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lightnsfw ,

What if my phone is sitting in the cup holder in the center console… What if I sit it on the passenger seat and it slides of on a turn and slams into the dash? Will they assume I’ve been in some horrible accident.

lightnsfw ,

Don’t put your grubby fingers on vegetables you’re not purchasing either.

lightnsfw ,

IMO the criteria should be if you are too dangerous to own a gun you are too dangerous to be free in society. You should be locked in whatever institution is most appropriate for your particular situation until it is resolved.

lightnsfw ,

Is Hunter Biden even relevant to anything political? Are the Dems as a whole actually losing anything by letting him face this conviction?

lightnsfw ,

I got to like 98% in RDR2 before I realized the gambling ones were going to be a giant pain in the ass. At that point I was in too deep to give up. I watched all 3 Robocop movies in one sitting and still didn’t complete the last blackjack one. Eventually got it but that was a frustrating experience.

lightnsfw ,

Yea I was like looking for a solution online because I was like “there’s no way you’re just supposed to brute force this” and came across so many people that were like “no there’s no trick but I got in like 30 minutes”

lightnsfw ,

Wow, I always thought reared up was when a horse gets up on it’s back legs.

lightnsfw ,

I don’t see how it’s any worse than watching any other streamer. At least they can bow out when they want to retire and not have a bunch of idiots stalking them for the rest of their lives because their real face has been plastered all over the internet (assuming they haven’t been doxxed by some creep). I don’t understand why anyone watches streamers of any sort personally but if it makes people happy why give a shit about it?

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit (www.theregister.com)

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

lightnsfw ,

I am wildly unproductive when I WFH. I literally cannot focus on work tasks when I have so many more interesting things available to me to do. I’ve tried everything to make myself focus but the best I can do is maybe 3/4 hours of the day interrupted by doom scrolling or messing around on my personal desktop. My coworkers all WFH as well and seem to have no issues getting their stuff done so I’d never argue that WFH is bad for everyone but for me personally it is. I need the structure of going in the office. Thankfully my job gives us the choice.

lightnsfw ,

Your problem is a severe lack of discipline. If you need someone watching over your shoulder and putting pressure on you in order to get work done then you have a big discipline problem.

I’m in the office by myself most days. There’s no one over my shoulder. It’s just something about being in a different environment. It doesn’t occur to me to go on the internet to start doom scrolling or researching stuff for personal projects. I do admit it’s a discipline issue but nothing I’ve tried to overcome it has worked. I’m open to suggestions.

For me it’s about getting the job done. If I don’t get the job done then I’ve shown my employers that I am useless and I lose my job.

The problem is with my job there isn’t a lot of “getting the job done” I’m the middle man on a lot of different things so there’s a lot of just sending emails to different people to gather information or get something I can’t do myself done. I’m pretty good about getting actionable things taken care of right away but all the setting up meetings and replying to emails stuff is tedious as hell and I find it really hard to focus on when I’m at home.

I guess I can’t relate to the concept of dragging ass all day. Aren’t you worried about losing your job?

Yes, That’s why I go into the office to work.

lightnsfw ,

I’d like to do something outdoors but I can’t find a job like that which pays enough and doesn’t require a totally different education. I’m not even able to afford the things I want on the salary I have now.

lightnsfw ,

Sort of. I have to go on site to different locations we support sometimes and I will post up in a out of the way corner and do some work while I’m waiting on a local tech or something. Never had a issue concentrating then. It’s kind of a pain to work off only one laptop screen though with what I’m usually doing.

lightnsfw ,

I’m going to look it up. Thanks for the suggestion.

lightnsfw ,

Could definitely be a factor. I’ve not been diagnosed but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn I have an attention deficit issue.

lightnsfw ,

and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda

do you mean dd ?

lightnsfw ,

I don’t notice much of a difference personally and I have several years of consistent workout logs to go off.

lightnsfw ,

You could do bodyweight stuff. Pushups, pullups, squats, core work, etc.

lightnsfw ,

Psychological inflexibility here means getting stuck in rigid behavior patterns to the point that it messes with living a full and meaningful life.

