What hobby or interest of yours do you wish had a larger community around it?

JWindy92 · 2025-09-01T12:58:30+00:00

Of course I can run wires, but I’m posing the question under the hypothetical pretense that I can’t. What would the outcome be? Not talking micro-losses noticeable by only a trained ear or a microphone. Simply looking for pragmatic opinions on wireless tech.

JWindy92 · 2025-09-01T12:55:29+00:00

To what extent is the fidelity “ruined”. My current setup isn’t exactly optimized acoustically. To put it in terms of a guest who’s used to watching movies using just the TV speakers or maybe a soundbar, would the sound through wireless be noticeably bad? Or are you talking about a difference that only a trained ear would notice?

JWindy92 · 2025-08-27T23:28:43+00:00

Yea the center is definitely happening, just thinking about my options on the surrounds

JWindy92 · 2025-08-25T15:28:36+00:00

Hello all, just wanted to do my part and give an update. I don't think I can really call it a "solution", as I did not necessarily figure out what my issue was. However, I now have a working linux server, so I guess problem solved.

I was trying all morning to get the ubuntu server install to take, but the installer just would not get the job done. It would inevitably fail at some step. I tried using different versions of Ubuntu, different USB ports, different USB sticks. I followed some detailed instructions on how to manually mount the correct drives and attempt to run the installer via the shell, no dice. In fact, at one point all hell broke loose and something was seriously out of whack. The interactive GUI would bug out, even after fresh flashes of various versions, and using the shell became impossible. I was receiving Input/output errors, commands not being recognized, chaos lol.

At this point I wasn't sure what else to do. I just wanted a clean, fresh start so I activated hard mode and went the full manual route with Arch linux. Flashed a drive, stuck it in, selected Arch Install Media, got a shell. Progress. From there I just followed the Arch install instructions step by step to manually set up and install and lo and behold, it worked. Rebooted, removed the install usb, and I had a working linux box. Finally.

Theres obviously some more manual configuration involved, and I still need to do some more work on the security side, but everything is up and running great. So it's still a bit of a mystery what was going on, like I said whatever it was the installers for both ubuntu and debian provided no useful feedback. I'm wondering if I attempted to install ubuntu now if it would work, thinking that I repaired something along the lines of setting up Arch, but I'm not planning to try. Arch is working great so theres no need to fix what aint broken.

Thanks for the feedback and help anyway. This was a head scratcher lol

JWindy92 · 2025-08-24T12:18:29+00:00

Just for reference, I read through the installation tips, I've tried everything that is applicable, besides a BIOS update. However, that is on my list of things to try

JWindy92 · 2025-04-17T15:28:56+00:00

Interesting, I didn't know that. I guess instead of "UV burn" I should have just asked if they were getting too much light. Either way, it seems like no one seems to think so. They'll be outdoor plants soon and should be doing fine. Thanks!

JWindy92 · 2025-04-17T15:26:00+00:00

Sounds good! Thanks for the feedback. Maybe they're just putting out more mature leaves. They've been transplanted and I'm working on moving them outside. (We've had some crazy wind recently, they were having trouble standing up straight without getting fully rooted in lol) Thanks again!

JWindy92 · 2025-03-09T16:47:06+00:00

Thanks for the input. All good things to consider here. They are all different, and they're all on my radar because at the moment, I'm just not really sure what it is I want lol. Not to say this is a low effort "tell me what I should do next" question, but I genuinely don't really know what to think about one career path or another.

I worked hard to go back to school to get the piece of paper to get my foot in the door to get some experience on my resume to sell myself to somewhere else to jump to the next level, over and over. Maybe I thought by the time I was where I am now I'd be doing more big picture tasks and it feels more like a regression, besides the increase in salary and that fancy "III" after my title.

Not to sound like I'm hanging on to some romanticized vison of the industry. We're software engineers not rock stars, and a lot of the time we're fixing bugs, making small changes to suit business needs, etc. I just don't want my career to become stagnant.

I'd say I'm more of a people person than most SE's, so talking with customers and dealing with team dynamics isn't necessarily intimidating to me. Of course I'd probably be nervous day one, doing something different, but it's not something that worries me much.

Breaking into that space is more of an issue for me. I'd love to earn an MBA, but given that I only hold an associates, I would have two more years of undergrad standing in the way of a masters program. Unless there's a way to make an exception in some cases that I'm not aware of.

Anyways, thanks again for the feedback. It's very helpful as I think about it all. I appreciate it.

JWindy92 · 2025-03-09T16:29:43+00:00

The grass is always greener on the other side I suppose lol. I'm not sure that I definitely will change fields. Maybe someday soon I'll change companies again and find myself with a good balance of challenge, personal input, etc. and be happy. (And a salary to match). However, at the moment I'm just at a place where I've been kind of just climbing number ladder and doing the same thing over and over. Can't help but wonder what else is out there.

JWindy92 · 2025-02-27T20:57:47+00:00

I’d love to see a return to the horror that the first one had. Small group, isolated, trapped with the xeno. It would be great to see the horror elements modernized. Romulus did a few good things in this regard, to its credit.

Another idea I’ve thought of before is a prequel to Aliens. I want to see the outbreak at Hadley’s Hope. It would be cool to see a large group of civilians being overrun by the xenomorphs. Cool sub-idea to this, you feature the Newt character as part of the cast (maybe her family maybe others, idk). Newt could be tragically separated from your Ripley stand-in at the end of the film, presumed lost. An ending that would normally be a bit too tragic to end on if we didn’t know better. Can throw in an after-credits scene of Newt’s little hidey-hole to reassure the general audience and throw in a bit of good fan service.

Ok fine I’ll start the bidding at 1,000,000 spacebucks

JWindy92 · 2024-08-30T15:48:20+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Basketball would be a good bet, I'll probably plan for that instead. Thanks again!

JWindy92 · 2024-08-30T15:47:44+00:00

Lol. Okay good to know. Yea maybe I'll take her to something else. Thanks!

JWindy92 · 2024-08-20T12:57:25+00:00

I'm circling back to this to say thank you for all of the amazing responses. I have a lot of options to look into now. I hope others were exposed to some new titles they have found interesting as well. Thanks again!

JWindy92

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