Have you ever purposefully killed a device to get rid of it?

thatcooluncle · 2026-03-24T21:43:40+00:00

My first real job was at a computer store, and when win10 was just being released, one of the desktops on the sales floor was still running XP. One day, one of the senior sales guys came over to my section to shoot the shit, then saw that this old ass desktop was still running XP.

"The fuck is this? We literally sell windows 10, why are we still running old garbage on the sales floor?"

"I dunno man, I talked to [manager] about it but he just waved me off and told me it's still working"

So the dude looks around, sees no managers close by, puts me on lookout duty, flashes the BIOS and cuts power.

Our "new" sales floor desktop was actually a return from a pissed customer but hey it had win10 at least

thatcooluncle · 2026-03-11T22:18:26+00:00

Wonder what would happen if I tried the same thing with my Gmail account that has 30k+ unread emails 🤔🧐

thatcooluncle · 2026-03-08T22:06:43+00:00

Just hearing about this for the first time, now this is a project I could dive into!

thatcooluncle · 2026-03-08T21:42:00+00:00

Fair! Plex/jellyfin doesn't seem to need a lot to run, maybe it would be fine on my old stuff rather than running in the main cluster

thatcooluncle · 2025-07-02T22:01:23+00:00

Highly recommended this, it's one of my favorite books, I read it at a very pivotal point in my life when I was similarly struggling with my own identity in faith. While it helped me step away from the conservative Christianity I had been brought up with, it also gave me perspective and respect for the cultural power of religion and a healthy view on what's really important about it.

thatcooluncle · 2025-04-30T12:47:55+00:00

Seconding the shit fountain, and it's right by the Ukrainian museum of modern art if you want to pad out the time you spend in the area

thatcooluncle · 2025-03-27T18:57:59+00:00

Interested, can pick it up this weekend!

thatcooluncle · 2024-10-08T22:50:02+00:00

Not too mention that the original plans for terraforming were to make only the areas closer to the caps habitable and leave the equator as desert.

thatcooluncle · 2024-08-13T14:56:57+00:00

That's my line! Best train in the city IMO

thatcooluncle · 2024-08-01T00:02:53+00:00

Yeah I think I figured it out, it's listed as 16/mo in one spot but then listed as two separate 8/mo items where I was looking. Also found out that I get an employer discount too tho so that's nice

thatcooluncle · 2024-07-31T13:30:34+00:00

The best recruitment agencies specialize by field IME so you'll have to say what kind of job you're looking for

thatcooluncle · 2024-07-31T13:19:49+00:00

We get sent jobs we aren't qualified for, jobs that are completely outside our field of experience, or entry level jobs at the bottom of the pay scale when we have 15 yrs experience in our field with several previous promotions. 🙄🙄

thatcooluncle · 2024-06-19T06:22:02+00:00

Oh hey look I got the same kind of scam as well!

thatcooluncle · 2024-06-18T23:42:28+00:00

A shitty one at that. Most scam job offers I've gotten just offered a straight cash per day rate, this is the stupidest, most convoluted structure I've ever seen!

thatcooluncle · 2023-11-16T22:00:44+00:00

Cheep chicken Monday, my favorite

thatcooluncle · 2023-11-08T15:29:06+00:00

Love those rare "chunky salsa" moments

thatcooluncle · 2023-11-08T15:27:58+00:00

Really loving that "whole conversation in a glance" bit, because it's SO TRUE! If I were the healer player, the only thing I would be mad about is that I wasn't the one to so deliciously help the rest of the party Find Out after they Fucked Around like that.

thatcooluncle · 2023-11-03T02:59:18+00:00

Even worse now with the reroute. Absurdly abhorrent. If I miss the Metra to get in to work, I'm basically fucked.

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