picnic

joined 2 years ago
[–] picnic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess you dont have kids?

I make "six figures" and pay everything in my family. Mortgage, childs clothes, electricity, heating, groceries, everything is so friggin expensive compared to the simple times of 00's when I lived off with $500/a month in uni, and had great time. The pay for my vacancy was even better in 2010. So my predecessors were making more 15 years ago and every fucking thing cost less. Society is fucked.

But I'm not going around shouting this off rooftops. Because I got the highest compensation when considering my uni friends, and I make do. My kids get new clothes every so often, we have money for food and one vacation yearly. Things are okay, but thats me. For many, things are beyod fucked, and I feel sorry for them.

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

And ddr4 production has been phased down so that drives the older (but still perfectly usable) ram prices sky high

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I served in a special unit 20 years back and I can guarantee you that uncle sam will not put down money in one's training if there's a risk down the line that an expensive trained asset cannot be utilized for the median length of a career. They have so many perfect applicants to choose from, they're not picking anyone with a spot in their papers

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

A lot of good ones here already listed, some of those I've started and veered off due to busy life with kids.

What I didnt see was uncharted 4. Never played any other in the series, but bought that one from steam sales. You know when you picked up a good book which you couldnt put down but had to read through as fast as possible? Or new tv series that you had to binge? Well surprisingly uncharted 4 was that for me last year. After I was finished I felt empty: "whats now?".

A very few games have gripped me that way.

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thats what I did for 10 years.

To get my wife or parents or kids to use these often hacky and clunkier UIs was pain. I eased up and decided not to care. All iot shit are now in their own vlan with only :443 outboud allowed and I have integrated them to hassio. If my wife wants to use those million different cloud apps, I install those for her.

Decided just not to care.

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I use whatever I have with me, sometimes I have the tools with me but I'd lie if I said I always carry the toolbag around.

Yeah I do sometimes have dykes at hand but that shouldnt be necessary in professional environment.

Still hate the zipties in this context tho

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Different thing. This is chromeos replacement, what you're talking about is just desktop mode for android a la dex

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Close to useless website. Menu doesnt work (transparency makes it useless at least on mobile) and there is nothing explaining blissos there. What is it? Where, how, when? How much?

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Now, why not just fork AOSP a la grapheneos?

Why we always have to invent something new? Why not just take the fork in the road and go build something better from it?

Thinking modern os, not even google has been able to do it (fuchsia).

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They're just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.

I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they're just guiding the cabling, not choking it.

Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful