Sometimes I am not a good person. Then I revise my definition of “good” until we’re good to go again.

Not supposed to talk about it anymore, sir.

It’s a free ride when he thought he already paid.

I’ve seen all kinds.

Some will instantly change the lights and give cars a red.

Some will trigger the lights after a period of time - maybe synced to another traffic light, or a timer so it doesn’t change too quickly/often.

Some won’t actually cause the lights to change any sooner, but pressing the button will cause the chirping sound to play for people with visual impairments when the light finally changes.

And sometimes they’re broken and trigger the lights even when nobody pushed it. Those are fun when you’re driving a car.

Nope. I think it’s mostly a dead idea.

My mom is still hoarding (for me) a set of fine china dishes I inherited from my grandmother. They’re really nice.

But what am I going to do with them? Add specific furniture to my too-small home to store them so I can pull them out for certain dinner parties? We barely host for dinner anymore, and when we do, we keep it casual.

I think china cabinets go along with a whole bunch of social niceties that were important in the 20th century and have since withered.

Which password manager? I had the same problem with BitWarden until I found a buried setting to tweak each password domain. Maybe there’s a badly advertised feature in yours, too?

And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.

I seriously think this happened. I never used to see people signaling right and then turning left from a MIDDLE lane. People used to at least slow down at a red light before making a right turn. My dashcam went from an insurance policy to a highlight reel of absolute idiocy every time I drive.

I think it’s time everyone gets a road test every time they renew their drivers license.

That’s the right answer.

It seems weird in this context, but the normal case is if you’re paying with a gift card. If I had a $110 dinner and had a $100 gift card that was subtracted off the total, the expected tip would be off the $110, not just the $10 paid out of pocket.

Well it’s not a glop nor a goop. It’s not really an ooze either.

So I’m saying yes. It’s a goo.

I run everything in docker. My docker volumes are all subdirectories under /media, which is the root of my NAS. If an app only needs something specific, docker only mounts, eg /media/movies. If the app needs many subdirectories (like backups), it gets the full /media mount.

All the docker data/configs are under /docker/volumes (eg /docker/volumes/jellyfin), and every container is configured with compose in /docker/docker-compose.yml.

The biggest hurdle for me was creating a sane docker-compose file that defines where everything lives. Once that is standardized, adding and maintaining your apps becomes easy.

If you’re very new to this, even a dumb LLM like ChatGPT can be very helpful to explain what’s inconsistent, redundant, or incorrect with your config. If you are lost I would strongly suggest this as a way to get oriented. But DO NOT copy and paste anything into the LLM containing passwords, tokens, keys, etc. if you accident do, change those keys before finishing up your project.

With docker there’s no duplication- you have one copy of everything you need and you just point each container at the same data. This makes it trivial to keep file consistent across your apps and doesn’t waste space.

Get your water tested. That will tell you what’s in YOUR water - including the city treatment, city supply pipes, and even the pipes running into your home. Do your research based off the values you see in those results.

If you do thinks it’s worth getting a filter, install one in the kitchen. That’s where you get your drinking and cooking water from. Not much sense in buying a huge system to treat the water that goes into your shower or toilet or waters your garden.

There’s different levels of what is being sold as AI.

At the top, there’s the big promises that AI will replace all workers and somehow usher in a golden age. But there’s never any real evidence to support it. I consider this all hype that’s easily ignored and is only dangerous when powerful people start to believe and act on it.

Below that, AI is coming in like a new tool that speeds up tasks that are otherwise very manual.

Stupid example: remember on The Office when they read Michael’s script, and at one point the “idiot” character was referred to as “Dwigt”? The explanation was that Michael had originally written the character to make fun of Dwight and then changed it via find-and-replace. Except that doesn’t catch Dwigt because it was a typo. An AI solution would be way more likely to catch that and fix it, preventing a humiliating mistake from being printed, and saving a person hours of proofreading.

Better example: when I wrote code at work, I can tell the AI “now write all the automated tests” and in a couple minutes it will spit out a thorough test suite that exercises all the functionality and edge cases. Something that might take a few hours is basically done for me, and I just have to review it. That reviewing would normally have been done by 2 other people before we can ship that change. Instead, I can be one of those reviewers and only one additional person needs to go over it. We’ve just saved somebody an hour.

But those examples aren’t the ones being hyped up so heavily because it’s only making AI “useful”, not “revolutionary”.

It’s a tool. It’s good at some things. It’s hilariously bad at others.

IMO it’s more like how Excel came in and replaced a bunch of tedious paperwork, allowing complicated spreadsheets to suddenly be easily edited and dynamically updated when you need to make changes.

I see posts like this sometimes and wonder wtf they’re talking about.

Then I see how huge my blocklist is and realize I’m probably having a very different Lemmy experience.

I will suggest things when it starts with “this thing we do isn’t working” and it’s in an area that actually affects my work. It helps to include a suggestion on what would fix it. I’m talking about process things that people often stop noticing after a while.

If some sales guy sleeps at his desk 6 hours a day I don’t say shit and don’t give a fuck. That’s his manager’s fault and problem.

My general attitude toward work is that I want to be able to do my job with as little friction as possible. I’m there to stay in my lane and do excellent work. The other lanes, corporate strategies, managerial book-of-the-month, corporate culture and values do not interest me.

Whenever I’m able to get one on one time with junior employees I always remind them “it’s a multi billion dollar company. It is not your friend. Do what you do for your own career, not this corporation.”

The LubeLogger meltdown ticket is pretty goddamn funny.

Fully agreed. The mods will add this as a rule but probably not enforce it super aggressively. Unlike things like abuse and spam, the downsides of not adding a tag is that you’ll invite lower quality responses. We can look at some kind of automation if the community really grows.

Pros: Posts are more obvious when you’re browsing posts from multiple communities. It helps reinforce/remind what tone replies should take.

Cons: More work to mod!

I’d love to hear more feedback from people about what they think. Upvoting the post doesn’t count - USE YOUR WORDS.

Thank you! But I prefer to think of myself as a terrible person.

FINE.

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