I'm sure they do, but I feel like even on r/datahoarders, I only ever see people talk about masses of HDDs, tape drives, or cloud storage.
Worst controller? Eh, I have controllers I don't like. N64 controller. Original Xbox controller. Dreamcast controller. But are they the worst? Idk. Maybe I just didn't have a whole lot of experience with any of those (didn't own any of those consoles).
Maybe the Wiimote. Like I get the idea, but as a dedicated controller, meh. Same with the Switch Joycon; maybe even more so. I have a Pro controller because the Joycons just don't cut it. When they're attached to the Switch, they're OK, but not as individual controllers.
Welp, did helped run my last conference with my current employer. This is my 18th annual event and like...Idk, 25th altogether? It was successful enough with no major issues. Nothing that attendees saw, anyway.
I'll probably never go back to Miami. At least not in the summer. Summers in the Midwest are already hot and humid and disgusting, yet somehow Florida in the summer is like 10x worse. Though I will say the food in Miami is to die for.
Either way, that was my very last one, hopefully forever. Though I said the same in 2019 and then ended up going back to the that company in 2021, so...never say never?
Relatedly, finally gave my new employer a start date. Hopefully they agree, as it's a couple month out still. But I need the time. I also gave my apartment property manager my move out notice.
Now to find a new apartment in the new city. Hopefully I can get that squared away this week.
So yeah, things are happening. itshappening.jpg
And you know we'll bitch and moan the whole way "Don't you know what I am? I'm a goddamn American! I have rights!" a la Randy Marsh.
I just don't go outside. AC running throughout the day, though I do set max temps at different levels throughout the day to take advantage of lower electricity rates or avoid higher rates.
This past week I did have to do some rare outdoors work for work over a few days. My team elected to do it in the evenings and early in the mornings. Was still quite warm, but not sun glaring down on us, we're gonna get heat stroke from this, afternoon sun.
Wow, I feel dumb. I've been here for a year and never looked closely at the bee (old or new). Never noticed the cowboy hat!
So I thought I was good to start a new job (though I've yet to set a start date), as the HR person assigned me said it was all good about a month ago, but then today he me tells me there was "a problem" with my drug test. A drug test I took 3 months ago. So I need to take another.
While I've only taken a few drug tests for employment during my career, they've never taken 3 months to get results. Like 2 weeks at most. Something tells me my HR person screwed up (which isn't surprising), got this notice a couple month ago, yet just now noticed this. Hate to say it, but typical government. The irony is that I'll soon be a govt worker. If we can get this straightened out.
On a more positive note, I just paid off one more student loan! After 19yrs of paying and thousands of dollars in interest on this one -- more than the principle at this point -- it's finally done. I had to get a hefty loan from my parents, but their terms are much better: 0% APR at the Bank of Mom & Dad versus the current variable 10.02% APR with the bank. Though I still have lots more students loans to go. Such a shitty, shitty system. At least I'm lucky enough my parents can help in this manner.
Stay in school, kids. But only if you don't fuck it all up like I did. I may be paying student loans til I die.
Maybe it's my doomerism at play, but even one year house arrest I'd be OK with. Keep him in NY in his Trump Tower penthouse. Don't let him go out to campaign.
Obviously jail would be better. I just don't think fines alone are going to cut it. He's not going to pay them.
You could also add toxic glue. It’s edible! Probably only once though.
This is now going to be added to some LLM-generated answer in the probably near future.
Congratulations to you and your spouse! If you're doing a honeymoon after (or even if you're not), I hope you both get some quality R&R!
I finally passed the checks for the job that I got offered 11mo ago. So now they're asking when I can start!
Which, right now, is like the worst time for me to leave my company. We have our big all-hands-on-deck event in like 5 weeks. I have a massive project I'm leading up that's supposed to be finished by end of July. And there's another project I'm assisting with heavily that's supposed to be finished by July/August. Even a couple months ago would've been better, to an extent.
While I'm usually one who's like "Welp, gotta go peace, here's my two weeks!", the organization I work for has treated me excellently over the years; about 17 of them. And the big project I'm working on is something that I specifically got invited back to the company to work on a few years ago. So I want to see it to completion (or as far as I can take it within reason). As far as the event, we are literally in the thick of it with preparation, so I don't want to unload all my tasks, last minute, on my team either. Lastly, my boss knows I've had this offer on deck for awhile now and he's been very cool with it. I don't want to burn this bridge (I've burned others elsewhere before). Because if this new job doesn't work out, there'd be a very, very high chance that all I'd have to do is ask and my boss would say, "OK, when do you want to start?"
