Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76 1 points 7 hours ago

Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?

I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the "testing ground" for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.

Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our "manager's conference" was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a "tax writeoff" and then be drunk for the rest.

First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just...borrowing...one.

The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it's share of stories.

So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I've ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.

[–] Adderbox76 1 points 9 hours ago

USS Bonespurs has a nice ring to it, actually.

[–] Adderbox76 24 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Hello there. Nice to meet you. My name is Jerry...Jerry Mander.

[–] Adderbox76 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The Shawshank Redemption. Morgan Freeman

[–] Adderbox76 29 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'm sure he only means it as "this is the shitty way the world actually works". Not that he personally believes it himself.

[–] Adderbox76 3 points 2 days ago

Been running Manjaro for years. Don't really know what would make me change.

I guess maybe if I suddenly started getting more and more dependency errors when upgrading packages from the AUR it would make me consider jumping to put Arch.

But right not that's not the case. So the benefit of switching is out weighed by the pain in the ass of having to say Everything up again.

[–] Adderbox76 -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not interested in a homelessness solution put forward by someone with "Green" in their title...

[–] Adderbox76 54 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They're not acceptable. In fact I can't think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.

Who told you it was acceptable, if you don't mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare's time.

[–] Adderbox76 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Government subsidies from politicians eager to greenwash their oil and gas industry.

[–] Adderbox76 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The Saskatchewan government has been running this scam for at least a decade; throwing subsidies to their rich friends AND using it as an excuse to lie and say "see...there ARE alternatives to the Carbon Tax".

It's all bullshit. It never worked. It never will work. It's a grift to make Scott Moe's donors more money.

[–] Adderbox76 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.

I'm a 49 year old male. But I'm divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).

The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn't matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)


Edited to Add: The rule we always learned in highschool when we were stupid kids with nothing better to do is "half your age plus 7"

51 divided by 2 = 25.5 + 7 = 32.5.

So by highschool rules, you're just a little bit outside the lines, but close enough that if you're both attractive most people will ignore it.

[–] Adderbox76 13 points 4 days ago

This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.

Hell I'd start smoking again.

 

First few times I didn't put two and two together because I'm kind of an idiot. I started believing that something was wrong with my laptop battery when it would give me a critical battery shutdown notice while still above 80 percent.

Finally it dawned on me that it wasn't my laptop reaching critical battery, it was my wireless mouse triggering the shutdown notice.

I'm going to go ahead and presume that that's not supposed to be happening, but does anyone know what settings I would go into the change that?

I looked to see if there was options for different devices in the main battery UI, but couldn't find any.

 

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

 

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

 

Haven't looked too deeply into this before now because it's not a high high priority; more like a "would be nice." But has anyone found a touchscreen keyboard (like Maliit) that works on Wayland with non-kde apps. Maliit works with the kapps, but not anything else.

Switching to X11 to use a keyboard that does sort of work, and I lose the auto-rotation...

So it seems that we can't have both worlds unless someone knows more than I do (which I admit isn't hard to do)

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Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?

Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.

 
 

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

 

Seriously...shout-out to Krystian Zajdel. I was literally blown away when I rebooted my computer and saw that it had become the login splash screen. I immediately had to make it my main wallpaper too.

Most beautiful default wallpaper I've seen in a while.

 

My work uses a whole lot of group texts. I don't know why they don't use something like Signal or whatever...it is what it is.

But every Google Message alternative I've tried sends my replies to every member of the group individually rather than replying IN the group chat itself. Is that an issue with the app itself, or in the settings, or something else entirely.

I want to move away from anything that is linked in any way to stupid Gemini. But this is the last thing keeping me using Google's built-in Messages app.

 

There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...

But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.

The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.

To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.

I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.

 
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