Yes. If I want to organize and dedupe what I have then I need enough storage to work on it, a lot of my storage is spinning rust 7-15 years old, and if I have the space I’m going to use it. I have family photos and a music library going back to 2005. Too many things like old games need custom fixes installed to work correctly on modern hardware, and the internet isn’t as permanent as it was cracked up to be.
There’s plenty of reasons to hold on to older data.
That’s definitely worth bragging about, or at the very least being proud of.
When college aged, I modeled for a few art majors’ photo projects.
I caused a pizza delivery car to run off the road through the power of my pelvic thrusts. Thankfully they corrected quickly and no one was hurt.
My mental breakdown has their own Facebook page.
I started numerous traditions in my social circles.
I’m reasonably good at taking postcard quality photos with garbage equipment.
I’ve been on radio, as a PSA to get your bum fingered for prostate cancer. Edited the recording myself too. The cadence of saying “digital rectal exam” is burned into my memory, from listening to the audio so damn much while editing.
I made a Smash Bros Brawl hack that quickly became a local mainstay of gaming get togethers (even outside of my immediate social circle) and persisted after I left the area. Ton of custom stuff layered over Brawl Minus, long before infinite came around.
I’ve made a number of custom programs for making “glitch art”. Algorithms to screw with images. Toss in ~50 of my photos, run them through ~20 different functions that make psuedo-random changes, do ~10 runs per function to get even more results. Then delete the results down to ~10 worth keeping. More fun than it sounds.
I led a small marching group in an international parade on ~20 minutes of training while quite drunk. I directed them while holding a flagpole as an extension of my junk. They shouldn’t have let me, and I asked if they wanted a friend with actual marching experience to do it, but they said they wanted me to do it.
I’ve made multiple 6-10 hour drives, some on little sleep, to be there for friends and family in times of need.
Before I proposed to my wife, I spent a week smashing together existing romhacks of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and getting them to work properly combined by fiddling with the code, then I did a handful of custom modifications myself to the graphics and script. End result is a special version of the game with Zelda and Link swapped, then replaced by my then gf and I, that asked my then gf out on a date when she beat the first dungeon.
She then proceeded to nearly trip over me when I got down on one knee at the end of that date.
For the job that started my career, I was one of three candidates out of 35 who didn’t wear a suit to the first round, and I was still hired.
I turned a seasonal internship plugging in computers into a full time sysadmin/engineering position in the span of three and a half years, skipping a few intermediate positions at that workplace.
I have scripted business critical systems integrations at my workplace, that have impact on literally every employee.
I was the first person in my social circle to be able to afford a house, and my wife and I are the first ones who wanted a kid and had one intentionally.
Despite being a nerd, and how much all my peers in high school talked about it, I actually had sex before most of my peers. Consensual, age appropriate partner I was in a serious relationship with, and good first time.
Once fucked someone so good that they passed out for a moment.
While my partners have been limited, I’ve been the largest any of them have had. Not as much of a flex as you’d think, too big isn’t pleasant.
I have a single digit number of times where my partner hasn’t climaxed.
And a “secret”: I only have a list this big because I have to remind myself of reasons to be proud of myself. Left to my own devices, I don’t tend to think I’m worth much, so every few years I sit down and try to make a little mental list. This is the combination of multiple ones.
I get that per Wikipedia, the source of these is:
In the Spring 2003 issue of the secular humanist magazine Free Inquiry, Laurence W. Britt, who is described as “a retired international businessperson, writer, and commentator” published “Fascism Anyone?”, which included a list of 14 defining characteristics of fascism.
But you have to get that a random unsourced image of white text on a black background is some real “trust me bro” Facebook shares from Grandma type shit.
Getting tired of “it’s okay when our side does it because we’re right, but we’ll clown on it when the bad people do it because they’re wrong”. Just be better.
And while I’m complaining, the source of these is a fucking editorial by someone with no actual credentials or qualifications to declare this shit. Now it’s being passed around online like it’s certifiable fact because it sounds accurate.
