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Interesting, thank you!

I have lots of stomach issues and can't eat a lot of foods, which means I mostly eat the same few things over and over. One of the few things I can have reading out is a particular local restaurant's chicken strips, and I'd get them for lunch a couple times a month. They've raised their prices twice in the last 6 months, and what used to be 6-8 strips for$6 is now 5 chicken strips - just the chicken, no fries or other sides - for $10. If I'm feeling masochistic, I'll get myself and my father each one of their chef salads. Two of those are now $27. They are a very, very popular place and usually crazy busy, but since that last hike I've noticed the parking lot at lunchtime is often half empty. This is not a wealthy area, people can't afford these prices. They are going to greed themselves right out of business.

They've also lost every single long-time employee they had. And when I say long, I mean 15, 20 years working there. I watched most of them grow up, get married and have families. Every. Single. One. is gone, and I've seen most of them at other restaurants now. Their staff is now different every time I go in there, and service sucks and orders are frequently wrong. My work stopped ordering food from there for meetings because of it. Greed, greed, greed, with a healthy dose of apparent staff mistreatment. Story of the world at large nowadays.

How the author of that article threw Aspergers in with schizophrenia and dementia as a possible cause for his decline into acid-tripping cats, I don't even know. Aspergers is apparently very different from what I thought it was.

Life goes on, regardless of what the politicians say or do.

He's a good bit older than that and has cancer, and is not able to sit at a computer long enough to learn a new operating system even if he wanted to. Which he really, really doesn't lol. He hates the thing with the fire of a thousand burning suns and only used it for his necessaries.

I'm also not familiar with any other operating system besides windows, outside of a brief foray into pi-hole years ago that I don't remember much about, so I'd have to learn it first. While I'd love to start playing around with Linux some day, unfortunately that day isn't going to be any time soon.

Lucky you. I got told by our IT that I'm going to be their windows 11 sacrificial lamb and will be getting it before everyone else to bang out the quirks. It doesn't pay to be known as the office nerd :(

My elderly father's win 10 computer has been absolutely shoving the upgrade down his throat, and I'm about ready to give in and just do it. Telling it to stop notifying him does no good, it just comes right back the next day. Then he won't touch the computer because the full screen upgrade ad freaks him out and he's afraid something is wrong. Screw Microsoft.

OP, check out the websites about grants ISPs are getting to put fiber in rural areas and see if your area is on the list somewhere (I would try and link you to some, but I'm on mobile and for some reason I have a hell of a time finding those sites while on mobile). You can see below what I've had to deal with for about 20 years, until my area finally got covered by one of those grants a few months ago. I am super rural - like, I am literally surrounded by nationally protected forest and nothing else; it'snot a place I thought would ever be included in those grant locations. It was, though, and I now have Gigabyte internet with no cap, with VOIP, for $74.98 a month. If I'm not using WiFi, I get an actual gig of download speed. If I'm on wifi, it's usually between 600-900MB.

Up until recently, we paid Centurylink about $150 a month for two lines into the house. Each line maxed out at 0.75MB download speed and 0.23 MB upload speed. We needed two lines to even be able to function. Almost 20 years of this, with no other options besides Hughesnet. We tried them for a little while; their equipment cost a fortune, it was about$150 a month, the speed was nearly as bad and they had a 200MB A MONTH CAP. We had to turn off images for websites in order to not go over the cap. Previous to 2004, I lived in a very rural part of NY. We had high speed internet for $69 a month, no cap. I can't remember the speed, but I remember that it took 3 minutes to download a full sized movie. 20 YEARS AGO the internet was better, and cheaper!

I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can't even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.

There are a lot of people in this post spouting their opinion on an article they very clearly did not read.

Just one of those fires is 600 square miles in size. I can't even begin to comprehend what that must be like, and I've been in a wildfire situation before

Of course it's on purpose, and it's understandable, too. And if you have voice along with Internet service, spectrum does not allow you to use your own modem for voice. It won't work. You can use your own for the internet portion, but you have to contact them to get each item provisioned separately, and then get a splitter to accommodate both. You and also have to make sure the person your are talking to understand what you are talking about, because a lot either don't, or just don't care to accommodate you and just say no we don't do that. I am currently taking a hiatus from going through this very scenario because I don't have the mental energy right now to fight a tier 1 tech on something that should be so simple.

My almost 50 year old officemate watches this shit all day long. It 100% affects her negatively in a multitude of ways, including her attending span. It's not just the kiddos.

Good luck, I hope it goes well for you!

Would not recommend. That's how you end up with lopsided shoulders and a bad back.

I don't know what in the world my officemate would do with herself if she couldn't watch TikTok all day. Besides her actual fucking work for a change, that is.

I am so goddamn sick of hearing the same "hehe hehe" and the same fake-sounding scream-laugh that those videos all use for backgrounds/overlays that I am ready to shove an ice pick in my ears. Ban this garbage, please!

I don't know if anyone has murmurings this yet, but if you leave a landline that is through your ISP, and connected to the router, you may not be able to use your own router. Spectrum doors not let you, and despite all the research I did before, I did not find that out until after I purchased my own. You can ask them to split the line and use the old router with the phone, and your new router for internet, but there are potential issues with degradation of service involved, as well as the more mundane problems of running into ISP support who are not interested in understanding what you want, and getting the line actually, physically split.

I actually know what causes most of mine, there are some nerves in my neck that get pinched/aggravated and trigger them. And for some reason, if I have multiple days in a row where I don't get much sleep, those nerves get extra cranky. They are extra cranky right now.

I also hate it when it has a name that is a super common word or phrase. Our last 3 records management prograns at work have been like this, and their help fires are terrible to non existent. Good like trying to search the internet for information on the software with those common names. Even adding terms relevant to what the software does, didn't help much.

(Apologies if this is terribly typed, I've got an impending migraine aura that stayed right as I hit reply and have lost a good chunk of my vision. I can't see most of what I'm saying.)

You are very welcome! Good luck with maintenence, I hope yours is more responsive about them than the ones here tend to be.

If lemmy has an active TIL community, this would be a fantastic thing to post to it.