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RE: office chairs…. You could spend a shit ton of money or…. You could totes cheap out and replace them every 4-6 months.

I WFH and use my office for other things as well. My ass is in that chair 60-70 hours a week, in a weird position that’s comfy to me but no chair is designed to support.

The padding isn’t the issue. I can always throw a pillow too thin to sleep on under my butt. The hydraulic cylinder is the issue.

Give me a hard chair that stays at a constant fucking height with no effort any day. Padding I can fix, but if I’m constantly at weird and non ergonomic levels with little control that’s a real problem.

Context, I’m actively typing much of my day on the kb directly in front of me, and jumping back to the keyboard at around 45 degrees to the left any chance I get.

Think the DSM term for that is “harmless self-delusion” bc ain’t nobody throwing that sock away. Goes in the laundry hamper, and we repeat the ciiircle of…. Oh wait. You know what i mean.

Standing my instance up was painless af. Docker blah blah, tweak my nginx, update dns, throw an autorenew LE cert in front of it, and that’s about the extent of it.

Sure ya could get more fancy but for my needs and single user env, that’s about all there is to it.

I run my own instance (behind basic auth and some other stuff) and default my phone and personal boxes to it.

I fall back to DDG on work machines (no reason to even hypo risk exposing personal search hist to my corp IT folks) but otherwise I’ve little reason to use anything else.

Reverse phone search kind of sucks, but I can live with that.

None of the engines SXNG hits would meet my needs individually, but a quick skim of the well-ordered results (which by default note the source) generally gets me what i want in first page.

If not, it’s a cue that either my search terms are crap, or I need to narrow further.

Pure internet gold. No personal need atm but dropped it in shiori for future ref.

That would be a meaningful improvement. I moved - basically sight unseen - a year ago to a new town. Day one I needed every bit of turn by turn. Now, if I’m headed to any of the four or five places I bother to go, I just set up the map as a CYA and a simple “yep, make that turn you’re planning on” would be sufficient.

Then there’s a 90 minute trip i make every two weeks, that I know fairly well but not like I’d know a daily drive. The first hour is “Jump on 74 west, take exit for 57 south, and go a ways”. That part I have down cold obv.

After I get onto hwy 36 tho, damned if I can remember where the (poorly marked) left turn onto CR 1300 is.

Better still would be an adaptive mode. Leave me tf alone with my CCR playlist until I’m within a couple miles of that poorly marked turn. THEN help me out with a gentle reminder.

The hour or so of instructions prior to that point are wasted and would be pretty easy for AI to figure out I don’t need help on that part.

Yes. Both.

No harm enjoying a distro and being stable.

I’m a fan of Arch and derivatives but I need better odds of shit just working. Been running Mankato on desktop for some time to get both stable ish packages and also AUR as/where needed.

For servers, it’s Debian all the way for me. Ubuntu does some things I don’t personally love - no offense to the distro, it’s well constructed - and the recent ish changes in the RPM world didn’t sit well with me - strictly personal opinion.

Anything in a container generally runs on whatever the image was built with. It’s only a minimal pain to port simple dockerfiles, but when you get into multiple linked containers, that risks edge case bugs down the road.

Honestly, between the lot of it, I use a pretty representative sample - I think alpine on desktop would be kind of pointless to say the least, doesn’t mean I’m going to forego any container built on it.

Use case is a huge factor here, as is ability to grok multiple distros concurrently. I find that easy, but plenty of people don’t. For them, maybe rebuilding that image makes more sense.

Linux is all about doing what works for you and your use case.

FWIW, pacman doesn’t resonate nearly as well as pamac does with me. Probably because I haven’t had to dive deep into it. All about what works for an individual. If that’s stability on an Ubuntu derivative, great - Linux is Linux, in that context.

I work for a MS shop. I tolerate it because they provide the machine (as they damn well should in any case!)

In my personal world, I’m Linux across the board - couldn’t pay me enough to a) own securing RDP on a win box or b) use IIS.

Is Linux perfect? Nope. Never suggested otherwise. But in the areas that matter to me, it’s far superior.

Definitely haven’t given up, and my main personal machine would have been in the trash heap ages ago if I was still trying to force windows on it.

Can't remember the last HP product I bought.

The last printer I bought was a new-in-box Chinese (Taiwanese, actually, IIRC) off-brand I'd never heard of. It cost me thirty dollars on ebay.

The refills cost me twenty dollars a piece, and are roughly good for the stated number of pages (1,500, give or take).

On Linux, it even does the one thing I really expect a printer to do (besides, yknow, print) and supports A5 well.

Seems a bit excessive of a judgement - under the best of conditions, my cursive is an absolute horror show. Always has been, and I’ve zero need for it with any frequency.

Suffice it to say, he’s not writing under the best of conditions. If you’d like to judge the content/intent, that’s your prerogative. But the quality of his penmanship is an utter irrelevancy.

Nope. They’re all shit.

Partially because ink/toner scam.

