I've been reading "How Lucky" the novel - so far it's a great book.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Wil Wheaton gave a perfect explanation of how to separate problematic artists from their art

In an era of debates over cancel culture and increased accountability for people with horrendous views and behaviors, the question of art vs. artist is a tricky one. When you find out an actor whose work you enjoy is blatantly racist and anti-semitic in real life, does that realization ruin every movie they've been a part of? What about an author who has expressed harmful opinions about a marginalized group? What about a smart, witty comedian who turns out to be a serial sexual assaulter? Where do you draw the line between a creator and their creation

I feel similar to Wil Wheaton. I have a distaste for more than a few individuals in Hollywood but movies such as "Casino," "The Godfather II" and many others will continually be in my re-watch list for the unseeable future.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

He, more than Curtis, is actively malicious in every answer he gives.

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Yeah, what's considered allowable maliciousness in some of those posts is pretty extreme.

Such inconsistency... I got booted by them just for calling out sales dick posts.

@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:

I thought about paying for DuoLingo because I can't stand the ads all the time and lack of freedom.

But lately I have been doing a lot on Anki. There's some really great decks in there. I also paired it with Mango which has been great as well. Another one that is great is Beelingual when you want to start doing more reading.

TL;DR

Anki
Mango
Beelingual

My DuoLingo stopped showing ads a while ago. No idea why.

Last night we finished "Nancy Drew and the Haunting of Castle Malloy"

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching Blue Origin launch

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Successful Launch and return.

uh what?

In total, it's an eleven min flight. Blue Origin hasn't completed an orbital flight yet I don't believe.

But Blue Origin has at least made it to the Kármán Line. Unlike Virgin.

Rueters article said 106km.
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Captain Kirk made it. Now Captain Picard needs a go.

I'm listening to a fresh, vinyl copy of Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary special edition with all the extra stuff. Good shit.

@obsolesce said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@dashrender said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

@pete-s said in Framework | Modularity hits laptops?:

That company is not going to be around in five years. Good luck finding any upgrades then.
The whole idea is flawed in too many ways to list.

If you want to have your laptop for a number of years, just get one that can actually be opened and have components replaced. A lot of them can - almost everyone I'd say with exceptions such as apple. For example:

I tend to agree with you. My old Lenovo, you know the one I got the same time Dominica won one from SpiceWorld - it was easy to upgrade the SSD or RAM, really the main components one would upgrade.

Yeah, a lot of them are easy because laptops are made out of components anyway.

Here are videos of hundreds of laptops and how to open them and how to do upgrades:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpYZc4lOys6gtJj8-dr4pY1-m0yo_NYqn

The biggest waste is things like the monitor - they can generally last 8-12 years, so short of needing an upgrade there, there is nothing wrong with it, yet we are tossing it aside because we want a new processor.

Hmm... Can you still get newer or upgraded VGA monitors?

The just ordered and received Viewsonic monitors have VGA ports on them....

Youtube Video

@gjacobse said in Broken Vendors Apps:

How often is it that you run into a Vendor's Application that is broke AF!?

Like... always.

Nica Breakfast Burrito

The Nica Breakfast Burrito ;)

@dustinb3403 said in What does your desk look like?:

Yeah I agree with Scott here, an employee is someone you hired after the business is in place, not a founder etc.

That has nothing to do with what @Dashrender said.

A little nostalgia....

Captain Pike in TOS - Jeffrey Hunter - played Jesus Christ in the movie King of Kings, ca. early to mid 60's.

If you think of it, a blue eyed Jesus is a bit odd.

@hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

That was part of the etc 😁😁😁😁
Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff.

It's not generic hosting of websites as you don't have control like you would on a normal webserver.

It's simplified hosting and the github/gitlab pages was initially intended to complement the projects on there. So it would be easy to make a html website from the git repositories, for instance for documentation.

Since you can store any files on gitlab/github you could of course also use the pages for any type of static website.

Here is how to get started in the simplest way possible:
https://guides.github.com/features/pages/

@pete-s said in Financially hobbled for life: The elite master’s degrees that don’t pay off:

Well, the students didn't have spreadsheets on their mind when they decided to go for life crushing debt...

LOL, right. Why would they do that!

@nadnerb said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@wrcombs said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@nadnerb said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

@wrcombs said in audio book / Podcast recommendations -:

I have approx. 12.5 hour of driving ahead of me next week. (6hours one way+ driving around the city)
Looking for Audiot Book or Podcast Recommendations to keep me somewhat sane during my time in the car.

Someone recommended “gluten is not your problem “ to me but I’m not really a podcast person so I haven’t listened to more than a few minutes.

sounds like it's about food..

I think there’s more than just food from what I was told but I’d hazard a guess that there’s a lot about food

interesting, Thanks!

Welcome @fsalazar from NTG Bolivia.

@scottalanmiller And Momma just asked if she could have speakers in the laundry room and She Shed!