I have a memory foam Texas King. It only remembers the Alamo.

I mean, you’re not wrong. And at one time I felt like it meant something. It meant we didn’t push our religion on others. They were free to do what they wanted. If someone was doing something we didn’t like but wasn’t hurting anyone we just minded our fucking business (usually said about LGBTQIA+ folks). It probably wasn’t nearly as true as I felt, but that’s the kind of thing I was taught growing up. And everyone wonders why I grew up to be progressive, respecting other people’s rights and mistrusting the government as it stands and corporations.

No, no. Didn’t you hear? The Internet is just the US.

Hell, I grew up in and currently live in Texas and even I know better than that.

Oh! I think maybe I wasn’t clear because I was still drunk. I was co-signing the keyboard. There’s one next to my desk.

I do music production (mostly lo fi rock, no midi) and got curious about those a while back and picked one up. Installed Vital. I’ve never put anything out with it but it’s a ton of fun to play with. You could totally use one to create some great music if you wanted.

Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.

Before 41, none of them. After? Everything.

I was in the Navy and I can corroborate this. I’ll add to it that a lot of our teachers at A school were O-1 to O-3 (Ensign to Lieutenant) and they were pretty cool. We used to mess with them from time to time when they left the building by lining up and making them salute all the way to the parking lot. They were good sports.

I’m in Texas, so mine currently says “Free Porn Here”. In the past it was always some snarky bullshit. My buddy’s is “FBI Mobile Team” or something similar. I think he’s had one about the DEA in the past.

So nothing funny or clever about Wi-Fi or networking, but definitely not normal names.

Wouldn’t it just be advertising access to your self hosted drive full of feet pics on Lemmy or Mastodon?

I didn’t even know these sorts of mini racks existed. now I’m going to have to get one for all my half sized preamps if they’ll fit. That would solve like half the problems with my studio room and may help bring back some of my spark for making music.

I have no recs. Just want to say I’m so excited to see this. I can probably build an audio patch panel.

My buddy still has one of those in his garage.

That looks a lot like where I grew up, except nicer.

My detailed explanation at my old job is that the dev team was full of idiots who hardcoded ipv4 addresses into their fucking code. Seriously. When we migrated from data center to cloud they had to go patch everything. The CTO wouldn’t do shit about it and the director was just there riding things out until retirement.

I once paid a bar tab with my guitar skills. Does that count?

This is exactly it. I’m glad you could explain it better than I could. I still don’t understand it necessarily, but I don’t understand a lot of what I lived so I’ll survive.

I mean I really only solved it by having accounts I don’t look at (emergency fund, retirement), accounts I use regularly (bill pay, “entertainment”) and an accountant who helped me set it up so I wasn’t spending every dime. It can be done by yourself but I wasn’t psychologically prepared. I’m also the only employee of my LLC so there’s a business account but it’s just taxes, my salary, and enough for a new computer every few years. That’s not my account and I never personally touch it.

Struggling taught me that if I don’t use my money right now it’ll be gone.

And I’m not saying that to contradict you. It’s funny how different people learn different lessons from the same experience. I grew up dirt poor. If I didn’t spend my money as a kid it might be called upon. And that’s the lesson I took for years. I didn’t really start saving seriously until I was closing in on 40. I have money in retirement now (and will likely retire early), but it’s because I did without for a few years trying to play catch up while making good money. It’s not a tactic I recommend. If I had started it back when I was 18 I could be really close to retirement right now.

Depends on the day. Between a few hours and a few days. If I’ve got something due at work later in the day, hours. If I have no hard deliverables for a few weeks then one of the bars where I’m a regular and play music would be the first to figure it out. All the bartenders and sound guys know how to get in touch with me.

Mom would figure it out in a month or so.

I drop off the earth pretty frequently but I always keep my gig and work commitments or call if I can’t. So it depends on my next commitment, which happens pretty much weekly.

But did you do it again at half past 2?

Peppa isn’t as bad as shit like Caillou, but Bluey is the best one by a mile.