4grams

joined 2 years ago
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Exactly, the vision was flawless, it will all be blamed on the execution. The people who failed to build it will be held accountable though; departments of them…

Fucking awesome system we have here.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 23 hours ago

You think that's bad, I got married in 2008.

Then again, I've done a lot in that time, 3 kids into it, including 2 teenagers...

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I actually kind of want him to succeed in this. If we manage to get ourselves out of this fucking nightmare, we’re going to need to undo a lot of damage, and this would open up one much needed tool.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Naked, open, and completely unchallenged. It’s so fucked up I just can’t even..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

Big fan. I don’t demand much from a window manager, just stay out of the way. I’ve never really had to give cinnamon any thought, shit just works. I spend most of my time in a terminal window though, so not really pushing the GUI.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 125 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is cursed, unnecessary, unexpected and impressive all at the same time.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There’s the 27% crazy factor:

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is —

Tyrone: 27%.

John: … you said that immediately, and with some authority.

Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That’s crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I’ll look there. I usually just go Amazon or Newegg (easy returns if bad) but I’m sure there are better deals out there.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I used to pay like $69 for them in the US. Looks like they add a hundred bucks or so to the price…

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I’ve got 30tb or so made up of 4 and 10tb used drives. All I’ll buy anymore. In fact, I need to change out of of my parity drives. Hopefully used market is still somewhat affordable.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most days it feels like all 7 of us..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

As a middle aged white dude in IT, I no longer tell people I listen to podcasts because I’m sick of “ oh yeah, I listen to Rogan too” (I’ve never once listened to one of his shows).

He’s listened to by millions of “normal” dudes.

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