Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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The oldest vehicle I've owned, a 2004 Ford escape couldn't even make it to 17 years old. The axle snapped due to rust damage. Road salt is so terrible for vehicles, roads and the environment

Once I realized that the comic was not actually about geochemistry, same. Took me way longer than I want to admit to put 2 and 2 together there

Tech nerds (myself included) forget just how little the normal person even cares about computers, let alone how they work.

Relevant XKCD

Personally, I think setting up a reverse proxy for accessing Jellyfin would be fine, just make sure you've got your firewall setup accordingly to limit exposure should someone gain access to the container/VM running Jellyfin

Don't forget while sitting in the oval office trump tweeted about how something that was hurting him was a "deep state conspiracy"

Oh the best part is it was all to fix a problem on Microsoft SharePoint. Not even on-prem SharePoint!

Yeah Powershell has way more weird limitations than Bash but it's way better than using cmd.exe

I actually had to do that due to something preventing me from upgrading to Powershell 7 on my workstation. Adapted my script for Linux and ran it in Powershell in Linux

As an administrator, powershell is an essential tool these days. There are tunables that Microsoft simply only exposes via powershell even in their cloud Microsoft 365 environments. Just last month I had to rely on Powershell to trim previous versions on SharePoint, and 2 weeks ago I had to use Powershell to adjust a parameter on Exchange.

But also being able to pop a Powershell session and quickly apply a registry fix or run a diagnostic command or even just install a piece of software without disrupting a user's work is absolutely brilliant (plus saves a call when I can just email back and say "I've pushed it remotely, reboot and it should be sorted now")

I have one friend who uses the R word and insists it's to reclaim the term, but they almost exclusively use it in a self-degrading manner. They seem to be the only one in their circle that uses the word, and they've had lively arguments over whether or not it's a word to reclaim. I've stayed out of it but when the only person I've encountered who says they're trying to reclaim a slur seems to be using it to degrade themselves, I question if it's worth even trying to reclaim. It's just a word, let it be entirely forgotten to the sands of time like "forsooth" and any other words I don't know because they've left virtually all people's lexicons

Building off of this, the PDF standard supports all sorts of craziness. It can have embedded math and logic similar to excel files, to the point there's templates available for banks which will automatically calculate entire loans (including weird ones like balloon mortgages and variable interest rate stuff) without leaving Adobe Reader, and the recent Doom PDF and Linux PDF projects exploit the fact that pdfs support embedded javascript.

There's also an actual market for enterprise PDF templates like the banking ones I described with automatic calculations and whatnot. So some people literally make their living selling PDFs to businesses that businesses actually use

I used it briefly in a class around 2015ish. It worked about as well as any Adobe software does, but honestly it was really difficult to use and quite frankly it probably would take just as long to learn the HTML and CSS skills necessary to make a decent website as it would to learn how to make one in Dreamweaver

10 miles is about 1 hour's bike ride or 2-3 hours of walking. There's a reason rural America has a town every 20 miles or so, that's about half a day's travel by foot, or one can feasibly go to the next town, do something that takes a while and return back by horse or bike within a day

Wait they're talking on the phone in the classroom during a lecture? That's messed up. I can't say I've encountered that either of the times I've gone to college.

Maybe you could pull the individual aside after a class that they've disrupted and ask them nicely to step out of they get an important call? Then of course if that doesn't help you could escalate by speaking with the instructor about your concern

The part that's wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls

Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you're just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it's really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.

About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM

I'm guessing one piece but I don't know enough to know if that's correct

At least you didn't accidentally quote Hammerhead

"So you can all hide behind your desks now And you can cry teacher come help me Through you all, my aim is true"

Brilliant song and it's cool hearing Dexter perform unclean vocals but also it can be too easily interpreted as aggrandizing school shootings

I mean in a situation where you truly can do nothing, giving the masses something to do at least makes them feel slightly less powerless

Also duck and cover would have been effective for some of the earliest nuclear bombs, just not the ones developed a few years later

In college you're all adults who are there by choice to learn. But also many students are fresh out of highschool so it's a fine line colleges have to walk between respecting ones rights and keeping the student body in order (and not letting the bad decisions of individuals become the reputation of the institution)

Adults can make a decision about if a phone call is important or not, if they need to dip out early or not, etc.

But yeah it's kinda wild the hard shift in responsibility from being a minor to being an adult and ideally there'd be better transition for kids as they cross that threshold

When I was in school smartphones were kinda a thing but it was still early iPhone/Android days. The general practice was a powered off phone on one's person is fine, but phones that are in use/ringing could be confiscated for the remainder of the period. I think that was because the school didn't have a good method to handle too many confiscated phones in a day