White guys wearing shorts when its cold memes always makes me think of Suffer for fashion by Of Montreal . Thanks everyone for reminding me its time for an Elephant 6 listen session.

Personally I was always confused by it. I’m a white guy who loves long clothes and rock jeans whenever I can. My dad would (still does sometimes) wear shorts when its sub 50°F. I would ask why and he said he was from Michigan so I wrote it off.

I had a few friends in middle and high school who would wear shorts year round. I never realized why and they told me they were tough and shorts look cool. After growing up and looking back on their situation they probably only owned a set of clothes for year round use.

Its not and I learned that fast. At least I got to have some fun at the end

My last contract had that and the first year I barely used 2 weeks. My regional manager started giving us heads up during contract negotiation time that we might not get it. Ended up taking 3 weeks that he approved and felt so good to actually use the benefits that were promised. He was going to retire soon anyways, so he was approving left and right.

Ended up get hired back at the same place under a different company, and now our PTO and vacation is horseshit

My first “true gaming PC” has been turned into a NAS and small docker host. Its about to turn 15, and I have spare hardware to upgrade it, but I like to see how much I can churn out of it.

Has anyone set one of these up? A friend of mine just found one in a box during their move, and asked if this project was still active.

China has some fun stuff. A friend of mine picked up a magnet for me that says “under fog she is beautiful clear morning she is zombie.”

Apparently that was a print the store was running, but she didn’t want to buy me the shirt. I get why, but thats been my favorite fridge magnet for years.

I typed it once, I’m not typing it again

I was moving plex from my NAS to a dedicated box this weekend and spend 3 hours going crazy on why my movie library wasn’t showing up. After a break and looking through fstab, I realized “novie” wasn’t a share…

Remember kids, always work from the simplest solution up

Thanks! Finishing up the work day but will take a closer look soon

Could I use this to set a monthly job that runs and updates my local copy? Does it download/update changes made since my last sync or would it just redownload and replace the previous months in this situation?

During lockdown my team was “mandatory local support” so we got take out lunch paid for 2 days a week day. Friday was cracker barrel day since it was close and filled us up enough for an “average Friday workload”. Mainly lazy days not wanting to get out of chairs due to “CB gut”. Cracker barrel will forever be “cinder block gut” to me now.

But ehh, another dumb rebranding freakout that doesnt matter. You are still buying slop to go in your belly.

Edit: Cracker Barrel was my shit when my family would do road trips. On one we drove past the state capital and my dad said “hey look at it!”. There was a cracker barrel roadsign on the highway and I screamed out “let’s get cracker barrel!”

Kinda glad I took the community college IT/infra route when I went back to school a little bit ago, but still scared for the future lol.

Businesses are locked in and the people making the decisions aren’t IT people. I did the Win11 conversion at my last job and have been working on it at my current position. It might just be my social bubble, but the only people worried about Win10 is corpo.

Just moved to a place with sidewalks and walking my dog is actually relaxing now.

About a month ago I lost outlined text. Currently I can only do highlighted text, which looks awful everywhere. I can’t believe I need to post this in 2025:

Both of the Joel Schumacher films are fun if you don’t take them seriously. They’re not perfect by any means, but I’ll throw them on every few years and have a good time. I can’t even remember the last time I watched the Burton films, besides clips of “Love that Joker”

Yes, this is only happening in China

Yesterday I type “what” into my search engine and within the top 5 was “what is a tariff”. Import tax would make too much sense and people wouldn’t stand behind it if it was referred to as such.

I get that tariff is the correct word and I understand what they are, but I am sure people like my dipshit cousins had no clue until a few days ago.

I need to know if there are hot single moms in my area!

The Blue/Green tick thing has winded down in my own personal sphere. My wife’s family has a group chat where I was the only android user and would get dunked on when I replied. I just asked to be removed so they wouldn’t have to deal with SMS/MMS bullshit. Now that RCS is on everything it doesn’t matter. Ive been trying to get them to use Signal for the last few years but no one wants another app that isn’t their default messaging app.

On the second part, yeah thats true. If Apple does anything right it’s making “things work” for the average user, and I am sure we all know what the average user can do now. Any concerns I bring up with iOS is met with “but you work in IT and understand that stuff” which is hard to argue with when people just want something to work without troubleshooting and exploring options.