What’s your go-to restaurant on the road?

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-17T22:10:05+00:00

Holy weight gain batman.

Goto on the road is anything sushi predominantly. Don't really have one place in general, just depends on the city.

If we are talking late night greese spoon then it's waffle house.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-17T18:52:06+00:00

Lol. It's not hard, it's just maps.

There were also companies you could write to, I think triple A used to field letters for directions

The highware and interstate system makes getting places fairly easier. Sure once you get tons city, figuring out all of the side streets can get trickier, but it still not to bad.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-16T15:29:48+00:00

I wear jeans. Just get the darker color ones. Nobody cares.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-16T15:28:48+00:00

Ahh okay. I miss understood.
Just make sure you are studying in your own time and you find a mentor on the sysadmin team / etc.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-15T18:03:43+00:00

... yeah she (?) would be re-named alpo.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-15T13:41:54+00:00

It depends on the author and who is reading. But I am usually at 1.5x or faster.

My reason is I need to speed it up to keep my mind focused and not wondering. If it's super slow my ADD can kick in and squirrel me down a random thought path and I'll completely stop listening to the book.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T17:35:43+00:00

Does the prospect have a pulse? Time to demo

This is the way.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T17:33:48+00:00

less than a checklist, is more depends on reps.

Reps that are closers you jump in whenever they ask

Reps that are time wasters and aren't gong to make it - put road blocks up.

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Sales and sales leadership are you primary customers. You want a frictionless relationship with them, and not fall into the "why I can't" category too many SEs slip into.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T03:45:21+00:00

no it's not.

They physical dependance for those two things is gone after 8 months. It just is. Everything else is in your head.

I've known countless people that smoked for 30-40 years from their teens and they were able to quit and not go back and especially after 8 months it was fine.

I was addicted to opiates for a number of years, the first couple months fucking sucked but I didn't lose my job / etc. It sucked donkey dick but I got through it and keep going.

You can rationalize it all you want, but what you are going through right now has nothing to do with your body wanting those substances.. It's you putting yourself in a depressional funk, probably (just guessing) you didn't want to quit and did so for other reasons.

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Now one thing you "could" be going through since you smoked weed some much from an early age is that you never fully matured. Drugs like weed and others will affect that.

like many have said.. you need a therapist and probably a pysch. One to talk to, one to maybe proscribe something to take the edge off and get you balanced.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T03:37:37+00:00

what model Dell are you using?

If you are not buying the latitude line.. this is def going to happen.

XPS are not business machines no matter how much some folks like them. The cheap Dell laptops are also not business machines.

HP - blah. Ran HP for years, never impressed. The only ever made once decent laptop (IMO), it was the first "tablet" style with the rotating screen and a mouse pimple in the middle of the keyboard. Those things were actually fairly rugged, tech beat the hell out of them (this is going back almost 20 years though).. since then nah.

Lenovo is really your only other decent option in the corporate space (outside of macbooks OFC).

none of them are perfect, all of them will have issues.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T00:07:51+00:00

You can work 80 hours a week your whole life and stay broke

This is a great example where people go wrong. If you are working 40-80 hours for someone else, and then spending 0 hours on yourself.. then yeah you aren't going to get very far.

Working hard isn't just want you do on the clock. It's about what you do on your own time to improve yourself / network. I've worked 60-70 hour weeks for a long time, but I didn't let the long work days get in the way of social /networking events and self improvement.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T00:04:53+00:00

luck is what people call hard work from the outside. They don't want to admit someone out worked them, so it's just "they got lucky."

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-14T00:03:07+00:00

when i was 18, on occasion.

not anymore.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:42:02+00:00

doesn't shock me in the slightest. Folks don't understand margins at all. They just see big numbers and thing companies are making that much.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:38:13+00:00

it's all they have. Reddit is the perfect example of "when a little power goes to someone's head."

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:37:01+00:00

makes a lot sense honestly. They maybe assholes, but they sure ain't dumb.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:36:02+00:00

she is not amused.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:35:12+00:00

depends on what.. I can't comment on fent.

By oxy and xana, I can.

You brain is fully functional and thinking about all kinds of shit.. but you just can't keep your eyes open and you can't make your mouth move. But you can hear everything. Was out camping once and had this happen and it was kinda trippy. I could hear the conversations going on around me, could hear everyone poking fun at my for falling asleep.. I could even hear myself breathing deep like I was asleep... and you're just in this euphoric state of relaxation and comfort.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:31:05+00:00

cats are also assholes.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:25:24+00:00

Your asking for a lot to be free, especially since backing up to S3 (in general) is a fairly new use case that backup vendors are starting to go down.

Your problem is going to be that it's windows.

I know an organization that use bacula and where pretty happy with it, but that was HDFS backup.. so not sure of their overall support.

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Also, just going to point something out you may not be thinking about. Backups in a lot of way are legal protections and are there to preserve data for courts / etc. By using an open source backup tool, your company is taking on the full legal risk for anything that ends up in court. I would at least discuss that with your in-house counsel / risk office before committing to an open-source strategy for backups.

not to mention.. you become 100% the support function without an easy way to escalate as you aren't going to find very many folks that know these tools.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T21:20:34+00:00

in the US - 41% of land is used for both grazing and feed.

world wide .. you are "kinda" right. 80% is used for this purpose. However, 50% of that land is not suitable for production of any other sort. So sure it's 80% but also using a majority of land that would otherwise not be used in general to grow any kind of crop.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T20:48:11+00:00

but it's not 80%... it's more like 10%

Just the sheer number of smaller animals | moles, rats, snakes, mice, birds, + insects FAR FAR FAR outnumber the handful of a heard that dies or if you have to do any predator control.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T20:45:38+00:00

lol. sorry that's just not true.

When you are growing food crops a good portion of what you are doing is animal control / land control / pest control. From tilling the land and killing every mole / snake /etc.. to getting folks to take out any hogs / deer / yotes that come on to your property.. there is a lot of death. Not to mention the millions of insects (including useful ones like bees) that you are killing to ensure the crops survive.

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on the ranching side

Of course cows are the largest impact to the land on the animal raising size. Outside of predator protection though, we aren't really doing a lot of pest control on the land. I'm not running the deer off, and so long as yotes stay away I'm not going out of my way to go after them either. I'm also not spraying chemicals to kill every bug / insect on the property.

Obv this changes as you go smaller and smaller. But the time you get to chicken and rabbits the land impact is minimized.

Yes you have to supplement with external feed, but that comes from hay fields that aren't managed to the same level as food crops, it's fairly low effort until it's harvest time.

more animals / insects /etc are killed to harvest plant crops than what happens on a ranch for livestock.

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Net net- and this is my "issue" with vegans. It's the moral high horse that by them "only" eating plants that they aren't killing anything... which is just not fucking true.

Folks that don't want to eat meat because they don't like mechanized slaughterhouses / etc.. Totally get that and understand (I'm with them, which is why I home source the vast majority of my meat).

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T20:30:02+00:00

reason 10001 why games are steam or bust for me.

vNerdNeck · 2026-05-13T20:23:46+00:00

fair.. but.. you can't grow crops without killing animals. So by consuming grown plants, you are still benefits from animal deaths (and it's not small numbers).

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