Lol yeah, all these overengineered solutions. How often do you really need to share something larger than 25MB between devices and also don’t have USB handy?

Oh my god, this attitude that someone is not allowed to be happy about some things because other things are bad drives me up the fucking wall.

Of course you’re going to be depressed and anxious and feel like the world is ending and there’s nothing that can be done besides wait for full societal collapse if you set these rules that you can’t enjoy the good until things are perfect.

If I’m editing more than one object in AD I almost always use Powershell. It was one of the main motivations for me to learn it in the first place.

It’s so obvious it was a GUI made for what was once a back end tool that wasn’t meant to be fussed with all the time, but then had more and more features slapped on top over time. And don’t get me started on the integration between AD and On-Premises Exchange Server. I don’t think I have much more than a 3 hour long exasperated scream in me about that bundle of fuck.

I’m kind of shocked that you feel like you can confidently claim you know this guy’s condition and the cause of him not receiving proper care when you had to be told to call 911 for someone fucking convulsing on the ground.

You really tried to sneak that past by front loading with that tangent, lol.

There’s a decent handful of conditions beyond brain trauma that can lead to convulsions. Unmedicated epilepsy is a pretty obvious one. Supposedly withdrawals from certain illegal substances as well. Hope the guy is getting help now.

And ask any hospital worker, one of the most frustrating parts of care is that people can and do just walk the fuck out.

A big part of the shift from lemmy to piefed seems to be that piefed has a faster development cadence, and that the developers of lemmy are openly tankies.

The flagship Lemmy instance, as in ran by the devs, is lemmy.ml. The ml stands for marxist-leninist. The lead dev regularly bans people from the entire instance for so much as questioning Chinese and Russian propaganda news sources, and they have many many other very controversial takes. There are some comms across the fediverse that document a lot of this, like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

From a sticky there, the lead dev Dessalines denies the Tiananmen Square massacre and praises the Uyghur genocide.

So far as I’m aware, the piefed devs haven’t been involved in any drama, and aren’t posting hardline shit about their political beliefs either.

I do sys admin/engineering work in a Windows environment. PowerShell is what got me this job, and together with my programming experience allows me to keep up with my seniors who have been in their positions for a decade or more.

It also helps us all make a good team. They have the knowledge and experience advantage (though I’m catching up), I have the skills to figure out how to implement/automate the plans in a way that doesn’t involve days of mind numbing manual actions.

Unfortunately, yes.

You’re looking at AI upscaling as a shortcut to the end result you want: your book. But from experience, jumping to the end of something robs you of the joy and accomplishment of doing the hard work to get there.

Instead ask if the book really needs illustrations. If it does, wouldn’t taking the time to do them right be better? It would also give you more time to revise the other aspects of it.

If this is something you’re passionate about, don’t douse water on that fire by cheating to the end. If it’s not something you’re passionate about, why do it in your free time to begin with? If you think you’ll somehow make money off it, you’ll have plenty more hurdles to go through that can’t be AI’d away. If it’s just a passion project, use that fucking passion.

I understand the intense desire to just be great at something without putting all the effort in. But there really are no shortcuts to this shit. The main advantage that other people have over you on this is that they started earlier, so they have more time put into it already.

Think you may have hit the wrong comm for this.

In ddg, you can customize your options and on the right there’s a button/box to get the specific ddg link with them all pre-set. Replace the normal ddg “link” for your search bar with that one and you don’t need to worry about cookies or settings following you.

On top of that, I personally set my default youtube app to be newpipe, so if I’m just casually browsing lemmy or elsewhere I can click a youtube link and figure out what it is, even watch it if I want, without it effecting my normal account and watch history.

If I like the video and want more like it, I’ll share to the Youtube (Revanced) app and finish it there.

In college I always named my router Skynet.

Maybe. It would entirely depend on my level of comfort with the other person, and their personality.

I’ve had wealthier friends, who I did not have a sexual relationship with, pay for my share of a hotel room for a convention. A different one treated me out to a (cheap for a concert, but not cheap for me) concert. I had known those friends for at least a year in both of those cases and had no worries about them or their personalities.

As another commentor said, what happens if you have a falling out while you’re over there?

Also, depending on your relationship, and the personality of the person paying, they could use this as a form of control. They could effectively treat this as entirely their vacation, and you’re just the human sex toy they brought along who’s going to stay in the room the whole time until they want your “services”. Or you’re just the trophy boytoy to hang off her arm and look pretty. You wouldn’t have much room to push back on it.

Or this could just be someone living in a different income bracket to you trying to do something nice for you that isn’t a big expense for them. I personally think that’s less likely with a trip to the Maldives, but it’s not impossible.

Or this could be them trying to turn the FWB situation into something more serious.

As with most things in relationships, even FWB, it would probably be worth talking with them. “Hey, I’m happy that you’d do this for me, but I’ve never done something like this before. Is there anything you’re looking for from me as your plus one?”

Translation: Creating a recurring meeting to look into changing to the our processes to have better PR while not costing any money.

Roughly translated from management speak: We’ll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.

Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate “this part deserves its own dedicated discussion”.

There’s a decent bit of good “steering” of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very “fellow kids”.

Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can’t keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.

I’ll go get my walker. Gen 4 was a big dissapointment to me (outside of the physical/special split) and where I stopped keeping up with the new releases. The plot didn’t grip me, but I also never picked up Platinum. Maybe that one somehow makes it better.

In my entirely objectively right opinion, Gen 2 had the best “world”/“setting” and Gen 3 had the best “mysteries”/“secrets” and postgame with Emerald. Someone deserves to be jailed for leaving the Battle Frontier out of ORAS.

I tried to love Soul Silver, after all the many hours I put into GSC, but never finished it. I’ve also tried Black and White, BW2, XY, and ORAS. A good amount of the “gold standard” rebalance/QoL hacks too (Drayano is the GOAT). It just doesn’t keep me like it used to. Get at most 3 or 4 gyms in and just lose interest.

I want to be the first, but I am definitely closer to the second. I’m trying to find a reasonable middle ground.

Like, I want to have a nice home network with a proper NAS, Pihole DNS, Plex/Emby/Jellyfin media server, all my music properly tagged, little mediaplayer/emulation/game streaming endpoint boxes on each TV, etc. But I don’t have the time or money to do it right at the moment.

So I have my desktop set up to share out my media folders as SMB shares when it’s powered on, and I’ve used a few tools to get my video content organized right for Kodi. I’ve got Kodi installed as an app on the Xbox Series X plugged into the family room TV. The other TV has a Chromecast dongle with VLC sideloaded and set up to connect to the SMB shares, because I’m too lazy to get my Kodi setup on it. Every room in the house has an ethernet port, and most rooms have a dumb switch so as much hardware can have ethernet connection as possible. I’ve run my music collection through MusicBrainz Picard, and separated it into a properly tagged and organized folder, and one for stuff that isn’t.

I’m sure you could set up containers or VMs for them to run on if you tried.

Doesn’t iTunes let you pay like $0.30 more for the non-drmed file for most music still, or did they kill that in the last decade?

To be honest, I buy CDs where possible, Bandcamp where I can, and shamelessly pirate the rest.

Lemmy

lemmynsfw.com is what it says on the tin. Boatload of nsfw communities.

Also, a lot of nsfw sites have forums bolted on if you’re really into that sort of thing.

For some additional context, hot brewing is really only needed for sweet iced l tea. More sugar dissolves into hot liquid than cold, so you put more sugar in it when it’s hot so it’s extra sweet.