Part of my job is to to scare finance into saying “yes”. Recent news headlines over the last two years have made my job a lot easier.

Such a grift but I will give it to them, charging $47.45 is pretty clever marketing.

…and that shaggy MF wants $40,000,000 for next years hardware refresh and 8yr support licensing.

Source: I am that shaggy MF.

I had an ex that asked me to show her how to cook and then proceeded to have a complete mental breakdown while screaming about how judgy I was being.

Turns out she lived off of turkey on flatbread, plain, every.single.night. We didn’t make it more than a month. My (now) wife went from only being able to bake, to a full on Sous Chef. Most nights I don’t have to say a word, we’re just on a mission to get dinner for 5 ready.

One of my first jobs was in a call center with a scripted greeting using an assertive voice because the customers always tried to dunk on us. My friends and family would laugh so hard when I answered my personal phone with the script/voice.

Woah, core memory unlocked! As kids, we put DSL on business card shaped DVDRWs and kept them in our wallets. We could take them to the library and boot into DSL, bypassing the software security.

At the time, libraries had outrageously fast internet compared to home. I would plug in my ORB drive and write as much Napster to the tape drive as I could (2.2GB @ 5-8MB/second). I’m sure everyone there had the worst connections because of me.

Great memory for me, thanks! 🙏

Core memory unlocked. Now remembering my daughter’s obsession with The Spy Next Door and The Pacifier.

In this specific conversation, saying three of my decks made at different times that don’t have a problem means one in four are experiencing an issue. There’s also another person saying the same thing in this thread. So 4/5 dentists agree you have a problem.

Show me the Zen Desk ticket with hundreds of people having the same WiFi issue. I looked, couldn’t find one. It’s a problem for you that you and Valve need to fix, not complain about in an otherwise nice feature story.

Wow. Let me guess. People don’t go out of their way to help you much do they, Captain Sunshine?

You have a very specific problem with your Deck/Build. Open a case with Valve and fix your problem instead of bitching on the internet.

I’ve had two release day LCD and a release day OLED. None of them have ever forgotten their WiFi password running the stable OS release.

Yeah, I have SO many rescue animals, it’s hard to explain to normal people. Multiple dogs with all sorts of problems, a few parrots, an angry hedgehog, two cats, and my vet’s first call to foster (almost anything). They are all well taken care of and clean but there’s a… smell.

I’m also holding Balthazar, a bark scorpion, against his will for invading Pretty Kitty Pepper’s land. Balthazar is kept well and fed a steady diet of pinheads. When he eats, it looks like a dot matrix printer in reverse. That’s the one creature in the house most people freak out about the most, but they would all be wise to fear the parrots.

Pretty Kitty Pepper for reference

I’m diagnosed dyslexic which, when reading aloud, sends me into a stutter to full embarrassed apologies. When reading to myself, I’ll make it 10 pages before I realize I didn’t read shit. I’m never getting laid in your hypothetical world.

Who am I kidding? I’m not getting laid as is.

The one that was like 10m long 😆 I’m assuming that’s the album one.

I used to study in a cozy little cafe that was a row of houses turned into business. Next door was a bar that could get a bit rowdy sometimes. They had one of those jukeboxes with an app. I would load up Hotel California every chance I got. I could barely hear the music but I could hear the patrons groan every 30 minutes or so. One day the song option wasn’t there, so I switched to American Pie by Don McLean.

I’m sure they hated me.

Took me an hour and a half of my own time to get ready and commute 30 miles in heavy traffic.

Once at work, I would get invited to the cafeteria to get coffee with the boss, which also turned into a breakfast burrito. As I sat there getting fatter, my boss would mostly talk about his personal life and we’d wander back to my cube.

Other people would congregate around our area catching up on sports ball, check out the women walking through the parking lot.

When things broke the executive IT support guys sat in your lap until you fixed it. Then lunch… some place fatty because their spouses weren’t there to discourage them from the double bbq burger with fries and a few beers.

At this point I’ve done about an hour behind the keyboard. Stay on hold with a vendor for an hour. Then pack up and head 42 minutes home.

NOW, I roll out of bed, get my bowl of yogurt and granola walk over to my office, and I’m heads down and able to concentrate for the next 6 hours. Since the lock downs I’ve increased my work performance and received multiple raises for my efforts. I have more flexibility to watch my kids if they’re sick or on break, and I can get a quickie on my lunch hour… or grocery shop. Thriving indeed.

“What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap? (Points thumbs to self) This Guy, Oh Yeah!” - This Guy.

My great grand kids will know exactly how lame I was.

At my fist big boy job my dad sent me one that locked out my keyboard and mouse then cranked the volume to 100% as it yelled “hey everyone, I’m watching porno over here” followed by a super loud moan. It was a quiet call center too. That moment still haunts my dreams.

In the 90’s, companies were super lax on data security, retention, and destruction. In my city we had major IT players like INTEL, HP, Motorola, etc. We would dumpster dive and find whole computers full of data and no passwords. We were after the hardware so all our friends could play Doom MP, Quake, or later Unreal Tournament… so we usually wiped them but who knows what was in those things. It was a lot of e-waste and because of divers with bad intentions, now there’s incredibly strict corporate rules about data security/destruction.

Yeah, what’s that about? Events like The Hunt and I’m completely locked out. Sober just puts a “totally normal, Roblox did this, and we’re sorry” message up but I’ve never know the why.

I play Roblox with my son using Linux. The program is called Sober and it’s more than fine, it’s free, and updated regularly when Roblox security/program updates.