hactar42 @ hactar42 @lemmy.world

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I miss the local communities. I like to keep up with what's going on in my city and surrounding area. I refuse to install Meta apps on my phone, so I can't view the city Facebook groups and Nextdoor is a pile of garbage.

Recently Old Dad's on Netflix. I tried to watch it twice now but it's basically an entire movie made from millennials eat avocado toast memes.

The first time I didn't make it past the first scene because it was basically, this kids a shit because his mom doesn't discipline him.

Tried it again the other day and only made it another 10-15 minutes in. I'm an older dad myself, so I thought it would be relatable. However, I like to think I'm not an insufferable asshole, so I couldn't relate to it at all.

I thought it was fun and I enjoyed the episode more than I thought I would. That being said, I don't want them to do it again.

My 8 year old daughter absolutely loved it.

Must change every 90 days

It has been 6 years since NIST told companies to stop doing this. And I'd be willing to bet there are more companies still mandating this than ones that don't.

Moving out of Texas. Waiting for the school year to end, and we are getting out of this backwards state.

Hey listen to this EVP I got from the cheap ass recording device that I was waving around like a mad man. Nevermind the fact that the professional boom mic didn't pick anything up.

Fair enough. There I go over thinking things again.

Y'all are just jealous because we're not afraid of fractions

As an American who has lived in the Southern US and East Anglia, I feel like Norwich/Norfolk is more Mississippi and Suffolk is more Alabama. But I really don't have anything to back that up other than Suffolk feels more rural. And Norfolk seemed more willfully ignorant. At least this was the case 20 years ago when I lived there.

Absolutely none...I live in the highway sprawling hell known as DFW

My new thing is to fall asleep around 10-11 pm, then wake up around midnight and not be able to go back to sleep until 2-3 am. That or wake up for like 10-15 minutes every hour or two all night long.

1980

Xennials here, can confirm, this will be stuck in my head for a week now.

This guy sounds like a text book narcissist. The worst thing you can do is tell a narcissist they are a narcissist. It will do nothing and will only make them double down. The best thing you can do is cut them out of your life.

I had a similar situation when I was in my 20s. Friend I had that I've known since highschool would always make remarks about how I got so lucky with my job. Because I was making decent money (more than him) without a degree and he was an engineer. It didn't matter that I worked my ass off and put in thousands of hours, I was lucky.

If I would ever push back or say something he would just double down. I couldn't bring up the fact that I didn't have parents that paid for everything while I was in school, so I had to work and go to college at the same time. I finally realized that was just the way he was going to be, so I limited contact with him. However, his comments never went as far as what you are describing. So, I think you're doing the right thing by just blocking him.

I highly recommend reading the book Emotional Vampires. It teaches you about the different personality types you'll run into in the working world and how to deal with each type (when you can't just avoid them). I wish I had read it 20 years ago.

I was singing to my daughter when she was around that age and told me to stop singing. I asked why and she told me, because you can't

I stuck with it through Arabasta because my wife assured me it gets better. I really started to like it around Marineford. Then came the dredge that is Wano. I had made it past episode 1,000 and just couldn't do it anymore. Oden has to be the worst character ever in anything.

Anything. I absolutely love music and the thought of being able to make it myself has always been a dream of mine. However, I can't hold a beat to save my life. I've tried playing the piano, guitar, trumpet, and baritone at stages of my life, never with any success. I can't even play Guitar Hero past medium difficulty.

A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns came out in 2018

Mary Poppins on Disney+ had this. It drove me nuts. Not the recent one, the 1964 one.

Windows accounts for 12% of their profits, and I'm willing to bet that the consumer versions are a very small part of that. Most businesses are not buying OEM licenses. They are already using a subscription model for M365 which includes Windows licenses or a standard EA or SA agreement.

They learned after the Windows Phone that they don't need to win the client OS battle as long as they can get their other products on the devices. Since then Windows has really focused more on keeping you locked into the Microsoft ecosystem versus keeping locked into Windows itself. Hence why the upgrades have all been free where in the past you would have to repurchase each new edition of Windows.

Of course I could be completely wrong. They have done some bonkers stuff in the past.