This is affecting our work - our Share point was down for two days while they looked through it for any mention of dei, delaying plenty of work that had nothing to do with dei.

But even putting that aside, now we have many (thousands?) government employees on admin leave, which means they’re getting paid to do nothing. And likely will be for months.

And this delayed resignation thing, if they uphold their end of the deal, will cost even more. Especially since many of the takers seem to be people who were going to retire anyway, or “super commuters” that don’t live near the office, both of whom were likely on their way out anyway.

That’s a lot of money they are spending for no return at all.

“Choose Love” sounds a lot like the message that pastor had at his inauguration. Point being, he’s likely to be offended by that as well.

Maybe he’s going to run Links and Wordstar!

I just wanted to say Good Luck, and we’re all counting on you.

No, it should work fine, but a backup is always a good idea.

It’s not like Windows where it has to install a bunch of new drivers via 7 reboots. It just sees the new hardware and uses the correct drivers.

“Think? No one has time for that!”

I’m at Disney World toys well, and today I rode Guardians of the Universe Cosmic Rewind for the first time.

In one of the intro scenes, the aliens say they are planning to share this technology to jump to different areas of space with us. I thought to myself, “We’d just screw it up.”

(Great ride, though, if you’re wondering.)

Man my local bicycle shop is looking for mechanics, and I’m like…could I afford that instead of my current desk job?

I’m qualified; I’m pretty good mechanically, except for wrapping bar tape. I’m slowly getting better at it, but I’m definitely not to the professional standard a bike shop would want. But I’m sure they’d make me practice that.

Being telepathic is Un-American!

“It seems free speech is back on the menu.” - paraphrased, but that’s basically what he said. The Democrats were keeping free speech down!

Man I devoured Hardy Boys books when I was a kid. One time I came across a much older version of one I had, so I read it, and that’s how I learned they rewrite the stories every so often. It had common elements, but was a different story overall.

Then they came out with the “Hardy Boys Casefiles”, the first book of which had Joe’s girlfriend Iola killed by a car bomb intended for the boys. Obviously for a bit older audience.

The way you wrote this, I thought you meant that if it required a cloud service you would turn it off. But now I think you’re just saying you wouldn’t use this feature.

I share the confusion over your definition of “active”. You got all defensive when someone asked, so now no one really knows what you meant.

Where was this swanky place, with a self storage facility in the background?

She was completely out of control, like T’lyn.

Good advice, thanks. I think the woman used gloves to touch it, while the dog and I didn’t touch the bird at all.

Poor bird! I hope you can help him!

Not an owl, but the other day I was walking the dog, and I saw one of the neighbors who walks regularly watching something. I asked if everything was okay, and she said there was a bird upside down in the road. She had flipped him upright, but he hadn’t moved (he was alive, but not walking or flying away).

I looked closer (I knew my dog wouldn’t hurt him, he loves everyone and everything) and he was shaking. So I continued on our walk, and checked on the bird on the way back. He had made it to the side of the road, at least, so he was safe from cars.

He wasn’t there later that day, and we got 8" of snow the next day, so hopefully the little birdie is okay.

I really need to get our birdhouses back out. One was on a pole that was being pushed over by growing trees, and the other was run over by someone taking a shortcut through our yard. The latter one needs to be replaced, but the former just needs to be reinstalled in the ground somewhere.

Trump, as an avid reader of Mein Kampf, will no doubt set them straight!

If they were liberals masquerading as Trump supporters, why did he say that he’ll pardon them?

Interesting concept. I have a script that uses long term tokens and curl to tell HA to turn on certain things I need before running a certain game, then turns them back off afterward. Presumably this could take the place of that script.

It’s an interesting idea, I wonder what other ideas people will have once it’s working.

I just wish I could get my script to disable the screensaver in KDE. I have the command that should do it, and it’s changing the right setting (ie, changing the same setting manually in the gui works correctly), but it seems like KDE isn’t aware of the config change, and the things I’ve tried to get KDE to reload that config aren’t working. No error, but the screen saver stays active.

It’s not a mirror. It’s two different points in time colliding.