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Trainguyrom

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  • Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

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  • Yeah my recent IT experience is similar. I redeployed monitors that had "vista-ready" badges on them during the monitor shortages of 2021-2 I've replaced so many of those analogue to digital adapters (usually because the computer only has 1 digital output and 2 displays to drive, or 1 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort but the displays only support HDMI and I only have VGA to HDMI adapters, etc.)

    The challenge simply comes down to the fact that displays tend to last so much longer than the computers they're connected to. Heck my wife is using my decade old 1080p monitors because they were an upgrade over the even older 720p monitors she had before which may well find themselves mated up to my kids' new computer

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • I mean it would be very space efficient to build such a space on some of where the parking lot is. A smallish parking space is 8'x16' so take 3 spaces, assuming each pod needs an exterior space of 4x8, stacked 2 high you can easily fit at least 32 pods in just 3 parking spaces with enough space leftover for hallway and a communal kitchen or something. They already have a public bathroom and shower facility so they'd only need the sleeping space and some communal recreation space that they can keep open 24/7 for their students staying in the pods

  • If you automated 95% of your job, but still had to report to an office/cubicle, what would you do with your (40hrs)time?

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  • I see lots of people suggesting non-work things, but that gets old fast and depending on your work environment can be stressful as you might get caught "not working"

    I'd be trying to take on new projects. Start by getting to know your coworkers. If you have other people in your department, talk to them about what they're working on, things they'd like to see done. If you're the lone person in your area of work you could alternatively walk the floor and start talking to anyone who could be the stakeholder for a future project. Learn what their pain points are, where the current practices have blindspots.

    You mentioned being a safety admin, I'm guessing that's industrial safety right? Start looking into whatever the current buzzwords are in the industrial safety field and make it a project you take to your boss and try to get funding. Find ways to improve the current processes and data tracking. If you don't already use a fancy incident tracking system outside of Excel, start doing some research and getting some numbers from vendors and have a chat with your boss about how using an actual purpose built database can improve compliance (that's about 70% of my duties right now is managing and configuring my organization's SAAS risk management database, but we also have ~10k workers in the field so it's highlighting useful data points in the data we've already collected primarily)

    Unless your position is stuck below a manager with zero flexibility for process improvement, there's always new projects to be discovered and started to improve existing processes

  • If you automated 95% of your job, but still had to report to an office/cubicle, what would you do with your (40hrs)time?

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  • I know there’s already too much content on the Web

    No such thing!

  • If you automated 95% of your job, but still had to report to an office/cubicle, what would you do with your (40hrs)time?

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  • I've had good luck sharing my own interests instead. A few years ago I got super into watching SpaceX's rocket launches because it's honestly spectacular and they know how to do a really good livestream, plus watching the booster come back from orbit and softly touchdown is pretty incredible (I've had a hard time enjoying the live streams since Musk's involvement with Trump of course)

    But popping over to a coworker and going "hey there's a rocket launch in 2 minutes, wanna take 8 minutes and watch it with me?" is a brilliant ice breaker

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  • When my wife and I first moved in together she was an avid Markiplier watcher, and we watched all of his first? 24 hour stream. At like 3am he opened up probably way more than he wanted to and talked about how he struggles with interpersonal relationships, and how he always ends up pushing people away, as well as his incredibly unhealthy work ethic and I honestly can't remember the rest but he basically described how he always tries to portray himself very differently from how he is in reality, even in private with friends. Ever since then I can see it where he really does seem to always be playing a character of some sort (and the character definitely does change at times), plus people he's collabed with and referred to as friends seem to eventually disappear (except for Ethan, he seems to be the one who's always stuck through it all)

    Basically he's got some demons that I really hope he's been able to find healthier ways to cope with

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  • Big Clive might fill that gap for you. He does teardowns of dodgey electronics, and remains extremely down to earth, making good commentary about cost effectiveness and energy efficiency. For a while recently he was on a kick of trying to reverse engineer every single LED light bulb design and show how to modify them to run the LEDs less hard making them last much longer and run more efficiently (with reduced light output of course)

    He also uploaded a video without warning describing his experience caring for his mother as she passed from Alzheimers. That video with his down to earth way of describing things really helped me to better understand dementia not long before I had family members start declining from dementia

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  • I still don’t understand why he closed his AirBNB mountain bike retreat.

    He described in his move out video feeling it was morally dubious to have perfectly good housing stock as an AirBnB when someone could be living there.

    Like I get it, I'm at the point where I'm starting to look at long term investments and long term financial planning and having a small ADU or second home starts looking real smart really quick especially if you can cover the costs by renting it out or putting it on AirBnB, but you also have to consider the moral aspects.

