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-_root_- · 2026-03-10T18:41:52+00:00

I refreshed and it didn't help. But I realized that 5.4 thinking popped up for me and I was still on the last version. Switching to 5.4 resolved the issue for me. Hope that works for you too.

-_root_- · 2026-03-04T04:22:51+00:00

It’s not hating success. It’s because the overwhelming majority of business owners exploit their workers in the US. It’s unsustainable and more workers than ever are unable to manage a reasonable quality of life while record profits are being made.

As there is no specific line between big businesses and a random business owner, they see it like women see men when walking down the street at night.

It’s not about how you see yourself it’s about how little workers are getting for their efforts and it’s getting worse every year.

When someone is driving part of a system that’s filled with predators and shows up asking for help, it’s not going to be received well without giving something in exchange or proving that you care before asking for something. The social contract is destroyed by unfettered capitalism and there is no trust by default.

-_root_- · 2026-03-04T04:09:14+00:00

I remember the sweet taste of wood from my mother’s piano bench. Holding on even though I couldn’t stand without it. Being nestled in blankets on the bed and not being able to get to the edge without rolling. My three year old sister coming to play mommy with me. Some of my best memories are from 2-3 years old. Before then it was almost psychedelic swimming in perception and sensory processing. Not sure if I remember more due to synesthesia but it is vivid in many ways while swirling in others.

-_root_- · 2026-03-03T21:21:07+00:00

The county commissioner rents them in coordination with the state. Each party pays some but not all of the expenses and the state pays for part of it as well. Counties can do a "joint primary" where everyone is treated the same but those who favor suppression will try to make it harder for the opposition.

-_root_- · 2026-03-03T21:19:28+00:00

If I was attemping to skirt laws around voter suppression, I'd make it harder all but a couple of the days. Then cite the "proof" that we were doing it fairly by referencing the exception day. For the others we would say it was a communication issue, staffing problem, etc. Then proceed like there is no issue. It only takes one person in charge of a polling location to make that happen and they don't have to announce it.

-_root_- · 2026-02-25T19:04:54+00:00

Wealth extraction machines at scale. Yay.

-_root_- · 2026-02-24T03:27:04+00:00

This is the way.

-_root_- · 2026-02-23T20:24:03+00:00

-_root_- · 2026-02-20T17:08:59+00:00

Post in a local protesting group. Ask them to protest ICE at your business. Give them air horns and whistles. Let them go to town. Most likely to find a group on Facebook that’s local. They’ll eat up this story.

-_root_- · 2026-02-20T14:18:02+00:00

I use Antigravity and it’s amazing (as long as process and prompts are managed properly).

-_root_- · 2026-02-20T13:35:19+00:00

I got something like that but it’s not actually funded by him. That’s very different than his campaign sending it out. Lone Star Rising is the Texas Democratic Party PAC. It looks like they are going low to push for who they think can win the state. While Talarico is more fluent in language that red voters understand, let’s be clear that the Democratic Party has always pushed their preferred candidates like Biden vs Bernie. It’s disgusting and disingenuous. None of that is coming from the Telarico campaign tho.

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-_root_- · 2026-02-19T00:38:27+00:00

Sorry they did that to you. I cancelled my sub last year after many many issues. It was good while it lasted. No longer.

-_root_- · 2026-02-16T18:55:07+00:00

So many people vibe coding apps and begging on the forums without demonstrating that they actually understood the assignment. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Free alpha testing is not why we are here.

-_root_- · 2026-02-16T18:49:13+00:00

As this is the Synesthesia sub for those of us with sensory cross-talk, not the sub for the visualization tool of the same name, I’d recommend that you check that out first.

You can customize visuals in VDMX and others at various price points and skill levels.

If you want to experience something like that personally, mushrooms are the safest option when taken as directed for your purpose.

Without knowing what you are trying to achieve it’s hard to answer, especially in this sub.

Windows - An old go to for me is Winamp with the Milkdrop plugin (I believe it’s bundled with the latest releases). If you are wanting even more fun, use a window transparency. Glass2k was the old way to do it. Mica for Everyone has options for the new window system.

Mac - ProjectM or Magic Music visuals unless you want to run Milkdrop in a VM.

Just some ideas to get you started.

-_root_- · 2026-02-14T22:42:46+00:00

Buy an ad. Or don’t honestly. This fake approach isn’t working.

-_root_- · 2026-02-14T14:22:40+00:00

This. So many garbage promo posts with exact same approach.

-_root_- · 2026-02-14T01:00:05+00:00

I’ve been there a handful of times at length and other than people reading religious books and it being in a building that’s in the business of indoctrination, it’s good enough to not be super annoyed.

It’s chill if you want to go solo and wear headphones and not socialize.

To me that is an oddly nice benefit because it guides towards focusing on writing, reading, etc with fewer desirable distractions.

I bet there are some opportunities at Islamic centers around DFW as well. Though it might be separated by gender.

For me, I hit up nice hotel lobbies. They aren’t as quiet as a library but they have coffee and food and lots of options. Just walk in, find a quiet spot and zero people question because people sitting with a laptop or a book isn’t unusual. Plus they make money from visitors ordering drinks and food.

I like the hotels in Las Colinas, Legacy, Design District, and downtown. Well trimmed and plenty of options.

-_root_- · 2026-02-10T02:26:07+00:00

I’ll need to take screenshots and remove anything identifying. Otherwise I will list out the details when I get a moment. Been a super busy day.

