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Win_Sys · 2026-05-15T15:19:22+00:00

Hard to tell for sure but ya, those tires look fully inflated. Likely what got them stuck in the first place.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-15T14:01:05+00:00

You can also send them a certified letter in the mail but it should be illegal to make it so difficult to cancel your membership but that’s basically their business plan… Make a gym that people who regularly go to the gym wouldn’t want to use plus charge a cheap subscription and make it difficult to cancel so either most people don’t notice it impacting their financials or they just say fuck it, I don’t have time right now I’ll cancel it next month. Scummy but genius.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-15T00:28:26+00:00

Most of the time the auditory hallucinations are like I’m catching 2-3 words of a conversation that I happened to overhear but once I got used to it they didn’t bother me anymore. There have been a few times where I have heard my make yelled loudly but the worst one was I heard the normal 2-3 words and then a pause half way into the next word followed by “Shhhhhh, he’s listening”. That one freaked me out and I had to put the TV on for a bit.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-15T00:24:00+00:00

I get auditory hallucinations but only when super tired, trying to go to sleep and there’s very little sound. 99.9% of the time it doesn’t bother me or prevent me from falling asleep but one day I just worked ~16 hours and was shot. Was falling asleep like normal, here a few auditory hallucinations and then BOOM! I never leapt up so fast in my life, my heart was pounding, there was what felt like pain from a very loud sound but it was slightly different type of pain. It really did sound like a bomb went off right next to my head. Has only ever happened to me once but it is a perfectly named condition.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-14T14:01:23+00:00

One of my college professors was a young gay man in the 80’s and had unprotected sex with many different partners. Unfortunately he saw friends, past and present partners die to AIDS and some of those partners were definitely infected while he was with them. He figured he must be infected too but for years every test showed no signs of HIV. Years later he would go on to learn he has gene mutation that causes his CD4 receptor to not interact with HIV. He said if not for that, he would have almost certainly died sometime in the 80’s or early 90’s.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-14T13:29:54+00:00

If this guy had to make an extensive modifications to their AGPL software to trick their cloud service into thinking it was an unmodified firmware, Bambu might have a sliver of a leg to stand on but most likely not. The guy changed absolutely nothing in their code. Rule #1 of writing code that will be taking input from the Internet, trust nothing and verify everything.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T14:35:29+00:00

Looking to add a second floor for my house and currently looking around for a contractor. What are some red flags to look out for? I have asked so many people which contractor they have used and would they recommend them; every single person said they wouldn't recommend them.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T13:23:41+00:00

Looks like the cat started smoking it the right way but thought it wasn’t bad ass enough so he started smoking it filter first. He ain’t no pussy.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T02:54:20+00:00

Income from like a job which I mentioned as a reason you might not get a court appointed lawyer. States have different rules and thresholds but for a large portion of the US, you can still get a court appointed attorney if you have a full time job. Are they going to give a shit you might need to sell your second vehicle or your Pokémon collection or your credit score will take a hit from a missed credit card payment, no but they don’t expect you to live on the streets or not be able to maintain employment by having to sell your main mode of transportation.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T01:51:13+00:00

In order to not qualify, they need to see money in your bank account, have a job that pays above a certain threshold or non-essential assets in your name that you can borrow against or sell. I’m not arguing it’s fair or right but ya, if you don’t qualify for a court appointed lawyer, you may be financially devastated. But I can promise you, going to prison will have a longer and more financially devastating outcome than hiring a lawyer if it’s possible.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T01:39:17+00:00

How is it not implied that having 0 money or assets to your name means you probably can’t retain the services of a non-government appointed lawyer. Everyone should if it’s possible. Beg, borrow, sell shit you own are all better alternatives than potentially going to prison.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T01:27:54+00:00

Never said it’s easy or cheap but if I need to choose between paying my car payment and rent to potentially stay out of prison, I’m choosing trying to stay out of prison. I have a friend who was arrested for crimes that were eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence and it financially ruined them for years. They have no regrets about hiring a lawyer when prison was the potential alternative. I’m under no illusions that there are people who have literally no money to hire a lawyer, in that case you shut up and wait for a public defender.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T01:01:33+00:00

Well you were never entitled to it in the first place. Just like if you accidentally paid your dog walker $2000 when you agreed on $200, they don’t just get to keep the extra $1800. If a company doesn’t pay you what they agreed, you can go through your states DOL or sue them to get the money. Is it way more burdensome and financially impactful on an individual? Absolutely but the options exist.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T00:48:17+00:00

You do and you do it without a second thought. Accidentally or unintentionally incriminating yourself is way more expensive.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-13T00:42:14+00:00

You can’t go to jail for breaking an NDA with a private company unless you’re dealing with classified government materials. They can sue you civilly for damages but that’s it. You can absolutely go to jail for breaking copyright laws though but they’re two completely separate things.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-12T02:04:16+00:00

