just now seen on the tailgate of a truck at Lenexa Costco:
"The only minority destroying the country is the billionaires."
KS plate hailing from JO, too
gives me a little faith in society...
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Preparing to do some financial squaring-away. Going to start with getting some passive income generated (probably via a ladder of some kind)
I need to focus on making what money I've saved work for me. I'll admit I should have done this far earlier than now. I'll also grumble about needing to have known this in the 1980s instead of catching up now.
Props to those who do actual software programming -- everything from designing UIs to actually writing the programs to doing "not sexy" but VERY important things like writing good documentation or debugging, and maintaining existing code.
Those of us who are left willingly doing this for a living have major obstacles in our path: vibe-coded "AI" slop, needlessly-bloated middleware, intentionally non-optimized software that gives us a bad name, etc.
That we've not quit by now is a miracle.
I'd like to slap whoever at DELL thought it was a great idea to ship computers with ONLY DisplayPort and no (obvious) way to have HDMI without some hassle
This goes especially for their "1L" computers. I have an Optiplex 3060 that's like that. 2 DisplayPorts; 0 HDMI ports. I have to use a unidirectional cable to go to an HDMI display, and luckily for me, the KVMs I hook that to are good enough. (that machine is otherwise good enough to run today's stuff)
LibreWolf, Waterfox, Floorp. Three WEB BROWSERS that are based off Firefox and prove that it can be a competent web browser.
Mozilla is just making excuses at this point.
https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/4fce9f8f-0c7d-4532-98a6-46754b4c2202
This is one of the best kitchen appliances I have.
It lets me use one repeatable process to perfectly hard-boil eggs every time, by the half-dozen. I just give it the amount of water needed for hard-boiling 4+ eggs, punch small holes in the large side with the tool included in the measuring cup, put my half-dozen eggs in, cover, and press the power button. It lets me know when it's done, and I cool the eggs in water to finish.
Its stuff like this that makes me question whether I'm really just another hack when I program. Even I know how to special case when I've counted to 1...
really... this is in the same Kansas that tried to push "Intelligent Design" through public schools (though I was in the next state over when they did that, and STILL moved here because it was somehow MORE progressive)
I'm getting the feeling that I've lived in a fucked-up place for 30 years. >:o(
In USA, GOP keep hounding about how "socialism is bad", and the examples they keep giving of why this is so make me want socialism to come sooner.
And then there are numbnuts shitheads out there (seriously? can't tell) asking if fathers are OK with having women educate the kids, and saying that if he were elected to the board of education, it'd be all MALE
Now authorities of all genders committed harm on me, but having "be a MAN" be the dominant lesson wasn't one of the 99 ways...
Proof that my reminders are doing the correct thing:
Utility bill sometimes sends email, sometimes doesn't. This is generally true for most of the bills. Having reliable reminders firing is the only way to be sure I can track the bills and pay them on time. (yes, I have reminders even for "auto pay" ones, because it's been proven that I can't trust THAT, either)