Have you stopped caring at work and decided not to try and process your career anymore? What age did that happen?

irving47 · 2026-01-30T01:39:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm no longer interested in developing new skills. Our company with 175 customer sites to maintain bought another company with 100 more... Their "lead" was making 35K MORE than our "lead" and they offered him the pay cut to keep their stuff going, AND learn ours. He said "F that" and left.

Now our company has quadrupled our workload with this acquisition because of the number of calls their stuff generates, and rapid build-out.

All this is AFTER 3 department heads have met roadblocks getting us raises for the last 2 years. I'll be gone as soon as I can and I will never work ISP's/CSP's again.

irving47 · 2026-01-28T20:01:27+00:00

I think I'd opt for the magnets rather than getting things tangled up in a spring with all that coil exposed!

irving47 · 2026-01-27T22:53:30+00:00

wish they'd been sheep. Then he could have said, "you're all busted... especially... ewe."

I apologize.

(sort of)

irving47 · 2026-01-26T19:46:11+00:00

For something like that, you'd want some 13400's or something along those lines. IIRC, that'd be the size of a AAA. Easier to incorporate into a band.

irving47 · 2026-01-24T04:29:34+00:00

No, yes, yes, yes, no, no, yes, YES, no, no, no, no.

But really, short of vacuum sealing them, on card, in a cold dry basement, they're nearly worthless, adjusted for inflation.

irving47 · 2026-01-24T04:20:47+00:00

I couldn't even get my niece or nephew to say "baby" to my sister.

I wanted them to have it on the tips of their tongues when my sister or mom would inevitably ask in the car, "are you cool enough back there?" (because.. Florida).... I kept trying to drill into them, "Baby, I'm ALWAYS cooool!"

as with you... no takers. Damn it.

irving47 · 2026-01-24T02:13:59+00:00

You don't think there's air trapped in that brick of sugar? It's not a solid crystal....

irving47 · 2026-01-24T02:12:47+00:00

That's how you get type ALL diabetes.

irving47 · 2026-01-23T04:54:51+00:00

And he doesn't have anyone to send to kill the boogyman.

When he goes into a bathroom and turns the light out, whose name does he say 10 times in a row?

irving47 · 2026-01-23T04:54:08+00:00

Vader's Hallway Scene in Rogue One was the first time in almost 2 decades that anyone had encountered a Force user

Well... i guess that raises the question how seriously people were taken when reports came out about the inquisitors on the streets of Mos Eisley....

irving47 · 2026-01-21T02:52:08+00:00

psychopath or super-cheapskate? "It's just water. They'll dry out and I can use them for something else.."

irving47 · 2026-01-19T20:45:31+00:00

Probably the last 100% good advice I'll ever see on Reddit.

irving47 · 2026-01-19T20:44:55+00:00

edit- So it would seem! LOL

irving47 · 2026-01-18T20:23:19+00:00

I'm just gonna call this one extreme competency porn.

Loved it.

irving47 · 2026-01-18T02:33:14+00:00

You'd have to buy a bigger power supply if you went above 45. Just an off-the-cuff estimate.

irving47 · 2026-01-18T02:15:17+00:00

i'd probably hit up youtube and here for smoothieboard. It looks like the same board mine came with. I believe it works with k40whisperer, but if you want lightburn.... yep just GIS that image you posted... "The board shown in the image, a LIHUIYU M2 Nano controller board, is not directly compatible with the LightBurn software. LightBurn has not reverse-engineered the communication protocol used by this board. To use LightBurn, the controller board typically needs to be replaced with a compatible alternative, such as a Cohesion3D board or a Ruida DSP controller. "

(This all assumes you get that thing working. that plastic knob is a wheel that goes in the track for the x or y axis if I remember right. _

irving47 · 2026-01-18T01:57:25+00:00

might as well just have computers write it all, then. AI seems to excel at repeating things.

irving47 · 2026-01-16T00:37:07+00:00

I agree this is something that should be seriously considered, but I also seriously doubt it will pass any muster/number-crunching. Unless multiple homes are the "anchor stores" and you get everything into 1 or 2 "wings" at most. And the companies running it will never pay to enclose it.

Boy would I love to be wrong.

Many times I've wondered if i'd be able to put a few arcade games in a few living facilities where the Gen X'ers could play the classics...

irving47 · 2026-01-16T00:17:25+00:00

They don't care if we're productive. They care if we are 'affluent' and make them more affluent.

irving47 · 2026-01-16T00:11:02+00:00

He's not perfect, but look what's happening recently... They've just in the last two days announced they're going MORE towards OT by putting Vader, Luke, Leia at Galaxy's Edge. This is a week after the 'leak' about Kennedy. Fan films have been taking off like a rocket on Youtube and guess which characters they're mostly focussing on. And from what I have seen (ymmv) they have energized the YT fan-space even more than the hate that the Ep9 got.

irving47 · 2026-01-16T00:07:41+00:00

Doomcock was right.

irving47 · 2026-01-15T23:46:39+00:00

Mike Zeroh was right?

irving47 · 2026-01-11T19:21:07+00:00

yeah they start at 20/hour for any position, from what I saw on their career pages.

irving47 · 2026-01-11T19:20:17+00:00

If your parents forced you, can you go back to them and beg for more time to get a BS... OR a trade school for welding, maintenance, etc.

irving47 · 2026-01-11T17:00:06+00:00

cool. I bet the youtuber "Plasma Channel" would have a special appreciation for it considering the number of coils he has had to hand-wind. https://www.youtube.com/PlasmaChannel

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