Rigid behavioral patterns like having to work 40 hours a week, shop, feed yourself, clean, do laundry, go to the doctor, pay bills and so on, over and over and over again for the rest of your life?

lightnsfw ,

Well excuse the fuck out of me for not having enough free time to actually enjoy my life.

lightnsfw ,

I can’t pick and choose what I do or do not enjoy doing. There’s nothing engaging about cleaning or doing laundry. When I first got out on my own there was at least some challenge in figuring out the most efficient way of doing things but that’s all been mastered long ago. My job mostly consists of going down a list of projects and emailing people to find out why they haven’t finished things that should have been done weeks ago. Then when I leave I get to sit in traffic for half an hour. Maybe stop at one of the over crowded, understaffed grocery stores to overpay for food. Get home, work out for an hour, shower, cook food, clean up, do whatever else needs doing. There’s nothing to enjoy about any of that. It’s all tedious as hell. I might have an hour or two after everything else is done to unwind before bed and even then I usually have too much on my mind to really get immersed in anything.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

lightnsfw ,

My job is in the early stages of planning for updating everything to windows 11. I just got my testing VM with it the other day which is my first experience with it and I had an almost physical reaction to how bad the gui looks when I first logged in. I haven’t even done anything with it and I already hate it.

On the other hand the Linux VM I set up at home to test my personal stuff out on has been going swimmingly.

lightnsfw ,

Installing Linux is a pretty trivial process at this point. Not much additional work beyond what already comes with setting up a new laptop. Especially of you’ve already done it before.

lightnsfw ,

Yea, if it’s anything like my tech job the peons were raging about it in their group chats while every successive manager up the chain raved about how great it was and how much progress they were making to the guy above him and silencing any dissent.

lightnsfw ,

Yea, Doom being that old kind of makes me feel better. Thinking about how old Playstation games are though… that makes me feel like time is spinning out of control.

lightnsfw ,

turns into dust

lightnsfw ,

My grandmother used to tell me they don’t sting when I was a little kid. I also suspect she used to identify all wasps as mud daubers so I’d stop freaking out about them.

lightnsfw ,

I also find inches easier to work with unless I’m making something with my 3d printer. Fractions are just easier when you’re making something big with looser tolerances.

lightnsfw , (edited )

Doing things in 1/16ths of an inch is easier than metric for like woodworking and such IMO. Especially since most tools and materials come in inches here. Until you get into stuff that has tighter tolerances than 1/16th of an inch. Even then you could go to .010s or .001s of an inch but I’m more used to metric at that scale and that’s what the applications I use for 3d printing default to.

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0.6875 is basically a meaningless concept to me when I try to picture it in my head and what if you need to add it to another dimension? It’s not easy to work 4 decimal places in your head. .75 only works because I automatically convert it to 3/4. Maybe it’s just something that comes with experience but I don’t have trouble with knowing what’s what. If your not sure you can always make the denominator equal and figure it that way. 3/4=12/16 for instance. Easy math to do in your head.

lightnsfw ,

So I have to throw out all my stuff and spend $1000s on new tools?

You don’t work in 1/10ths of an inch. It’s 1/16ths and that that’s where the math ends. You don’t need to convert it to decimal. Unless you’re doing machining which you do work in .0001ths due to the tighter tolerances and I’ve already agreed you might as well use metric for that.

lightnsfw ,

If you can’t have a civil conversation without insults I’m not going to bother with you anymore. We’re talking about units of measurement, there’s no reason to be an asshole. Go fuck yourself.

lightnsfw ,

The problem is everything is already built using the imperial measurements. Even if we switched all the new tools and materials over to metric we’d be stuck having to do a bunch of conversions when we’re integrating it into existing construction and we’d probably be dealing with that for the rest of our lives.

lightnsfw ,

What about imperial invites mistakes and what makes you think that there will be fewer mistakes after we switch to metric and now have to use both systems and do messy conversions anytime we are working with pre-existing structures? Retrofitting old construction is basically a constant state of being for me and many others. What do we gain by switching to metric?

lightnsfw ,

I already don’t have to maintain two sets of tools. I would only have to do that if we switched because I would now have to have tools with metric measurements (which would cost me $1000s) for new construction and my old tools for working on existing stuff.