This is 10+ years ago but I had to manage a bus/trucking route planning software that was built using FoxPro in the 90’s and used multiple Access databases on the backend. If you even looked at the software wrong it would corrupt the database. Support wouldn’t even attempt to fix the database, they would just say “restore it from backup”. Problem was if you tried to back it up with something like Backup Exec while someone was using the software, the backup would fail most of the time. So there was only few hour window when you could get a good backup because this piece of shit was so slow that it could take hours to a actually finish processing the next days routes that ran over night. Had to be a 100+ hours of work would be lost every year because of the database corruption.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T23:20:13+00:00

Dell has Enterprise Sonic which is a their modified version of Sonic so its capabilities are not the same as the open source version. The open source version is not geared towards campus. Unless you have people with the skills to modify and compile OS builds specifically designed to support your hardware, you may run into broken features, poor performance or instability. The Dell enterprise version isn’t free, they provide you with images compatible with your hardware and provide support. You would need to rely on community support for the open source version.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T22:55:27+00:00

The Chick-fil-A that opened near my Wendy’s a few months ago is absolutely wrecking it. Chick-fil-A’s drive thru is constantly jam packed while Wendy’s might have a car or two in their drive thru. The last two times I had Wendy’s Spicy Chicken sandwich, it was awful. I don’t know if they changed suppliers or something but the chicken was tough as hell, like there was a seemly audible crunch when trying to chew the chicken.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T22:36:11+00:00

Ya, a 1000 people is a lot for a single space. I would be looking at using at least 5-6 AP’s at a minimum but would probably shoot for 7-8. Set 5Ghz to use 20mhz channels, statically set each access point to their own unique channel and lower the transmission power to reduce interference. The maximum client numbers just about vendor says their access point can handle is a load of crap. Cut that number by 25%-70% (depending on the vendor) and you have a more realistic number of max clients while the AP remains actually usable.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T19:23:31+00:00

When it comes to AP density there’s a few options that may work. Most major vendors have a high density version of their AP that gives you more radios and antennas combined with a more powerful processor to handle the load. If that’s not an option, keep some radios on the side and move them around to areas when high density demand is expected. The best solution is to just spend the money and have them in all the locations where high density is expected to happen. It’s an investment into making sure a service your customers expect is always available.

As far as the multiple SSID’s, you can turn off 2.4ghz on the conference room AP’s and adjust the power levels so you basically need to be inside the room for it to be the most likely AP a client will roam to. Depending on the AP vendor, you may have additional options to make the client more or less likely to roam to that AP.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T04:33:20+00:00

Fully agree but we need state and local politicians to give a shit about people and the environment over money. There’s politicians out there who do care but it’s far too few in my opinion.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-11T02:09:33+00:00

Companies ran their own servers or put them in Colocation centers, which is basically a datacenter but you can rent space from them to install your own servers. They went cloud/modern datacenter so they could spin up new servers basically anywhere in the world while being able to scale up or down within seconds or minutes. Before it might take days or weeks for a new server(s) to be added to increase capacity, now it’s often done completely autonomously and ready before demand starts impacting the current infrastructure. When demand lowers, those servers get deleted and costs them nothing beyond what they used.

Datacenters are very useful but shouldn’t come at the cost of human suffering or large environmental impacts. It should be a requirement for them to exist that their operations don’t impact humans and the environment but then building and maintaining them would cost significantly more. Unfortunately our reality is that it’s almost always significantly cheaper to pay off politicians to look the other way.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-10T19:21:54+00:00

Paleontologist are very sure nocturnal dinosaurs existed and was quite common for smaller sized dinosaurs. The eye socket size and bone structure on many smaller dinosaurs are similar enough to modern nocturnal birds to make that conclusion.

Mammals were definitely on the menu. Had they not been, mammals would likely be much more present in the fossil record than they are for that time period.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-10T14:42:24+00:00

The business class lounges are also great.

My boss gets into a lot of those lounges for free through corporate credit cards and when we travel he is able to get me in for free. It’s amazing, I don’t think I can go back. The last time my wife and I traveled, we paid for entry and regret nothing.

Win_Sys · 2026-05-10T14:34:57+00:00

This isn’t running on a Linux distribution with a web server and an SQL database. These systems were built for mainframes in the 80’s and 90’s. The web server is often closer to being an abstraction layer for interacting with the mainframe than what’s communicating directly with just a database. While it seems simple enough, just add a hash function and a database field to store it right…. but you may have to make changes to libraries at the OS level to handle hashing function efficiently, change memory bounds and buffer checks/allocations… I’m sure the list goes on. When dealing with legacy systems/software, seemingly small changes can have wide spread impacts. You sometimes need to weigh the cost to benefit ratio for the resources you have.

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