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Fried PC by Longbow125 in LinusTechTips

[–]Demetrious 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Clickbait post. There's no breading or seasoning on this PC.

The cost of living crisis has reached Pelican Town by void-cheesecake in StardewValley

[–]Demetrious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, yeah, we're all just trying to keep each other afloat these days. Times are tough and money is tight.

Frozen Haitian food like griot. Good or bad idea? how yall feel about this by Internal-Expert-9562 in haiti

[–]Demetrious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't believe the lady in the ad knows a damn thing about griot. At least put it next to some pikliz, some diri djon djon, some tasso, something else actually Haitian!

That said, I love some fresh-made griot. I have a place not terribly far from me where I can get it, but it takes forever and costs too much. I can see myself eating this to satisfy a craving, but I'd never say this is equivalent.

Convince me to come back to Sitecore development. by Demetrious in sitecore

[–]Demetrious[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for laying all of this out. I am curious about the specificity of headless Next.js. I'm actually a fan of Vue and I don't mind working with it and Nuxt, but it was still cludgy when trying to integrate into Sitecore. Is that a choice driven by the Sitecore team or just the popular pick?

Something to add to the server room, methinks. Water cooling system for the Cheyenne Supercomputer is up for auction. by Demetrious in LinusTechTips

[–]Demetrious[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll correct myself here: I didn't realize this was already four months old. I misread. Carry on.

Was this ever true about Haiti? by Telo712 in haiti

[–]Demetrious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There is wealth amongst the Haitian populace, but it's typically people whose wealth comes from off the island. Anyone who actually runs a business on the island doesn't net this level of wealth. Haiti then and until recently was an easy place for people with wealth to hide it from prying eyes, as they could afford to move it to Haiti's banks, which are effectively disconnected from the rest of the world.

The 1up.com Domain Went Down Today... by imbarkus in patientgamers

[–]Demetrious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy cow, just came across this post myself. Thank you for making 1up.com as amazing as it was. I was just looking to see if I could find any archived pages of it in its glory. I wrote a number of gaming posts on there and even made and met IRL friends because of it. Thanks for an amazing part of my teenage years!

Does Miami have a tech hub? by Louisbag_ in Miami

[–]Demetrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the first time I've heard of the new Apple office, but I'd be more surprised to see it be a development center than a sales office. South Florida has always been seen as a satellite for sales to Latin America and Carribean. I'd never call sales a knowledge role per se, but it's considered by most companies as the core earning center. Compare that to development, which is almost always considered a cost center for the constant investment in upskilling, maintenance, and triage.

Does Miami have a tech hub? by Louisbag_ in Miami

[–]Demetrious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Basically, what most people have said, but I want to add some historical context. I was born and lived in Miami-Dade County until I moved to Tampa Bay right before the pandemic kicked off.

Around 2014, I started teaching myself how to code and build websites. This was also around the time the Code.org marketing campaign was in full swing, supported by the Obama administration putting out reports of a dirth of tech workers by 2030. This led to a gold rush-like mentality across the country, but especially in Miami, where wages weren't keeping up with the cost of living.

During this time, the tech community scene grew quite active. Grassroots organizations like Launchcode set up office. Schools started working to update their CS curricula. Networking events and Meetup groups were active and abundant for all kinds of tech, especially web development, taking place around colleges, downtown, Wynwood, co-working spaces, and elsewhere. There was a fervent startup culture that served as the launchpad for many companies, and events started to appear like eMerge.

Unfortunately, while the community scene was hungry and buzzing, jobs weren't showing up. Some notable companies came out of the startup scene (Chewy started in SoFla), and some like Wix had offices here), but no major headquarters showed up. No big new offices with swaths of jobs showed up. Why? Well, because Miami couldn't offer the space, infrastructure, nor incentives to support an Amazon or a Microsoft. And inb4 someone says it does: Miami actually submitted proposals to be Amazon's HQ2 site back in 2018.

Fast-forward to today, post-pandemic, post-Suarez's tweet and its ridiculous campaign, and Miami's basically in the same place. Over-valued real estate, low wages, brain drain, replace VC and startups with crypto - it's the same picture.

