I started off with fan grills and led fans and cold cathode lighting way back when.

Now, my gaming PC, which is about due for its 5 yr update again, is in an old antec sonata case from 2008ish. I’ll probably splurge on a new one next round, but if it’s fancy, it will be one of those unassuming fractal cases with wood.

No lights if I can help it.

deleted by creator

I have a significant colony of false widows (steatoda) around the house. They’re very chill and mostly stay outside and make webs in corners.

Big parmesan cheese fan by chance?

The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.

It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.

But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.

Yeah, also a dev here. I’d be so happy if they’d parted ways with the 90s legacy bits at some point. Just glad there are enough parsing libraries that I’ll never need to care (right? Please tell me I’m right!).

This is probably my first time ever using it for an appropriate purpose as this team’s technical docs are destined for the press (and digital distribution). They just have no idea how to software, so I was brought in to build bridges between and ultimately simplify all their tools.

https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/ seems to fit the bill. I can’t vouch for it.

PDF is such a curse. I say this as a person currently tasked with deploying new mysteriously complex enterprise PDF conversion software for technical documents. The rabbit hole is so deep.

Oh hey, I’ve seen this one before.

You’ve gotten a lot of solid practical advice, so I’ll take it to theory.

Learn how it works and what happens when you push that clutch in and let it out.

Here’s a video with a lot of detail and animation.

I was made treasurer of the philosophy club by emailing the list at college to join. We met one time because the president and VP were excited someone joined.

There were no funds to manage.

I’ll nominate an underdog: Alphaville.

Basically unknown, jerks you back and forth between genres, simultaneously art house and amateur, and the main character is named Lemmy Caution. Sure he’s a government agent, but he’s the good guy out to destroy the mind control computer on a distant planet by pitting daughter against father.

Edit: and I forgot to mention it’s in French.

Also here from the Voyager app. Both work for me.

Signing up to test the take it down act?

Halfway think I got extra points for my latest offer because I interviewed via MS teams from Linux and I said so when they asked about my experience with Linux.

Gonna echo the others here:

1. Apply anyway.
2. If you can do work in Linux without handholding for general tasks, you’re “proficient.”

In my experience, imposter syndrome prevents the best candidates from applying because they weed themselves out.

That does seem pretty obligatory. We have the same thing on our irrigation (don’t want irrigation water backflowing in to the drinking water, and also it’s required).

We are at the top of a hill and everything flows down from us to the entire neighborhood, so that is another good check on the issue.

I’ve got a similar situation to your rental for my basement (the main floor drains separately). There’s a macerator/pump combo in an 8ish gallon tank in a pit cut through the foundation (lined with concrete) that elevates to the main drain outside the house. The pump failed a couple years ago and was not fun to deal with. Luckily it was exclusively laundry that day. Everything connected to it is vented.

When we get pushed to connect to sewer (one way or another), my plan is to get a bit silly and connect at the lowest level so we can avoid the pump for the future.

Nearly same here, but mine is from 2010 and all I’ve ever done is replace the original starter cartridge of toner with a generic one once, and that was 12ish years ago and 2 cross-country moves. I’ve maybe printed a thousand pages ever.