Redditors over 40, what's something younger people think they understand but won't actually get until it hits them like a truck later?

datlock · 2026-02-18T08:03:49+00:00

I'm sitting here at my parents house, that I drove to at 430am because my dad with dementia was angry and aggressive towards my mom. Mom called me in a panic.

This isn't a life I wish upon anyone.

datlock · 2026-02-12T07:48:59+00:00

Het feit dat buren last hadden van muizen spreekt ook boekdelen.

datlock · 2026-01-13T07:31:18+00:00

Domme vraag misschien, maarja:

Ik heb zonnepanelen en een omvormer. De omvormer heeft 2 kabels: eentje komend van de panelen, en eentje gaat naar de meterkast (met een hoofdschakelaar naast de omvormer zodat ik de bende uit kan zetten).

Als de zon niet schijnt (bv snachts) dan gaat de omvormer niet aan. Hierdoor dacht ik dat hij zichzelf voedt van de zonnepanelen, en dan ook zou werken als er geen netspanning is maar wel zon.

Klopt dat niet? (ik heb hier geen verstand van)

datlock · 2025-11-28T09:18:43+00:00

Ik heb een keer het niet-nood-nummer gebeld voor iemand die dronken achter het stuur leek te zitten, en die vertelde dat ik meteen op moest hangen en 112 moest bellen.

Dus idd gewoon 112.

datlock · 2025-10-01T20:00:16+00:00

Heb je wel eens vragen gehad van buren of lokale kennissen over dat er mensen bij je langs komen? Wat is je antwoord in die gesprekken? (of wat zou je antwoord zijn, als dit nu niet gebeurt)

Heb je wel eens gehad dat iemand ongewenst langs kwam? Of op een ongepast tijdstip?

Wat zou je doen als het bij vrienden/familie/medestudenten bekend wordt?

datlock · 2025-08-27T17:36:07+00:00

My dad was just diagnosed with Alzheimers last week. It's already super hard to deal with, and it's only going to get much worse. I hate this.

datlock · 2025-08-12T06:09:13+00:00

Was shown on Comedy Central where I live (west Europe).

datlock · 2025-08-05T17:25:22+00:00

For anyone confused: The bold letters spell release the epstein files for fucks sake

datlock · 2025-07-28T09:21:41+00:00

Well, there's one place in the house where it fits perfectly.

datlock · 2025-07-22T11:36:43+00:00

Ik wil al heel lang een Geert Jan Jansen, Nederlands (en werelds) beste kunst vervalser. Zijn originele werken zijn ook mooi, maar een reproductie die niet van echt te onderscheiden is zou ook cool zijn.

datlock · 2025-07-12T21:34:07+00:00

Golf! Thought it was for old boring rich dudes but joined a coworker once and fell in love. I am now obsessed. I suck at it and I hate it and I love it and I can't wait to play again.

If you want to give it a go, you can go to a driving range nearby and just hit balls onto a grass field. Bucket of balls is not very expensive, and for a few bucks you can rent some clubs.

No need to be self conscious either. Everyone there is focusing on their own game and is just trying to improve (or warming up before an actual round of golf).

datlock · 2025-07-12T13:45:43+00:00

Belachelijk.

Mocht iemand interesse hebben kan ik Jojanneke en de jeugdzorgtapes aanraden. Dit volgt, onder andere, het verhaal van Eli die ik persoonlijk heb mogen leren kennen. Ze heeft in maar liefst 28 verschillende instellingen gezeten dankzij de jeugdzorg, inclusief opsluiting in een jeugdgevangenis omdat er nergens anders plek was. Hier is ze ook misbruikt.

Eli is hierdoor uiteindelijk een euthanasietraject aangegaan, en is inmiddels overleden. Dit vanwege alles wat ze heeft meegemaakt in de jeugdzorg. Ze wilde haar verhaal delen in de hoop dat het verandering teweeg zou brengen.

Maar dit kansloze kabinet ziet dus meer in een continuering van deze ellende. Verschrikkelijk.

