Aww yeah, this is Tumbleweed life. :D

This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!

I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…

The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…

he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.

Somewhere a professor is getting an APA citation that’s like

Lustful, Lucy. (2023, April 15). Sexy Coed Horny Cheerleader Stepsis with Big Titties Can’t Get Enough!. PHub. (www dot phub dot com)

“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

– The 90’s, Probably.

Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol

LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! I’ll have to check out Vinyard Story.

In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.

Sheer. Friggin. Terror!

Obligatory:

“A Møøse once bit my sister …”

“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”

“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”

Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3

Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.

In the right (wrong?) season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.

I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose too lol.

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.

Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

…for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…'Mancy”'? ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

…and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.

Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.

“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”

(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)

Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)

Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

…but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

Well hello right back!

O/

I can’t imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I’d end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn’t be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

Maybe that’s the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck “SOISOISOI” does, compared to “Whopwhopwhop”.

Just looking through this as a fledgling barely-coder…

…It inspires fear. Terror, even. LMAO