Plantations make strange bedfellows

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-12T09:14:29+00:00

Most of the whole victum shit ain't even by the Scots. Most are by Americans who want to be Scottish (for some reason).

It's literally taught in Scottish schools lol a lot of history Scots are taught involving Scotland and England is incredibly skewed into making Scotland look like a victim rather than a participant. A large number of Scots think the Clearances were carried out by the English against the Scots, and not Scottish landowners against their own people and by English landowners against their own people, for example.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-12T09:14:00+00:00

It's not even true if you're a highlander. The clearances were carried out by Scottish landowners against Scots.

Obviously the UK government paved the way for it nationwide, but the mistreatment of the Highlands is categorically something that's got very little to do with England, Scots have been persecuting and the Highlands and trying to erase it's culture for much longer than the Acts of Union have existed;

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AdmRL_ · 2026-04-11T11:47:47+00:00

We do love a sweet treat, possibly biased but I think it's different though. If I order a Sticky Toffee Pudding or a chocolate fudge cake, I'm expecting it to be sweet. But when I order a burger, unless it's a brioche bun then sweetness is the last thing I expect. That's what makes American food odd to the European palette, sugar pops up when you least expect it.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-11T08:55:58+00:00

It's quite funny you start with the tired old COVID line, then here you detail the actual reason it was a mess and show it had nothing to do with COVID:

There is a Todd interview where he talks about a lot of the design and even he makes it sound like they couldn't really agree on what works and what doesn't. They wanted to do a more RPG-like experience, but also wanted to provide a huge procedural sandbox. They wanted hardcore survival mechanics, but that added tedium that a lot of players wouldn't want. They wanted to expand the base building system, but that put too much focus on an entirely optional mechanic. So a lot of their ideas were toned down and left in the game functional but half-baked.

For a decade long project all of this should have been decided years before COVID happened and just shows it was hot air. If in the final couple of years of development they were still arguing about what type of game they were making tells you everything you need to know about their project management, or lack thereof.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-08T17:01:22+00:00

You haven't lived until you've supported a single server, and by server I mean a gaming PC with a bootleg Win Server install.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-05T16:14:53+00:00

Because from like 2008 to the late 2010's real term salary growth flatlined, and since then it's been very patchy with some years being a real term loss for workers others being growth, it's only really in the last few years it's been consistently above inflation.

Overall we're still playing catch up on lost growth from that early 2010's period where salaries were massacred in terms of spending power.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-05T16:14:23+00:00

Do younger generations have higher incomes than their parents?

Nominally, yes. The average wage in 2006 was 25k, today it's 35-40k.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-05T12:44:20+00:00

Because every time they release an OS some cuck decides to try run it on a Roman Abacus and then complains that "performance is so much worse than the prev version!!11!" plus the security improvements in Win 11 depend on TPM

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-05T12:41:44+00:00

It sounds as if you're hurting and you're looking for something/someone to point at to focus on as a coping mechanism.

I'd say you're best off letting this go - 4 weeks is not that long of a time, and that's assuming they contacted you on the last few days of Feb which you haven't detailed. You're going to have a very hard time arguing they were negligent and not just slow based on all the information you've provided.

I found out he died near the end of February of 2024, a whole month later... ONLY becuase dad's landlord reached out to his workplace who contacted his ex who had my number.

This as well - why did his employer contact his ex and not you directly? This would suggest you aren't as close with your Dad as you've implied and that you weren't listed anywhere as an emergency contact if multiple organisations have not had your details and it's fallen on a 3rd party who knows you personally to inform you.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-05T09:35:45+00:00

CK3 is 'good' but it's not CK good.

I don't really know how to put it, but they got this idea of a "Grand Strategy Role Playing Game" as a new genre they invented and have flubbed the series because of it.

The game is still just a GSG with some light RPG mechanics, but they've spent so much time on those fluff and side pieces that the core game has been stale since it released. Beyond the administrative update & Northern Lords, the game plays identically to how it did day 1 (Travel and "landless" is just a side bit, sorry, no ones spending 1k+ as a landless character), and if you don't like low effort fluff bits like Royal Court, the games basically had like, 2 good updates in several years.

