dax

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[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Growing up without ubiquitous cable or satellite tv, I just did the world's biggest double take when I read "TV has always been a subscription model".

Just saying. We had 3 channels. 3. And on Sundays, every one of them was TV church. It was the fucking worst.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm on TMo and don't have that - but I also brought my own device. Would it be hiding under another name or am i good?

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

thank you so much for this context!

[–] dax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they not want to go to male prison because they are MtF? You're leaving out a ton of important detail here.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I donno man, seems like a lot of rich people piss is all over us

[–] dax@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was the plan, the vetting of the plan, the sign off of the plan, the execution of the plan.

so I mean yeah, just like generally the plan. I haven't made mead since, because it represents possibly the most monumental TIFU of my entire god damned life

[–] dax@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah, where else do you expect self published authors to make their mark?

I've extremely enjoyed the self-pub route so many authors can take these days. Some of my favorite series come from people who didn't even want to bother with the traditional publisher and I am so much happier for it.

So I mean, if you have some alternatives for self published authors to reach a broad audience with a minimum of fuss, that's great. I'm just not seeing a valid replacement, myself.

edit: that said, some are dumpster fires in a pit of eternal despair. but I'm a big boy, I can figure that out for myself.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, I saw some guy on reddit break out of his depression nest through a herculean effort one time and he was cleaning shit with the scotch brite pad and I felt like I just unlocked the path to earthly enlightenment

[–] dax@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

my friend, sometimes ordering a pizza is a valid life choice

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I might make a suggestion: https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Attachments-Scrubber-Attachment-Automobile/dp/B07P7NFV1F (or any appropriate analogue) makes "cleaning my mistakes up" way easier.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sort of.

I was making a gigantic batch of mead. Like 5 gallons of it, boiling away merrily. I carefully prepared my glass carboy ahead of time and poured the must (aka: that-which-will-be-mead-after-yeast-farts-in-it) into my carboy. This was fine. All according to plan.

The bucket of ice and cold water I added to the sink to cool it down faster so that I could throw the pitched yeast into it... also according to plan.

What was not according to plan was a gunshot sound going off, shards of glass shooting through the air like a grenade, and honey water cascading out over the edge of my sink all over my floor.

I've never felt more broken.

 

Undetermined routinely insists it isn't English and that I can't post it. And, to be fair, while english is my only language, that doesn't mean I'm Neil Gaiman or something with it. Maybe it just has exceedingly high standards?

Anyway, I was curious if there was a way in which I could set the Language default on posts and comments to English.

 

Apparently some popular vendors and brands are selling a mulch that is highly toxic to both cats and dogs. Marketed as a way to keep cats from digging up your garden, no reference is made at all to the dangers it poses to your own dogs.

 

I tend to go overkill when it comes to home networking and server infrastructure. I'm considering replacing my QNap, with what I assert is the world's worst software, with a homebrew and unRAID.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience doing this or not. For a few years I ran a raid 5 array on an old gaming PC, and then I swapped to qnap for "what if there is a fire, how do I grab and run with a computer that can act as an anchor for a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier". That's worked for the last 5 years, sort of, but I swear they make everything 10x harder than it has any right to be.

I was considering 4 x 10tb hdds and 3x2TB Evo 990 Pros, in a cache pool and/or 2x2TB in an SSD pool for docker containers and 1 2TB for the cache pool. I'm just not entirely sure where unRAID itself ends up going; the cache pool?

Aside from that question, any other "gotchas" that you've experienced? Any comparisons with qnap would be greatly appreciated, too.

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