Now why’d you have to go and ban me from everything? grrrr

Zulip maybe?

The one thing that bugs me is having to look up whether periferals work with Linux. Still have odd issues with ones that work like Logitech mmo mouse I have to start Piper every time I log in pretty much to set the DPI. If I ever get around to buying something like a stream deck I’ll have to tripple check it will play nice. Not the end of the world, just little annoyances.

The only other things I miss are COD and LoL, honestly though with how toxic the communities are or can be idk that I’m missing anything of value just haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch yet.

The other jobs are: Military, Police, Postal Worker. I wouldn’t consider the first two under current circumstances, but I was in the Military, within 4 years my total monetary compensation was in the ballpark of 85k plus retirement, plus free healthcare.

Other options include working up to management in retail or food chains, it’s easier to make that kind of money than you are giving credit for.

So the reason it’s odd is that usually the Military is the last to leave an area if something is going down. Most military contractors aren’t actually fighting, they are handling logistics, IT, translation, and whatever repairs the big companies lobbied the government to make illegal for the military to do. As civilians generally doing the same kinds of work as civilians just in hostile territory they are typically paid quite highly, evacuated first and only return when things are quite stable. The Backwater folks are very much a minority and a completely different kettle of fish.

The main advantage for me is I can accelerate faster in a manual, automatics just can’t keep up out of the gate

I tried to always buy manuals, then I got married to someone who struggles with manuals. Now we have automatics sad times

You can do object detection, not generative stuff, at least not with anything resembling useful results

Budget desktops are and will remain effectively useless for AI not enough RAM, not enough GPU oomph. And cost more to run than they provide unless they are serving a static web page for a small business or something. Shill your bubble somewhere it could actually be utilized.

I tend to use rolling release because I tend to update my hardware with some regularity. Also I hate opening an app or a desktop environment and when I go looking for newly announced features they aren’t there within a day or two. Considering current hardware prices the latter has been my primary motivation last couple years.

This is true having talked to a few enlisted they are wary of re-enlisting when their contract is up. Anecdotal I guess but at least some people really don’t like where things are going.

Ah yes the masculine qualities of camping in the woods. Helping out the community, and doing crafts. Wait…

Since when is messing around in the outdoors, helping out in the community, and making things masculine?

Can’t wait to tell my mom she’s a man! And I’ll be sure to remind my dad who’s a lot more of a homebody and enjoys making experimental deserts he shoulda joined the girlscouts…

Values are masculine and feminine as perceived by society not as a result of any inherent “energy”. Let people do what they want and don’t force labels down their throats.

I’m currently running an evaluation of ProxMox in the lab to replace VMware. If I can iron out a couple issues and get sign off from the managers we’ll switch to that. While I’m at it will also try to replace Commvault with ProxMox Backup Server. Mostly a cost savings measure, doing my best to avoid a headcount reduction for my team, though that might have ended up being to little to late, will find out Friday.

While you’re at it, install dracut, faster than mkincipio

I initially started using it because I needed the newest drivers and back ports on Mint was taking to long, since then I’ve stuck with rolling release so I don’t have to deal with driver hell. I stick with Arch over say Debian Tumbleweed at this point mostly from momentum.

Did you point out TABOR does require a vote for all new taxes, to include ones that don’t affect everyone?

I tend to view telling someone what they can and can’t do as being possessive. Demanding monogamy is therefore possessive. It’s taking away agency not as bad or as possessive as saying you can’t have friends who are X. Which is probably the most commonly recognized form of such behavior, but it’s on the same continuum in my mind.

I don’t disagree necessarily, I would describe the woman who’s part of a different poly that we hook up with occasionally as a friend with benefits situation, though I’d be open to changing that dynamic if she was. But very much the stable and lasting poly relationships I’ve been in were effectively group dating. Like not to say there was never separate dates here and there, but very much most things are communal. I’m with you on barely having enough spoons to maintain the minimum required hygiene and meet general social expectations, I couldn’t handle a situation where I’m going on multiple dates with different people every week. Been there. Tried that. It wasn’t sustainable. But a core group where individual members just happen to have FWBs is perfectly manageable in my experience, though keeping track of paramours can be a pain since I’m really bad with names.

Having that close core group also comes with benefits such as someone almost always being available and even if not all interests are mutual you’ll share some with one, some with another, and a lot more time can be spent together with someone your close with working on projects or getting way to deep into philosophy or lore.

And to be clear I’m of the mind that people can be monogamous if they want, I just don’t get it. It feels to possessive and limiting. I don’t want to and literally can’t be someone’s everything and don’t expect any one other person to be my everything either. Probably helps no kids are involved nor can they become so biologically with who I’m currently with. Kids seem to complicate the fuck out of relationships from what I’ve seen. So at least in our case that can’t become a thing without mutual agreement. Not to say kids require monogamy, that’s not true, I’ve seen it work without that being the case, but only twice.

You really don’t need a lot of rules, I know a lot of people swear by stuff like relationship contracts and the like. But realistically that’s never been something I’ve pursued and that does seem incredibly overwhelming. Current relationship the rules are as follows: don’t bring STDs home, don’t bring people over during normal sleeping hours without approval, preferably a couple days of notice; and don’t become emotionally unavailable otherwise it’s not really a relationship. That’s it.

No conspiracy, let me shed some light. First, open and poly relationships don’t work if anyone involved is especially possessive. I don’t mean like a little jealous, or slightly insecure (that can be worked through) I mean one person expects a fair bit of say over one or multiple others lives.

Assuming you now only have a pool of a few reasonably well adjusted emotionally people (well adjusted socially is nice but not requisite) you can now just have N people agree they like each other and want to be together, but like occasionally hook up outside the group either under some arbitrary rule such as being in different zip codes from everyone else or just in general so long as proper precautions are taken. You have a core group of N people who are emotionally and financially intertwined and N+X people who happen to have all hooked up.

It’s a fine system, have almost never been monogamous, and it’s just like the times I was monogamous except no one is going to be upset about random hookups unless there was a generally accepted rule broken. I also personally find a core group of N=3 to be the roughly ideal number, but everyone’s mileage will vary.

Though I suspect that societal normalization will be informed by the economic situation. The reality is if you can’t afford to live without 3 incomes everyone will eventually organize around 3 person core households and society will defend the new tradition or whatever.

Of course somewhere in there a lot of people have to give up on religious and social hangups but that’s already in progress if the number of articles like this coming out is steadily increasing (it is)