I imagine being at the gallows sucks even if you know why you are standing there

That’s baller

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Haha, you did a really good job explaining how incredibly unnerving that would be. Just staring off a cliff of pain while somebody actively pushes you infinitely further off the ledge with no control over your own fate.

Edit: even the guy on the website looks like he’s questioning his decision to get strapped in for the picture

Good on you, that thing looks terrifying to sit in. I guess a fire is pretty good motivation to strap into the damn thing but it doesn’t look safe at all. I was expecting like sled tracks with a triple wheeled axle that would have some kind of hand break to keep it from free sledding down the stairs and stop entirely if released.

I would like a web browser and don’t want to lose my password manager

You fight a dragon and get to the gorgeous princess that you risked your life for, the love of your life, you still got that armor on, you are going full mast, the fool is the one without armor to support it as they never truly believed they would defeat the dragon in the first place.

My first born wouldn’t accept a pacifier over his thumb and we didn’t know well enough to press the issue. With insurance it cost $3500 that included getting him fitted with a device to stop the thumb sucking, once that behavior was kicked he was fitted with an expander, top one required manual adjustment every week or two depending on ortho assessment. We would go in every month or two to monitor progress along with the occasional trip because an expander broke. He is currently without expander and things have been great for a couple months but in June we go in to determine phase 2 way ahead after things have time to settle, braces likely.

My youngest is five years younger, he was the pacifier user, scheduling his initial evaluation is on my to do list before we go back in June so I can’t speak to a medical difference yet.

I could tell my oldest son had a narrowed elongated jaw structure without formal training though. I was glad we could get everything sorted from that perspective before his adult teeth started impacting anything. I still believe braces will be required to shift teeth around better now that theirs more room.

Thumb sucking is the worst. Even when they are convinced to actively try to stop it still happens in their sleep and the nail polish is useless in my experience. Just leads to a kid spitting in the corner. Ultimately leads to a thumb sucking prevention device and expanders costing thousands of dollars to correct over the course of a year or two. My second son had a pacifier because I was able to assist meaningfully in weaning him off of that. I was not permitted to chop off my first sons pacifier.

Better repairing, see Deadpool. Cancer, missing limbs, teeth, w/e.

I think I see the problem. Theirs no path to step 4 in your workflow.

I’m hoping that the repeal of Roe vs Wade seals the fate of the republican party. With continued legal action against gerrymandered states, a solidified stance against women’s reproductive rights, along with the overt racism I’m optimisticly hoping to see a functional dissolvement of the republican party in it’s current form by 2028. The pessimistic side of me is worried about strategic division of the democrats “not wanting Biden” or other short sighted horeshit driving us straight into a hate filled fascist government we can never recover from.

Does Linux have solitaire support?

The only similar issue I faced seemed to be due to multithreading. I don’t know enough about the underlying architecture to point my finger at a specific ‘thing’ but I was beating my head against the wall seeing the same 50% drop in performance. The one way I was able to get comparable performance was if I limited the cores on the machine to 1. Windows was only a couple percent slower in that case. When I upped the cores windows couldn’t keep up. The weird part is that the utilization in task manager looked like all the cores were being utilized but the performance certainly didn’t reflect that. I was finally able to get the program manager off my ass but how they handled the situation really soured me on staying with the company so I left, feel bad for the next person to get hit with “get this application off Linux so we can be a 100% windows client shop” garbage.

They contracted the companies developers at over 600k for six months of support, I was dedicated to the effort for a year, and the CIO apparently instructed a PM that nothing else mattered and if it didn’t work I was personally responsible. Like MFers, I didn’t design the hardware, operating system, or the application, I’m doing everything I know how, how exactly is this shit my fault?!

I’ll try it out. I use wefwef and it has a search function but theirs no browse and the search barely finds anything that’s out there.

A way to easily find and join subs, from my phone/in the app, so I can have my own feed. I’m not willing to set my stuff up on my computer. I’ve worked in IT for over twenty years and I hate doing anything on my computer anymore and can’t get myself to even try. It’s a me problem but it didn’t exist with Reddit. From Apollo I could find, subscribe, leave subs and have my own custom feed. I’d still use Reddit instead if they didn’t kill third party apps. But they did, so I try to make this work but it’s sucks trying to see content so I just don’t spend much time here either, which is fine, I’ve taken to doing crosswords instead when I’m looking to pass some time.

I’ve been in tech for thirty years and my answer is, no, I don’t. I saved your message along with some others that I hope to read in depth one day because it seems helpful. I just have less and less of a desire to fuck with shit anymore. I remember how excited I was about tech at various points in my career. I used to be so into tech. Anymore, I get off work supervising over twenty other folks on implementing, managing, and maintaining disparate technical solutions and products on and off prem along with a slew of cross functional organizations and my desire to do anything tech dies just after the surface. So I dumped Reddit because I agree with the reasons and jumped on lemmy. I use wefef. That’s as far as I’ve gone. I won’t use reddit anymore out of principle but I miss it.

As another example, I used to pirate the shit out of stuff. Into the scene big time. Became ‘successful’ and subscribed (and invested) in all the services. Just recently canceled all my subscriptions and moved to real debrid with torrentio or w/e. I was able to get it going in an hour and it makes sense. Hell I’d pay $100 a month for what I have now but whatever. It’s not about the money as much as the ease of experience. I keep Netflix because it makes it easier to find stuff I want to watch but that’s all.

I know I could sit down and spend an afternoon getting my shit setup to better deliver content to me across instances and everything if I’d just do it. Instead I just see what’s in the standard feed this evening and start doing some crosswords before bed instead. I think I’m just burnt out on technology. Kudos to what everyone is building and all the investment being put into educating folks though. I don’t think I have any critique other than it’s just too much more difficult for me than Reddit was to find everything and I’m getting old and tech disinterested.

I really appreciate and understand the value of federating services but to claim theirs no value, big picture community wise, in having a central access point to content is willfully ignorant of a broad user base in my opinion. None is this stuff is new, it’s just a new wave of human nature with updated technology.

Most folks barely know how to utilize a web browser, that doesn’t mean that they have less value or less interesting or compelling information to provide the world; it just means it won’t be shared on the platform, or even if it is they likely won’t be heard.

For broad user adoption systems need to be designed for our grandparents not our peers because most folks are a lot closer to the former than the latter, even our peers in tech.

Since mr fantasy land can’t find it in himself to thank you for all the knowledge you shared in this interaction I wanted to make sure I took the time to. Thank you, I learned a great deal from your comments and your ability to communicate information is superb.