Capitalism… At some point people need to realize they are working to make others richer. From the products you buy to the products your company makes, just stuff designed to break and not worth spending on. Even new houses today have a shortened life. Anyone buy one recently and see the contract term estimated life of the house is about 60years?!? Yep folks, the house you’re dropping 500k+ on it expected to last about 60 years.

This might be a left vs right comic, but the issue doesn’t matter in the end because capitalism is going to fuck us all over.

Yeah. Dealing with this as we speak. I’m friendly, get the job done, money where my mouth is “work ethic”. I’m not an asshole. But I did get hired for my role over an internal employee. An employee with sway, and has actively used that sway to secretly disparage me and the work I was doing. If he likes you, golden. Promotions, new friends groups, the works. But if he doesn’t, you’re done.

He’s managed to get me fired (next Monday) and yesterday came out gloating on a call with just me to let me know. This truth being verified by a 2 week payslip direct deposit pending on Monday (payday was today). My “crime”? Getting the work done he felt wasn’t “the right work”. He said, “I could have forgiven you taking my job I wanted, but you chose to ignore my project work I wanted done and implement things we don’t need (with list)”. I was hired to do just that, but I guess it wasn’t enough or the right thing. I’ll find out “why” (or how) I’m being fired Monday.

Politics is insane in enterprise. They’ll spend millions on consultants to get work done. One person with power can sabotage another out of pure spite. They have no interest in progress, they just want the status quo where they’re on top. Or an employee who just wants to get the work done without more effort to do it right.

On more positive news, I was already interviewing elsewhere. Final interviews today on one. Next place I’ll just play the game better.

Bleh. Late 90s I was a mobile pc tech and I could have used these gloves back then on some computers. People are gross.

Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).

What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.

And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!

Economy Airline seats for most planes are 17-18”, so thats pretty cool. So this car with 19” is yet another seat that my shoulders won’t fit in. At least I won’t be fighting my seatmates for arm rests.

My dad gave me the advice that your wife will likely look like her mother. My ex now, at 30 years looked exactly like her mom and I’m glad for reason 1001 to be divorced from her. No1 was: she’s a nasty, self centered twat who did nothing for us unless it benefited herself.

I laughed a little too hard at this, because I just don’t love the beach. Felt like I should send it to my friends who are beach nuts, but looked down at my toast with honey I was eating and realized how much we enjoy things that are made by the excretion of other creatures.

Yeah, sorry. Nerded out there for a sec on description. I don’t remember the lag that much, doom was ok. I think we all upgraded to 10Base-T ethernet (you remember the bnc stuff) after playing quake and host tended to have the gaming advantage. A few of us worked at a pc repair shop, so we could source (aka borrow) the parts if we couldn’t afford to buy them.

A few laters Quake world came out, someone finally popped for a hub and we all had 100mbit cards installed. But around then, we got @HOME in my neighborhood and gamespy was my new friend. I hated hauling my whole setup once a month after a year or so.

Token Ring is a network protocol where a token—a small data packet—circulates around a ring topology, allowing only the device holding the token to transmit data, thus avoiding collisions. We played Doom and Quake.

I remember getting a copy of linux from my friends at a local LAN party (though it was tokenring party for us) around ‘96. 2 floppy disks. I’m 99% sure it was slackware.

+1 for cloudflare. But I don’t use their tunnel products, I just expose my ports to only their known IPs. With cloudflare you have a nice “free” waf in front with tls that points to a secure(nginx proxy) or unsecured docker container. Audiobookshelf is a great example. Is best to use their dns product too, for easy management of your public facing sites.

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I figure the solstice would be a far better tradition to bring back. Party twice a year? Peak and summer the low of winter. Sign me up

My divorce was the second best thing to happen to me. First was my Ex, informing me she was getting married again 4 more days). I will end up paying 8 months of alimony (maintenance) and no longer owe her anything ever again.

This hits the feels. I was 15 when my parents divorced. I was crushed. My younger sister however, was giddy. Not because she thought the divorce was cool, but because her best friend told her that after her parents divorced, she got 2 really amazing christmases with expensive gifts that tried to outshine the other parent. Oh, but not us… we were poor. Reality hit next year for her, when my mom couldn’t afford food, let alone gifts.

I can go days without. But I spend maybe 2-4 hours a day. Sadly I work remote, so I get bored. But during holidays and staycations, I hardly pick up my phone, let alone a laptop. 30. 30 is my addiction number.

+1 on this. Though i picked up 2 u7’s. VLAN support, easy to maintain and lets face it, superior function from most retail APs. If you’re a power user, this is the way.

Ha, hardly. Going to a family event tomorrow. I’m making 4 things from scratch, my sisters are making at least 2 things each and the extended family, ordered sides from trader joes.

What is this all about, really, when people just half ass it?!?

This needs higher up. Lobbyists are a cancer

Ahem… Assembly is tired of being forgotten