Old enough that game consoles don’t exist, but young enough to be protected by child labor laws.

Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we’d ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn’t be?

No no, you just put that on the resume so they don’t ask.

2021-2022 Undisclosed work (still bound by NDA)

I don’t hate it…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders

There was some woman that tried it

they’re not a reliable choice.

I was 100% WFH, for a company in California, long before Covid.

We rented an oceanfront condo for a week from a friend, it was a good deal (they were unbooked so they figured a discount for a known user is better the no booking)

I went down there and worked from the condo from 8-6. Solid internet, attended all meetings. My boss got a case of the ass that I was “taking a vacation” and started trying to hop into support calls before I could so he could write me up for taking a vacation without requesting it.

I literally hit every support message within 30 seconds, he spent his whole day trying to do my job for me. By the end of the day, he had the gall to say I wasn’t answering messages quickly enough. I demanded he show me what message he was talking about. Over a whole day of work, there was one message that went unanswered for 45 seconds because I was already working with two separate people. I sent him my chat logs of me working with the other people, and he bitched that I didn’t tell them to wait for 45 seconds.

When I quit, he said, “I have to say I didn’t see it coming, you were always so dedicated, I’m really sorry to see you go, no chance that I could change your mind? Is it salary?” “nope, I was summoned from some people I used to work for, and they’re ready for me”

I hate how dysfunctional so many people are on communication and remote work.

bofh: untags the voice vlan, phone still passes data through

yeah, i’d like to see us abolish email and turn things into slightly long IM’s.

I’ve been struggling for years to condense several thoughts into a single IM, not to blow up the recipient’s attention.

Hello, this is your operator, you have a call from “bobwehadababyitsaboy”

do you accept the charges?

Everyone that was building computers in the 90’s and 00’s

The best part is that the police would generally not get it.

It depends.

A 2-5 year-old laptop, you want to web browse, maybe watch some videos, use google docs or open office, you probably never need a terminal

If it’s a really new laptop or you want to get the most out of video drivers and push it harder, you’ll probably need to be ready for some light terminal crap. Gets a little janky if you have a dual-video-card setup. Nothing hard to handle, but if you’re not looking to have to handle anything…

I think the numnber of available packages is better on the Debian side. Mint or Kubuntu run newer hotter stuff, debian runs older more stable stuff.

And we look back at the ‘nucular’ brockly puking right wing warmonger who wasn’t trying to kill our own civilians with only moderate disgust.

I saw, but I didn’t partake

It’s either that or just go in chains, like all politicians he’s going to lie his ass off.

Still a nice letter he put out there telling us to protest, i agree with that.

I have a decently strong in-person social anxiety that I bash my way through on a regular basis, it’s exhausting, but I need to make the connections sometimes for my kids.

I can only offer you anecdotal evidence, but it’s rarely worth it. The vast majority seem to have some major dysfunction. Racist, sexist, abusive, anti-science, anti-climate, conspiracy theorist, narcissist, It’s like we can’t survive as a species without ticking at least a few truly unsavory checkboxes. I get it, we’re all different, and there are a bunch of disappointing checkboxes that I dgaf about and overlook.

You can find tons of people with whom you can hold a 5-minute enjoyable conversation. Just don’t go too deep.

We seem, as a species, to do best when we have a common thing to complain about. It bridges gaps and usually gets the least rejection. A tiny pop of sarcasm about something that is going wrong in a shared experience will often net you a quick, low energy conversation.

I just got in from shoveling round one.

I’m thankful that it’s cold when it snows, I love sledding with the kids.

But now that there was snow and snowmen and snowball fights, can it please be fucking summer now?

Rotting fruit is also a massive problem :) One of my relative had this HUGE fucking pear tree. When it hit pear season, they were begging people to come and take all they could. They would beg food pantries to organize, come and pick.

If you made public fruit trees, someone would try to pick them clean and sell it at a fruit stand 20 miles away.