I have reinvented said wheel so many times.

Being in a band is like being on a sports team. Especially in orchestral or big band settings, it’s important that each individual plays their written part as written. A conductor is up front to give cues for when to enter, exit, or to change dynamics. They aren’t out there micro managing individuals but steering the entire group. In rehearsal, smaller groups may be called to play their part in solo, but this is just practice.

If you hire an instructor to teach you how to play an instrument, then that is literally paying someone to micro manage you. Their whole job is to give you a instructions, watch you practice, and critique your playing. In something like a guitar that will be physical aspects like hand position, finger position, how you holding your pick and music theory skills like rhythm, chords, and scales. During a lesson you’ll be micro managed but you should leave with exercises to practice. It’s on you if you put in the work, but an instructor will just get paid for you to make slow progress when you come back. It’s entirely possible to learn how to do all of this without human interaction.

If you join a band, like a rock band, the situation will be what you make it. There are no formal rules, you just have to work as a group to make music sound good. If you can do that as a cohesive group then no micromanaging is necessary.

My wife and I bought a house about 6 years ago. The previous tenants were going to do a lease to own situation that fell through. When they left the house, they cut all of the power and left it vacant for a couple of months. After we made our offer, I was walking through the house and opened the refrigerator and was presented with about 40 lbs of spoiled meat that was abandoned. The smell was awful and no matter what I did for cleaning, the fridge was never going to bounce back. Due to timing, we moved in before we could address the fridge, so it was still there when we brought our dogs in for the first time. Brutus walked up to the fridge, smelled it, and peed on it. We all just laughed because he was right. He has only had one accident in the house over the past 7 years, and this wasn’t it. We bought a new fridge the next night. Maybe not the funniest thing of all the things our dogs have done, but one of my favorites.

It’s the fear or apathy of the asshole to retaliate. I could be on a bus, and there could be an asshole playing music without headphones. Saying something could come with verbal abuse at the least and could end in a physical altercation with or without weapons at worst. As the annoyed passerby, is confronting the asshole worth the effort and risk for quiet?

I love calling people out when I can, but you gotta pick your battles.

I haven’t played a FF game in years, but grew up playing them. At least up through FF10, the stories were compelling. The turn based game play is slow, and I get not enjoying that, but I liked the writing the most.

Right. Too many commas makes for too many pauses in speech.

I can’t read things comfortably with too many commas. My internal monologue stops at each if them.

If there were a product remotely in the ballpark, I’d consider switching. Fortunately, this is pretty much the only time in the past ~decade I can think of them doing this.

It was their transition to AI that got me out. The incessant notifications were a close second.

Absolutely not. I use the proper word for the situation. If someone raped someone, I’m going to use the word rape, not sugar coat to soften the blow and lessen the severity of the action. If the audience I’m talking to doesn’t know what the word rape means, then we probably aren’t having the conversation to begin with.

Ugh… Same. Legally, I couldn’t have agreed, but that didn’t matter. Not my proudest moment.

Day to day, I’d take a dry 100 degrees. My problem is a like to do cardio exercise outside, like run and bike. 100 degrees makes that significantly more difficult and dangerous. We’ve had upper 90s and high humidity the last couple of weeks and it’s been tough to do anything more than about 20 minutes at a time.

On the other hand, I love to snowboard, which can’t happen in triple digits. Snow and ice depending, biking and running are doable at single digit temps. I hate walking outside and feeling pain from the cold temps.

I’d probably take the triple digits and travel for cold vacations.

Imagine not understanding that single digits == cold and triple digits== hot. It’s funny how everyone else seemed to figure it out.

Let’s use our child brain for a minute so hopefully I can help you understand this. Let’s assume that the initial post was in celcius. Single digits is cool and livable. What about triple digits? Do you think that living at triple digits celcius is even a viable option? Did you really need someone to identify the unit of measure for you to understand the question?

Your pedantry makes you look like an idiot that has no critical thinking ability.

VHS, Care Bears rainy day off, and TV recordings of various other cartoons. I grew up on network television with a heavy focus on The Simpsons.

Chase powder and try to snowboard year round until I physically can’t. I’d love to have a highlight video of riding spines in Alaska. Really, if I could have the skills and the means to be able to compete on the natural selection tour, even if I didn’t compete, just be good enough to do so, that would be heaven.

It took me 7 years to get a 2 year degree. I work with one of my best friends who got his masters in that same time. We’re both successful and excell at what we do. It does suck that you have to wait to be done, but one silver lining is you may have a better job market since you won’t be graduating with the vast majority of college students competing for the same spots.

If my personal laptop is stolen, my drive encryption will protect my data. Without that, physical access is enough to pull info unencrypted. A user password will prevent OS access both locally and remote. If someone happens to get my password or bypasses my login somehow, I don’t want them to be able to open my email and read messages, or open a browser, go to a logged in Amazon page, and be able to order items. I personally don’t keep anything logged in and everything logs out when my browser is closed. It’s inconvenient, but to the tune of an extra minute each day to login to everything.

Really, you just have to decide your risk tolerance. Businesses have a lot at stake and therefore it behooves them to force strict auth policies. If you aren’t concerned about your personal stuff, set a login password if you want, and put your creds in browser, but I’d urge to at least use a password keeper over a browser.

That’s the nature of how AD works. The vast majority of businesses operate in that manner. Maybe not so much assigned other than resets and service accounts, but they are managed centrally. My user password is stored on my companies AD. They didn’t know it, but it is managed there. That doesn’t make it a not safe password, but that’s also why other security is recommended instead of just one password.

I’m gonna have to disagree even though it is an annoying process listed above.

In this case there was a drive encryption password to prevent data theft if the device is stolen, OS login for user level access, a password keeper login at the application level, and MFA on a different app. That is 5 different auths (drive, os, pw keeper, email, MFA) for 5 unassociated objects managed by potentially 5 different entities. The only reason this was an issue was the dead phone for MFA, which is a user error. It super sucks that this is best practice because of bad actors, but this is baseline auth.

I am curious how you would do this differently though if you’ve got ideas. In this case, assuming the OS is Windows and email is Outlook, this could have all been handled with SSO, which would have only required the first two passwords, which is my daily work experience. However, I then get into Bitwarden and log into any not SSO apps I need and have MFA configured for all that support. I work remote a lot and my company is looking at an always VPN connection for everything. That would require me to go through another level or two of auth.

I was a carry-out at my local hardware store for a few years in college. I brought carts in from the corrals and helped people load heavy stuff. I’ve seen and been victim to the damage caused when a rogue cart catches the wind and fucks off down the parking lot. People that leave their cart not in a corral or inside disgust me more than more most lazy people.

You’re my hero, dude.