I’ve had way too many Windows updates fuck my shit up, so I wait as long as possible to update so they have a chance to fix what they broke by the time it gets rolled out to my machine.

Exit inerviews can be valuable and beneficial if the exit is on good terms all around.

I left my last job for a better-paying position elsewhere, but I still loved my old job and coworkers. It’s still the best job I ever had.

I couldn’t pass up a 50% raise and they couldn’t match it. No hard feelings or bruised egos. It’s just how things work out.

Having an honest conversation with HR about what worked and didn’t from an employee perspective with zero stakes for either of us was productive and informative.

I’m staying. Just like I’ve stayed in Texas.

But I also don’t have kids. My sister left Texas when she decided to start having children and I support that decision 100%. This is no place to raise a child.

The home-user PC market has been hit HARD by smartphones and tablets. Suburban families no longer have a desktop in a home office plus a laptop for each member of the family. They may have a laptop, and it’s probably a Mac.

This decision is too make people buy new devices or upgrade to an OS that has a lot more tracking built in.

Microsoft is pressing AI and other data-scraping tech hard, but they’re necessarily going to have to have enterprise and government licenses that allow admins to block those features for legal and security reasons.

So they desperately need new home users they can data-mine.

From personal experience, when that happens everybody fights over the shitty shifts.

When my old company got bought out and they started making some people work Thanksgiving, people fought over the Thanksgiving shift because it paid 2.5x.

Reality is people always bitch no matter how shifts are broken up. These crappy rotations end up being the most “fair” system, so that’s what corporate adopts even though everyone hates it.

It’s usually because they can’t get full teams willing to work only the shitty shifts. So they rotate.

When I was in retail management we had a 3-week rotating shift as well, and it was super dumb. We’d end up over 3 weeks opening, closing, or having off each day once, except for Tuesday, which we opened twice (Tuesdays were staff meetings so all managers worked).

But the worst part was each week we’d start with 2 closing shifts and end with 2 opening shifts instead of doing all opens or closes, so each week we’d have a night we’d get out the door around midnight and have to be back to open the doors at 6am…

Back in college my dog learned the sound of the Xbox power-off chime and she’d hop off my lap and go jump in the bed.

I still use bat h files and the system scheduler to automate a shocking amount of my job.

I was filming an amateur skateboard competition, and the only people wearing helmets were the professional skaters (I don’t know who they were, but it was apparently a big deal they were there) who were doing an exhibition before the finals.

Open Source software isn’t charity. It’s a group effort that anyone can use.

I use GQIS and OSM professionally. My company also contributes to both projects. You WANT companies to adopt free software because they’ll put resources into improving it, which improves it for everyone.

Are they doing it to make money? Yep.

But it’s good for the product and every user of the product. It allows hobbysts and individual users to benefit from corporate resources without ever giving the corporations money or data.

He’s saying that they would be a good value if it weren’t for the price.

Which applies to most things. If a HP printer used $2 ink refills it would also be a good value.

Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.

I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.

I firmly believe any service that advertises that much on YouTube and podcasts is evil.

I’m waiting to hear about Hello Fresh’s child trafficking ring or whatever they’re up to.

I want my death to be something remarkable that people remember as a really weird event. Nothing violent - just remarkable.

For Kimmy Schmidt, you definitely need to skip the intro on the finale movie.

I think a big part of the mental blocked on both sides is people generally not understanding the difference between fact and faith.

Knowledge is about fact. It’s the realm of science, empiricism, and logic. If it can be understood and known, it belongs here.

Faith is about the unknowable (not the unknown). It’s a choice to believe something without evidence because that evidence cannot exist.

You can’t both believe something and know it.

Understanding that faith and science don’t intersect allows people to hold spiritual beliefs without rejecting knowledge and science. They don’t conflict because they’re entirely separate.

Some people aren’t wired with the mental flexibility to embrace both spiritually and empiricism. Some reject science, while others reject faith, and neither understand the other.

It goes beyond button batteries too. Lots of batteries use the same system. For instance, many flashlights run off of 18650 cells.

College was a fucking mess. It took me 14 years on and off to graduate and wrecked my finances.

But I fucking finished it.

Then I had trouble getting a job in my field and I worked retail for years and it sucked. But I eventually got a job at the front desk of the permit office at the city, and everything started coming together. Within 6 months I got a major promotion. A year later another, smaller city approached me, etc.

I am now making good money in a field I love. My coworkers are great, people respect me, and life is getting better all the time.

Because while I may have stalled several times, I never fucking quit.

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