As for that article I don’t find many of their arguments to be very convincing especially the numbers they’re using to determine costs. The article they used to get the $6, 100,000 figure for the cost of not switching is from 1915 and even allowing for that is largely nonsense. They mention having to educate on the imperial system. The only education I got about the imperial system was during wood shop as an elective and maybe some in math but that was more to demonstrate fractions and using rulers and such, the focus wasn’t on the units themselves. We spent far more time learning metric during science class. The main article also mentions that converting to metric will save money but don’t explain how this is the case. Then go on to accuse companies that have not changed out their tooling to metric in order to avoid the cost, so it’s very inconsistent. The language they use is also very biased.

lightnsfw ,

Again that article doesn’t actually cite anything and is very opinionated and vague. Basically saying “trust me bro”. Even if those big businesses are saving I very much doubt those savings are going to pass on to the little guy. They breeze right past this part.

What kinds of costs were considered? They included out-of-pocket payments for physical changes in things: for example, modifying scales or buying new ones, altering gasoline pumps, adjusting or replacing machinery, repainting highway signs, rewriting plans and specifications. They also involved intangibles, such as having to learn new words and how to use them, having to work more slowly for a while in order to avoid mistakes, and having to do arithmetic in order to understand an item in the newspaper.

Every tradesman would have to buy all new tools for the metric standard. They’d have to account for mistakes when doing conversions between the new metric stuff when working with an existing construction or carry two sets of tools with them. A corporation might be able to absorb those costs easily enough but for an individual that’s going to take a much larger bite out of them.

lightnsfw ,

Yea, because it would cost me $1000s of dollars for very little benefit for me or others in the same boat. It might save government and big corporations money but for the little guy it’s just a bunch of extra work. I’d be interested to know what massive inconvenience not switching is causing the average person.

lightnsfw ,

Yeah. After I got the covid shot it added a steps counter.

lightnsfw ,

Because supporting him pisses of leftists. If everyone just ignored this dweeb instead of engaging with every stupid thing he does they’d stop giving him attention.

lightnsfw ,

Usually mommas know what is best for the kids. So why not the ultimate love momma? You mess with us and we’ll f-u up. You work with us and we’ll love you to pieces. So I propose momma bear.

Wasn’t that Palin’s shtick?

lightnsfw ,

Damn, I can’t think about something for more than a minutes or two without getting distracted… Maybe I’m the one who’s broken.

lightnsfw ,

Every update :

“Let’s get Recall set up for you!!!” <microscopic cancel button>

lightnsfw ,

They have in their imaginations.

lightnsfw ,

Yea, let’s not fuck up the ratio at the bar any more than it already is thanks

lightnsfw ,

Yeah but there’s no reason to make it easy for them. Every picture of you they don’t have is one less to add to their data.

lightnsfw ,

I’ve heard of it but never seen more than clips here and there and a play a girlfriend took me too once. I don’t really feel the need to either because it’s all been quoted so much that I don’t think there’s anything left to surprise me. There certainly wasn’t in the play. She was kind of pissed that I wasn’t hyped about it but I’ve literally been listening to unfunny people reference all those jokes basically my entire life it’s all been beat to death at this point.

lightnsfw ,

Boohoo, I’m trapped in the house I can afford. I don’t have to pay rent. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

lightnsfw ,

I’m in the same boat as you. IMO the solution is to make it so expensive to own rental houses that the people holding on to them are forced to sell. That would free up a ton of real estate.

lightnsfw ,

Must be a Jigglypuff episode.

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