DaGeek247

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Nah. She's joining in on the race at home, but to get to her bed instead of the finish line.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Fluxer looked like it was ai coded before the hype for it got it enough funding for a code refactor they're doing right now. It'd be nice if it stayed around long term and became successful enough to be sustainable though.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago

I expect it's the same way people treat regular streamers, they're just a bit less careful about how they talk about their favorite vtuber in public than they way would a regular streamer.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago

I do love the idea of him fighting the phone for a quarter only to find out it fights back.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 6 days ago

Might be mad at the person on the other end.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Federal job applications are different from regular ones. You have several hurdles to meet before getting hired that just don't exist in the regular workforce.

The biggest hurdle is the resume. You have to list every job you've had, while also demonstrating the job requirements they posted on usajobs.gov, while also keeping it under two pages long.

When you apply for a federal job, your resume isn't getting sent straight to the office you wanna join. It's getting sent to OPM personnel who look it over to see if you meet the stated requirements. If the job listing says three years experience handling packages, your resume must have three years of package handling demonstrated in it. It doesn't have to be exact, (Amazon packages or receiving shipping at McDonalds every week is fine) but it does need to be worded in such a way that a stranger could tell that you have three years of package handling under your belt. Because it is a stranger who is checking for that.

Once it passes review and your resume meets the listed requirements, then it gets forwarded to the local hr, which is still not the office you're applying for, where they'll give it a look to do some points comparison on all the resumes they get to see who they'll interview. After that, if you're on the top of the pile, they'll give you a call for an interview.

  • Don't use the usajobs resume builder as anything other than a rough draft sketch tool. It has historically been very badly programed and caused resumes sent with it to be so ugly they cant be read by a human.
  • Used to be a federal resume only needed your entire work history. Now it needs that, and also must be under two pages long. (Verify this on the usajobs website specifically, it might change/I might be missread here)
  • the current admin has fucked up federal hiring in a major way. It's entirely possible the only reason you haven't been hired this year is trumps fault, and you would have got hired any other year.

There's a lot of great resources at reddit (I know!), because a lot of federal employees still hang out over there. It's worth a look at the various subreddits to see what the latest info is.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago

Goddamn it's not even close. '59 car dummy got skewered. '09 car dummy landed on a soft fluffy mattress in comparison.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

The biggest one I saw was https://fluxer.app/ it has all the right marketing and investing, but also it had a single dev dumping assloads of code per day, but somehow it wasnt ai coded at all. I'm still watching it, because it got a lot of funding in the last push to see if it failss or if it actually goes well.

I wouldn't trust anything important on it though.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is his thing, but the joke here is that his blood is also often represented as wine / grape juice. The unexpectedness of it is where the humor of this specific strip comes from.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That assumes God exists to serve us.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago

I think the real reason people recommend mint is, while deep down they know users will have a better time on Ubuntu, they cannot stand the idea of recommending that company's product directly.

I have no guilt when I say Ubuntu, and their managing company, have pulled enough shit over the years that it's not a good first choice for a new user.

But in practice the similarities are only skin deep and to me if they're already going to need to learn all the ways it differs from windows, why not put the same effort into learning something that also varies

The average user never leaves the web browser. The average gamer never leaves the web browser and steam. Skin deep is as far as most people ever go.

This not a condemnation, but it's important to be aware of the differences between the average user, the average gamer, and the average Linux user. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

 
 
 
 
 

Hey y'all.

I've been running a eBay special server with a pair of Xeon E5-2687W v2 and 64gb of cheap RAM. It's been working pretty great (other than a little bit of instability that randomly went away after a while, but I expect to come back at some point). I've had this setup for a couple years now, and have been eyeballing a couple different upgrade paths.

The reason I want to switch is that the eBay special motherboard does not have enough pci-e slots for what I'm planning in the near future.

The reason I want to upgrade is that I like having nice server hardware.

So I have been looking at alternatives. Is anyone else amazed at how cheap a CPU is, but how expensive a socket SP3 motherboard is? The cheapest sp3 board I've found is more than 500$, used. The cpus which will outperform my setup in every metric cost less than 200$.

This had me looking at new/used gaming hardware instead, which is cheaper, but misses out on ecc and also has a more limited amount of pci-e slots as well, (which is the primary motivation for changing my setup).

I'm trying to find a 16core/32 thread setup with the best single core performance available in that class. My current setup is 8core/16thread x2, and i'd like to avoid 'downgrading' to fewer cores. But the things I run usually run do better with more single thread performance than multi thread performance.

I found the epyc 7371, and the ryzen 5950x which meet my core requirements, but both have downsides I'm trying to mitigate. (Mobo price and ECC ram, respectively)

Do y'all have any alternative options I might've missed?

 
 
 
 
 

I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.

As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.

My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.

Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.

I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.

My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.

TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.

If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.

 
 
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