Doubletwist @ doubletwist @lemmy.world

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Afraid that wasn't me. Though I've used this nick in many places over the years, including various tech/sysadmin IRC channels, and other social media sites.

Historically I've been a Unix/Linux/VMware sysadmin, though I've moved into a professional services role doing automation/orchestration/config-management.

There's a lot of good IT/Development technical channels on IRC, especially on libera.chat and oftc.net, since freenode went down the drain.

I still use irc every day for legitimate work/technical support purposes.

It was difficult, but awesome.

It's the same thrill as any other game or sport. Many enjoy the challenge of trying to do something difficult and get better at it, and then enjoy doing it competitively, and/or cooperatively with friends.

In the case of golf, you also get the added enjoyment of it being a generally slow paced activity, usually done on a beautiful day in a pretty area with lots of grass and trees.

Heaven forbid someone enjoy something you don't like.

#00ff00 (green) because I've been using it as my terminal text color for 30+ years.

What qualifies as "basic necessities"?

I'm not sure minimum wage has ever been enough for most people to afford an apartment on their own.

Certainly in the early 90s, even in a low cost of living area, I was working 2 jobs (one part time but a bit over minimum wage) in order to share a 500sqft, 1br apartment with a friend.

And part of the problem with trying to set a level of basic necessities (or a 'living wage') is that you have to account for a TON of external factors.

For example, nobody is building affordable, reasonably sized apartments or houses any more. They only want to build 2000sqft+ houses, or 1000+sqft apartments with all the trimmings and amenities. That certainly raises the cost of living.

By way of comparison, my grandparents raised 3 kids in a 998sqft 2-story duplex. It's wasn't large but it was a good family neighborhood with a park across the street. And they had 1 smallish (for the era) car. So why does everyone need a bajillion square feet and 2 cars, including a massive SUV to raise their 1 or 2 kids these days? (2 cars I get with both parents working these days, but the trucks and SUVs I see many low income families driving is ridiculous).

And is it fair for the minimum wage to have to be set to a rate that subsidizes the builders who choose to only build that bigger, more expensive housing.

We definitely need changes in the way this is all handled, but it's not a simple thing. To truly solve the issue will require significant changes in our social structure and philosophy.

Well, like it or not, that's the system we have right now, and so long as it is, by the time the main election comes around, the only options are a) violent overthrow, b) abstain from voting, or c) vote for the least bad option presented.

I don't think we're quite to the point yet where violent overthrow is necessary or justified.

Abstaining just means you accept whatever the outcome is, and thus have no leg to stand on when you don't like the outcome.

In my mind that leaves option c as the only valid option, with the added requirement of working in between elections towards pushing for changes in the voting system.

I don't pretend to be a fan of Biden. But despite his shortcomings, he's still a damn sight better than Trump or RFK Jr. And nobody else running has a snowball's chance in hell, and most of them are crackpots anyway. So until such a time as we have better options, I will continue to vote for the least bad option.

I like Futurama. But I can't stand Lower Decks. I don't know what it is, I just find it annoying and wildly unfunny.

It has ALWAYS been too expensive for the vast majority of Americans to rent their own place, for ALL the generations.

My greatest/silent generation grandparents never had their own places.

My boomer parents never rented their own place solo.

My Gen-X ass has only rented my own place for 1 brief 6month period in a VERY low cost of living area, and then again for a couple years after a divorce at which time I was 20years into a very high paying career, so I don't think it's a terribly valid example for the majority of Americans.

I'm not saying housing costs aren't too high, they absolutely are! But this is nothing new. And frankly it's annoying to keep seeing it posted and harped on constantly as I see it as a distraction from real issues that need to be addressed in the areas of housing costs, pay and healthcare costs that need to be fixed.

Wells Fargo.

The short version is, they forced me to close my savings/checking account due to $32 in insufficient funds that was reported to Chex Systems by my former bank, and told me that I could reopen them once the report was cleared.

I got the report cleared with proof that it was due to a third party (AOL - who admitted it and got the report removed) that made unauthorized charges to an account I had closed.

When I went back to get my accounts reopened, the manager spoke me like I was the scum of the earth for ever having been reported, even though it wasn't my fault and I had proof. She told me that I couldn't open an account at Wells Fargo for 7 years, and said I could come back after that and open accounts.

As if I would ever go near Wells Fargo again after treating me like that over a $32 report that I had proven wasn't my fault.

They sell it at grocery stores. They even have a gluten free version that my wife actually prefers to the regular.

I'll have fallen about 3ft, landing directly on my coccyx on a hard tile floor, causing additional damage to 2 discs in my lower back that I've already had worked on twice. There's almost a 100% chance that this will result in my needing to have those two discs removed completely.

So I really, really hope I don't get instantly teleported 2 feet to the left while I'm sitting here.

I'm pretty sure you can make them set the modem/router to bridge mode and run your own router. If it's cable, you can also buy your own non-router cable modem, then use whatever router you like behind it.

Or the pull off tab rips right off, leaving the seal itself perfectly intact.

I don't. Though I do follow a couple feeds for important things like the local NWS office. As soon as they post regularly elsewhere that can include notifications of new posts, I'll happily drop them and Xitter.

Funny thing is, if you take the bible and ignore the new testament, isn't that effectively Judaism?

bill that would ban government employees from being required to use the preferred pronouns of their colleagues,

Ok, so time to just start calling EVERYONE by the 'wrong' pronouns...

So? I'm Gen-X and I've only lived alone for approximately 1 year of my life combined, and most of that was in my mid-30s when I was already 15 years into an above-average-paying IT career.

This is nothing new.