So I'm thinking I don't start til late August, which my boss is very appreciative of. Plus that gives me time to find an apartment and move. I'm hoping my new soon-to-be employer will agree to that, especially given my circumstances, and that they've had me waiting for this long. I feel like that's only fair. I also have a friend who works closely with the team I'll be on; he says the team is probably not even ready for me anyway.
Either way, it's exciting. But also a bit scary, as I've never moved for a job, and I'll leaving a city I've spent practically my entire life at. I'll also be even further from my family than I already am. But I'm ready to go. I've been waiting for this for a long time, and it's finally happening.
Sorry to "necro" this thread, but I just got around to enabling and testing out your UPS kill command suggestion. Everything shutdown as planned, including the UPS itself. Once I restored wall power to the UPS, power started flowing to the server automatically, the BIOS detected it, and the server booted-up on its own! Success! ESXi is back up and VMs are still in the process of auto-starting. This is exactly how I wanted it all to work.
Thanks again for the suggestion!
My parents were the ones who pointed me to the high seas. I was a kid (12-13yo) when Napster came out. Being the family geek, they told me to look into it since they heard about it on the news and wanted free music (early case of the Streissand Effect before it was termed as such). So I did. And we got free music. Even asked them to get me a CD burner for my birthday after that and they did.
As a kid on the earlier days of the Internet, I came across all sorts of ways to get free stuff. Games and Music at first, especially game cracks/warez. Then once torrents came on the scene, movies and shows.
I actually don't pirate much anymore. Rarely pirate music since I've had Spotify for like 10+yrs now. Same with games since Steam and all the other digital storefronts have so many sales. I still pirate emulator ROMs once in a blue moon. Movies/shows would be where I pirate the most (though like once a month if that), even though I have Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll. Even between those 4, I can't find everything I want to watch.
But yeah, 99% of the time, I just don't want to pay for things. The other 1% is that I can't pay for something (mainly in the emulators/ROMs space). That's all.
I'm back in Vegas visiting my folks for Mother's Day, which was yesterday; Happy (belated) Mother's Day to the mothers and caregivers out there! Anyway, it's a nice change of scenery.
Work has been crazy last couple of weeks. We're getting close to launching a project I've been working on for two years. So lots going on with that to get everything completed on time. We've started vendor-led staff training on it, which is taking up a lot of time. In addition, we purchased another service, so we have training on those as well. So practically everyday, I have like 3-4hrs of trainings. We also have our big annual event coming up, so I need to start focusing on my responsibilities there. It's normally busy this time of the year, but I'm not normally juggling three big projects at once. Maybe I'm just a baby, but I'm not used to it. Either way, its not unmanageable. Yet. Hopefully it won't be at all.
The nice part of being in Pacific time zone is that I finish my day around 1-2p local time (I'm normally Central time zone). The downside is that I'm having to wake up at 4-5a local time to get going, get ready, have coffee, etc. Oh well, at least I can still roll out of bed over to my laptop.
I've tried to recommend Beehaw to others, but I don't think I've gotten a single bite. Because when they visit Beehaw, they also see content from the other parts of Lemmy -- both posts and comments -- that Beehaw still federates with, including .ml, and are turned off by a lot of it.
A big part of it is not understanding how the fediverse works, but that's to be expected; it is confusing. But even having heard my explanation, they're often still like, "Meh, I'll just stick with reddit..." because, as you mentioned, first impressions are everything.
Thanks for the reminder; always forget that's an option. Luckily Beehaw already defederated from Hexbear and lemmygrad.
Indeed. I enjoyed the asklemmy community over there, but lately there have been some "questions" posted that clearly have an agenda. Basically begging the question. I'm not saying I'm some free-market, anti-regulation libertarian. Far from it. But like you said, not every post has to be about that, and that we can discuss other things other than the downfall of capitalism. So I unsubscribed from that community, and even considered leaving Lemmy altogether since I feel like those types of posts/comments are so pervasive lately.
I don't pirate very often anymore, but when I do, I use whatever computer I happen to be on. I just turn on a VPN and bind the torrenting client to the VPN only. This is how I've torrented for years, since the late 2000s. I've gotten a couple strikes from my ISP several years ago, but that was before I had a commercial VPN. Otherwise, I've no issues.
