I never understood why people make comments like “wow, you have too much time on your hands,” as if they themselves don’t spend significant time watching shows and movies or reading - or just sitting on their ass.

“You spent time doing something quirky that you found rewarding or interesting? Well I wish I had some time off from my 24/7 job in the diamond mines!”

Anyway, the caligraphy looks great!

Im confused. Surely if you were hoping for two eggs, one egg would be better than zero eggs.

You’re right but it’s funny to think that you could be hassled for breaking into a box with the intention of purchasing its contents.

Achieving financial security and independence is more valuable than any stupid item/service/vacation you might purchase.

I grew up with modest means, took out the smallest student loans that would suffice and worked my way through college. I’m now middle aged and do allow myself a few nice things but have always kept my spending very intentional. I’ve achieved a position where, barring some major war or disaster, I could realistically just stop working and I’d have enough resources to make it to the end of my days, although I’d have to stay modest.

I still work, though. How i spend the next 5 years will determine what degree of comfort I will be able to afford in retirement. I’ll probably just take an easier, part time position to keep myself busy and comfortable.

My point is, if you allow lifestyle creep to consume all your resources as you become a productive adult, you may have nice things (and you may impress others with your flashy crap) but you’ll just be living to work. Early retirement with my old truck seems way better than driving a brand new car to work.

You were right. It is fun to eat popcorn while watching your investment increase in value by an additional 50% in a 9 month period of time. 🍿🤓

It might just be a matter of perspective. I’m not very knowledgeable on distros, so my opinion may come from ignorance:

To me, Ubuntu is too resource intensive with too much going on. Mint seems relatively lean yet modern, with all the basics covered. Debian is a little sparse (no sudo, no fdisk, what’s going on here?).

Haha, I also came back to check on the popcorn guy.

How’s that popcorn tasting?

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https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62124/phones-broadcast-the-ssids-of-all-networks-they-have-ever-connected-to-how-can

I think the lady said they know the IP address of every phone but that doesnt make much sense. anyway, the point was that theyre using the signals from your phone to uniquely identify you. you can simply turn those radios in your phone off when youre not using them.

It’s good that you’re concerned about the data your phone may be revealing to other nearby devices. It’s generally a good idea to have bluetooth/wifi/nfc turned off if you’re not actively using them. Even without the robot, you have no idea what data companies might be collecting when you’re physically on their property.

The technologically illiterate pirate is an easy target.

Hold shift while you click start and shutdown (or reboot) when necessary. This will have windows do a full shutdown instead of a hybrid shutdown.

Whatever. I just used a.i. to write my performance evaluation at work. I fed it a bunch of garbled, incoherent nonsense and made me sound productive AF.

I’m still running a 3700x and had been thinking about upgrading. Is the 5800x the best choice for am4?

Might your day be improved by … A dildo going in and out of an orifice?

I think the new version of net metering pays homeowners less than it did previously, for power that they feed into the grid, disincentivizing rooftop solar.

Adam’s target audience must be teenagers. That was hard to watch.

Yes. I do like that.

No, Sodium like the PlayStation game Sodium.