Partially because fuck you, I bought the damn thing. If I am ok with stripy printouts until I squeeze the last molecule of toner from your hellcartridge, imma do it and you can’t stop me.

Ex. I bought a $30 printer off eBay. Burned thru the toner quickly. Bought cartridge.

Turns out that this printer counts pages - and only pages - and hangs itself at an arbitrary number of the same.

Twenty pages of the cartridge were lettter sized.

Ten were A4.

The remaining pages? A fucking 5.

IOW, I printed thirty total pages of US letter. And the remainder were half-letter.

Printer doesn’t care, a page is a page.

Admittedly, printers have to sol e a fairly difficult MechEng problem - grab one and only one sheet, pull it just right, and don’t wrinkle it.

That doesn’t give the mfg the right to extort us. I literally should have 2x the A5 pages I’ve remaining bc by def each one is half of (roughly) a full page.

I’ve gone from printing general templates for my day to day, to developing things that feel native to me to draw - but I’m also a fountain pen hobbyist and truly care about paper quality, etc.

TL;dr - I just want some damn lines to color between, as I organize and journal my life. Printer manufacturers have abs ruined that. There are zero good ones.

Srsly I’d rather spend the time to carefully develop a template for day to day use and trace it (max 1 hr, tracing it then takes zero time to speak to) than deal with printers.

But that’s just me, an IT guy who values organizing in an analog world.

Oh, also, a 40ish IT guy who remembers LaserJets that were nearly bulletproof and still weren’t worth screwing with.

Me, too, Joey. Me fucking too.

Also not a medic, but always understood alcohol to be a blood thinner. Not the cause of it’s direct negative effects afaik but would seem to explain difference in bruising while drunk vs sober.

ETA: one of the things I miss from the other site is the chance to ask (claimed) actual doctors and lawyers hypo questions. And pharmacists. Not bc I want advice but bc once I form a proper question, i genuinely want an answer. Sure, I can navigate pubmed and LII at a lay level, but that doesn’t mean I can efficiently translate question into query with the correct verbiage to get useful and valid results - much less definitively and efficiently parse the meaningful bits of journal articles and disregard the rest.

That expertise in sussing out the actual meat of both question and answer was damned useful, damned interesting, and not practical to acquire as a working professional in an unrelated field.

While my primary masto is a single user instance, basically anywhere else I exist on the fedi is a subset of infosec dot *.

Those instances are all run by someone who a) is cool with spinning up a whole bunch of instances, b) is willing to risk the costs, and c) is excellent at delineating policy. There’s a “no fucking threads full stop” instance, and a “no threads by default, but user can flip switch” instance, for example.

That’s a method of operation that works from my pov but doesn’t suit everyone’s needs. Personally, I want nothing to do with threads but am more able to express my anti corp tendencies than I was in my twenties, and I’m more willing to accept that “it’s just bandwidth, find the instance that meets your needs.”

My needs involve no threads at all, but I can accomplish that with a very small amount of effort given. My circles.

I sincerely hope that you’re OK.

I’ve barely left the house lately, that’s a habit that very much predates the pandemic, but I’m the odd duck who is good with that.

If you want to chat - about minimizing exposure to society or anything else - @_@m.djw.li

I’ve carefully curated a life where things come to me instead of vice versa, but we are outliers. Some people thrive this way, but certainly not everyone.

Ran out maybe 500 meters for beer. Otherwise, we stayed in our humble abode and ate. The holiday was the day before with family, so Christmas was the small-but-mostly-traditional Christmas dinner my wife had planned.

Open: stores whose primary business is intoxicating in some way.

Closed: most other stuff.

I overate turkey (cutlets, cause turkey is a pain in the ass when cooking for two), mashed, noodles over mashed, and green beans w/ bacon. Had a couple beers, and a damn good night of sleep.

I’m easy to please, and struggle with sleep, so the whole thing was lovely.

The previous day, we all had breakfast for dinner. I married into a pretty awesome family, but humans are still exhausting so we both wanted to take it easy on the actual day.

Back to work today, but plenty of leftovers and work is just a few steps away thankfully.

I have been quite happy with my knock off no name over the ear Chinese/amazon special for months now.

When the battery life starts to suffer, I’ll spend the fifteen bucks again, but hasn’t been a problem at all.

Manjaro LXQT, on a Lenovo P70 that’s starting to show its age. They just work.

It’s basically the same headset hardware that I would’ve used in 2008 or so, tbh. Sound quality isn’t perfect but I am not an audiophile. They work equally well for music from my phone while driving since they’re one ear only.

I was a bit wary when I first spun up an instance, but it’s very low maintenance and mostly just works.

Does it choke in some edge cases? Yeah, but far less often than I had expected. For my own use case it’s low resource and does exactly what it says on the tin - nothing more, nothing less.

It’s my default across a variety of devices, and is perfectly happy behind basic auth and a minimal nginx conf.

Occasionally I’ve even surfaced some oddball results that give me unexpected perspective on a topic.