Coming soon:
Fortran code from 1969 that has been vibe coded since.

Literally the plot of Back To The Future

Honestly, the job closest to being actual Santa is delivery people, except without the sketchy omnipresent surveillance putting-people-in-lists part.

Maybe popular among users but somehow not popular among devs?

Ah yea that too!
Sometimes you can kinda get there by hitting the End key, sometimes you need to open the DevTools to get to their About page or change the language or whatever option they put below the endless scroll.

I like chunkier scrollbars. Fuck the tiny disappearing scrollbars where you need to mouse over… somewhere… to maybe be graced with its presence, only for it to be 1px wide for some reason.
Also fuck the endless scroll, especially when you already know what you’re looking for is on page 4 because you had to reload the page for some reason but the infinite scroll didn’t save your position and you have to go down (without an actual scrollbar) only to “load more” 3 times until you’re (maybe) on page 4.

Maybe… “there is no such thing as bad publicity” ?

It is itself hyperbole and it’s by no means absolute, but yea plenty of times where bad publicity is still publicity.

Honestly, it’s really not my place to encourage you to do or not do anything (or her).
I’m just saying this kind of connection is special and something to be cherished, to hold on to it, to nurture it, to enjoy its bliss.

Whichever way works for you both is fine, really.
You can choose to try and make what you want out of this connection. By all means, spend time with her, let it develop into what it may.

In our case, both of us already being happy in our own long-term non-poly couples, that’s quite a bit different.
And so we focus on maintaining the privilege to be part of each other’s lives first and foremost without blowing each other’s lives up.

I imagine some/most go on their whole lives without ever meeting this person for them and I feel blessed.

I’m not a religious, spiritual or otherwise superstitious person.
I don’t even know how to say this without sounding crazy, even to myself.

Soul friends are a thing.
I don’t even know what exactly, and a soul doesn’t have to be some weird metaphysical spiritual soul or whatever, but like whatever makes our innermost selves… us?

I don’t think I can fully explain it to someone who hasn’t lived through this, but it feels like this person has always been part of my “self”, so much that I don’t even always see her as separated from me.
Not in a co-dependant way, it just is.
It’s almost like having one brain in two bodies.
A new feeling of wholeness that I can’t begin to describe, and honestly probably don’t need to, at least not to her, she gets it, I get it, whatever.
It doesn’t even need to be romantic, though it could be.
Certainly, none of it fits in a nicely labeled societal box.
And yet, this person is far from perfect and doesn’t need to be. Around each other, our flaws don’t matter anymore, they don’t need to be hidden, we don’t need to play some role or worry about optics or whatever… it’s… her… we accept each other as we are, raw. It’s enough, we’re enough.
We feel safe around each other, sharing stuff we’d never even approach with anyone else.
Without always realizing it, we heal each other of our past, we understand each other and ourselves better just by having each other. We’re brutally honest, yet no judgmental and genuinely caring.

And yet, despite all this, we honestly may not be a good fit as a couple.
I mean there certainly could be worse matches, but we’re best friends first and foremost, although the friends label really doesn’t do justice.

I realized I don’t know why I’m saying all this.
I guess I get excited whenever I see people connecting to each other.
Cherish it for what it is, raw human connection, it’s fine even if you don’t what “it” is.
Peace

I’m a network sorcerer.
Wizards are more the book-type while I draw my networkink power from my bloodline.

I do this but also store the tens in my toes.

And then you stumble into an hour long cinematic.
Fuck that, Kojima should have made movies instead of games.

Bonus if you also can’t access settings and it’s stuck in a stupid resolution or something.

Yea, I was referring to the OSI model.

I can’t know for sure if they kicked the bucket or not, but they aren’t around here anymore.

They seemed like a genuinely cool person and it makes me sad that they might be gone.

They’ve mentioned accepting and not fearing death, but also wanting to remain anonymous.
I won’t doxx them, alive or not, but know that it seems someone has since been taking care of what they considered to be their life’s work (their words).

May they remind y’all to cherish whatever time you do have.

lol fuck that noise, literally.
Unsolder the piezo.

Pro tip: Since it obviously has wifi or something, it has an FCC id printed somewhere (probably next to the model/serial number).
Search the fccid.io website for that number and there’ll be photos of its insides which can help you figure out how to open it, know where the piezo is likely to be, and neuter that loud fucker.
I’ve done a kettle that would beep 80ish dBA everytime it started, it was done, or when you put it back in the base.

Alnyway, an air fryer is big enough that it’s probably not as complicated to disassemble as smaller tighter devices.
Specifically about this, the fccid might be only the wireless module inside and not the whole thing, so maybe not as helpful.

Obviously, unplug it from mains before opening. Insert all applicable disclaimers about not burning down your house or maiming yourself.

A single misconfigured thing can suck real bad as you’ve seen.
Selfhosting involves lots of things that can be misconfigured or go bad.

That’s not to scare you out of it out anything, merely to congratulate you in seeking knowledge first.

Disclaimer: I’m biased towards networks because I’m a network engineer, opinions may differ.

I would say… having at least a vague grasp of layers 1-4 of the traditional network model is a decent start.
You don’t need to understand everything, but knowing a minimum will help a lot imho.

It’s hard to point you in the right direction without knowing what you already know or not.

What are you gonna do, call Feline Ressources?

The mask is from a Hollow Knight character named Hornet.
Hollow knight is a video game that released in 2017, but they recently released a sequel called “Silksong”.

The linked image is probably some thirsty rule34 depiction of said character.

The reddit part is pretty representative though.