I have someone to play D&D with again. I have four kids, they all have at least one hobby in common with me, plus they’re all into D&D.

I mostly work from home, and the schedule is pretty forgiving, plus lunch is the only time I have the house and the kitchen to myself. Today I had lightly dry brined wagyu ribeye/entrecote, and sautéed mushrooms for lunch, paired with a nice beer. Tomorrow it’s going to be Stilton cheese, peach marmalade, and crackers.

When lunch comes around I’ve usually cleared out the inbox sludge for the day, as well as checking up on the stuff for which I am responsible just to make sure everything is working as it should. If it is, then I can take my time to do things properly, as long as I’m available in case someone else’s fan hits my shit.

Fruit pie

Is it data you would trust in the hands of random strangers on the internet? If so, I can easily store 50TB for you, as long as it’s temporary.

Oh, and I have various storage solutions in various jurisdictions, so if you have any preferences as to places you do NOT want to store it, that’s something you need to hilight.

100% agreed. I do a lot of coding as part of my job, and that is enjoyable because I don’t have to worry about whatever latest programming paradigm “everyone” uses.

My code is meant to just deal with minutia in the background and never be interacted with, and it’s rarely even seen by others than myself. Which is probably good, because my language of choice is perl.

I rolled my own, as I grew frustrated with catbox limitations of filetypes and sizes. Mine looks like shit, but it works and its purpose is for embedding/linking, so it doesn’t matter.

Mine is more geared towards “publishing” in that users (I don’t want to deal with the headache that is anonymous uploads) have a control panel displaying all their uploaded files and then choose what should be available to the public, and whether it will also be available via bittorrent.

Next up is setting up the signup system so users can actually be added without me running a shell script. I’ve been meaning to implement a sort of sign-up-via-lemmy feature, in that if you’re a lemmy user without trash reputation, you can use an OTP to upload files associated with your username@instance instead.

It’s not production ready yet, but it works well enough for testing. Most of what I’ve posted/embedded for the past half a year has been from my own host.

I live ~50 meters from a grocery store, so I usually go several times per day.

Exact same backstory here

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

At least a little investigative: Good Work

Strikes my preferred balance between information, investigation, and satire

Anything acidic. Citric acid powder is cheap, effective, and doesn’t smell.

Yes, mostly for the sake of showing that the voicemail is in fact given some attention. I find it annoying that I get a voicemail, and all it is is the sound of someone hanging up because it’s the default response ergo nobody will check it.

I WFH, so I take a short nap on quet days a few times per week.

As much as I hope for both, I think only one of the two have a reasonable probability of happening.

<Insert highly subjective complaint about choice of distro here>

Either way, another soul saved. Great to have you on board!

Spring. Because it’s fucking cold here atm.

Whenever the old one dies or becomes unusable. A new phone doesn’t really offer much new, so I see no reason to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading

Hate, no, but severely annoyed yes; My oldest (14 y.o.) severely lacks the ability to walk down a flight of stairs without sounding like an elephant trying to stomp a mouse. He has the discretion of a landslide, and I’m sure my neighbors can hear when he comes down for a mid-night or early morning snack.

Love it. However, I feel that it should be possible to automate the procedure: Grab images, sort them, and compare them to find any moving objects. Then somehow look them up to check whether it’s already registered.

Sounds like a reasonably simple script wrapped around curl, some gfx library calls, and possibly selenium or WWW::Mechanize

That my parents didn’t have parents. I knew my grandparents well, I just never connected the dots.