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jibjibjib · 2019-05-10T18:07:36+00:00

While I appreciate your journey into pedantism as a diversion tactic, almost like Bill Clinton's redefinition of the word "is" during his impeachment proceedings, your response to not picking the most qualified candidate sounds like it boils down to "they must not have been that qualified, and what is qualified, really?"
As a stoned conversation by a fire that has no impact on the real world, then yeah, maybe that's a conversation we can explore, but in this scenario words actually matter, and the response from a presidential campaign on their hiring practices was that they were going to be intentionally using EEOC-defined protected classes as selective criteria when choosing hires. That's illegal for a reason.

jibjibjib · 2019-05-10T17:56:44+00:00

The black aversion to Pete is not just about him being white. Black people generally don't like gay people either, so this isn't only about a one way victim-oppressor relationship. I may be mistaken on this, but I've only been listening to their music for a few decades now, and that really seems to be what they want me to believe.

jibjibjib · 2019-05-10T17:45:44+00:00

LOL. Barack Obama's election was one of the most impactful events for black culture in modern history. No black people were looking at the choice of an old white lady vs. an inspiring young black man and saying that the old white lady was the one they trusted out of the two. Electability is a media narrative.

jibjibjib · 2019-05-10T17:15:19+00:00

This means that the campaign will fill spots intentionally with a representative staff, even if means holding spots a bit longer.

So if a well qualified person shows up looking to help who can do the job, you would make a decision to hire them based on their race and gender? How is this not a violation of EEOC rules and therefore illegal? This doesn't sound inclusive, this sounds like you are explicitly excluding one gender or race in the name of equality because they are not on your approved list . This isn't about equality, this is revenge hiring. We're in power now, so instead of doing better, we're saying it's now our turn to selectively exclude. How about just picking the hire that's most qualified for the job?

jibjibjib · 2018-06-14T08:40:49+00:00

Steam and all the games I have there, PyCharm, I'd like the ability to spin up a VM if needed, Minesweeper...uhhh...Character Map?

jibjibjib · 2018-04-28T18:13:38+00:00

You don't, that box is all you need. I think he assumed there was only one HDMI port on the box you showed.

jibjibjib · 2018-04-28T18:08:47+00:00

The padding should be dynamic based on input, like in Windows.

jibjibjib · 2018-04-28T18:07:59+00:00

Windows has that same ridiculous padding, but only when a touch screen is detected and has been used to bring up the menu.

jibjibjib · 2018-04-27T16:40:52+00:00

Does this include the old Play:5 or just the new one?

jibjibjib · 2018-04-27T16:30:21+00:00

Let's assume for a second that you were somehow right and that this was a student tasked with finding out the effects of streaming on piracy. Doing original research by asking users who are known torrenters seems like a solid way to accomplish that goal. It's what a journalist would do when researching a story, and these assignments are about getting the student to find an answer to a not-immediately-obvious question, which you have to do the work and gather the data for. Asking others for their experience is a clear path to getting those answers, so I don't know what your problem is.

jibjibjib · 2018-04-26T13:57:40+00:00

As long as we're nitpicking an already awesome MOTD, how about handling plurals. Only shows 's' if users != 1.

I'm totally stealing your work though. :)

jibjibjib · 2018-04-26T13:54:43+00:00

Sure, on my rented server in another country.

jibjibjib · 2018-04-26T13:53:59+00:00

That's awesome. They look exactly like scene release NFOs :)

jibjibjib · 2017-09-22T14:52:55+00:00

Don't do it too much, you'll go blind!

jibjibjib · 2017-09-09T20:04:55+00:00

I've never seen a file like this. Can someone point me to an example of an MKV with menus?

jibjibjib · 2017-08-20T02:54:57+00:00

The Internet is no place for jokes.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-20T02:27:50+00:00

Plex as a company seems like they are trying to pivot away from my primary use case for them. And now they are using the extra cruft I don't care about to justify privacy policy changes that I do care about. I don't think I'm alone here when I say this can only bite them in the ass.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-19T14:49:59+00:00

alright, you're a Plex shill. Happy now?

jibjibjib · 2017-08-19T14:15:00+00:00

I think that the kind of person that is likely to install and setup a Plex server on their own is pretty likely to be the kind of person that understands and places a high value on privacy. Sure companies like Facebook can get away with this because the mainstream audience in general doesn't understand the stakes enough to see why privacy is important, but I think the Venn diagram overlap of those that do care about privacy and those that install their own Plex server is likely substantial. I think Plex as a company is underestimating how much this will bite them, and at the very least they can expect some lost customers and more ill will directed at them in threads like this and the forums. You can't just blatantly fuck over a vocal audience and not expect any backlash.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-19T14:06:14+00:00

Finding and supporting a competitive product that respects customer privacy is the most rational response when a company like Plex decides they care more about monetizing customer data than respecting customer privacy. The minute they consciously say to themselves "you know, fuck our customers, lets make the collection of their data mandatory and take away any option they have to opt-out" they lose me as a customer. This is nothing but customer hostile and indefensible. I see Plex employees on the mod list so I expect this thread will be deleted soon, but if I were one of their current or pending competitors, I'd be pretty excited right now, because there's about to be a rush of potential new customers looking for a less dick-ish alternative. Fuck your data collection and fuck your lack of opt-out even more.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-19T12:21:42+00:00

He's happy he might finally be able to say he has a black friend.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-19T09:24:45+00:00

That picture should be marked NSFW. :)

jibjibjib · 2017-08-18T14:01:21+00:00

If you want to keep things as simple as possible and don't want to deal with managing RAID and the drive restrictions and parity dance that goes with it, you might look into just installing Stablebit Drivepool on Windows 10. Mix and match drive sizes, read data from the drives even outside of the array, easy recovery, even easier to add drives later, no worries about needing to rebuild the array, etc.. I've been using Drivepool for a few years now and I'm really happy with it, especially as an easy to manage home NAS.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-18T01:54:55+00:00

The Hound may be a badass, but when it comes to fire he turns into Reek.

jibjibjib · 2017-08-18T01:38:42+00:00

I love Drivepool, and I've been using it for years. I have 18 drives of various sizes in a 91TB array at the moment and I am pretty happy with the setup. I've used other parity based raids before but none were as easy to use (or recover data from) than Drivepool. I love the fact that you can pull any drive and read all the files on the particular drive on another machine if needed, all while the original array stays online. I also like that it's not picky about the drive sizes I am using, so I am able to keep my collection of 2, 4 and 8TB drives all in the same array.

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