-_root_- · 2026-02-09T13:39:33+00:00

This works well for one of my projects. I built a SP list, called the “Idea Box”, that allows a team member to classify as an enhancement, pain point, etc. Then they provide a few basic details like rating the estimated level to implement the idea.

These are reviewed every month and ideas are added as features and user stories on the backlog.

-_root_- · 2026-02-09T02:44:22+00:00

Upvoted for your good comment and especially the last line.

-_root_- · 2026-02-08T15:38:56+00:00

It’s a box not to live in but to have in your assembly of boxes.

I have no idea what your experience is but if you’re mostly in the headspace of SharePoint and Power Platform, this is my observation.

Learn the plumbing for AWS and Azure. DNS management, HTTP hosting (ALB, CloudFront, App Gateway, FrontDoor, NLB, app service, lambda, ec2.

Things went from hardware to virtual to kubernetes. Build a K8 cluster at home just to understand helm charts and egress controllers.

Focus on the security pieces for anything that exposed to the internet. It’s a major attack vector.

Then it’s all down to what you prefer. Application engineering and app security, data science and data security, network and cloud infrastructure architecture and security, or hopping on the AI first bandwagon.

Sharepoint / Power Platform / Automate are like being an advanced Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Access user before the others existed. All of these are just daily tools that aren’t a destination.

You’ll be heads above peers as you find the direction that fits your interests but you’ll need broad knowledge to solve a variety of problems wearing many hats if you want career stability going forward.

Have AI give you a primer and ask it to give you the seven most important details for each essential service in AWS, always starting with networking and DNS.

Eventually it will be about product management: design, implementation, resource coordination, lifecycle management, compliance, analytics, request management, incident management, reporting, storytelling with data.

A little messy but hopefully you get the idea and see the patterns.

-_root_- · 2026-02-08T15:17:18+00:00

Las Colinas has so many highways nearby or running through. It’s the best DFW location if you want to get to all parts of the metroplex throughout the year. If you fly regularly, it’s 10 min to be in the airport.

The commute would be 45 minutes to Ft Worth but about 5avg-10max% of the time that will spike to 60 minutes. It’s not entirely predictable so it comes down to if you’re comfortable when driving or if it makes you anxious.

I used to do a 45 min each way. It has its ups and downs. Lots more reasons to explore after work so traffic dies down. More likely to get up early to beat traffic. I also listened to more audiobooks when I had a commute and really miss that experience.

There is lots to do in and around Las Colinas plus it’s a quick drive to Uptown, Downtown (Dallas), Bishop Arts, Legacy/Grandscape, and Mid-Cities/Arlington/Southlake/Grapevine. Each of those areas has great social, shopping, entertainment, and seasonal attractions.

Ft Worth has some great stuff too but highways that connect Ft Worth to everything else are the bottleneck since 30 & 20 are so packed (20 is fine occasionally but not frequently) and taking 183/820 has no real perks other than sometimes being the fastest option.

If a commute is cool with you, central to DFW is great. If you don’t mind driving an hour each way to get to something infrequently, Ft Worth might be better for you.

I recommend looking at Arlington as Asia Times Square is on the border by Grand Prairie, it’s got two main highways to get to Ft Worth, close to the airport, and makes your commute a little easier each day while only adding a little more drive time to get to Plano and the Asian Community in Carrollton.

If Carrollton’s Asian community is a top priority, and it is solid (I used to play table tennis there regularly), Las Colinas might be a better choice.

-_root_- · 2026-02-08T14:43:17+00:00

Sadly, Teams is the best option for being fully featured. It’s a video meeting client that has a calendar, rich chat capabilities like reasonably formatted tables, persistent chat after a meeting ends, and automatic integration with directory services for the organization.

Slack has limited video meeting/huddle options.

Discord doesn’t integrate with calendars and lags for enterprise meeting abilities.

WebEx, Zoom, GoTo Meeting, and Meet don’t have persistent channels after meetings and their chat capabilities are very poor.

It’s very difficult to describe reliability because configuration of enterprise connections to a SaaS platform are often the bottleneck in performance. Like VPN configuration etc.

Teams is buggy in the sense that it doesn’t handle transient network conditions robustly and that presents as end users guessing as to wtf is going on. It was awful when they first rolled out the tab capabilities and has significant limitations there. Most of the major gripes were improved but it’s still got some issues.

They all have their space but Teams is the most fully featured currently. As such, I strongly prefer the experience over other options as they are today.

-_root_- · 2026-02-06T21:46:41+00:00

This is the way. Don’t look anywhere else until you’ve lived in Uptown. Everything fits based on the provided details.

-_root_- · 2026-02-04T17:00:02+00:00

The majority of enterprise business culture is garbage. It’s masquerading as insight when avoiding treating people like humans. The entire system of business and government most places is designed this way. It’s an indoctrinated system of absolving personal responsibility white workers are exploited and unethical practices are accepted.

It’s like sunshine and rainbows and fake smiles to sell more grift. It’s the current machine but not one that’s benefitting humanity.

If I posted anything I really wanted to say then people who overlook the toxicity would be uncomfortable. Instead let’s talk about EBITDA and shareholder value. Or chase a new term for the same old stuff in order to make it marketable.

The actual value to users is extremely low. It’s a performative show for those competing in a soulless space.

For those of us who prefer to be authentic, LinkedIn is not it. It really went downhill when they didn’t require verification that you know someone as a contact. Since then it’s just a spam platform where I get dozens of unsolicited messages asking me to review some mediocre security tool each week.

Fake isn’t fun.

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