I love the couple days a week I don’t have to work with software developers, in my experience they generally have a god complex comparable to surgeons, so good luck to the unemployed software developers starting a union I suppose because any of them that stay employed are just going to grow their ego further until it crumbles on top of them.

Your comments have shown me that it’s a lot more of a nuanced topic than I think presents itself on surface evaluation. I generally have always viewed myself as average to below average. I’ve always struggled in formal structured education so my barometer was always, I’m a B/C level of intelligence. With that said, I have always been successful professionally with technology and in tinkering, hobbies, repairing already engineered or developed solutions/products. Originating stuff has pretty much always felt out of reach for me however, these folks that create the things that I can get working are inspiring but very humbling.

I remember when I used to think questions like “are you your, body, your brain, or both” were silly but the more I asked myself questions, provided answers, and challenged myself it got me to a place where a felt a confused ignorance.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and viewpoints.

Shit, I don’t know, I’m not sure I’m intelligent enough to answer that but I think I’d need to put a lot of time analyzing things. All of us kids would hang out at the co-op, park, or miniature park stuffed between two stores on Main Street, like every evening/night. I’d get off work washing dishes and walk across the street and just hang out with whoever was there. Like nobody needed to be your friend or whatever to hang out and shoot the shit before going home. Everyone just accepted folks and would watch out for each other shit. The worst we ever did back then was walk down Main Street (it had middle of the road parking in addition to store front pull in parking) at night and open up all the cars to turn their radio volume knob’s up to Max so when folks left the bar to turn their car on the radio was playing whatever station on full blast.

I don’t know, just simpler times I feel like. Folks growing up these days are having to deal with so much extra shit, I don’t think a lot of kids are getting to enjoy being kids anymore and it’s gotta be fucking with their heads.

I remember growing up having my 12 gauge shotgun and 7MM rifle in the gun rack of my truck. Nothing chambered but they were loaded with extra ammo in the glove box. Sometimes we’d go hunting before or after school so we just kept the stuff with us. Unlocked, keys left in the ignition. To top it off I was legally driving to school and work at 14 with my school permit so I wasn’t even 16 yet.

I really miss the society I grew up knowing, things are so fucked these days.

Look into what more?! You have water, you want ice water

x + water = ice water

This is both really sad and really funny to me at the same time.

Ok, so I know I’m not smart but that feels like it has to be made up, they seriously didn’t understand that equation?!

I don’t know about all that, I’m pretty dumb and I’m here. I run my own home lab, frigate, HAOS, do a lot of cooking and am a tech lead for a pretty diverse range of SMEs, so I feel like I’m competent but I don’t think I’m very smart. I can do things and figure stuff out but as an example just yesterday I was watching a video about this bitluni guy making a GPU and the things he just knows while explaining what he’s doing, like he’s smart, I could never do something like that.

https://youtu.be/HRfbQJ6FdF0

We have a skunk that roams around our back yard. Our dog got within a foot of it once, luckily didn’t get spayed. I can tell when he’s outside, just the lingering odor of their spray fills the entire outdoors. It is incredible how potently disgusting their actual spray is.

I think it’s a lot like any group, religion is a good example. I don’t mind that my best friend is religious. I’ll even wait to start eating and bow my head so he can say a prayer. Because I love and respect him but also it’s just the decent human thing to do. I don’t push my atheism on him and he doesn’t push his religion on me. There are religious people and atheists that I can’t stand. There’s vegans and non vegans I can’t stand. In general I try to remind myself that it’s usually the annoying minority I can’t stand I remember the most and isn’t reflective of the group as a whole. With most things generally.

I can go to my Kroger and buy them right now though

This narrative has always confused me because they sit on the shelf at my Kroger

I was thinking it was a coked out Charlie sheen

I have five machines, one headless, the other four on KVM, 2 Linux 2 windows. Mainly only use the one windows for work bs that I never want to touch my personal space. I spend most my time on my Linux machine and just use rustdesk though. Having three monitors helps because one is pretty much dedicated to rustdesk.

They are playing statistics, most people that think they are immune to ads are full of shit and even if they somehow defy common human behavior it isn’t really relevant to an advertising effort that doesn’t care about the minority.

I wasn’t sure what the deal was until I saw this and was inclined to say no but now I’m sold, I don’t even want the money.

Yes

Storing data in ram isn’t wasteful though, I have a lot of criticisms of windows but the memory management isn’t one of them. I’d rather have as much predictive content be staged in ram as possible as long as it’s readily dumped out if I go to do something else, which is my experience. Like I don’t earn interest for having unused RAM on my computers (for reference I have an endeavorOS, rhel, fedora, and windows computers under my desk connected to a dual monitor kvm right now; it isn’t like I don’t regularly use/prefer Linux; I mostly access my windows machine via rustdesk for work related stuff I don’t feel like having to dick with on Linux like the purchase order system and Timecard system), I just don’t get this critique.

I used to watch a lot of football. It would consume so much of my time. I’m not sure if it’s getting older, having kids, manufactured drama, folks tying their identity to something they have no control over, or the ‘kneeling’ bullshit but it was kind of eye opening when a buddy of mine called me today to ask who I was rooting for and I genuinely had no idea what he was talking about. I don’t think he believed me when I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about. I haven’t seen a single game all year and I don’t think I’ve missed anything. Happy that folks find enjoyment in it but I just don’t think it’s my bag anymore.

It was a waste because twisted pair copper and fiber are mediums. Fiber optical networking has Ethernet standards such as 100BASE-FX, 1000BASE-SX/LX, 10GBASE-SR, and 10GBASE-LR.

I had one for nearly a decade up until three years ago when I got a job working from home.