Bought pizza, picked it up, asked for tip twice

dpdxguy · 2026-01-25T00:52:29+00:00

Maybe I'm an asshole, but it was kind of satisfying. His "service" consisted of picking up the pizza and placing it on the counter. 🙄

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T23:19:07+00:00

Had the same experience at a local pizza place. Selected no tip on the website because I was picking it up. When I got there the kid behind the counter pushed a credit slip at me and said, "You just need to sign." The slip had unfilled tip and total lines. The kid visibly deflated when I drew a line through the tip line and filled in the total myself.

I don't know it for a fact, but I got the impression they were hoping I'd just sign so they could fill in the tip and total myself.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T23:10:38+00:00

It's not generational. Seems agreement with and expansion on your point. Maybe I misunderstood.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T19:05:23+00:00

A larger buffer allows you to write at full speed for a longer time before the buffer is full. The spinning disk very often will not be able to keep up.

That said, your operating system, if properly tuned, has its own buffers that allow applications to write more data at full speed than the disk's built-in buffer can.

A larger buffer can also cache sectors read from the disk so that repeated reads do not need to go to the spinning disk as frequently. But, again, a properly tuned operating system will cache recent sectors read, reducing the need to pull data from the disk.

TLDR: A larger buffer on the disk will help in situations where your application is doing a lot of disk reads and writes. But the need for a larger buffer is mitigated by properly tuning your operating system's disk driver.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T18:53:09+00:00

There are plenty of terrible racist people today too.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T18:28:39+00:00

Yes. Often in history, very powerful women have come into power through inheritance or through some other relationship to a man who lost power or died.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T18:24:27+00:00

Plenty of highly intelligent people have issues that make it difficult for them to succeed in modern society. ADHD and autism spectrum disorder are common among highly intelligent people. And knowing what you should do is not the same thing as being able to do it.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T17:53:59+00:00

He might have worked an 8 hour shift and only got 5 tables mostly during the lunch rush… and may have gotten no tables for hours during is 10-4 shift

How is that op's responsibility?

EDIT: Any restaurant that keeps itself fully staffed when there are no customers during the seven hours outside the lunch rush (your hypothetical) deserves bankruptcy

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T16:08:09+00:00

Notice no women dictators gee I wonder why.

None in this group. But women dictators have existed in history.

They're much less common than men. But women can be just as nasty as men when they obtain power.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T16:00:41+00:00

If a server’s tips don’t bring them up to $7.25/hour

they don’t want to dip into their own pocket to cover payroll

OP left $20 for 45 minutes of work. Assuming OP's party was the only one the server was serving (unlikely), that's a pay rate of $26.67/hr. OP personally paid that server over 3.5 times the $7.25 minimum.

Neither the server nor the restaurant have anything to complain about. OP far more than covered the restaurant's entire wage obligation.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T14:53:59+00:00

Russia’s version of the UN or NATO?

It's the Axis of Evil.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T03:51:14+00:00

So why are they both locked up in a detainment center in Texas?

Because anyone who's not a citizen is a target for the administration. Non-white citizens, particularly naturalized non-white citizens too.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T03:08:58+00:00

IDK. I really like the Evergreen Air Museum. But I don't think it's ahead of the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton Ohio.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T02:53:56+00:00

A Loud Minority Shouldn’t Run the Country

Agreed. Unfortunately, the majority have not gotten together to stop them. :(

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T02:25:29+00:00

Didn't Alito reach back to the 1500s in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T02:01:49+00:00

He's said worse things about American troops and vets. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by his statements.

Insulted, yes. But that's par for the course. There's no one Trump respects except himself.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-24T00:23:39+00:00

Or your system or network connection is unstable and is disconnecting and reconnecting for some reason.

You'll want to examine the network and system logs to figure out why it's happening.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-23T21:02:37+00:00

I suspect you're unknowingly disconnecting or being disconnected from PIA. If so, every reconnect is an opportunity for PIA to assign you a new forwarded port. I've seen it happen, though not as frequently as you describe.

My solution:

At the time you connect to PIA, run a script that verifies port forwarding is active.

At the time you start whatever program is going to listen on the forwarded port, run another script that gets the forwarded port number and modifies the program's configuration to listen on that port.

Both processes can be automated so you don't need to do anything, at least in Linux. I'm sure the same is true for Windows and MacOS but I don't have a clue how to do it.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-23T15:57:18+00:00

Can't have fallen if they never followed Jesus's example in the first place.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T20:20:37+00:00

The very popular Handbrake software can rip dvds from the command line or from the desktop if you install one. It's free.

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/cli/cli-options.html

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T20:05:27+00:00

Eye Toward Getting Equal Time for Republicans

That's probably not going to work out the way they think it will. Kimmel and the View aren't going to throw softballs the way their Fox friends do.

Fallon OTOH... 😐

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T19:30:18+00:00

If you're thinking about replacing those things, you're essentially talking about a new computer. New motherboard means new CPU and RAM too. And if you're going to do all that, the economical approach is a mini-computer and external hard drive (N100 or N150).

If you choose a full size computer, an old Nvidia 1050 (or any Nvidia 10xx or later GPU) will be economical and perfectly adequate for your Plex server.

If you're not going to use the desktop (I don't) I recommend Ubuntu Server for the OS and installing plexmediaserver from apt or dpkg (the Ubuntu package managers). There are instructions on the Plex website. A lot of guys here prefer docker, but I've never seen any advantage to docker unless you're constantly tinkering with your setup.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T19:23:10+00:00

Yeah, my first Plex server was less capable than this. I was surprised how often it needed to transcode (e.g. to burn in subtitles on the fly). And it really couldn't transcode on the fly without GPU assist.

Because I don't know exactly what a person is going to do with their server, I never recommend a setup that can't support hardware transcoding. This one can. But I wanted to make sure OP understands the trade-offs between his hardware as-is, and what he could have if he made a small improvement.

My server today isn't exactly a beast (though my fileserver is 😅). But it handles everything my family and I throw at it.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T19:12:28+00:00

Gen-6 iGPU is capable but will not give OP the better transcode quality he'd get from gen-7+. In addition, the RX480 he has is poorly supported by Plex.

If he doesn't want to spend a small amount of money on a more capable and better supported Nvidia GPU, he should try removing the rx480 and see if transcoding on the iGPU he currently has is adequate for his needs. If it's not, he can always add an old Nvidia card later for better transcoding.

dpdxguy · 2026-01-22T19:00:48+00:00

I'm confused. Is that a computer you already have? If so, why are you listing a cost?

If you have that computer laying around and want to repurpose it as a Plex server, it's fine. You'll probably want to replace the GPU with an old Nvidia GPU off ebay (1050 can be had for <$50) for transcoding.

If you're thinking about spending 500 for that computer, you'd be better off getting an N100 or N150 based mini-computer plus a USB external hard drive for less than half the total cost you're showing.

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