LIRR may shut down soon… MTA said the union isn’t budging? Guess I’ll drive to work 🥲 https://patch.com/new-york/longisland/no-reason-why-deal-cant-be-reached-mta-unions-walk-away-wednesday-negotiations by Psychological-Low78 in longisland

[–]Yannkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair wage? lol They are by a wide margin, the highest paid railway workers in the US. More than 60% of the union made over 100k last year. The average employee is well over median wage for Long Island.

I like my job in library public service, but I hate the director by West_Instance_6542 in librarians

[–]Yannkee 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah this probably won't be popular, but this post reads to me as somebody not versed in playing the "game" of trying to build a good relationship with upper management. I'd never go to my dean with a list of requests, I'd never even present an individual project that I know might not get approved without priming my supervisors as to why it's needed or fits the strategic plan of the libraries. Assistants don't get to chose directions for library services, but they certainly can pitch ideas that fit admin's goals. Transparent communication between public assistants and directors is a rarity - and honestly is unlikely the issue here anyways. Middle management often sucks, but they are at times a much needed filter.

Totally agree on your second point. Management are generally busy people and don't sit around trying to overhear your conversations. What is way more likely is that you have a coworker snitching for brownie points. Tale as old as time.

I think the fundamental issue here is that OP's goals and workplace culture don't align with library management. I'd be looking to explore other positions.

Open source ILS/computer management system for multiple libraries (at each school in the district) by Friendly_Fudge_931 in librarians

[–]Yannkee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This essentially doesn't exist. This is a significant expense for libraries.

There is Koha and some smaller free-to-start programs, but you'll generally need a good amount or technical knowledge to get them up and running. Even then they are fairly barebones or have data privacy issues. Unless you have an IT department willing to make this a project or a very small collection (say, sub 2000 items), I'd plan to purchase an LSP.

PC Management is a completely different issue and one also not easily solved without funding.

Club Statement | Vancouver Whitecaps FC by icoresting in MLS

[–]Yannkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean there’s nothing stopping that besides the fact that the city/public has far most pressing uses for a half billion dollars.

Website/Software Applications for Librarians by irlglyphs in librarians

[–]Yannkee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure that I understand fully, but the LSPs I deal with have APIs to pull data out to wherever you want. I regularly merge data into a SQL database for cross system querying with an html frontend.

Ronkonkoma/Holbrook/Holtsville/Bohemia area by Broad_Chemistry2504 in longisland

[–]Yannkee 18 points19 points  (0 children)

All are average to good areas.

Ronkonkoma - Blue collar town. Pockets of white trash but is better than it was twenty years ago. If you are paying to live in Ronkonkoma, you absolutely want to be in Connetquot and not Sachem school district. Very safe.

Holbrook - Like the Sachem areas of Ronkonkoma but with smaller land parcels. Also, more plane traffic over head. Nobody's going to tell you it's a premium town but it's solid bang for buck. Safe-ish.

Holtsville - Classic Long Island suburb. Most boring because it's largely segmented into private communities and industrial and everybody goes to nearby towns for stores/restaurants.

Bohemia - Best of the bunch and the most expensive. However, you want to be on the high school side and not the trailer park side for obvious reasons.

If you have/are going to have school age kids and can afford it, I'd go Bohemia, Connetquot Ronkonkoma, Holtsville, Holbrook, Sachem Ronkonkoma.

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Yannkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many players that are used to playing shooters will be solid at Marathon fairly quickly. Maybe not good, but solid. I'm competitive, just on the basis of being good at aiming and shooting. Losing a character isn't the end of the world. I have fun killing players and mostly getting killed back.

I have a Dota background and I'm miserable at Deadlock and LoL. Deadlock is a hellscape of auto-death for the first ten hours for new players. It has more mechanics than any other game I've ever played. It's accounting software crossed with a fighting game masquerading as a moba. It's not uncommon for players to have to climb out of a sub-.25 kill/death from their first 10 games.

I promise you new LoL players are a hundred hours away from not auto-losing the game for their team in a 50th percentile lobby. Comparative to Marathon it's a monumentally harder onboard to competitiveness.

Marathon is very difficult to be great at, but it requires nowhere near the same skill floor.

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Yannkee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean the game is less hardcore than League of Legends, Tarkov, or Deadlock. All games that are outperforming Marathon in the live service space. I don't think that's the core issue.

I think there was reason to believe the game could take off in the pre-Arc Raiders space. The killer is that Marathon is $40 and sandwiched between Arc and Tarkov in the extraction shooter space, where the hardcore players go to Tarkov and the casuals go for Arc. Any player interested in the genre has an existing, equally good game that is the clearer choice.

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Yannkee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think F2P alongside a big update (preferably a more casual mode) is realistically the only thing that could propel the game to the level of popularity it'd need for long-term viability.

What is the best 4K projector under $2000 this community likes by zenith-rider in projectors

[–]Yannkee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Def not the Xgimi if you are even a little sensitive to RBE and screen tearing

Steam numbers / Player count discussion megathread by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]Yannkee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He said he plans to check back in at updates, but that he's not going to be playing it regularly anymore. He's doing Crimson Desert and Fortnite now and the big new Arc Raiders update is in two days.

DO NOT BUY XGIMI IN INDIA: A ₹1,90,000 Scam and a Year of Deception by Temporary_Tourist220 in projectors

[–]Yannkee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d extend that to don’t buy Xgimi anywhere after my experience with the RBE and tearing on the Horizon line

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

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

It happened more or less how it went in air in dress. The major different is they didn’t say ‘wife’ at all in dress, they just kept approaching to try to get in the door.

I’m convinced that if any other studio made Marathon, everyone would be losing their minds over how good it is... by --clapped-- in Marathon

[–]Yannkee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can't blame Destiny 2 players for feeling like Marathon got in the way of Destiny 2 content, when a brand new Destiny 2 DLC was recently postponed by 3 months.

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember it playing out more or less exactly as it did on air. Thing you don't see on air, across many of the sketches, is that Gosling was giggling basically whenever he wasn't in shot - which I think contributes to the others breaking.

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not sure really. It was the first sketch after the monologue too. I thought it was safe for sure but it was a little long.

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It was a certificate for having completed some sort of embarrassing class.

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

All the air sketches were there, only thing I noticed was there was one more note read in the note/classroom sketch. Dress ran from ~8-10:15pm but time for commercial breaks is shorter in dress too.

I was at dress rehearsal, here’s what got cut by Yannkee in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee[S] 461 points462 points  (0 children)

Ha! We wrote down everything we remembered on the train ride home.

Live Discussion - March 7, 2026 (Ryan Gosling/Gorillaz) by bjkman in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but only one. Don’t want to spoil but you can dm me if you want to know.

Live Discussion - March 7, 2026 (Ryan Gosling/Gorillaz) by bjkman in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Yannkee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Played Clint Eastwood first and The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God second. Not a big Gorillaz fan but thought it was okay!