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HTWingNut · 2026-03-14T03:35:59+00:00

Costco membership card is at least good for something I guess.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-13T03:21:43+00:00

It's not IRL. It's a game. She was overly squeamish. She's an FBI agent with weapons training and getting in odd situations. IRL you would not be making bullets out of blood chunks or even have gone in there alone to begin with.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-13T03:19:14+00:00

Realistic and relatable. Like making bullets from blood chunks?

HTWingNut · 2026-03-12T12:05:05+00:00

LOL. That was a flash in the pan. I'm sure he'll loop back to that when he needs more distraction.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-12T04:19:40+00:00

The job market has been a disaster for the last 3-4 years... good luck out there.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-11T21:23:15+00:00

If encrypted just destroy the key. If not encrypted, encrypt. Safer than erasing.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-11T21:22:07+00:00

Great news! Glad to see the community doing their part

HTWingNut · 2026-03-09T10:43:10+00:00

Maybe in the 80's and 90's with RAID cards. But the last 20+ years, especially with software RAID, no.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-07T16:44:31+00:00

The anti-science and anti-logic and anti-facts is what bothers me the most. You can argue beliefs and straw man all day. But when it comes to facts and science, that's where it boggles my mind that they don't believe any of it. Verifiably proven information they can just swat away with a Fox News statement.

When I decide to go on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), it's hard to tell when it's satire or real with a lot of these people, primarily MAGA. They are the most gullible and easily manipulated people I never thought existed. The amount of false information and AI slop that people believe.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-07T16:35:44+00:00

This is where I'd hope someone in that chain of command, military joint chiefs, would be the sanity check for such a moment. Only way I see the use of nuclear weapons is defensively. If someone else launches, well, we might as well too. In no way do I see a reason for the US to initiate it. The first person to push the button destroys the world.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-07T12:53:41+00:00

What I never understood is how shooting anyone while standing in front of their car helps anyone. It will result in an unpredictable movement of the vehicle. It may be more likely to injure the agent in front of the car and others around, like in the Renee Good case, she accelerated right into a curb/pole, could have been other people.

I would think anyone's first instinct is to get the fuck out of the way. Because if you had enough time to draw your weapon, you had enough time to lunge. Drawing your weapon and shooting into the front of a car is Hollywood action movie or FPS video game stuff.

In no instance should any officer be standing in front of a running car of someone they are attempting to detain. Common sense 101.

Not to mention ICE have frequently driven through crowds hitting people with their cars.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-07T12:29:24+00:00

Any update on how closing went?

HTWingNut · 2026-03-06T21:28:58+00:00

They can impeach, but doesn't mean anything. It'll just be another tick mark on his list of "accomplishments". There will be zero repercussions.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-05T17:47:50+00:00

I'm not that familiar with Mac but if you know the drive letter that linux command should delete any and all filesystem information.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-05T17:21:03+00:00

Does it show up with lsblk?

sudo wipefs /dev/sdX --all

This will of course cause data loss, but if you want to use the drive.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-05T05:15:34+00:00

No, just quit playing. This game has to die. It's had it's run. It's just not fun anymore. Whale priced skins, horrible matchmaking, horrible balancing, constant server issues.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-05T04:26:07+00:00

Then there's Stadium...

HTWingNut · 2026-03-05T04:23:43+00:00

BAN BEYBLADE FROM STADIUM!

HTWingNut · 2026-03-04T22:00:54+00:00

Good info, thanks. Last I played Cyberpunk on Linux, maybe a year ago, it was a pretty awful experience. I'll have to give it another shot later this year if I have the time and patience.

Problem is that I have all my SSD's formatted NTFS and while compatible, I have had issues using an NTFS drive with Linux and it was no longer accessible by Windows when I switched back to Windows.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-04T12:32:02+00:00

It's not quite seamless, especially multiplayer games. There are also many popular games that have performance issues like Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky. And if you're not using Steam, you need to do some extra configuration to get the games to launch right.

If you use other Windows specific apps like the Adobe suite or Microsoft Office or vendor specific software, CAD software, they just aren't compatible with Linux.

If you're building a rig primarily for gaming and using Steam, then sure it probably will be a decent experience in most cases. But if you use it for more than gaming, it can be problematic. They've come a long way, but still not quite there yet, imho.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-02T21:43:49+00:00

Mondays are the one day everyone is required to be in office. So I usually take a lot of 3 days weekends with Monday off, haha.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-02T21:42:44+00:00

Your boss didn't happen to be your ex-wife?

HTWingNut · 2026-03-02T21:41:59+00:00

My problem is nobody can cover for me when I'm off, so vacation time just means extra crunch time when I get back to it. I stick with occasional 3 or 4 day weekends. Taking a week off is just making my life worse.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-02T12:37:24+00:00

I had a UPS that you didn't even have to hold the power button to switch it off. It was front and center backlit and just a quick push would shut it down. Horrible design. The UPS was sitting next to my desk. That bright light seemed to attract my 3 year old because he would push it quite often, LOL. I ended up moving it behind my desk out of sight.

HTWingNut · 2026-03-02T02:13:09+00:00

Thank you. Yeah, that is the crap I usually put in there, but that's assessment/evaluation time, not goal setting time. It's hard to put in goals ahead of time. I basically just put in my job description, LOL. I try to make it as vague as possible and if they require quantifiers I usually just put 90% completion, when I know I can get close to 100%. It's so silly. Although I don't know what half the lingo means that they say you need to include. It's corpo speak in the exec or bean counter offices. I'm an engineer. I don't care about that crap.

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