oppy1984

joined 10 months ago
[–] oppy1984 3 points 10 hours ago

Agreed, we should have universal healthcare. But you know as well as I do he's bought and paid for by the lobbies and he'll never allow it. Might as well enjoy the shit posting pissing off the fascists since that's going to be the best we ever get from the soulless ghoul.

[–] oppy1984 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I completely agree and dread how the Dems will push him to the front despite the voters picking an actual progressive candidate.

But I do have to admit some of his trolling does make me laugh and the fact that the PedoKing are his magat worshipers are butt hurt by it does bring a smile to my face.

[–] oppy1984 1 points 11 hours ago

Around 2005 my dad was working for a small air cargo company, the owner did him a favor and gave me a part time job in the evening while I was going to the local community college. Dad did double duty as accounting and HR and when I hired in I had to meet with him to go over the company's employee handbook.

We went over bit by bit until I asked who would do that? to one of the items. He looked me straight in the eyes and said each of these rules come from actual incidents. He then calmly grabbed a tab and flipped to a section and said and we call this chapter Dennis.

Fun fact 20 years later and Dennis is the chief pilot of the company and one of only two people there I would blindly get in a plane with.

[–] oppy1984 3 points 11 hours ago

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

The first one was a masterpiece, two was good, but 3 & 4 just felt like they were pushing to hard to release quickly and had no real sole. The first John Wick I can rewatch over and over and enjoy every viewing. The rest.... once was enough.

[–] oppy1984 10 points 1 week ago

I was a scientist for Halloween a few years ago so I ran an experiment in the lab on this theory. Can confirm, hypothesis is correct, they are bigger on the screen.

[–] oppy1984 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, separate machines is the way.

My employer provides all of us with laptops for remote work, and management with cell phones. Some of these people (managers included) use the laptop as their sole computer for everything, and most of management takes advantage of the fact that if you port your phone number to the company phone you can switch between profiles and have the company pay the phone bill.

I look at these people and just marvel at their stupidity. My work laptop is on a segregated network and shut down when not in use. And if it goes like it looks like it's going, when I get a manager cell phone, I'll be keeping my personal phone separate. Keep'em separate always.

[–] oppy1984 3 points 3 weeks ago

I worked at KFC in high school, the girl who ran the register got that so many times she finally snapped and would respond to instance of this lame joke in a totally monotone voice while looking them right in the eyes "oh yeah, never heard that one before, ha......ha........ha" she got so many complaints filed against her it was hilarious.

[–] oppy1984 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, years ago there was a massive jackpot for mega millions or Powerball, I can't remember. I was hanging out with a buddy and we got to talking about what we'd do if we won. Of course we joked about all the stupid things we'd do, but after that night the thought stayed with me and I've put a lot of thought into it.

After years of thinking about it I realized that when I take vacation from work, I stay home but I work on projects I care about. Homelab, open source, animal welfare, ect. I have severe ADHD and can't stand just laying around, so I know I wouldn't stop working, I'd just stop working to live.

I even spent one weekend researching and developing a plan for if I actually won and put it all in a folder so I can just open the doc and see my plan, then take that an the spreadsheets to the lawyers, asset manager, and CPA, and protect myself and the money. Definitely not a obsessive ADHD weekend.....lol.

As it stands right now I'd take $5 million and live off dividends, each parent gets $5 million, and anything left over goes into a nonprofit foundation I would set up to fund all the open source and nonprofit projects I care about.

When people ask me why I waste money on the lottery, I just say I don't want the money to be rich, I want the money to be free. Also I only spend $12 a week to play, the only time I buy extra tickets is if I win a few bucks on a ticket, then I just cash it in for some extra draws.

[–] oppy1984 2 points 3 weeks ago

The previous windows install is the only thing I can see as the common denominator, I've installed Mint on three computers that started with no OS, and the Lenovo that was a Win 10 computer that I now have issues with.

Sorry I don't have any real answers, I wish I did since I'm having issues with a laptop too.

[–] oppy1984 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is the computer an old windows machine? I had a Lenovo laptop a while back that was a win 10 machine that I ran DBAN on then threw Mint on. After about a year of slow but solid performance I started having Grub issues and I just got sick of debugging it and gave up on it since it was just a hand-me-down and I prefer my desktop.

[–] oppy1984 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh the irony of that 80's commercial....

[–] oppy1984 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That's actually a good idea, just a tiny local model just to help you learn how to work in a terminal. I would have loved that when I first made the jump, the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.

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