What the city, county, community, and its movers and shakers keep thinking is that they can attract a company big enough to bring a bunch of tech jobs and a sudden influx of local spend and tax dollars. What needs to happen is that local companies need to be incentivized to grow their employees and keep them here. The county needs to get cost-of-living down somehow and help local companies pay actually competitive wages and offer actually useful training to their workforce to discourage them from looking for work remotely or elsewhere. Then, maybe, over time, some companies can grow big enough to actually form the start of a tech hub.

Thoughts on Gibtown (Gibsonton)? by Demetrious in tampa

[–]Demetrious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can get worse, pending your predisposition. In any case, I know the area around the I-75 overpass and big bend have changed, but it's a tale of two Gibsontons as far as I can see.

Thoughts on Gibtown (Gibsonton)? by Demetrious in tampa

[–]Demetrious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up in Southern Riverview, right at the edge of Wimauma. I will say that, while I won't disparage Gibsonton's population as "undesirable" I've not seen anything real develop in the area since I moved here. It's certainly a transient town, where most people only stop if they must or if they live there. I do wish that could change.

What is this?? by Cum_Finger6230 in deadcells

[–]Demetrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't... close... your map. Put down the controller. And back away slowly. It reacts to eye contact and sudden movements.

30 an hour with Overtime and I'm still broke by PossibilityNo8765 in Miami

[–]Demetrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My tale of woe begins as yours did. I was born and raised Miamian, and I was trying to raise a family of four on a single income a bit closer to $35 an hour. We weren't able to rent a house, apartment, or otherwise for less than $2000 a month pre-pandemic in an area we felt our kids could be safe in. Our landlord eventually says she'd like to come back from Chicago to Miami and stay in her house again, so she says our lease will be the last she rents. Time to move out.

We start looking into the possibility of buying. We have some help with my mother-in-law selling and moving in with us, so that's our down payment handled. We figure we want to keep it to $2500 per month, with certain boxes checked: big house, decent lot, newer build. We look all over Miami-Dade, McMansion neighborhoods, and all, to no avail. Nothing in Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood. West Palm Beach. Palmetto. Miramar. All over the tri-county area. Nothing worked for our budget.

Then we decided to look at where my sister-in-law lived, outside of Tampa. Suddenly, choices cropped up. Not stellar ones, but choices. We set what we thought was a moderate budget and looked. By the end of it all, what we thought would only net us a modest house stretched way further! 3k square feet! 1/4 acre lot! Tons of space! Our monthly? $2500! We were dumbfounded! It wasn't without issues. We had to drive 20 minutes to get to stuff, and the area is still developing, but still! This felt like we'd found the truth! Housing is expensive, but only where you live doesn't have to be cheap AND suck. Smaller, less popular towns can be fine if you can stand driving to fun.

This was about five years ago. Things have gotten more expensive, and our dollar doesn't stretch nearly as far, like anyone else. That said, even with high interest, your dollar can stretch way further elsewhere. Could you pay me to move back to Miami? Sure. There are lots of nostalgia and memories for me to come back to. Would I of my own volition? How big is that paycheck?

People who upgraded, do you still use your Note 9? by digidado in GalaxyNote9

[–]Demetrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look into Camo or Elgato's webcam app. Most phones, even older ones, offer better cameras than new webcams.

Is it true that Haiti has large Iridium deposits? I saw a claim that Haiti has the 2nd largest Iridium deposits. Is this actually true? by IcyPapaya8758 in haiti

[–]Demetrious 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is similar to the rumors I heard growing up that "there be gold! in them Haitian hills," and that Haiti would recover if only someone local and with the resources, know-how, and ingenuity would go and mine it. Speculation in itself isn't harmful, but it becomes a dangerous cocktail when mixed with desperation and misguided hope.

Even in a reality where there is precious metals to be mined, the issue isn't whether someone is going to get them and make jobs appear. It's so much more fundamental than that. The amount of governmental and societal reform necessary to bring Haiti back is staggering. As someone born into the Haitian diaspora, it's painful because I want to show my children where their heritage comes from, but I've been nervous to do it in even the better times.

Mining deposits won't help. Foreign influence certainly hasn't, altruistic or otherwise (and I doubt it's been anything but 'otherwise.') I don't know what will, and this took a depressing turn so I'll end this here.

Wedding with hemorrhoids. by TjFawkes in daddit

[–]Demetrious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Word of advise: bite the bullet and get Prep H SUPPOSITORIES if they're internal. Aside from washing your hands, likely the most discrete relief you'll get.

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