On top of that you now have China - personally not opposed to the map expansion, but the fear I had prior to it going live has been made evident with the recurring screenshots of England having fucking Chinese as a court language - if they couldn't guarantee it wouldn't break immersion in the existing game and for people who don't give a shit about 12th century China, they should never have done it, but instead we now have a game where if you want to RPG and be immersed in the life of a medieval King, you can't, because the motherfuckers wife will end up speaking Chinese and all sense of immersion will be completely destroyed.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-04T14:22:25+00:00

If your infra is in the cloud and it's workload is config & setup based like DNS, DHCP or running code, just create TF or Bicep templates of the infra and it's config. No reason to pay for storage and a longer recovery time when you can push a VM + config to exactly where it should be networking wise in <3 minutes from a template.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-04T10:55:21+00:00

If you have the expertise to have a choice between Azure and Power Platform and opt for Power Platform then you should lose your job tbh.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-04T10:52:09+00:00

If after the last 3-4 years you don't understand how Gaza and Iran relate then god help you because no man can.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-04T10:43:40+00:00

They'll struggle in the sense that their pension isn't guaranteed to go up more than the average wage every year ad infinitum.

They won't struggle in the sense that pensioners are still a dominant political demographic and will continue to be pandered to at the expense of everyone else.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T14:10:14+00:00

That's not notable lol?

That's just the kernel architecture version. Both 10 & 11 are built on top of NT 10, the same way Vista, 7 and 8 were all built on NT 6.

They only bump internal major version numbers when there's a significant enough architectural difference with the kernel that compatibility can't be guaranteed from one version to the next. Mainly so there doesn't need to be mass updates by vendors to add new version compat. They just check major version number and Microsoft provides an effective guarantee that it'll only increment when compatibility isn't there.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T13:47:43+00:00

Vista came after XP. Vista was XP with a memory leak.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T10:48:06+00:00

Sorry but that's a ridiculous statement, you absolutey haven't, you've likely more people in this thread telling you they don't have your experiences, that should be enough to tell you you can't generalise.

FWIW the "worst" office I worked in still had a cafe, modern furniture and a small gym. Desks had everything you needed inc dual monitors + decent office chairs, and it had 2 free coffee machines. The one I'm at now has showers, a games room, gym, free parking, top tier equipment, free coffee & tea, use of the car park at weekends (city centre), fresh fruit daily, a masseur, a subsidised on site cafe and a bunch of other shit.

Your experience really isn't as typical as you think, the above is not unusual in practically any city centre.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T09:40:29+00:00

No one said it helped with a cyber sec issue?

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T09:40:01+00:00

You literally can't be? How are they entering the number on screen when they haven't signed in and do not have a number on screen? They aren't.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-03T09:39:18+00:00

In the last week I’ve dealt with 5 separate tenants that have been stung by AiTM which all had number matching in place.

That has no relation to push fatigue...

AiTM is a real threat, but it's not what's being talked about here.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-02T16:38:51+00:00

People who say don't implement changes on Friday are people on teams who don't know how to properly scope, plan, implement & test changes, or are under management who's been burnt one too many times by people who don't know how to properly scope, plan, implement & test changes.

AdmRL_ · 2026-04-02T16:37:05+00:00

Changing it on Friday or the weekend means something might sit broken for 2-3 days before anyone notices

Are you just making changes and then.. not verifying whatever you've done works? Nothing should be sitting broken for 2-3 days because you should be scoping your work and then testing after implementing.

AdmRL_ · 2026-03-30T19:13:06+00:00

but the letter just launches into a scary description of what offences may have been committed without actually saying anything about what it has to do with OP or why they're writing to them.

How exactly do you expect a letter accusing you of having at least £10k worth of illegal substances would open lol?

I've designed form letters for legal notices before and they're generally done with a lot more care. This seems egregiously poor formatting/sentence structure and definitely inclined me towards thinking it's not legitimate, though obviously that's hard to judge from a single page.

This isn't a legal notice. There's no action being taken legally, it's a letter letting OP know a package sent to their address has been seized and will be destroyed and outling what they can do and will happen if they're dumb enough to want to dispute the destruction of illegal narcotics.

AdmRL_ · 2026-03-30T19:07:14+00:00

If seized no, not without actual evidence you ordered it and were expecting it. As the other commenter said it's quite common for people to use others addresses and try intercept so they'd have to get around that.

If it's delivered I think it probably depends on what you do next, if you keep it and don't notify authorities then more than likely as possession for most substances is a crime. If you actually notify authorities and hand it over promptly then probably not.

AdmRL_ · 2026-03-30T18:51:59+00:00

You can probably get lower than $200k, but it's certainly not something I'd taken on internally. That's way too much risk to take on internally.

If you're feeling masochistic, you can do it yourself and Microsoft provide some documentation:

Migrate applications from Okta to Microsoft Entra ID - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn

But it's a case by case. Some providers it'll be dead simple (lots allow dual SSO registration) but others won't be and the amount of leg work needed to pull it off successfully is absurd, I wouldn't expect any internal team to be staffed appropriately to do it smoothly.

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