tomkatt @ tomkatt @lemmy.world

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Presumably because the saline quantities were tracked and documented just like the fentanyl was. Tap water isn't a medical supply. Still completely fucking heinous either way.

I buy new which is against the overall trend, but I also tend to drive my cars into the ground and want something functional and warrantied, I don't want second hand issues in the event someone didn't do the regular maintenance and I live in the boonies now where reliable transportation is a must. I'm not interested in "new" just functional.

Last car before this I drove for 14 years and I only traded it in because I needed a CUV crossover to handle light off-road use after moving to a rural area (my old car was a small sedan style hatchback with a fixed suspension). I'd otherwise still be driving the old one I bought in 2006.

My "new" car (bought in late 2020) was fairly cheap as these things go (I got the 2020 model instead of the new 2021) and I paid a third of it cash down and got a 0% APR on it due to a financing deal, so zero interest at all. I'm also paying well above the monthly payments and expect to have it fully paid off within the next year, just because I hate having a car payment. Currently the car costs as much or more on the used market than I paid for it new, and with many more miles on it than I currently have.

Also, in fairness, I can 100% afford it and if needed could pay it off lump sum right now. I don't buy or finance things I can't comfortably afford.

Pretty great. Had a small (1050 sq/ft) house built in a semi-rural area and live comfortably. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, was only ~$210k. Bought about $6k in points to get the interest rate at 2.25%. My mortgage is less than I was paying in rent for a ratty old single bed/bath 640 sq/ft townhome.

Plus I got out of the city. It's quiet. Night sky is beautiful out here. Just stars as far as the eye can see. I got mountain views, deer chilling outside my house. I've got one neighbor across the street and my next closest neighbor is like a quarter mile up the road. It's lovely.

Also, I don't plan on selling, but apparently the place is already worth something like 30% more than the purchase price.

Shit.

I just solved the problem by switching to Manjaro.

The Shield TV should still dramatically outperform the chipset in the Nokia box. Shield will do everything it does and more, and runs a higher Android version.

https://gadgetversus.com/processor/amlogic-s905x3-vs-nvidia-tegra-x1-plus-t210b01/

Another chaotic neutral here. I need my vertical display.

My wife and I have somewhere around 450 hours in it (each). It’s fantastic.

You're probably right with the bullshit going on now. IBM just loves fucking up everything it touches. You wouldn't believe the headaches all the RHEL 9 crap and the end of CentOS has caused for some of my customers. AlmaLinux seems like a decent alternative, but not sure how well it's going to be received long term.

I'll add that I don't know if there are good certs for it, but SQL admins are pretty much always in demand, and I hear that kinda thing can pay well. I knew some folks in business Intelligence (BI) that did nothing but SQL and outputting charts and data for analytics and they made bank. Seemed like a pretty neat job too, I have to admit. It's cool to take data like that and turn it into something useful for everyone else.

And having occasionally mucked around in postgres DBs, yeah, good on them. SQL can be both completely simple, and at the same time, ridiculously complex and involved, all depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go. Blows my mind all the things you can do with it with so few commands.

This person got in somewhere good early on and rode that career train. These opportunities rarely exist today unless you arre a charismatic super talented genius.

Not really true. It takes a bit of knowing your worth, advocating for yourself in interviews, and job hopping as needed for pay raises every year or two while continuing to build your skills both on the job and outside of it. IT isn't an industry that lends itself to job stability and high pay if you stay in a role long term, and stagnation can certainly be a factor if you decide to stop learning things.

Also. it's still very possible to get in, but focus these days is DevOps, automation, virtualization, and more recently, AI. You won't make bank in some shitty low tier helpdesk role.

A good start would be certification path to pick up some straightforward "guaranteed to get you work" kind of certs like:

• Linux+
• Network+
• VMware VCP-DCV (and later with experience maybe VCP-CMA)
• Any Redhat cert
• Security+ if you're interested in cybersecurity and/or federal work (USA, not sure about other places)

Alternately, getting a few programming languages under your belt is totally doable for free with Youtube and other online courses and then doing your own projects with public repositories on Github for prospective employers to see. Getting a foot in the door with dev is gonna be very luck of the draw though.

You definitely wont' start out making a wage that high on the Ops side, but finding a foot in the door at between $25 and $30 an hour shouldn't be hard once you get some bare minimum experience under your belt.

College grads may have an easier time, but I wouldn't know, I dropped out and went the certification/experience route some 15+ years ago.

It's a variation on what my wife calls me. It's been my username on forums and such for a long time.

It's been 12+ years for me.

I haven't left completely, as there a a few subreddits that are important for me for either work or hobbies, but I only browse those now and don't go to the front page or out of specific purpose driven communities that don't have active equivalents on Lemmy. My time on reddit is down to a fraction of what it was prior to June, and I hope I can drop it altogether at some point as more communities grow here.

Is this just for sci-fi or books in general? In July I didn't read any sci fi, just fantasy stuff.

There will always be people who seek to challenge themselves.

Others will want more money than is included with their UBI. What on earth would be wrong with people having a little more, as opposed to so many struggling, needing roommates, and so on? I imagine with an extra 1k-2k in their pocket monthly, a lot more people would buy or build housing, and a lot of service industries would boom with all the additional potentially disposable income.

Or how about people being able to retire, like actually retire, without stress. We could lower the retirement age, or people could retire independently from government assistance, leading to more available jobs for younger people as more roles transition away due to automation.

And frankly, I honestly don't see anything wrong with some portion of the populace just living on UBI and enjoying life if that's how they want to do things. Nothing wrong with people being happier, less stressed, and potentially mentally and/or physically healthier for it.

I only really have the Powkiddy X55 and the Nintendo 2DS XL. I like both but lately I’ve been enjoying the x55 a lot more. Great scaling for retro games and there’s a ton of ports available for it.

For a handheld the x55 is surprisingly ergonomic, though I kinda wish the grips went out further, more like a modern controller. I don’t really care about pocketability though.

I dunno, there's so many great NES games with interesting mechanics, and totally hold up today. Stuff like the OG Mega Man series, Bionic Commando, Blaster Master, Castlevania (especially CV3), River City Ransom, Little Samson, Batman (Sunsoft version), Metal Storm, Double Dragon 2, Mighty Final Fight (IMO better than the original), Ninja Gaiden series, Contra, Tecmo Super Bowl, Shatterhand... list goes on.

There's a lot of great games for the system if you can look past the graphics. And there are still games being made either for it, or as homages. Stuff like Micro Mages (actual NES game that's also on Steam and it's great), Blazing Chrome (inspired by Contra/Contra 3), and stuff like Legend Bowl and Retro Bowl (retro inspired American football games), and The Messenger, which was Ninja Gaiden and Metroidvania inspired.

Ooh, nice. I wonder if this might hit portmaster or get compiled for Android at some point.

Seriously? No Mother 3? No F-Zero games with three to choose from? No Boktai? And Summon Night Swordcraft Story didn’t make it either.

Plus, three Sonic Advance games, multiple Metroid and Zelda titles, but couldn’t spare a slot for Mega Man Battle Network anywhere?

At least it wasn’t full of Pokémon. Reads like a top 40 radio station set list, but for gaming.

Same, but I'm pretty fond of B-movies in general.

Not even gonna front, I actually like the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie.