I don’t disagree. My last job was using winget to update some things. I raised the concept of trusting otherwise unknown updates, but I was pushed aside for the quick utility.

I’m only a student of cybersecurity, but I harshly judge my former “security expert” on far more than that.

Like fuck, the help desk has to install every patch, to every machine, through a spreadsheet?

No, deploy that shit from a server. Fuck.

In a way, I’m glad I left. In another way, I would really like a pay check again… and I moved to a well, tech illiterate state. Fuck me.

Speaking of animal shampoo, me and the wife rescued some pups and they had issues…

Too young for flea/tick shampoo, but we found a hippy organic shampoo that just smelled like the best of the fall season. Took care of the fleas/ticks, and we kept it around for general dog bathing for the smell. It was amazing, lol.

Wait and Bleed in my ass.

To be fair, the vast majority of Russian troops were also cannon fodder.

Yeah, Dave Stage made that band what it was.

I didn’t get the chance to meet him, but when I was active in the metal community I heard nothing but good things. I guess I should say Drowning Pool was a local band before they blew up.

I knew a Bubba. Legal first name.

He had a rat tail, of course.

Went to play at his house one day (fourth grade), and it was a typical suburban house. I rode past it on my bike to get to school.

Not a hint of white-trash about the situation.

It still perplexes me.

“…but if used orally it has been shown to have approximately 10 times the potency of morphine”

Per wikipedia, so grain of salt and all that. Still…

Vast difference in potency between fent and morphine.

That makes me wonder.

I don’t, or rather, can’t picture things in my mind.

I always thought that phrase was just a phrase, it had some archaic reference but the phrase remained or some shit.

Nope. Turns out I just lack that ability.

That being said, for those of us who can’t or just don’t picture things, would our pupils adjust the same way?

I personally dislike the freewheel scroll overall.

Then again, the only time I’m really thinking about what features a mouse has, it’s for gaming so I like a little more precision and tactile feedback.

For everything else I do, a mouse is a mouse.

Unless it’s one of those BS apple ones with no right click. Those make me unreasonably upset.

Life, uh, finds a way.

See with the leathery skin, I was totally getting a Githyanki/Githzerai vibe.

I don’t.

I don’t think they even sell winter tires here.

And if winter tires are the little studded ones… Yeah, those aren’t street legal here.

That being said, we tend to shut down the state if someone drops an icecube.

So, American here.

Why not collect and distribute this cannabis equally to various locales. Then, have a fucking “festival” everywhere and bring in local musicians and weed themed artists or product creators (bongs, pipes, etc) in a disposable (or properly cleanable preferably) semi-airtight “structure” and burn off the excess for everyone to enjoy.

Sell tickets, put the proceeds toward issues that taxes aren’t quite covering, or put it towards hard drug treatment plans, etc?

Just a massive hotbox. Have outdoor areas for people to get some air, grab a beverage, snacks, etc? Gouge those prices too, a bit, like every other event under the sun.

My only suggestion is to keep it to mono-drug usage. In this case weed.

Alcohol and large crowds don’t go well together, usually, and adding more substances to the mix makes things less controllable and predictable.

The same technique works back home in the US too.

Foreign immigrant, but they’re not brown enough to shoot on sight? Louder and slower while you assess the foreign devil… Just because they’re white doesnt mean they can’t be a commie.

This was meant as a joke, but living in the south this has certainly happened recently somewhere nearby.

My record is 9 days without sleep.

At that point I had seen a doc who just loaded me down with large doses of like 3 different benzos.

Slept for 2 days straight.

The creepist hallucinations were dark figures in the corner of dark rooms chanting in some language that didnt sound human in origin, just reproduced by humans.

The oddest was a stop sign that turned into buddy Christ from Dogma (I think) and then back into a stop sign.

I wasn’t religious at all at that point in time, though I went through elementary in a private christian school before transferring to public schools, and the area is certainly part of the bible belt.

Of course this leads me to ponder how much of our beliefs and such is shaped by the cultural norms of the area we’re in, even if your own family doesn’t participate.

Then again, what is “normal” is viewed through the lense of the community being studied.

So realizing this, I have to wonder how much of my beliefs and morals stems from the area that I was raised in versus what I have actually experienced and value.

Just how much of “me” has been brainwashed into me, subtly over time and reinforced by various methods of society. Then that moves the thought to how much of me is just directly rebelling against that force, but wouldn’t be present without that external force. Which all boils down to essential philosophical questions that man has been asking for centuries with no real answer.

Maybe this is why I have trouble sleeping.

Insert AlwaysHasBeen.jpg here.

I find in kinda funny, in the darkest way, that Israel has done so much damage to the publics’ perception of Jewish folks, at least based on news like this.

Also, that Israel seems to be taking plays out if Hitler’s book when it comes to damaging and othering their neighbors over petty shit.

Fascism cropping up in a conservative ethnostate? You don’t say. Insert shocked pikachu meme here.

How about if the government shuts down there is an emergency re-election of all members of whatever segment of government caused it.

All of them, all sides. Not eligible for re-election because they obviously FAILED at their job.

The average working person doesn’t get a chance if they shut down their “company.”

Performance isn’t key. But I like performance, lol. I also wasn’t aware of their more recent practices. So thank you.

I’ll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.

I just can’t afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I’ve spent more on worse ideas lol.

Cost and a personal bias, also I’ve seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.

I’ve done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.

I’ve seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.

I have a Pi 2 from way back. I’ve thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don’t run into any problems I didn’t personally create while learning or through human error.

I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don’t see the benefits outweighing the negatives.

Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.