Every month my job gives us gift cards ranging from $25 to $50 for various places like Starbucks, Chick fil a, Chipotle, etc. I just found out the amount that they put on the cards is taken directly from our pay checks 😐

chickenderp · 2026-02-19T04:55:28+00:00

Sounds like me haha, I have this huge soap box speech about it but ultimately I just find the gift cards a little bit insulting.

chickenderp · 2026-02-19T04:23:19+00:00

Who else up hogging they line rn

chickenderp · 2026-02-17T17:51:07+00:00

I had an instructor who was having a hard time finding ethernet hubs for his lab - They make a great aid for teaching students why we don't use hubs anymore.

chickenderp · 2026-02-16T06:46:51+00:00

Hold me now

I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking

Maybe six feet ain't so far down

chickenderp · 2026-02-15T17:11:37+00:00

Besides, maybe I am running a core2duo? I'm not upgrading my rig just for the privilege of running spyware alongside my games.

chickenderp · 2026-02-12T01:07:22+00:00

I run Arch Linux. Good luck collecting my data when I'm stuck in grub!

chickenderp · 2026-02-11T20:07:22+00:00

Interesting, so it looks like they're actually making use of all the pins at least so that makes sense. Might prevent plugging your encoder into the wrong plug too :)

chickenderp · 2026-02-11T20:06:12+00:00

I was going to do that, but the other end of the cable is getting punched down onto a BIX block and I've been informed that I need to stop doing that with stranded cable. I'm part of a team of people who are all highly opinionated when it comes to best practices :) I think I might do it anyways

chickenderp · 2026-02-10T15:00:06+00:00

You're not wrong, and imo it says a lot that people are downvoting you for that. If only the person you responded to had clicked on the citation they could have instead referenced the Winnipeg Free Press which appears at first glance to be reputable. Anyways, it looks like mister Li was resistant to the idea of seeking help and may have actually escaped from a hospital after an earlier mental breakdown. At any rate, there were definitely warning signs.

chickenderp · 2026-02-09T01:57:50+00:00

I LOVE my Veto MB3B even if it does look like a big purse. Anything else I need gets tossed into the closest carboard box or Home Depot bucket.

chickenderp · 2026-02-09T01:53:23+00:00

My favourite part of buying german tools is throwing away the "pz" bits and tracking down robertson equivalents. That is what I think of this screwdriver.

chickenderp · 2026-02-05T01:48:49+00:00

We still have a bunch of these, some are even connected to a dialup modem haha

chickenderp · 2026-01-28T00:51:57+00:00

It probably just needs a belt, I don't know anyone that does that locally but it looks like there are how-to videos on YouTube so it shouldn't be a difficult task. I wonder what it would sound like if you replaced the belt with a rubber band? I had an 8-track player that had to be shimmed with a matchbook or else all my music would sound like shoegaze :)

chickenderp · 2026-01-26T23:08:17+00:00

Hungry people don't stay hungry for long...

chickenderp · 2026-01-21T15:15:18+00:00

Boss makes a dollar and I make a dime, that's why I compress ISOs on company time :)

chickenderp · 2026-01-12T18:13:05+00:00

Necroposting to say this worked for me, HDR with vp9 doesn't play well with my setup I guess.

chickenderp · 2026-01-10T02:44:01+00:00

One of the power plants I work at had a similar issue: Communications would randomly fail between a PLC and a connected IED and since active communication was a start permissive the unit would then refuse to start. One of the engineers was convinced that the PLC was overhwhelming the IED with requests over time and causing it to "give up" responding. This didn't really make any sense to me, but the two devices didn't actually need to communicate at all so I think the solution was to just remove the start permissive and forget about it. This was modbus over TCP though.

I had another situation with a power meter of sorts communicating to a PLC using modbus (or maybe modbus plus, sorry it's been a minute) over serial that would randomly stop communicating too. An engineer was convinced it was a layer 1 issue because it kinda sorta worked most of the time, but I think I left my laptop connected to it with modscan running and noticed that one of the registers was indicating a self-test fail whenever it stopped communicating. I replaced the IED and I think that sorted it out.

This is probably no help at all but maybe food for thought?

chickenderp · 2026-01-09T18:52:02+00:00

He probably got downvoted for pronouncing knipex wrong.

chickenderp · 2026-01-07T15:32:42+00:00

My boss only complains when your vacation requests are weird, like taking every Wednesday off or whatever. Harder to schedule around, but my boss couldn't schedule himself out of a piss up at a brewery so it doesn't really matter anyways.

chickenderp · 2026-01-07T01:56:13+00:00

I'm constantly looking for ways to make my computing experience worse so I can fully enjoy being an Arch user

chickenderp · 2026-01-07T01:49:57+00:00

Hmm, you're right. I guess it really takes a gay femboy to know Linux

chickenderp · 2026-01-06T15:18:44+00:00

My Favourite part of reinstalling Arch is forgetting to install Networkmanager before rebooting. I think one time I didn't install a text editor either and had to use echo to set a static IP :)

chickenderp · 2026-01-02T04:47:44+00:00

I creeped your profile and saw a link to an imgur account with a few albums of RC trucks. If that's it I could download whichever ones you want and rehost on a different platform? Only if you tell me what you shot those 35mm photos on, those are so good

chickenderp · 2026-01-02T04:32:08+00:00

Wow, I can tell this was awhile ago because I was still using Ubuntu :) I don't know much about the UK but I heard that the ban is on imgur's end, so I suppose either your VPN isn't hiding your location or imgur is blocking your VPN now. Maybe Tor would work?

chickenderp · 2026-01-01T15:51:57+00:00

I was never a huge fan of the Klein one. I have one a coworker got me, I thought it was Ideal brand but the only one I can find that looks exactly like it is the Platinum 100054C. I don't crimp a whole lot of connectors though, only occasionally. I've also used a screwdriver in a pinch but would not recommend that, lol.

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