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TIL: Millennials have 300% more student debt than their parents in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

His aren't. A pair of high-end massage guns so they can massage each other at the same time instead of taking turns. BowFlex adjustable dumbbells. Not a gadget, but a new Tesla Model S and charging port. There's an Amazon Echo Show in a few rooms...

I'm not saying that he shouldn't buy those things -- I'm saying he has a different mindset than I did/do, but I do believe that my mindset makes it easier to get by financially.

TIL: Millennials have 300% more student debt than their parents in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry it took me so long to respond. I was stuck in an infinite loop and had to reboot.

TIL: Millennials have 300% more student debt than their parents in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, I'm not a bot. Check my post history.

TIL: Millennials have 300% more student debt than their parents in c/[email protected]

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

When I went to college I had saved every penny that I made. I went to a community college for two years under an earned scholarship and worked during that time; then I transferred into a four-year institution that required three years of classes. I paid for the first two years with my savings and part of the third year with a loan. I continued on to grad school and took research/teaching assistantships to provide a salary that covered housing, but received free tuition as part of the deal.

My first semester at the four-year school was way harder than anything I was used to. At community college I had coasted along, but this required effort. Paying for it myself out my bank account made it so much more real, and I decided then that I was going to do better because I sure as heck didn't work so hard all those years just to throw it away.

We paid for most of our millenial child's college. He ended up dropping out of college a couple of times and always spent too much money. He's now married with a wife and child, and together they make more money than my wife and I did combined up until a few years ago. They're still living paycheck-to-paycheck but have to buy every new gadget.

Our two Gen-Z daughters just went off to college. They will probably graduate, but they also don't understand the value of money. They didn't want to work, didn't want to save... They get a scholarship that pays a monthly stipend, and they burn through that as it comes in. Their college decisions were based on things like "is that campus pretty?" "is their cafeteria food really good?" regardless of the cost. They refused to do community college.

What's my take? These three kids have a sense of entitlement and a need for immediate gratification that I didn't really see in my generation. I'm pretty sure this isn't the result of bad parenting (we adopted the two younger ones as teens), and I see it with co-workers' children as well.

Does that mean that every Millenial or Gen-Z is like this? No. It just means these three definitely are. But they don't get much pity from me when they complain and it was the result of bad choices. I chose my college path based on value: scholastic and economic. They chose their path based on social and sensory reasons.

Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!

I do have some feature requests -- is GitHub the best place to submit those?

TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not sure where you're getting your information.

I work there, have worked there for nearly three decades, and I can tell you that it's not the case.

(Also, it's just NCSA for trademark reasons, without 'the' in front)

TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It did get a lot of funding from the NSF in the early days, but the federal government didn't start pushing for public access to research done through grants and contracts until 2013. Before then it was only work done by federal agencies that was non copyrighted.

The National Science Foundation also didn't start funding Mosaic until 1994, which was after CGI had been released.

NCSA gets a lot of its funding from the private sector with partner programs, the University of Illinois, and the State of Illinois as well.

TIL “The Dark Side of the Moon”’s cover is apparently public domain if you slapped the letters “CGI” on it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I found the whole copyright thing at Wikipedia for this image pretty funny.

Even the simplest research shows that NCSA is a state-funded agency (through the University of Illinois system), not federal. If that image is in the public domain, it's not for the reason Wikipedia lists.

What's the most damning rumor ever spread about you? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was a manager, and another guy was a more senior manager in another division. We both did IT. For some reason he didn't like me and/or was trying to get our services moved to him, so he went to our director every week for over a year to tell him made-up stories about me.

He eventually left after a lot of people realized he was a highly manipulative, but I still hear things that he told people as part of an explanation about why I was passed up "for this" or why I wasn't right "for that." It cost me a lot of raises, especially in cases where things were gossiped to other people and the source was lost. Now I'm only a manager in title, but my management responsibilities were taken away.

Unfortunately, I'm caught in a ticking trap -- another 1.5 years and I retire with a full pension for the rest of my life. Losing that by leaving isn't worth it (assuming I live long enough afterwards).

[Question] Self hosted setup for monitoring Self-hosted services? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a big fan of netdata; it's part of my standard deployment. I put in some custom configs depending on what services are running on what servers. If there's an issue it sends me an email and posts into a slack channel.

Next step is an influxdb backend to keep more history.

I also use monit to restart certain services in certain situations.

Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Exactly!

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Why is Hetzner so stingy with server quotas? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I started migrating my servers from Linode to Hetzner Cloud this month, but noticed that my quota only gave me ten instances.

I need many more, probably on the order of 25 right now and probably more later. I'd also like the ability to create test servers, etc.

I asked for an increase with all of that in mind, and Hetzner replied:

"As we try to protect our resources we are raising limits step by step and on the actuall [sic] requirement. Please tell us your currently needed limit."

I don't understand. Does Hetzner not have enough servers to accommodate me? Wouldn't knowing the size of the server be relevant if it's an actual resource question?

I manage a very large OpenStack cluster for my day job and we just give people what they pay for. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this unless Hetzner might not be able to give me what I ultimately want to pay for, and if that's the case, I wonder if they're the right solution for me after all.

It also makes me worry about cloud elasticity.

Does anyone have any insights that can help me understand why keeping a low limit matters?