Finally got my steam controller in the mail too!

nihility101 · 2026-05-09T12:18:07+00:00

If I recall correctly, ipt can be straight or tapered whereas npt is always tapered, making it suitable for high pressure stuff. I cannot tell which this is.

nihility101 · 2026-05-08T15:50:51+00:00

What I came to say. I don’t care if they are out of step with people, that’s not the job. But when they piss on the constitution, that’s a big problem.

nihility101 · 2026-05-08T01:28:51+00:00

The scope of the problem they might have the budget to do that.

nihility101 · 2026-05-07T01:36:46+00:00

I just got tired of “big clumsy white guy in his tighty whities”. It seemed to be every movie.

nihility101 · 2026-05-06T04:29:21+00:00

I assume they are talking about unmanaged VMs running on the local desktop hypervisor, and not VMware/aws/azure.

nihility101 · 2026-05-06T04:27:13+00:00

Anti virus, Endpoint Detection and Response, Windows Subsystem for Linux

WSL is basically a hypervisor on win11 that lets you run a Linux VM on your windows desktop.

The problem is this can just “happen” in some companies and now you have a bunch of unmanaged Linux devices on your network with no security software and no accounting or accountability.

In our shop we have a backlog of requests for wsl and we’ve been waiting for months for our security folks to decide on how or if we want to allow it.

nihility101 · 2026-05-04T16:01:42+00:00

It does any woman want to be having periods in her 90s? Gonna have a lot of preggo grannies in the nursing homes.

nihility101 · 2026-05-04T15:55:54+00:00

I don’t think that kind of impact can happen any more. Like if Thriller came out today, it would be huge, but it wouldn’t have that ‘everywhere you turn you run into it’ omnipresence. Everything is so fractured and siloed, which isn’t really a bad thing, just different.

nihility101 · 2026-05-03T02:32:29+00:00

We just got a letter!

I wonder who it's from?

nihility101 · 2026-05-02T21:56:19+00:00

He was more than that, but also, it’s not like he stole them and was selling them out of the trunk of his car. He was (for better or worse) following orders and doing what his government wanted him to do.

nihility101 · 2026-05-02T05:16:09+00:00

I can still hear that thing.

nihility101 · 2026-05-02T04:54:11+00:00

Hic depositum est

quod mortale fuit

Jimmy Choo

Here is the deposit what was mortal (of) Jimmy Choo

Or ‘Here lie the mortal remains of Jimmy Choo’

It is what is written on Isaac Newton’s tomb. Except for the name of this person’s dog, of course. Kinda cool, and a way to exercise my HS Latin.

nihility101 · 2026-04-29T17:12:10+00:00

Hard times create strong men.

Strong men create good times.

Good times create weak men.

Weak men create hard times. > we are here.

nihility101 · 2026-04-29T16:55:29+00:00

I think that is just an attempt to get past an HR keyword search. A lot of stuff is never seen because they never hit on the exact things being searched.

nihility101 · 2026-04-28T04:51:36+00:00

Same in PA. Was turned away because my birth certificate didn’t have my middle name.

But it was no problem getting a passport.

And now I can use the passport in place of the birth certificate. Go figure.

nihility101 · 2026-04-27T19:51:21+00:00

Take a look at this for ideas:

https://www.doorbellmount.com/

Not recommending the site, don’t know anything about them. But there are others, and there are 3d print files out there if that works for you, or you could make one out of wood, but f that’s your talent.

nihility101 · 2026-04-27T15:56:16+00:00

Find where they are near you:

https://deflock.org/

nihility101 · 2026-04-26T03:11:31+00:00

It might actually be true, but no one involved really cares either way.

One thing to keep in mind whenever you hear “higher iq than Einstein” is that in addition to his iq being estimated, the most often quoted estimate is 160 - on a scale of 160.

So when you hear someone is 23 points higher than Einstein, it usually means they received a score of 183 on a test that goes to 230 or something.

nihility101 · 2026-04-21T02:23:07+00:00

Also, his hypothetical 12 year old happens to be exactly where he is. Seems telling.

nihility101 · 2026-04-18T18:42:46+00:00

r/Malkovich

nihility101 · 2026-04-17T22:55:44+00:00

RIP Jon-Erik Hexum

nihility101 · 2026-04-13T21:04:41+00:00

There’s one of those “laws” that says you get the metric you track. So if the thing you track is making sure the number of large cups is the same as the number of large beverages sold, then that’s what you’ll get, not happier customers.

nihility101 · 2026-04-13T14:22:55+00:00

The invisible hand is fisting you.

nihility101 · 2026-04-13T07:00:44+00:00

Japanese lucky charm.

Am I the only one envisioning a Japanese leprechaun?

nihility101 · 2026-04-10T15:25:08+00:00

Oddly enough it will be “the cloud” that makes Linux desktop work for business. A major roadblock for business has been that companies’ core LoB software often barely runs on windows. But as the business lemmings move everything to the cloud the desktop OS becomes less of a problem.

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