Thomrade

joined 4 months ago
[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I hope it doesn't eat into devtime on Stationers, I love that game, even if I'm terrible at it.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ive just started in a government IT role; everything is windows, I use windows myself at home for games, but run WSL for hobby dev, home server management and stuff like that.

This is my first sysadmin role, having come from a Dev background, and administration on windows feels like such a chore. Everything takes ten steps to do, lots of issues, and feels very counter intuitive. I am not enjoying it at all. I suppose actual large scale Linux adminning probably has the same issues and I'm putting it down to lack of experience, but there's so many small niggly issues that I know I could solve if this was a Linux environment that I can't due to how windows is set up.

I'm hopefully getting to move into a more hybrid dev/admin role for some web stuff, but I firs thave to convince my boss to let me install WSL so O can have a sane dev environment for web dev.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That might be what the disagreement here is. The sentence is very ambiguous because its not literal, though it can be read literally as you did. The poster is saying "I'm the dumb one for being the only one working in valve who is reachable by the public directly through social media." Your interpretation isn't wrong, but without the wider context of shorthand speech patterns you get from English as a first language, it can be difficult to figure out the implied message. English has a funny habit of saying one thing, but meaning another thing.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is English your first language?

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, I dont disagree that the concept is insanely idiotic but all they've done in the purge is take the concept of a pogrom and applied it to modern day america. The premise isn't that rediculous. It has happened, in real life. Yeah they've leaned into it, and dialed up the crazy fevor a bit, but its not so removed from real life accounts of pogroms.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh you fucker, its been over ten years. i just lost The Game.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose it can't build up enough speed by going in direct line out of the solar system as the falloff would mean there's not enough "runway" so to speak. But I wonder if you could circle the sun and "tack" like a ship does sailing into the wind and build up more momentum that way?

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is super useful, I was thinking about writing something similar myself recently. Thanks for sharing! Being able to scribe the acfou t clean and start over is very useful. I have 900+ subscriptions that I guess just built up over time. Too many to manually work through and remove the ones I actually dont watch.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I had seen the hate before and foolishly just assumed he was deserving of it. Its a horrible situation he's in and he is being cast in a bad light because he reached out for help.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. My mainstay for the longest time was RockPaperShotgun, probably from 2008–2016 or thereabouts. Once the old guard left the quality of the site drastically changed, and it became significant shallower in terms of reviews. Not really sure where to get the same kind of journalism these days.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Microwave repair can actually be quite dangerous if I understand correctly, as they can hold a residual charge which can be very harmful if you short it.

[–] Thomrade@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It does completely. Also, its "Milquetoast". Milktoast is just soggy bread.

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