All of those are problems. All of those are bad. What is happening in the USA is bad. But muddying the waters by taking random bullshit like this as certified fucking fact only makes talking about shit harder, as everyone has their own set of things they think are truth, most of which have been latched on to for no reason more than “it sounds right and reinforced my beliefs”.
Grumble grumble grumble
Why is Your Post Title Written Like a Clickbait Article Title? The Reasons May Surprise You
It helped that there were used and rental markets for relatively “modern” titles that are now almost entirely non-existent.
You worked places with style guides? Did… Did you have a real testing environment that wasn’t prod too?
I got taken off a project recently for being too direct about how the rest of the team was just spray and praying entirely AI generated code with no standards or review whatsoever, and they were charging ahead like it was a race to implement features we hadn’t even discussed if we wanted/needed.
If you can’t tell me how it works, you can’t confirm that we actually need it, you can’t tell me the upstream and downstream effects (or confirm they don’t exist), and you can’t even confirm that we even want it to do the thing it only supposedly does, then we have better things to do than go on a wild goose chase trying to debug it when there’s a looming deadline for things that legitimately do not work that we need. Stop vibe coding and actually review the existing shit for fucks sake. If the requirements have never been clear, solve that instead of generating more slop. Maybe update some of the existing documentation instead of having AI wholesale hallucinate entirely new not quite right ones over and over.
Anyway, please tell me more happy development bedtime stories. I need to chase away the nightmares.
Depending on the legality and safety of doing so, you may also want to look into tech for avoiding censorship and oppresive regimes.
Things like TOR, running your own DNS server, etc.
Edit: I didn’t want to just leave this vague, so I looked up the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense guide hoping for some better specifics, but unfortunately it looks like it’s mainly about making security plans, understanding your risk profile, using secure settings on your personal devices, using signal, using TOR, and selecting “the VPN that’s right for you”.
Like you really have a choice of “the VPN right for you” when they shut down things to only approved in/out IPs.
There might be useful info there, but it wasn’t quite what I was hoping to point you at, sorry.
Considering the risks involved with hosting something like this, I would probably start with research on how you could host this safely/anonymously. That would be my first priority. Can’t help people if they take you out.
Next step would be looking at piefed/Lemmy or whatever systems you’re thinking about hosting and identifying what features/logs/etc you would need to disable, modify, or set up to clear themselves automatically so that you wouldn’t have information worth going after in the first place.
Using Tor likely flags you as suspicious or links your usage to the outgoing IP, which inevitably is going to be connected to other previously banned accounts.
This is a common situation when trying to use Tor with social media that does IP bans or other IP based heuristics.
Or just let the replies sit unopened.
Until some regulation is passed and enforced that they have to be closed loop, it’s cheaper for them to fuck up the local ecosystem by using evaporative cooling or local water sources as a heat sink.
Usually not ones that are still compatible with modern cell tower networks.
You absolutely can remove every app (including hidden base OS functionality that is packaged as an installed app) through ADB, or through tools like Shizuku that give you effectively “on-device” ADB. There are GUI based apps to do this for both PC and runnable on Android itself.
It’s not easily accessible for the average user, but it’s literally easier than flashing a custom OS, if you’re already looking into that level of things.
It’s one of the better ones, and basic functionality is braindead, but I’ve definitely found some pain points.
Paywall. What is visible indicates cuts to arts and languages degrees.
Lol, are you kidding? IT gets to experience the suck of using it, and of administrating it. For as bad as the front end of Microsoft stuff is, the back end is usually worse.
Elias Thorne, goblins and ghouls, is there somewhere all these “sticky topics” have been aggregated?
God, I was just enjoying some cyberpunk-adjacent media yesterday and laughed at the satire of an in universe news outlet complaining about “anticonsumerist terrorism”.
Something something torment nexus
I would browse the front page not logged in to find more algo-pushed trash that YouTube thinks are addictive. I’d also unsubscribe from anything you actually enjoyed and use the options to have YouTube not recommend more of it to you.
Wish my company allowed that. Everything goes to a licensed secure destruction service that literally puts them through an industrial shredder. Awesome to watch, but wasteful as all hell.