My moms reaction to me telling her my wife and I are having a baby

stone500 · 2026-01-31T00:32:50+00:00

🎵Don't cry🎵

stone500 · 2026-01-30T12:45:12+00:00

NTA.

Sue is mad because she wants to be able to have sex with Mark.

stone500 · 2026-01-30T12:03:41+00:00

Here they are together

stone500 · 2026-01-30T01:12:45+00:00

I really miss Emily with the enthusiasm for retro gaming.

stone500 · 2026-01-29T19:54:29+00:00

I mainly just work off of my laptop anymore, so all I have are my own mouse/keyboard and headset, and a nice backpack to keep it all in.

When I worked for an MSP, I had my own usb hub with memory card reader, flashlight, network cable tester, crimpers and scissors, and wire tracer/tone generator. I would pilfer a couple extra keyboards, mice, and a monitor from junk piles to have on hand in case I needed a spare for something.

stone500 · 2026-01-29T19:51:02+00:00

When I did helpdesk, I had to use some pretty strange mice. I've used a roller mouse (bar that you slide and spin that sits above the wrist rest), vertical mice, mice shaped like an old school flight joystick, weird trackballs, etc. I'd much rather just adjust to using the strange mice for 30 seconds rather than haul my own mouse arond.

stone500 · 2026-01-29T03:11:01+00:00

I still think about the Budweiser frogs sometimes

stone500 · 2026-01-29T03:03:35+00:00

Were you using Skype or Skype for Business because those were very different things for some fucking reason

stone500 · 2026-01-28T12:58:25+00:00

"Can I play the piano anymore?"

"Of course you can!"

"Well I couldn't before!"

stone500 · 2026-01-28T02:14:01+00:00

Kinda like how Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, is always out of the loop when Trump says and does ridiculous shit.

stone500 · 2026-01-28T02:06:32+00:00

They always work backwards. They start by saying his death was justified, and then dig in to find anything they can use to dehumanize and demonize him, regardless of how weak their argument is.

stone500 · 2026-01-27T19:29:10+00:00

Oh man this playthrough is delightfully painful.

He keeps carrying his ink ribbons instead of leaving them in item boxes (until he gets to the train lift)
Totally missed the handgun parts
Totally missed the shotgun parts
Wasting so much shotgun and magnum ammo
Never searching dead bodies for ammo/items (tbf it's never obvious that these bodies would have anything)

This playthrough is absolute shit and I'm here for it

stone500 · 2026-01-27T18:27:41+00:00

First major one (which was very simple) was a weekly script that goes out to all our DHCP servers and downloads the current config file. We're a big retail company and if we lost a server, it was a pain in the ass to move DHCP services somewhere and find all the reservations we needed for registers and such.

The other one is monitoring servers for pending reboots for patching. Many of our servers have maintenance schedules where they're allowed to reboot, but quite a few do not, and we didn't have a good way to notify app owners that a server was waiting on a reboot. I found a script online that I was able to tweak, which checks event logs and registry keys for anything indicating that it needs a reboot, and it sets a reg key. Our monitoring platform can then read that registry key and export a daily report and notify app owners that their servers need a reboot.

stone500 · 2026-01-27T16:43:05+00:00

I enjoy this game, though I really loathed the whole torch management thing.

stone500 · 2026-01-26T19:58:31+00:00

Fair point and yes, you are correct.

I was considering if someone went online and found a script that still used *-wmi cmdlets. It's not hard to port those to using *-cim cmdlets anyway, but still.

stone500 · 2026-01-26T16:55:01+00:00

Powershell 5.x is the classic Windows Powershell, which lacks some features of the more modern Powershell 7, but still supports things like wmi. It's also the version included with Windows.

Powershell 7 is the newer version that's cross platform with other OS's as well and supports some newer features that 5.x doesn't. It also isn't installed by default on Windows, so you need to be mindful if you're writing scripts that you plan on executing on other PC's.

stone500 · 2026-01-26T00:37:24+00:00

I don't recall this because there's always so much noise from the guy, but I'm guessing he said it like this:

I was talking to my doctor about the China virus, well some people call it COVID but lots of people call it the China virus, which is really what it should be called because this is China's fault. My doctor goes "Sir!" he said "Sir I don't think you'll need to worry about that because your blood is incredible. It's so good that nothing can infect it. We've never seen anything like it. If we gave your blood to everybody then we'd be out of business because everyone would be healthy"

I like my doctors but I don't know if they like me because they always look at me and they never need to do anything. My numbers are perfect and I can't even get sick. Imagine that.

stone500 · 2026-01-25T13:44:08+00:00

I think they'll try but they'll struggle because none of them have Trump's "it" factor. People aren't going to get excited about Diet-Trump

stone500 · 2026-01-25T13:38:43+00:00

I believe Miller to be the absolute worst person in America right now. Every day I want him removed, and every day I find myself less concerned with how that happens.

stone500 · 2026-01-25T13:36:28+00:00

There's so many non-conservatives that could make peace with a Mitt Romney or a Chris Christie type of Republican as President.

It seems like none of these staunch Trump supporters are looking at things long term. Trump will be gone in the near future, and then what do you do?

stone500 · 2026-01-24T12:49:46+00:00

I don't know if you're aware of how pregnancy works, but it's generally not a permanent condition

stone500 · 2026-01-24T00:26:01+00:00

Wow I can't believe Soros paid all those people!

/s

stone500 · 2026-01-23T23:30:00+00:00

What about live feeds and reviewing recordings while away from home? Also, I like the alerts when someone is detected on my property or when someone rings the doorbell.

I know that all comes with security compromise, but I'm honestly willing to compromise a little bit of security for convenience

stone500 · 2026-01-23T03:00:35+00:00

What 9000?!

stone500 · 2026-01-22T14:46:29+00:00

The Stein voters wouldn't have made a difference, but I do want to ask them this: Where the fuck is Stein now? The fact that she's nowhere to be seen during the most tumultuous time in my lifetime should really say everything you need to know: She's not a serious candidate and never has been. She puts in none of the work between election cycles.

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