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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, I'd probably do something else "in production" but since it hasn't caused a problem in ~3 years of use, and the cost of it breaking is effectively zero because it's only for our own use, I'm just letting
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by brimble 4y ago
I've not used Plex, so I'm not sure. You'd need to find a way to expose it to the Internet (mine's only on my local network) but that shouldn't be too hard. Just forward the correct ports on your router. It does hav
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by brimble 4y ago
I got an ecc-ready used workstation on Ebay. After adding a smallish SSD for the system drive and upgrading the memory to 16GB I think my total cost was in the neighborhood of $200. Cost about as much as two top-end fully-equipped (case, he
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by brimble 4y ago
Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netf
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by brimble 4y ago
There are ways around it (as there are with Covid vaccine requirements), but most folks are subject to vaccine mandates for school attendance (though, sure, those are state-level rules). IIRC I had to provide vaccination records for college
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by brimble 4y ago
You could grab one or two from a thrift store and see how you like it, then upgrade if it seems like something you want to keep doing. Nice and cheap way to try it out. Difficulty: a nice light linen jacket's probably gonna be a little
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by brimble 4y ago
> vaccine mandates We've had those for decades. > vaccine passports These must not be a federal thing, because I still don't really know what people mean by this. Is it a state thing? > and CDC surveillance Private survei
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by brimble 4y ago
Approaching age 40. Most of my favorite songs are probably from the 60s and 70s (5-20 years before I was born), but I only heard most of them (the ones that are my favorites) after age 35. I like plenty of newer music, too. I discover great
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by brimble 4y ago
> Fanny packs are sweet, except the part where you're wearing a fanny pack. Hear me out: Sport coats. (edit: and blazers) Very light linen ones for hot days, which keep sun off your skin without really making you hotter. Cooler days
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, Spec Ops: The Line was really good. Really good like some movies I've seen where I was like "that was great—I wish I hadn't seen it", but still, really good.
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by brimble 4y ago
I don't think I even saw anyone bother with the euphemism "r-word" until like 2012. It was common in media throughout the '00s and somewhat beyond. F----t and derivatives, yes, that was on its way out even in my nowhere-
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by brimble 4y ago
> And you can't just let your child not eat. You can, most of us just don't because people think you're neglecting the kid if the kid chooses not to eat a meal you provide them. Same reason we send way more food for lunc
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by brimble 4y ago
Maybe, but it was kind of a problem when I was already like "is there a way to progress the game but have this guy not accomplish what he wants?" on like mission 1 (past the prologue)—there was no build-up to it, I thought he was
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by brimble 4y ago
I feel empowered when I don't have to worry as much about how to safely operate my car, and it's just automatically safer. And when I don't have to worry as much about other drivers on public roads because their cars are au
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by brimble 4y ago
So much so that it felt like someone involved's... uh, particular interests were coming through in the game, in a way that was kinda off-putting.
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by brimble 4y ago
IMO 2 and 4 are easily the best Uncharted games. I wouldn't recommend 1 or 3 at all, despite 3 having a plot that should have really appealed to me. The first one mostly suffers from unrefined mechanics making it a slog, but they fix
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by brimble 4y ago
I've long been skeptical of this explanation. Later school ages (junior high and high school) were probably the most monotonous and regimented part of my life, period—I've certainly never experienced that much concentrated, inte
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by brimble 4y ago
As I approach 40, a year feels about as long as a month did when I was elementary-school aged. I worry that if the current rate-of-increase continues, my last decade will feel weeks long.
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by brimble 4y ago
Food waste is mostly just a sign that food is very cheap. Cheap enough that it's not worth trying to save or find another use for what's wasted.
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by brimble 4y ago
On the flip side, last time I wrote some in an editor with decent HTML-authoring autocomplete, it was so fast I wondered why we bother with weird compile-to-HTML templating languages anymore. It wasn't really any slower than writing Pu
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by brimble 4y ago
Good old m4 can get you pretty far, as a template system for generating html.
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by brimble 4y ago
Ah, OK, sorry, I misunderstood the context.
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by brimble 4y ago
That's... still a firing, no? What it's not, is a lay-off.
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by brimble 4y ago
I don't think anyone is considering doing this to race cars.
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by brimble 4y ago
I have wireless headphones. They were cheaper than AirPods (they're Jabra) and have pretty good sound. They're full-size, not earbuds. The battery lasts for a couple days of fairly heavy use, and they degrade to... wired headphone
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by brimble 4y ago
You can just get up and go and not even think about power. You can even take an overnight trip and not bother to bring the power brick. It's very nice. ... plus, crazy, excessive-seeming battery life at purchase means you still have &q
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by brimble 4y ago
I didn't take incompetent as an insult, but in its straightforward, descriptive sense: the people were not competent at the jobs they were assigned to (and, presumably, weren't given sufficient help in becoming competent)
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by brimble 4y ago
Same. I also once had a woman say the exact same thing I'd said earlier, in a meeting, and get credit for the idea (which the company adopted). Not a big deal, I just thought it was funny to have such a stereotypical sexism-in-the-work
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by brimble 4y ago
> Use whatever typographic rules you like, as long as it communicates the ideas you like to tell...?! Following conventions & rules is exactly how you communicate those ideas. Failing to do so tends to cause confusion and distraction
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by brimble 4y ago
I really, really wish Apple would release an official way to run arbitrary older versions of their OS in VMs. They have a hypervisor and have for a long time, but using it to run an older OSX/macOS version is very much a DIY thing. It&

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