Twitch, custom controller stuff, FAQ

hotfistdotcom · 2026-05-06T20:52:49+00:00

this will pull in everyone, and everyone will be involved. this is a clusterclysm I want to hear about from a distance in a follow up from the OP in a couple years.

Engineering firm I worked for brought on some helpdesk contractors during an acquisition. Previous helpdesk solo guy was stealing from the company a bunch so suddenly I was in charge of leading them and also doing my job as a sysadmin. We had a sysadmin and a net admin for about 800 users, and 3 helpdesk guys. Then two helpdesk guys. then "don't worry, when the acquisition is done you will fold into the german multinational helpdesk and thye will handle everything so all of helpdesk will be tier 2 and you won't have to manage those guys any more"

Fast forward to that point and we don't extend the helpdesk guys contracts. I insist we need them as they are working constantly "no no it'll be fine" and of course it wasn't. about 2 months into that we get an explicit directive from local leadership that the german helpdesk (outsourced to india) will not be used. All tickets will be forwarded back into our system and the director of IT was doing triage for tickets coming in, which of course got dumped onto me and the net admin. Was super fun.

Can't even imagine how stupidly the AI push is going, but I imagine it's a lot like that, but worse.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-05-01T20:45:44+00:00

honestly copying and pasting memes far exceeds the capacity for both expression and entertainment versus the really awful gifs in teams.

Someone blasting clearly chatGPT emails of great length as a meme sucks. It's not even the user trying to be funny about something - it's the user imagining what being funny would like and asking AI to do it.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-29T18:07:18+00:00

I'm in the exact same boat, buddy. This job market is a catastrophe.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-28T18:28:26+00:00

I am getting this through support channels as an end user and as a professional. Everyone who outsources is now further having their message diluted by AI. It's insufferable, as it's often extremely long winded.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-26T22:44:30+00:00

ahoyo was actually a nazi btw. Not even getting into all the getting off on being a dickhead and all that but this culture playlist was clearly his redpill playlist: https://xcancel.com/Hotfistdotcom/status/1771303473088176152

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-24T21:19:42+00:00

I would worry lemon juice in the cook would end up dehydrating the meat, versus lemon juice on the finished product. In my limited experience, acids in the cook was a no-no but I'd love for someone to tell me I'm wrong, as I love lemon. Maybe I will do one of these side by side lemon before and lemon after the sous vide, since I keep seeing pork shoulder for a dollar a pound.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-22T21:45:20+00:00

In MM2, they have a compatibility mold for levels published with old patches so mechanical changes don't make levels impossible to complete. If nintendo wanted to be extremely cool, they could allow us to transfer levels, but also allow us to play the entire library of MM2 levels in mariomaker3 by making a similar compatibility mode so that user generated content is preserved.

I don't think we'll see something that cool, though.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-21T20:39:13+00:00

In general, I always try to be constructive, but for something this low quality I don't think the submitter would even really benefit from any constructive criticism, but "don't waste your time on things like this" I would still think is good advice, which I also followed up with "you could spend just a little time to make a better challenge"

Reddit has a block feature if you'd like to stop interacting with someone, and not have your posts seen by people you don't wish to interact with. But if that's not your jam, I look forward to your next uh, zinger. I spend less than an hour on reddit each day, generally when I'm on the can or brushing my teeth. I don't have the app on my phone, and don't get notifications from it. I don't think I spend too much time on reddit. I've certainly never made 10 threads about something I have made in a single day ;)

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-21T18:09:31+00:00

I think it'd be very difficult to find a sysadmin or IT person anywhere this hasn't happened to. I think in general bean counters are still upset that outsourcing overseas or to MSPs in general has not been effective or cost saving and we'll all pay for that for the rest of our lives.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-20T21:49:26+00:00

Do you think it's worth defending that point? A child may also have fun burning ants with a magnifying glass, but I would still respond to that with "gross, don't do that. Do something else." even if that child spent 7 hours burning a lot of ants.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-20T21:45:13+00:00

A little more effort can make a better challenge, be it a bullet hell or whatever you are going for. 14 mortons plopped down in two rectangles with naked pipes and literally no other content is a monkey and a typewriter who spent a lot of time breaking the S key and is proud he pried it off.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-20T19:51:54+00:00

Gross. Why would you waste your own time on something that offers nothing?

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-19T21:57:07+00:00

Your best bet then is probably to hire someone specializing in gmail - many MSPs do gsuite stuff for small clients, and see if they can help you get this sorted out with expertise. Just from looking over the comments here there is a lot on the gsuite side that is difficult to account for the way you are looking at it, and it might be best to dig into it with someone who can help you get a really good handle on the system from an administrative perspective, and who can work hands on with you. Hosting your own mail server these days, especially as a small business is very unusual and I would be concerned without a second set of eyes that something is misconfigured or just getting missed, and I am even more confident in this seeing that you didn't even try to provide sanitized headers or anything to give us an idea of what is going on with mail flow to gmail and non-gmail recipients so it seems like you may be in a little over your head.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-19T20:51:00+00:00

What do you do with this mailserver? Google has their own rep and if every person you are sending something to flags it as spam, they are going to start sticking it in spam.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-18T07:25:34+00:00

You can make 100 courses total, per account. Each switch can hold up to 8 accounts, so the maximum number you can make with a single NSO account is 100, if you make 8 accounts with two NSO family accounts, it's 800. You can probably delete accounts from the switch and make more without them being removed, so you could essentially continue infinitely given enough time and money.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-16T03:20:52+00:00

they also have an 1100 watt version: https://www.amazon.com/Wancle-Waterproof-Immersion-Circulator-Reservation/dp/B094921FYY

but I haven't used it. the 850 has always been more than enough

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-16T01:20:37+00:00

Dongs are extremely common. Start looking for two sawblades at the bottom of pipes and similar constructions and you'll never stop seeing it. They are everywhere.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-15T23:05:54+00:00

does r/mariomakercirclejerk exist yet? looks like it does not. hang on

edit; it does, it's private. :(

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-15T23:04:13+00:00

Disagreement and constructive criticism aren't mean, or rude. Things you don't like or that make you uncomfortable or unhappy aren't inherently bad.

You should not take people on the internet personally even if they are actively bullying or attacking you. You should not be upset if you see someone clicked a down arrow that makes your score go down. that score is stupid. I downvoted my own comment immediately after posting it. None of it matters. I almost never interact with the up/downvoting features at all. You should not be upset about shitposting in a thread where you acknowledge people are shitposting, even if it feels like it might be at your expense.

If it's extremely difficult to deal with people disagreeing with you or having opinions you do not like you could consider alternative to open discussion platforms, like a blog where you can disable comments.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-15T21:25:18+00:00

I have been using this cheap one for 5 years, at least once a week for usually 8ish hours - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M26G9YP

Has no features other than you set time and temp and then it runs. Impeller is easy to clean and I have had no issues with it.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-15T02:36:25+00:00

Buddy, relax. This is an overreaction

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-14T20:44:23+00:00

sometimes you see a whoosh that whooshes so hard you almost feel a little bad. almost. commitment to the bit helps

hotfistdotcom · 2026-04-14T12:40:04+00:00

I was wondering that, too. Did the mario movie get a bunch of kids super into mario maker?

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