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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Valheim. I think the game needs to scale better when playing solo.
The meadow was a simple and chill starter level.
The forest was a lot harder, but still reasonable. I struggled with the boss, but I managed.
There was a plains biome on my way to the swamp, and after checking it out I learned quickly that it's not somewhere I should set foot again for like a million years. It took me quite a few tries (and boats) to get my stuff back.
The swamp was really hard, but I pulled through, mostly by simply avoiding those huge lumbering root-looking monsters. I had to cheese the boss by firing a million arrows from my boat where he couldn't reach me.
I got insta-pasted while searching for silver in the mountains, and it's pretty far from my main base, that's where my body still rests. It's been well over a year since I last launched the game.

It's an incredibly great game, but having to gather all the metal for my gear from scratch is just so demotivating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Instead of my favorite, which is very well known, I've chosen to promote a different awesome song in an adjacent genre:

Destiny Potato - Addict

Excellent song, and the buildup + guitar solo = chefs kiss

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes, definitely. It's easier now that I'm part of operational support and can oversimplify it by referring to myself as an IT dude, but back when I was part of the field rotation, when I tried to sum up what "offshore seismic survey technician" is, I was sometimes asked "so, how's it like working on an oil rig?".
I wouldn't know, I've never been on one. I've been on ships around them, but never on the rigs themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This was in 2004 or so. And no, they're not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yes, so it became common that they sat down and watched it with us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apartments as fancy as its denizens are willing to make it, really.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I did. But we were acquired by some not so good people. I quit and joined some other former coworkers, so now I work with good people again.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

2020, covid really starting to affect the company I worked for. And there was a townhall meeting where it was announced that there would be layoffs. (This was long after management had taken a pretty big pay cut to reduce cost. To be fair, they did right by us for as long as they could).

I was among the last to join the company, being hired despite there technically being a hiring freeze in effect (it helps to know people), so I assumed I'd be among the first ones to go.

Shortly after the townhall I got a phone from my manager. "Shit, here comes the call" I thought to myself. He was offering me a promotion instead.

Turned out that the guy whos position I'd been offered had been open about wanting to leave for a while, and he had chosen to do so now to save one headcount for the layoffs. But his position still needed to be filled, so they picked someone from the department that was most likely to see the most layoffs. And that was my department.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

More like a building where several strangers each pay for a flat, and people are free to come and go to different flats as they please.

I also think there would be a couple of distinct groups sticking to their own flats, and none of the others in the building wanting to visit them. These flats are known as "Defederated". Now and then a newcomer will stumble through the door, have a look around, and decide to never open that particular door again.

Note that I'm not mentioning any particular instances, so if you feel offended by this, that's probably on you.

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....to a reasonable degree, at least.

 

A couple of others I can think of:

  • Crypto-boom of 2016ish: GPUs/mining rigs
  • LLM/AI hype nowish: User generated data
  • 90's dotcom bubble: Server space
 

Turns out Outlook sucks ass for anything not part of an office365 subscription, so I'm looking for something else. Preferably open source, preferably available via F-Droid.

 

One example I've seen is someone talking about being coconut-pilled.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/13434122

What are some interesting communities on Matrix worth checking out?

Title, pretty much. I'm in a couple of niche communities, and thought I should expa d into more generalized communities. All things tech are of interest, really.

Which communities are you in?

 

So, my employer suggested that it would be good for me, professionally, to get my certifications up to speed, and told me to pick a few that I found the most relevant at their expense. As I mainly deal with networks and Linux servers, and have done so for decades at this point, this was easy enough: renewing my CCNA that I took some 20 years ago, as well as getting my CCNP. The latter of which is closely related to what I already do.

However, my employer decided that I must pursue at least one Microsoft certification, and I honestly don't know where to start, as the only microsoft software I use is Outlook.

I've been thinking of my status as the walking embodiment of the "old man yells at cloud"-meme, and thinking it's probably time to turn into "old man embraces cloud". I know that a lot of our infrastructure runs in azure (something with which I have no experience. I did use some Oracle cloud VMs at one point, that's it.), and I know there was a huge ordeal last year that involved doing a lot of dataprocessing on temporary azure architecture, and I figure I should probably get in on that at some point.

Is perhaps something Azure related my best bet?

UPDATE: I was going to go for some azure stuff, but I resigned instead. Let's see if my new employer is willing to pick up the tab instead.

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