If my kids are not allowed to do/choose something, I tell them why.

My career is a very niche part of IT, and I like it, but I often wonder how different my life would be if I was able to actually study music and music production from the age of 16 instead of dropping out of all other forms of education. Maybe my musical endeavors today would be more than noodling for my own amusement. My parents were very supportive with most things I did, except that one time I wasn’t allowed to go to the only school that interested me. I never learned why.

Over all of my SIMs combined, around 20Gigs. This means my phone, my car, my work laptop, and this one hobby project that involves an LTE modem.

As someone who plays a lot of chess, (10-20 matches per day, one day I might get decent at it), a queen sacrifice is not a big whoop, and I doubt it would result in any audible gasps from an audience if there were spectators. Those who are dorky enough to watch chess (that includes myself) knows this.

As for movie-poker, a movie named Maverick comes to mind (Mel Gibson, iirc)

Sounds normal to me. The circle shape causes two steppers to oscilate between fast and slow in a sine pattern, and those two stepper speeds are phase shifted compared to each other, making it sound odd.

If you printed an elipse insteaf you’d get a different song.

The sound itself is expected, but it sounds like there might be some resonance at play, increasing the volume, but I wouldn’t worry about it.

I think DS9 was pretty developed already by the end of TNG, so once it started there wasn’t that much left to figure out. This can be seen by the TNG crew visiting DS9 towards the end. TNG, however, felt a little more uncertain in the first season in that the actors didn’t have their characters nailed down yet, and it shows.

I suspect that Voyager might be a bit more like TNG in this regard - the concept was a bit more uncertain when they started. However, it does improve massively as it moves on.

I for one really like the temporal war storyline. And 7of9 is a great addition even if the writers’ intent was mainly that of providing boobage.

Business idea: Scissorerscossorlift. It’s a regular scissor lift, but marketed towards lesbians. Maybe it comes with a bundled CD of Scissor Sisters, just for that extra pandering to a market I know nothing about.

Dvorak phone when? Preferably with compose key in place of caps lock, but it’s not vital.

And for fucks sake, give us an ISO option. I’m not claiming one is superior over the other, but most of the world have used ISO their entire lives and absolutely detest ANSI.

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Prima Vera - Arne Belinda

…don’t bother listening to it. it’s a parody of a song in a language you (probably) don’t understand, and the parody is even harder to grasp.

Feel free to shove the lyrics through a translator for the wtf-factor, though.

I have someone to play D&D with again. I have four kids, they all have at least one hobby in common with me, plus they’re all into D&D.

I mostly work from home, and the schedule is pretty forgiving, plus lunch is the only time I have the house and the kitchen to myself. Today I had lightly dry brined wagyu ribeye/entrecote, and sautéed mushrooms for lunch, paired with a nice beer. Tomorrow it’s going to be Stilton cheese, peach marmalade, and crackers.

When lunch comes around I’ve usually cleared out the inbox sludge for the day, as well as checking up on the stuff for which I am responsible just to make sure everything is working as it should. If it is, then I can take my time to do things properly, as long as I’m available in case someone else’s fan hits my shit.

Is it data you would trust in the hands of random strangers on the internet? If so, I can easily store 50TB for you, as long as it’s temporary.

Oh, and I have various storage solutions in various jurisdictions, so if you have any preferences as to places you do NOT want to store it, that’s something you need to hilight.

I rolled my own, as I grew frustrated with catbox limitations of filetypes and sizes. Mine looks like shit, but it works and its purpose is for embedding/linking, so it doesn’t matter.

Mine is more geared towards “publishing” in that users (I don’t want to deal with the headache that is anonymous uploads) have a control panel displaying all their uploaded files and then choose what should be available to the public, and whether it will also be available via bittorrent.

Next up is setting up the signup system so users can actually be added without me running a shell script. I’ve been meaning to implement a sort of sign-up-via-lemmy feature, in that if you’re a lemmy user without trash reputation, you can use an OTP to upload files associated with your username@instance instead.

It’s not production ready yet, but it works well enough for testing. Most of what I’ve posted/embedded for the past half a year has been from my own host.

Last panel could’ve also said “Now!”

I live ~50 meters from a grocery store, so I usually go several times per day.

Exact same backstory here

Why don’t they just run a recruitment ad with The Fourteen Words and get it over with.We know they want to, because it’d attract the kind of people they’re catering to.

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

Geriatric
Obstructive
Peanutbutter?

At least a little investigative: Good Work

Strikes my preferred balance between information, investigation, and satire