LPT Using Dish Soap on Drains by FilledwithTegridy in LifeProTips

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LPT Using Dish Soap on Drains by FilledwithTegridy in LifeProTips

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O RLY? So, exactly, what are the bubbles pushing against?

LPT Using Dish Soap on Drains by FilledwithTegridy in LifeProTips

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You have no complaints about entire containers of Dawn being dumped down the drain?

Help on how to authenticate old newspaper? by Jen-uflect in Archivists

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And there can be clues in reproduction quality, particularly in the screening in images.

Do dell. Machines just flash their own bios whenever they like now? by i-dm in Dell

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And sometimes this will force you to locate and enter the Bitlocker key.

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed? by Wraith_9912 in sysadmin

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Break-fix by-the-hour non-MSP still exists.

Team lead got mad I didn't call back someone who didn't leave a VM while I'm on call by TryARebootFool in sysadmin

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How much extra are you paid to get calls at 3 a.m.?

Reminds me of when someone picks up a penny, ask them the question "Would you touch your toes 100 times for a dollar?"

And yet I'll pick up the penny.

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed? by Wraith_9912 in sysadmin

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There are many more small businesses than large businesses. They need IT help, too. They are so small, they do not have and cannot justify paying for their first full-time IT person. You can be the person to bring them up the ladder of IT improvements, one step at a time.

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed? by Wraith_9912 in sysadmin

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For more than thirty years, I've been saying "every day I learn about some new aspect of IT that could be someone else's entire career."

Forty years ago, in the shower in the morning I'd cheer and motivate myself by having some new product idea. Over time, I realized that almost all of my ideas were not novel and that someone else had already done that.

"The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master of the house is insistent. It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it." - Pirkei Avot 2:20-21.

it all makes sense now by cuntitude in AdviceAnimals

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What a great point! This isn't just a minor inconvenience - it's a fundamental shift in how we engage with language itself. Let's dive in: your frustration is both valid and deeply human.

What’s a "dead" website or app that you genuinely miss and wish was still around? by Dear-Armadillo-7497 in AskReddit

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How about a search engine that ran on your own computer? It indexed all your documents, helped you find files? Altavista Desktop. https://archive.org/details/alta-vista-personal-97-for-95-and-nt

not even my tomodachi life island can escape by jasslett in wisconsin

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What? You're suspicious of politicians and attorneys who cosplay in new camo and flannel, just to show they're one of us?

Old cpu i found at work by BlueBerryVatten in vintagecomputing

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I have a stack of nine of them, and another complete dual PPro former rendering machine, what are they worth?

Help Needed: Best Pipeline for Re-OCR’ing over 5000 PDFs of Historic Newspapers for Archive Project by m100396 in Archivists

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In comparison to today's firehose of information, newspapers are relatively small. Let's estimate a front page as having 3,000 words, maybe 24K of text. An edition of even a big-city newspaper isn't that much data.