voracitude

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

FWIW I'd go with seeing if you can get comfortable around him first, as suggested here. I definitely agree that you have to be ready before going on this trip, and hanging out with the dude to get to know him would be a big part of that. Because the truth is, the two of you likely have a some stuff in common and you'd probably get along really well under other circumstances.

If you're not mad at her anymore, maybe it might help to view him through the lens of someone who makes her happy; there's also an opportunity here to make a good friend who you can trust to take good care of her and your son if something happens to you. If you do decide to meet up with him, you might even ask her about some things she thinks you might like about him so you have some conversation starters. And, it's clear that there's good will on the other side to try and mend fences for the sake of the kid, which speaks well to both his character and that of your ex-wife. They could have just said no and never mentioned it to you, or worse they could have been scheming to cut you out of your son's life. A holiday invitation kinda says a lot about how they view you, when you think of it like that.

However you decide bud I hope you manage okay through all this, and I do hope you can find a way to be friendly with him. It's incredibly strong of you to even be considering putting yourself out there like that. As evidenced by most of the comments here, that would not be a common reaction. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Splitting out storage and computer is definitely good first step to increase optimization and increase failure resiliency.

Exactly why I've been considering doing it this way for my new setup! I had to leave my last one on the other side of the planet and have felt positively cramped with just a couple TB worth of internal drives, can't wait to properly spread out again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The same kind as being used by the hyper-rich to nip down the shops for a ham sandwich?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

IT here, please don't drag us into this... unless you're looking for help. We enjoy malicious compliance just as much as anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great, now all those good-looking emergency personnel are going to be tied up answering marketing calls instead of driving out in their nicer vans to help up elderly people who've fallen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's funny you say that, because in my experience what you're describing is Arch. Mint, meanwhile, was the first time I'd used Linux and had it "just work". What distro are you using that you don't have to "fiddle-fuck around" with it at all?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No joke, that's the distro I'm going with 🙌 Mint is great!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Even if all the processing remained on my devices, I still wouldn't want or trust it. Microsoft could change that policy at any time, claim something like my logging in to my local account constituted agreeing to their new terms, and expose screenshots of my password manager in an unsecured public data store.

Fuck Windows Recall, and fuck Microsoft generally for being so fucking awful to their customers but mainly fuck them for forcing me to finally make good on my threat to switch to Linux. I've been using Windows for over thirty years and switching off their spyware for ten, but this is the final straw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

This worked, thank

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hello I would like to run a neural network to play Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings, only catch is my rig is a month old potato, my monitor is a cracked windshield I ripped off the wreck of an old Pontiac at the local junkyard, the night attendant feels bad for me so he lets me scavenge sometimes, plz help

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You would not believe how many more bags you can fit in that one bag if you fold them, rather than crumple them!

view more: next ›