is this Kelsey grammar?

billwashere ,

Yeah and it works the other way sometimes too. My wife’s car had one of those flatbed delivery trucks back into her car and just peel the whole driver’s side open like a can opener. I mean it literally looked like wolverine took a single claw down the entire side. I thought for sure they’d total it. But because it had so few miles on it even though it was still an 8 year old car they just fixed it because it was worth more than the 75% cost of repairs limit. I think the total repair bill was like 10k.

billwashere ,

Ease of grabbing content. There are so many tools that make it too easy and automated. I mean this has changed drastically in the last 10 years let alone 90s.

billwashere ,

I hate Java with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. It is baked into so many admin tools for hardware (Dell, Cisco, etc) and trying to connect to older hardware that requires a security model that isn’t supported anymore or has expired certs that are never getting updated is a giant pain in the ass. Run anywhere my ass. I have to keep special VMs with just the right version of Java and all the necessary tweaks (like having to tell it that certain older encryption methods are ok) to even access some of these tools. I’ve even had to surplus hardware that was perfectly fine accept for the fact I could configure it because of some stupid Java thing. In short Fuck Java with a rusty wire brush.

I’m not bitter at all 🤣

billwashere ,

I was looking for Saddam Hussein in the tomatoes.

billwashere ,

There hasn’t been a great track record with recent Star Wars games though… likely due to shitty execution thinking rabid fans won’t care if the game is good.

billwashere ,

I am so glad I wasn’t drinking something when I read that.

billwashere ,

Is that your friend in the woodchipper there, heh?

billwashere ,

As a gen-x’er… fuck off 🤣

billwashere ,

That’s very true

billwashere ,

At this point, also old.

billwashere , (edited )

X-Ray maybe I could understand, like some sort of TSA thing. But what fucking prison has their own CT scanner?!?! And why the fuck would they give a rats ass if she was pregnant?!? Or high? Hell I’d have to be on Xanax to even go inside in the first place.

I’d bet a large sum of money this is a private “for profit” prison. No government bean counter would ever approve of those kind of expenses.

Edit: Nope … California Dept. of Corrections. 🤯

billwashere ,

I never thought about that. This is likely the reason.

billwashere ,

Well shit I’m glad you admitted your faux pas but you could have at least left it up… because now I’m totally confused.

billwashere ,

The hanging meme… got it. Thank you!

billwashere ,

What bothers me more is the 465 unread texts… man are you some kinda douchebag?!?!

billwashere ,

Which is why I avoid group chats….

billwashere ,

Wow… just wow… Thank you so much for sharing that. That was just amazing.

We have lost one of the absolute greats.

billwashere ,

I saw this video from before and it’s quite informative and as someone who needs these drugs to just freakin’ function very very scary.

billwashere ,

Dude get a towel or something….

billwashere ,

This is brilliant.

billwashere ,

Wonder if you loaded shotgun shells with fishing line. You just have to take out one prop.

billwashere ,

That is a good question.

billwashere ,

Ok now I’m just picturing a drone with truck nuts. Thanks for that 😅

billwashere ,

🤷… seems plausible.

Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

I just moved into a student dorm for a semester abroad, and beforehand I emailed them asking whether they had ethernet ports to plug my router into (I use it to connect all my devices, and for WiVRn VR streaming). They confirmed that I could, but now that I’m here the wifi login portal is asking me to accept these terms from...

billwashere ,

I work in university IT so I have some experience here. Some schools are better than others but in general providing IT services for students is like trying to wrangle a herd of starving feral cats who are all in heat.

First of all I have never seen 802.1x implemented (Ethernet authentication) in the wild that wasn’t almost immediately removed. It’s a shitty protocol that’s terrible to debug. I totally get why they restrict APs … my god if every student had one it would be a pain. It would be like standing in a crowded room with everyone shouting and you’re trying to pick out one conversation 20 ft away.

My guess is you’re basically in a situation like my son was at ECU. It’s likely not really a university dorm but closely affiliated hence the reason of a third party. Or the central university IT is abysmal and can’t be bothered. Either way the only reason to use 802.1X is because they think it’s more secure, when in fact it’s way more trouble than it’s worth. You can do the same thing by controlling downstream routing or MAC filtering. The ECU “dorm” did that and it wasn’t much better honestly. You had to go into a website to add your MAC address to get access to the WiFi. Firstly how do you do that when your computer can’t talk to anything. Chicken and egg problem. Secondly for the ones who figured out how to do that using your phone, good luck getting a history major to figure what even what a MAC address was.

My suggestion is don’t bother. If they’ve implemented 802.1x they’re a micromanaged IT and will catch you eventually. I’d also guess they have completely overtaxed their egress traffic and your speeds are abysmal.

On a related note, when you graduate never ever rent from an apt complex that generously process WiFi or Ethernet. It will almost always suck, they will have no one to provide adequate tech support, and they are just using it as another revenue stream.

Sorry I don’t have better advice but if they control the network there isn’t really much you can do.

billwashere ,

Do you know how many times I have killed my own network at home and I control EVERYTHING!! I’m the only wildcard…. Of course I have ADHD and documentation is not my strong suit 🤣

billwashere ,

I did this a work one time… sorta the same thing. I installed pfsense VM and left the DHCp server on. I killed the network in our office for about 15 minutes.

billwashere ,

Make me look like Mr Clean.

Consequently I have not been to a hair salon in 30 years, a razor in the shower is all I need. Although one day I would like to have the whole hot towel shaved head treatment at a professional barber.

Father of Georgia school shooting suspect told investigators he purchased gun as holiday present for son, sources say (www.cnn.com)

The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation....

billwashere ,

What’s wrong with legos. Nobody is ever killed with legos.

billwashere ,

I grew up in rural WV. We were given a Ruger 10/22 for our 10th birthday. Now it was in my father’s locked gun cabinet and I couldn’t just go get it when I wanted but it was mine. We’d take it plinking in the woods on the weekend sometimes. Well when he wasn’t shit faced drunk but I digress …

billwashere ,

I have wanted to amputate my foot after stepping on one.

billwashere ,

Well I grew up not shooting up a school so it seems to have worked. It also helps I don’t have any mental health problems. Well unless you ask my wife.

But seriously guns are just tools. Granted tools meant to kill things but still just tools. My father also taught me to respect regular tools. You can seriously hurt someone with a circular saw it’s just much harder to do from a distance.

I don’t think you should let a toddler play with a hammer. You wait until they are old enough and strong enough and wise enough to weild it properly. Then you teach them how to use it for its purpose. And if it looks like they are going to have a psychotic break and murder people with it you take away the damn hammer and make sure they can’t just go get another hammer 🙄… it’s not really that hard.

billwashere ,

Well we found Dr. Evil…

billwashere ,

It’s an analogy. And on a crowded subway I sorta could.

billwashere ,

One of these days I’m gonna build one in my back yard.

billwashere ,

Well not ALL of them 😎

billwashere ,

I’m sorry but I just call that the syphilis channel because that’s what pops into my head when I read syfy.

billwashere ,

I really miss the TiVo sound effects. And hacking them to add bigger drives.

billwashere ,

Don’t remind me. My wife loves that show. The enablers on that show… sheesh. STOP FUCKING BRINGING HIM PLATES OF FRIED FOOD YOU MORONS!!! /rant.

billwashere ,

I remember reading somewhere that pi to only 5 digits can calculate the circumference of the earth within an error of about 50cm. Hell NASA only uses like 15 places I think.

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