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And don't get ME started on autocorrect!

Because, statistically, most people can be trusted. The number comes in around 85%. Sally, the other 15% really ruin things for everyone else.

I have a Tiny connected to a startech dual USB drive dock. The drives get warm, but not deadly hot. Moving big files is a bit slow, but for streaming on Plex and Jellyfin it works fine.

I have two indoor cats. They're constantly trying to get out. My neighbors have two outdoor cats. They constantly try to get into my house! Do you know how hard it is to take out garbage when there's four cats vying to pass through any door you open?

I have a house in Alberta. I wonder if there's a way to cede my property back to the Treaty nations when I die... They deserve it more than my relatives do.

Chuck: the Subway scenes. Wow product placement.

I was 22. It was awful. I felt like I 'should', didn't feel right about the girl or the time... I was 33 when the right one came along. Happily married now, really enjoy sex, wish I had waited.

Ninite won't run in S-Mode, I tried it once. Only Windows Store Apps. (Mint better.)

I didn't know anything about docker when I set up my NC years ago, so I ran it as a snap on bare metal. Man, it's gotten so much better! It used to really suck. Like, simple file transfers just didn't work half the time, so I'd be retrying the same thing over and over... A few years ago, I literally migrated it from bare metal to a VM, but kept the exact same install. I have so much crap on it now, I think I'll never bother switching it out to docker, just because of the inconvenience. I know the snap version can just run using a local hostname, you just have to set it in trusted domains setting. Might be the same in the docker image?

I used to work on a support desk for a big company. I had a bunch of friends in similar roles at other companies. Fun fact: there are no good support desks. The incentives are all skewed. If a support desk makes the customer happy, it's giving refunds out. If it's giving refunds out, it's costing the company money. If it's costing the company money, someone in finance or accounting will "fix the problem." In the case of my company, the fix was: 6 minutes per call, no more. Every call is a sales opportunity, no exceptions. So, people would call in with big, complicated problems, and before I was allowed to help them, I had to try to sell them shit, which pissed them off, got them ranting. This ran out the clock, so then we "accidentally" disconnected. Leather, rinse, repeat. Now, my company sucked, but even the best companies need to limit churn and refunds and deal with a lot of entitled assholes on the support line, so it's never going to be a great time.

When you said mechanical friend, I automatically thought of Johnny 5. I think I'm too old to be Internetting right now.

I saw this last night... Wow! There are movies that could stand on the strength of the B story alone, and this is one of them. I was totally bagged after a tough day, and really didn't have the energy to do much but go to sleep, but my wife dragged me out to this, and I was... Gobsmacked. This was the best movie I've seen this year, by far.