What are the potential security upsides of doing it on a VM/container or a dedicated machine? I can imagine some performance upsides, but that's about it.
It's certainly a fan theory, but that's not a confirmed thing by any means. The location of the last battles does look the inside of a vagina, looking towards the cervix, but that's supposedly only a coincidence.
These are their exit interviews.
Some softball questions aimed at outgoing House members. Still kinda interesting. Especially when it comes to the Congressional salary question.
If you're not careful, you might think a poll just told you who is going to win
Basic article from Reuters on polling and what things in results mean or don't mean. Not at all in-depth but it is interactive. Always fun to play with sliders and buttons.
A Biden ballot brouhaha as Democrats try to certify the president ahead of convention, but GOP Ohio officials say that's not allowed.
> Ohio officials rejected a plan from Democrats to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot after the party scheduled its convention past a state election deadline.
> Secretary of State Frank LaRose warned Ohio Democrats earlier this month that Biden is at risk of not making the Nov. 5 ballot. State law requires officials to certify the ballot 90 days before an election − which is Aug. 7 this year − but the president won't officially be nominated until the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19.
> Lawmakers could pass an exemption to the 90-day deadline by May 9, as they did in 2020 when both parties scheduled their conventions too late. But the chances of that are slim: Top Democrats said they're deferring to the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee, and Republican leaders are unlikely to lend a helping hand.
The Senate has already passed similar legislation, which is awaiting House debate.
> Missouri House Republicans passed a resolution Wednesday that seeks to make it harder to amend the state constitution.
> Lawmakers voted 106-49 to pass the resolution, almost strictly on party lines, with Majority Floor Leader Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, being the only Republican to vote no.
> The resolution now goes to the Senate, which has already approved its version.
> [...]
> The resolution, if passed by both chambers, would ask voters whether it should be harder to amend Missouri’s constitution through the initiative petition process.
Even though this will likely pass both chambers, it still has to go to a plebiscite.
Hopefully Missourians are smart enough to vote down this attack on our rights. Luckily, voters have been pretty good about things like this (except for the rollback of the lobbying reform "Clean Missouri" act). Still, people need to be aware of this.
In a redo of their first failed attempt, Republicans pushed through the charges over solid Democratic opposition, making the homeland security secretary the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached.
Gifted link should be non-paywalled (Archive.is link if desired).
> The United States House of Representatives voted narrowly on Tuesday to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a precedent-shattering vote that charged him with willfully refusing to enforce border laws and breaching the public trust.
> In a 214-to-213 vote, Republicans barreled past the solid opposition of Democrats and reservations in their own ranks to make Mr. Mayorkas the first sitting cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached.
Gifted link should be non-paywalled (Archive.is link if desired).
> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) preemptively rejected the Senate’s $95 billion national security package to aid Israel, Ukraine and other U.S. allies, saying in a statement that the package’s failure to address U.S. border security makes it a nonstarter in the House.
Taiwan’s vice president, whose party has emphasized the island’s sovereignty, defeated an opposition party that favors reviving engagement with China.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/11011730
> [Submitted link is an NYT gifted link,](In a Setback for Beijing, Taiwan Elects Lai Ching-te as President) so should be a free to all to read. > >Taiwan’s vice president, Lai Ching-te, who has faced sustained hostility from China, won the island democracy’s presidential election on Saturday, a result that could prompt Beijing to step up pressure on Taiwan, deepening tensions with Washington. > > > For many of the millions of Taiwanese citizens who lined up at ballot booths on Saturday, the vote centered on the question of who should lead Taiwan in an increasingly tense standoff with its much larger, autocratic and heavily armed neighbor, China. >
Taiwan’s vice president, whose party has emphasized the island’s sovereignty, defeated an opposition party that favors reviving engagement with China.
[Submitted link is an NYT gifted link,](In a Setback for Beijing, Taiwan Elects Lai Ching-te as President) so should be a free to all to read. >Taiwan’s vice president, Lai Ching-te, who has faced sustained hostility from China, won the island democracy’s presidential election on Saturday, a result that could prompt Beijing to step up pressure on Taiwan, deepening tensions with Washington.
