chiliedogg

Windows is the PC operating system used by almost every organization. If you aren’t willing to work with it, you really need to be clear about that up front. It’s like trying to get a job as a mechanic at an auto shop and telling them after the interview you refuse to work on Toyotas.

I wish. I’m in my 40s and the hair hasn’t thinned a bit, I vastly prefer a shaved head, and my hair grows stupidly fast.

Absolutely. PEBKAC is real. But as a good user, it still annoys the hell out of me.

I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.

I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.

“There’s less death from warfare and economic production diverted to support said warfare when people aren’t fighting wars” is a helluva argument in favor of fighting wars to improve lives and benefit the economy. It’s like a financial advisor telling you that you should blow all your money in the casino, then quit gambling and start saving.

I never know if I’m doing enough for trans people. I like to think of my stance towards trans folk as “benevolent indifference.” That is - I don’t care even the smallest bit if someone is trans. They’re a person, and that’s all that’s needed for my respect. But I also recognize that that position isn’t always enough. It’s like when people said “All Lives Matter” in response to the BLM movement. Yes, all lives do matter, and my goal for society would be one where “All lives matter” is the only stance you need, but we don’t live in that world and sometimes we have to focus on protecting specific groups. But, as a white, male, cisgenger christian I also don’t want to fall into a “white savior” leadership mentality, so I never know how loudly to speak out on behalf of groups I’m not a part of.

Rolls initiatve

I remember taking my first GIS course and having to buy ZIP discs for each project around that time. That ended up being an expensive class. Also, the lab PCs re-imaged every time they shut down, so if the PC crashed you had no way to recover the data if you hadn’t written it to the zip drive, which we usually only did at the end of the day because they were slow. We basically had a revolt to get the university to unlock the USB ports for us to use those fancy new flash drives the next year.

You have to stay with the agency several years. The plan is to fire them before paying.

What we want is a solution for customers who don’t understand the benefit of DP and won’t buy an adapter when there’s already HDMI ports on both devices.

Yeah - I just knew I was gonna die a few months back, and it was a panic attack. Which is weird because I’ve historically been low-stress. But between work being crazy and the world being what it is right now, things apparently got to me subconsciously. My chest got tight, my breathing was labored, my arm went numb. It was terrifying. And thinking you’re having a heart attack doesn’t help with the panic attack. But it was amazing how as soon as the EKG showed normal, everything started feeling better quickly. Just the knowledge that it was panic helped so much. But you should still go to the ER in those cases, because if you assume it’s a panic attack and dont go, but turn out to be wrong…

Yeah. They solved protien folding with ML a few years back. And I like using it for things like noise removal in Lightroom. But so much of it has been focused on useless (at best) bullshit that I just want the bubble to burst already.

I was fully prepared to hate the remake. I played all the FF games I could growing up. I played the original when it came out, and I played IV and VI (as II and III in the US) on my SNES. I got a PS1 instead of an N64 because I knew FFIV (didn’t know it was gonna be called VII yet) was gonna be on Playstation. I saved up my money for months to buy the PS1, and a few months later my mom (angel of a woman) went to Sears on the release day for FFVII while I was in 8th grade football practice and picked it up for me with my remaining savings. I devoured the game. It was truly special. When a certain character left the party at the end of disc 1, I was devastated. I was and still am an unapologetic die-hard superfan of FFVII. When I heard about the remake I was skeptical. When I found out they were taking away the ATB system and making it an action-RPG and bloating the opening chapter of Midgar into the entirety of the game I wrote it off. But I still bought it, of course, and I have never been happier to eat crow. The remake is fantastic. It’s an entry point to the story for newcomers that’s somehow both a retelling and a sequel that will keep old fans interested. The expanded Midgar section makes the events of the early game much more impactful as you really get to know the Avalanche crew, and everything about the production design is top-tier. The gameplay is a great balance between action and strategy that does its own thing instead of just copying what had already been done with the first game. It’s a love letter to the original while being an amazing game in its own right. I still haven’t played the sequel, as I don’t have a PS5, but I understand it’s also excellent.