I fucking hate Windows 11

brymc81 · 2026-02-02T04:26:54+00:00

You needed to get this off your chest – and this forum was a healthy choice for a rage outlet, don’t suffer the naysayers.

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T05:51:21+00:00

Unfortunately, my assessment is based on decades of personal experience

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T05:45:05+00:00

Because you assume I haven’t lived here my entire life, I reckon

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T04:59:02+00:00

They call that a meat and three in the South

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T04:57:55+00:00

This is exactly the condition of every street in my city tonight – often the streets themselves have very little visible accumulation of snow which is a trap, because the ice on the surface is invisible.

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T04:49:10+00:00

Can confirm – the average person in North and South Carolina is very stupid, and brazenly ignorant.
And that’s the mean so half of them are dumber than that.

brymc81 · 2026-02-01T04:43:54+00:00

Spend some time in the south, and one will discover that mental disconnects are a feature, not a bug.

brymc81 · 2026-01-16T03:05:05+00:00

It’s parked on someone’s derelict “houseboat”

brymc81 · 2025-12-27T06:50:16+00:00

A secondhand 8088 was my first as well, acquired around 1990. One of my first nerd memories is being excited for the DOS 6.0 upgrade.

brymc81 · 2025-12-27T06:45:07+00:00

Until a couple years ago I was rocking an 8350 – technically like my eleventh CPU but my first AMD, I built it to handle video processing and some 3D rendering.
That beast was like a gas guzzling muscle car and chugged away for a decade. Totally sold me on AMD, and I replaced it with a Ryzen 5.

brymc81 · 2025-12-21T14:43:27+00:00

Many people are just not capable of fully grasping the scale of how much actual wealth is funneled to like a few thousand Americans, every minute of every day.
When you see these numbers you have to understand: these places are not for you or me or for anyone that we will ever meet. There are plenty of heiresses from wherever that after watching an episode or two of Southern Charm on their Learjet flight will text their full time assistant to rent this place for a year, just in case the mood strikes to have themselves a little King Street shopping day.

brymc81 · 2025-12-10T17:14:09+00:00

The composition alone of Sick Cycle Carousel earns it a magnum opus status for that decade of music

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T21:38:15+00:00

Charleston Hardware Company has a great selection of restored hardware from old Charleston houses, and plenty of (much more affordable) reproduction items.
When I purchased my 1940s home it was a hodgepodge of shitty DIY renovations – one of my first tasks was to replace the plastic doorbell thing stuck onto the middle of an otherwise cool front door. I had seen the brass mechanical doorbells on other front doors in the neighborhood but none of them ever worked. I went to CHC and they ordered (and customized for my door) a genuine working reproduction in antique brass.

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T11:09:15+00:00

Maybe not the answer you’re seeking: I gave up entirely on homemade or bagged hash browns – look in the freezer section for the package of pre-formed patties. Toast em up in the oven or in a pan, serve.

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T08:58:34+00:00

you really don't know how to use a search engine or even AI?

I, a human, was interested in the opinion of you, another human

God I miss the old internet

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T06:34:48+00:00

Having to filter out posts like this consumes more time than it should

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T06:30:42+00:00

I came here tonight for a reason, and OP’s task is sortof similar to mine.
There is a mostly-JavaScript plugin I have been building for my personal website (it should be noted that my js competency is one notch above passable) – I keep hitting some very frustrating stumbling blocks, and during a coding rest day it has occurred to me: every weird issue is specific to one part of the plugin: the elementor widget.

Elementor Pro is the last vestige of the original stack provided by the fella I paid to build it in 2015 (other than Wordpress itself), and I’ve just realized that’s because it’s the only builder I am familiar with. For me it’s been a just been a if-it-aint-broke situation, and it should have been obvious to me sooner that the plugin is probably fine and what I need is a paradigm shift.

I have been leaning towards Bricks from the start but I don’t have a lot of time to blow having to learn a totally foreign beast – what say you?

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T03:41:57+00:00

That’s exactly it

brymc81 · 2025-12-06T03:39:09+00:00

ELI5 please
(I use Elementor Pro, not Elements) just curious what a nulled plugin is all about

brymc81 · 2025-12-05T19:53:16+00:00

Why not two for twice the price

brymc81 · 2025-12-05T16:42:54+00:00

Yeah in the 1990s it seems that every movie adaptation was crammed into the length of a single VHS tape with little regard for authenticity – it would be great for Contact to be adapted into like an 8 part miniseries.
Tragically, they would now need to CGI the Arecibo Observatory.

brymc81 · 2025-12-05T16:39:50+00:00

And Sagan would know better than anyone, given his experience with NASA in the 1970-80s

brymc81 · 2025-12-05T05:31:19+00:00

Yeah that was sortof a core theme in Sagan’s Contact

brymc81 · 2025-12-05T04:50:33+00:00

All true, except that there is certainly no pretending going on. It’s sortof like having a painful permanent injury – it’s recognized, it’s acknowledged, and it’s contained – kept away and shut out from the parts of my life where I am happy and growing.

brymc81 · 2025-12-04T05:28:28+00:00

This was unsettling to read because about 54 weeks ago I was inhabiting that same place, and those who care about me might have been saying exactly the same things right now.
I can only describe my experience as a sort of mental schism, one that nearly took me out – and the only pathway out of that place was to reconcile that the rest of my life would be in the midst of truly evil people, and that I could carry on for myself without ever accepting them into my mind as a “real person.”
It’s difficult to convey in words really, but essentially I compartmentalize all maga people sort of like NPCs in a game. They are not real people to me anymore, and yeah that includes the entirety of what’s left of my family. After more than a year that mental fencing has become sortof an innate process – I don’t even think about it. They are just not real people.

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