> For many of the millions of Taiwanese citizens who lined up at ballot booths on Saturday, the vote centered on the question of who should lead Taiwan in an increasingly tense standoff with its much larger, autocratic and heavily armed neighbor, China.
The farm barons of Tulare Lake Basin want to continue pumping groundwater at volumes collapsing the San Joaquin Valley. That puts the region at greater risk of damaging floods — and in greater need of taxpayer bailouts.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/10682799
> > Corcoran had been sinking, steadily, for years because of persistent overpumping of groundwater by major landowners in the Tulare Lake Basin that has sent the valley floor into a slow-motion collapse. And the levee raises made in 2017 — a multimillion-dollar effort funded by local property tax hikes and the prison system — were no longer up to the job. Ultimately, the state agreed to pour $17 million into another round of levee engineering in an effort to save the town. > > > Farmers, meanwhile, were frantic as the basin’s phantom lake reemerged for the first time in 25 years and floodwaters surged onto croplands that had not flooded in modern times. The same overpumping that was sinking Corcoran had caused geologic transformations across the basin. What was once high ground suddenly wasn’t; infrastructure critical to drainage had in some cases shifted; water flowed in unexpected ways.
The farm barons of Tulare Lake Basin want to continue pumping groundwater at volumes collapsing the San Joaquin Valley. That puts the region at greater risk of damaging floods — and in greater need of taxpayer bailouts.
> Corcoran had been sinking, steadily, for years because of persistent overpumping of groundwater by major landowners in the Tulare Lake Basin that has sent the valley floor into a slow-motion collapse. And the levee raises made in 2017 — a multimillion-dollar effort funded by local property tax hikes and the prison system — were no longer up to the job. Ultimately, the state agreed to pour $17 million into another round of levee engineering in an effort to save the town.
> Farmers, meanwhile, were frantic as the basin’s phantom lake reemerged for the first time in 25 years and floodwaters surged onto croplands that had not flooded in modern times. The same overpumping that was sinking Corcoran had caused geologic transformations across the basin. What was once high ground suddenly wasn’t; infrastructure critical to drainage had in some cases shifted; water flowed in unexpected ways.
About two months after being ousted as speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy said he would exit the House a year early.
> Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, who made history as the first speaker to be ousted from the post, announced on Wednesday that he would leave the House at the end of the year but said he planned to remain engaged in Republican politics.
Link is an NYT gift article that shouldn't be paywalled.
The mostly self-funded candidate slammed the RNC's "clubhouse debate requirements."
> North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday after repeatedly polling in the single digits and failing to qualify for the third and fourth GOP debates.
> In his statement, Burgum criticized the Republican National Committee’s “clubhouse debate requirements” that kept him from qualifying for November and December debates.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is ending his presidential campaign, he announced in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/Neoliberal/t/621727
> Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is ending his presidential campaign, he announced in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
Tom Emmer, the House G.O.P.’s No. 3 leader, narrowly won his party’s nomination but drew an immediate backlash from right-wing colleagues and former President Donald J. Trump.
This is a gift link, so should work for everyone.
> Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, dropped his bid for speaker on Tuesday hours after securing his divided party’s nomination, after a swift backlash from the right, including former President Donald J. Trump, left his candidacy in shambles.
Guy lasted like 4hrs as the nominee. Didn't even get a vote on the House floor before dropping out.
23 days til the government shuts down.
The CEO of an organization that partnered on the flights said the state was “in a rush” to help DeSantis score political points.
> Nearly two dozen Americans fleeing Israel with the help of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration were stranded for days in Cyprus before they finally got to Florida on Wednesday, according to the head of an international rescue organization who blamed contractors that state officials hired to run the operation.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is abandoning his challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
> Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday he is abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination for the White House in 2024.
> “I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” Kennedy announced to a crowd of supporters at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. “We declare independence from the cynical elites who betray our hope and who amplify our divisions. And finally, we declare independence from the two political parties.”
>His family name is almost synonymous with the Democratic Party, but Kennedy has determined that its primary nomination process was skewed in favor of President Joe Biden. That history, he said, made the decision personally painful for him.
> Some members of the Kennedy family released a joint statement in response calling his announcement “deeply saddening” and “perilous for our country.”
Less than a week after his ouster, the former speaker indicated he would be open to reinstatement as Republicans prepared to discuss whom to nominate to succeed him.
> Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy floated the possibility on Monday that he might be open to reclaiming the post from which he was ousted less than a week ago, even as two other Republicans vied to replace him in a contest that has highlighted the party’s deep divisions.
> With the House rudderless and paralyzed following Mr. McCarthy’s removal last week, the California Republican worked to project normalcy and leadership in the face of the war unfolding in Israel, after an invasion by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has led to hundreds of deaths and the capture of scores of civilian Israeli hostages. He summoned reporters to the Capitol to lay out a plan to defend Israel and rescue American captives.
The prison term for Enrique Tarrio was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.
> Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
That was an excellent race. Ferrari put on a show today.
Race Results SPOILER
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| POS | NO | DRIVER | CAR | LAPS | TIME/RETIRED | PTS | |-----|----|-----------------|------------------------------|------|--------------|-----| | 1 | 1 | Max Verstappen | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 50 | 1:12:13.618 | 25 | | 2 | 11 | Sergio Perez | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 50 | +7.686s | 18 | | 3 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | FERRARI | 50 | +11.674s | 15 | | 4 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | FERRARI | 50 | +12.119s | 12 | | 5 | 63 | George Russell | MERCEDES | 50 | +18.925s | 10 | | 6 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | MERCEDES | 50 | +39.111s | 8 | | 7 | 23 | Alexander Albon | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 50 | +45.198s | 6 | | 8 | 4 | Lando Norris | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 50 | +45.549s | 4 | | 9 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 50 | +46.424s | 2 | | 10 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 49 | +65.950s | 1 | | 11 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 49 | +71.398s | 0 | | 12 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 49 | +72.240s | 0 | | 13 | 40 | Liam Lawson | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 49 | +73.268s | 0 | | 14 | 18 | Lance Stroll | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 49 | +81.658s | 0 | | 15 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 49 | +81.913s | 0 | | 16 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | ALPINE RENAULT | 49 | +82.236s | 0 | | 17 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | HAAS FERRARI | 49 | +1 lap | 0 | | 18 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | HAAS FERRARI | 49 | +1 lap | 0 | | NC | 31 | Esteban Ocon | ALPINE RENAULT | 39 | DNF | 0 | | NC | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 0 | DNF | 0 |
Source: F1.com
That was a close quali fight at the end! Looking forward to the race tomorrow. And it should be sunny! First time in awhile we should see no rain at all.
Rumor has it that Bernie Ecclestone was seen with a bunch of hoses and sprinklers in preparation for the rainless race...
Quali Results SPOILER
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| POS | NO | DRIVER | CAR | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | LAPS | |-----|----|-----------------|------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|------| | 1 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | FERRARI | 1:21.965 | 1:20.991 | 1:20.294 | 20 | | 2 | 1 | Max Verstappen | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 1:21.573 | 1:20.937 | 1:20.307 | 21 | | 3 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | FERRARI | 1:21.788 | 1:20.977 | 1:20.361 | 21 | | 4 | 63 | George Russell | MERCEDES | 1:22.148 | 1:21.382 | 1:20.671 | 21 | | 5 | 11 | Sergio Perez | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 1:21.911 | 1:21.240 | 1:20.688 | 21 | | 6 | 23 | Alexander Albon | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:21.661 | 1:21.272 | 1:20.760 | 21 | | 7 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 1:22.106 | 1:21.527 | 1:20.785 | 24 | | 8 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | MERCEDES | 1:21.977 | 1:21.369 | 1:20.820 | 21 | | 9 | 4 | Lando Norris | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 1:21.995 | 1:21.581 | 1:20.979 | 23 | | 10 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 1:22.043 | 1:21.543 | 1:21.417 | 19 | | 11 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 1:21.852 | 1:21.594 | | 15 | | 12 | 40 | Liam Lawson | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 1:22.112 | 1:21.758 | | 15 | | 13 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | HAAS FERRARI | 1:22.343 | 1:21.776 | | 16 | | 14 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 1:22.249 | 1:21.940 | | 14 | | 15 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:21.930 | 1:21.944 | | 15 | | 16 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 1:22.390 | | | 8 | | 17 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | ALPINE RENAULT | 1:22.545 | | | 7 | | 18 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | ALPINE RENAULT | 1:22.548 | | | 8 | | 19 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | HAAS FERRARI | 1:22.592 | | | 8 | | 20 | 18 | Lance Stroll | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 1:22.860 | | | 9 |
Source: F1.com
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