I use VBox to run my PiHole for now and have used it to play with a couple distros side by side. I also have a sup'd up tower built from spare parts from work, so resources aren't a constraint.

We're in a tight spot, our service desk is outsourced while escalations or issues requiring hands on are sent to us. Problem is our service desk is a dumpster fire. I have regular meetings with their leadership to address this but it literally makes no difference. I recently caught that one of their agents we told them to remove from our contract was back and just as shitty and work avoiding.

We're in the midst of replacing them with an internal regional team, but regional moves glacially slow. So we're in a "please use the service desk" and "fuck just email/teams me the details and I'll handle it when I have time" kinda situation. I'd love everything to go through tickets but I also know there's a 50/50 chance that service desk will fuck it up by camping on the ticket, sending it to our sister site who also uses them, or completely not understanding the situation and cocking up the ticket notes before escalating or closing the ticket...

Recently they took a user complaint of a singular device being offline and noted it as "entire site is without network", giving it a priority 1 status and escalating to our on-call line.

Sometimes they also take an actual P1 issue and dump into our queue without calling our hunt group or on-call number during business hours. We're project heavy so we don't hawk the ticket queue and it often leads us to missing the SLA of 30 minutes to assign the ticket to a tech.

Dumpster. Fire.

This made me think of the game, of which I have lost, and will follow the rule this time.

I only don't hate this because I love frogs. If the spider lives frog too, then I can tolerate it.

This is terrifying. Thank fuck I'm not in the US. I already get anxious when some random knocks on my door. If they started spouting off about praying for me and my family I'd be weirded right the fuck out.

Granted, I love my physical privacy. I generally don't answer the door to plain cloths unless I'm expecting someone. My 5 year goal is to move outside of my current town and have no neighbours. Preferably with a nice long driveway that I may install a gate on at the road.

Stumbled across an execution on 4chan once in my early twenties. The moment I realized what was up I closed the browser and never returned to 4chan. It still pops up in my head every now and then as an intrusive thought.

If anyone ever tried to force one of my kids to watch an execution I'd lose my damn mind, regardless of their age.

Isn't there a plaque at the Statue of Liberty saying something like:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The US and Canada were literally started by immigration, grown by it. Before these two countries were born it belonged to First Nations and the wild. The attitude of 'fuck you I got mine' is classic boomer and why society is so fucked today. If they weren't so rightfully scared of ICE they'd be taxpayers, adding even more value to the country than just their labour and culture alone.

I feel like I'm too poor to understand what happens between steps 2 & 3 without having a job. How are they paying the loans off? Where does that money come from? And if they have an income in order to pay the loan, why get the loan to begin with?

Full moron is more than partial moron.

A partial moron might believe whatever he's told but then have a "wait a minute, something's not right here" moment. A full moron doesn't have that moment and spreads the problem to others.

Another example would be a "leopards are my face" moment. A partial moron would be surprised that approaching a leopard caused them bodily harm but learn not to do it again. A full moron would sue the leopard but do it again with their child.

Another example: a partial moron gets directions, sees the distance, thinks a half tank of gas will get them there and back despite prior trips showing the opposite. But they have a Jerry can in the trunk. A full moron wouldn't have the Jerry can and buys a bigger vehicle with a larger engine because it comes with a bigger gas tank and then blames the liberals when they still run out of gas.

Partial = recoverable, full = hopeless

Deodorant user here. I smell great because of it. I didn't like antiperspirant because I also found I smelt worse because of it and it never really stopped the sweat very well anyways.

Something you may not factor in though is people expire at different rates. Also, some people smell worse than others regardless of expiration time and some perspire more.

My wife's bio-birth pod did this to a few of her siblings. It's kinda wild that it's even possible.

Are you me, but with better skill? I do this all the time but the end result is like Homer Simpson's spice rack.