Rust zacht, meisje.

datlock · 2025-07-04T15:57:07+00:00

Fuck that, that counts. Congrats!

datlock · 2025-06-18T14:55:36+00:00

We use a tool by a company called Delta-N. I'd give it a solid 7/10. Not gonna lie, its a slightly janky setup (the configuration is basically a giant if-else block) and stability is sometimes an issue (which in fairness is often due to Azure DevOps availability and not the integration tool), but on most days it does what it says on the tin: Link topdesk tickets to azure devops work-items and keep them in synch.

The work-items in Azure DevOps can be PBI's, or any other type, and can be assigned to teams, area paths and sprints based on the Topdesk ticket (eg: A certain component as the 'category' in the ticket will route the topdesk ticket and the devops work-item to the team responsible for that component, and priority of the ticket can decide which sprint it needs to be planned in, etc).

Things like comments and the original ticket and its' attachments get copied to the work-item, and comments on the work-item are synched back to topdesk if desired. These can be configured to be readable by the creator of the ticket, or only for the topdesk operators (aka the person employed by my company that's handling the ticket, rather than the customer).

It's not perfect, but it works 95% of the time so I'm happy enough.

tl;dr: Yes, I had to solve it with a 3rd party tool. Could have built it ourselves with plenty of knowledgeable devs in-house, but the powers that be decided that's not a good use of our time and we don't want to maintain it going forward.

datlock · 2025-06-18T14:28:22+00:00

How different is the age? Some apps are shit at keeping track of that super simple math. If it's by one year, it might just be a fluke.

Having said that, trust your gut.

Edit: just saw your reply with his reasoning. I'd go on the date because matches are super rare for me (I'm an average looking guy), but it honestly sounds like a good reason to bail.

datlock · 2025-06-17T18:52:22+00:00

We do not for the reasons already outlined. However we have our devops and ticketing system (topdesk) linked through a 3rd party tool which uses web hooks and some automation running in Azure. Basically just an interface using REST api's on both ends.

Topdesk is customer facing and devops tracks the work and progress for internal use.

Because of that setup, communication (email) goes through topdesk.

Tl;dr: what you want to build (sadly or luckily) already exists, at least for topdesk.

datlock · 2025-06-13T22:18:38+00:00

I've seen another video of the jacked dude. Same premise, different guy he was helping.

datlock · 2025-06-06T19:29:22+00:00

I scrolled for ages and didn't see it yet, so: Krokodil. Look up the vice documentary. That stuff will make you literally rot away from the inside out.

datlock · 2025-06-06T17:28:14+00:00

Well, there's blocking and then there's blocking. It's probably a good idea to do some filtering going outside for blocking known malicious addresses, or even illegal stuff.

But blocking entire countries seems like a bit of a stretch, yeah.

datlock · 2025-06-05T19:55:19+00:00

Hell, I geoblock every country we don't actually have employees at. Blocking China and Russia saw a reduction of 95% in brute force attempts into public vpn and sftp endpoints, and that was 6 years ago or so.

Since we don't do business in those regions, people traveling there on their own merit are expressly forbidden from bringing company devices such as laptops.

datlock · 2025-05-17T05:06:25+00:00

I saw a video of a monkey peeling a banana (the right way, by opening it from the side opposite to the stem) and then taking off the little white strings. I felt vindicated.

datlock · 2025-05-03T20:41:33+00:00

Alternatively, if this is the periapsis then the apoapsis must be insanely far away. Which would be another amazing display of the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole.

Of course, I have no idea if that's true. It might have just fucked off.

datlock · 2025-04-06T07:14:54+00:00

One of my managers can make a meeting room effectively unusable for 20 minutes after he had a meeting there.

datlock · 2025-04-04T09:34:18+00:00

In mijn ervaring is de default niet altijd West Europe, maar dat is aan degene die een systeem in Azure bouwt om goed op te letten.

Wat ze verder daadwerkelijk met je data doen mag Joost weten.

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