I worked in high end (food/event)service but my employer at the time had very diverse partnerships, one of them was offering this service and had the programmers themselves be present at the auctions too. But then they grew and couldn't fill all requests and we struck a partnership. I fit right in because of my above average IT knowledge in comparison with other service colleagues.
There's a ton of offline"-online" auction services now a day, live bidding whatever you call it. You could google a couple of them inform them of your interest.
The job itself was fun, so many objects I had never seen before! Very cool. It was also stressful, auctioning is live and sometimes the lot being auctioned off is worth a lot. Super fun to see your live-auction-system shit itself right in the middle of a 3 way bidding war
I worked at auctions, being the offline 'online' buyer, so people could use me as an in person bidder for that online platform. I saw a 3500 800 ish year old tiny Aztec sculpture go for 260 euro, around 2015. I was like, do I need to call the cops? What is happening?
Second for BotW emulation, if you haven't played that yet. I took the emulation opportunity to set max_durability of all items at 400% with a helper program. Frick that noise, hahaha.
It's so great, just like: where are shared albums now? Hidden deeper, ofc that doesn't deserve its own tab, but look this activity stream is super NEW.
Well, reading this and the rest of this thread, I can't think of anything else. Since you ruled out pretty much everything else, I would now put my money on one of the parts shorted during cleaning.. anecdotally I've heard parts dying by shorting them with your fingers, but it never happened to me, so that would be pretty unlucky.
Last time I did a cleaning of a particularly dusty system, a dustbunny flew in the PCI-e port without us noticing (it was dark and circumstances were not ideal). With the GPU Re-inserted, that was enough for the system to behave similarly to yours, but you re-seated everything so... That would eliminate this as a possibility.
You could share a photo of the current situation, a top down of the mobo? Eliminate chances you are missing something by secondary means(as opposed to just text)?
Hello from a neighboring country. Never had a cop try to escalate a situation. Not every interaction was my view of a good conversation, but during all of them i felt safe.
It's definitely real, however improbable, and I can empathize with your anxiety. It just feels to me that we do not have any real 'options', so pondering the looming doom is feels pointless and luckily I am able to refrain from it.
Does it even matter if it's real? If you assume it's real and combine that with the fact that Russian leadership is completely cooked through and crazy irrational, how would you even 'be careful' when the other party is proven to be chaotic evil.
Fantastic! I'm reducing my dependency on for profit entities every day, and federation is a great means to that end. Let's welcome those moving over during the exodus!
It's a pretty funny picture, but why would the bad folk get to go in the cave? It feels to me that most caves would have been highly desirable locations back then.
Being sentient but mortal feels pretty unfair.