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  • Dude when they first launched Channel Super Fun it was like frat bro style activities they were engaging in that you'd be hard pressed to get HR to sign off on. I remember they basically kept dogging on one of their first work permit holders who was working on immigrating. I think his name was Dennis? Like yeah he clearly was straight out of college and lacked life skills but holy shit they took it way past playful teasing, and that's just what happened on camera that they felt fine to post.

  • Meet Pumpkin 1 of the 4 new strays under my care

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  • You actually got a photo of a kitten where it was standing still?!

  • Meet Pumpkin 1 of the 4 new strays under my care

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  • My parents got a young bonded pair of cats from the shelter. One died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart issue, the other refused to accept the next new cat they took in. Right now the plan is that my grandmother's cats will go live with my parents if they survive until she enters full time nursing care (which at this point the cats are looking like they'll outlast her despite being an older bonded pair when she adopted them) I'm concerned for what the social hierarchy will look like if/when that happens

  • Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year

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  • So honest question, what is everyone's hopes with the increase in Linux desktop use?

    Like when I think about it the only thing I really care about is that I have decent hardware/driver support and holdouts for anti-cheat give up on requiring other operating systems (mostly so that my wife and eldest child stop complaining that I can't play Fortnite with them) as well as other random stuff that flat-out blocks use with Linux and requires either extra configuration or to keep a spare computer around with Windows.

    Basically I hope that Linux can be where MacOS was about a decade ago, a second platform that vendors are aware of and will put in some amount of effort in to support (and will be clear about limitations/lack of support otherwise) and it won't be as weird to employers or schools if you have a preference for the platform

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • There's a huge fucking difference between a 20 year old (giving DiCaprio 5 years with the individual before they turn 25) and a 14 year old. A 14 year old has only just developed the ability to think about matters in a non-binary (as in not purely bad or purely good for example) manner, a 20 year old has been able to think that way for nearly a decade. Ones decision making skills are decidedly very poor before about age 25 as the brain is still developing, and that development is still occuring at a breakneck pace at 14 where by 20 it's slowed significantly. Even if you just look at the years that's like saying an 8 year old is basically the same as a 14 year old which is obviously not the case.

    Now, it's definitely kinda weird for someone to go for a 20 year old in their 40s. Having a 25 year age gap between you and your partner is honestly some level of weird at any life stage, but at least by 20 they're an adult legally and mentally. Anyone over the age of 20 is generally able to understand the risks and consequences of their actions, and while some amount of mistakes are understandable both due to poor decision-making skills and lack of life experiences, it's nowhere near as drastic as a 14 year old left to their own devices

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • this might not sound like a lot, but the age of puberty has decreased by about 2 years since 1900 and probably more since the medieval age

    That's a terrifying and incredible thing to learn. I wonder what the cause of this change is. When did it start and when will it end? Its a stat that raises so many fascinating population-scale questions!

  • Upwards mobility

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  • I'd ask if you're at my work, but this is an amount of organizational improvement that they haven't yet been able to begin

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  • I knew a family growing up who'd check out movies from the library instead of Blockbuster usually, and as DVDs became more relevant they kept going for VHS tapes because they were less likely to be scratched to unreadability. I can't remember how much my family went for VHS tapes vs DVDs but it may have been purely based on availability. I do however remember my dad had a strong preference for widescreen despite our setup letterboxing widescreen films (like most home theaters of the day) and quite a few times being sent back to swap the full screen release I grabbed for the wide screen one

    For any young'uns reading, in the early 2000s with broadcasters shifting from transmitting a 4:3 image to a 16:9 image, home media soon followed but since many people didn't yet have hardware supporting widescreen, fullscreen releases typically had the edges chopped off to fit in a 4:3 aspect ratio while widescreen saw less cropping compared to the version seen in theatres, but then for older home theatre hardware that only knows 4:3 video formats it would have black bars on the top and bottom whereas fullscreen would of course fill a 4:3 screen

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  • I mean, you'd lose most of the Appalachian Mountains which as one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world means losing a ton of ancient fossils that helped piece together the biological history of Earth. I'd also be curious how the glaciers would be impacted given how heavily they shaped much of North America

    You also lose several major cities including Toronto and St Louis, Canada loses most of its habitable land (assuming the climate isn't significantly impacted by the existence of a second Mediterranean Sea, which it definitely would be) Chicago is going to be quite different but probably an even more important port city in such a world. Las Vegas is now a port city, so probably less casinos and more just major city. My wife would be sad because the Quad Cities (a metro area on the Iowa/Illinois border) wouldn't exist and she really likes that area. I'd be sad because the Mississippi River would be much short and therefore way less cool. But it's a really wild concept that gets crazier the more you think about it

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  • We have ways of making you pronounce the letter O

  • PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup

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  • Would a safety deposit box at a bank be an appropriate option for your off-site backups?