I want a corridor. It means they actually have to tell a story. Open worlds are too often mostly a large collection of lore for you to slowly read and tease out. But world building and lore doesn’t make a game. For many of us, it’s about the journey and story. I don’t need to make world changing decisions when I’m playing “hero.” I want to know heros story with all its cliches and tropes. Give me puzzles to solve, challenges to overcome, and entertaining gameplay instead “choose your own adventure.” It’s like the industry collectively decided that player agency, open worlds, and having options that changed how the story went somehow is what made a game good.

Att’s usage meter sucks.

The issue I was having was getting a hyper-v host to connect to an iscsi array on a nimble. That first result was pretty much exactly what I needed. It didn’t highlight it in the preview, but it was on the page once I opened it.

I’m starting to give up on Google. I’ve literally copy and pasted the same error message in Google, DuckDuckGo, and Kagl.

Google will respond with “no results found” while the others will actually give me a response.

Or the docs are just out of date and literally don’t mention this feature added 2 years ago.

Unifi. I’ve got a box of APs as ewaste just sitting in the basement. Every so often I would get more ewaste from companies I work with.

I don’t need the most demanding of wifi systems. I hardwire most of my stuff whenever possible. And I have a fairly small home. A single AP on the main floor, 1 AP on the basement. 1 AP in the detached garage.

Most of my wifi devices are iot things on their own vlan.

Not every game needs story altering decisions. I have been feeling too much fatigue in games personally where I just want to play a game and not feel anxious that if I do or don’t select some specific option I’ll have parts of the game locked off. I also don’t want to reply a 60+ hour game as new game plus to access extra content. I don’t have that kind of free time.

So give me a game with a well written story and let me play the game elements and not worry about the story parts.

I’m a big fan of ipmi so I can remotely manage it. I’d look at one of these now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/supermicro-superserver-e200-8de300-8d-review/

I don’t really like having to connect a monitor and keyboard when working on my servers now.

Storage is really limited for TV and movies though if you are running Plex.

If you want to host something like libre office, just remember how important backups actually are. If you take the risk of hosting business documents, make sure you do everything necessary to protect them.

I mean it doesn’t need to be a coordinated act from “the left”.

Go print some stupid Trump stickers that say “I did that” and go stick them on everything. When gas goes up, stick them on the pumps. When electronics go up. Stick them on the boxes at best buy.

The issue isn’t “the left” as some amorphous organization. It’s that most people who align more left aren’t that petty. The left is a much more disorganized, factions political position than the right. And that’s because the GOP has worked relentlessly to build a cohesive base.

“I invoke my right to remain silent and have a lawyer.”

It sucks, but sometimes you have to explicitly state you are exercising your rights. Just staying silent doesn’t mean they won’t stop pestering you with questions. Make it clear and concise that that you are demanding your lawyer be present and any further questioning done should be in violation of that right. But you have to make it clear you are invoking it.

Black and white as VR

File an injunction. Put up every legal barrier to prevent this asshat from having an audience.

One article I read said that the representative race was much closer. It might not affect the president, but could affect other positions.

Failing to save someone’s life, implies they made decisions in an attempt to save the life. That they tried, and were unsuccessful.

But in this case, they made decisions which directly prevented Micah from receiving the tests that would have given them the opportunity to save his life.

The decision, and action, to dissuade Micah’s mother from seeking further medical care directly lead to his death. The decision, and action, to discharge him without adequate testing directly lead to his death.

The ER team on the third visit sounds to have tried and failed to save his life, even the decision to wait for blood thinners until more thorough testing was likely correct since they were most likely unaware of the risk of the formation of blood clots in the child.

The primary care doctor and the first ER team negligently made a series of decisions and actions that allowed a child to have an illness go undetected until it became fatal. They had the training and knowledge to know how serious the symptoms reported were and that the child’s recovery was not in line with the illness they had initially diagnosed him. They may have had procedures they didn’t follow which if they had would have prevented Micah death. If those are identified, then yes, I would say they caused his death through inaction.

Does it rise to criminality? No. But it’s likely malpractice.

If posting on Lemmy was a job…

Oh yea. It’s ridiculous that governments have let financial transactions be a private company thing.

Yea. I could go on and on about why I prefer cash a lot of times. Not always, but I always carry a couple hundred bucks on me. I also usually hide $20 or so somewhere in my car. Just in case I need gas and I forgot my wallet or the payment system was down or anything like that. It won’t get me a full tank. But it will get me home.

The odds of getting robbed are slimmer than getting my credit card skimmed. I’ve had credit cards skimmed multiple times in the last few years. Last time I was robbed was over a decade ago, and that’s cause I passed out at a party and someone told my wallet.

One could spend thousands of bucks before getting shut down (and thankfully I have good fraud protection so I didn’t pay) while the other got 50 bucks.

Bartering is also a good one. It’s easier to barter with people at stands or who make their own goods. Most handymen or trades workers will charge you less if you pay in cash. They probably aren’t reporting the income, but they also aren’t having to pay the payment processor 5% of the total. When you make a $5000 repair to your house, that’s $250 just in fees the contractor/handyman has to pay. Cash avoids that.

One: Using a card means all transactions are tied to my financial history. For better or worse, I don’t want all my personal habits in a ledger somewhere.

Two: Fees. Merchants have to pay fees on credit transactions.

Three: Consolidating financial institutions between a handful of company’s. (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, etc)

Four: Complexity. At least one side of the transaction must setup a system to interact with banks or credit cards. Cash is as simple as counting and handing it over.

Five: Budgets. It’s been shown that people spend less when they use cash. When someone can see the money actually leave and what they have dwindles they are more responsible with their spending.

Six: Tax evasion. Sometimes, if the waiter/waitress is struggling tipping in cash means it’s easier for them not to report that income.

Seven: It makes it much harder to make financial transactions that aren’t “approved.” Whether or not you like it, some people want to be able to buy drugs or something else that isn’t legal. Or even worse, the whims of whatever payment processor they use. A private company shouldn’t get to say who can be a merchant and what they are allowed to sell.

Eight: Gifts. Cash is just a simple, nice gift that Zelle or Venmo can’t replace.

Nine: No chance of overdrafting and getting hit with bullshit fees.

IMO, they should go through the entire training and then a day or two of doing at least one of the top 3 employed jobs at the company.

Whether that’s stocker, cashier, or whatever.

No one should know they are corporate, but I’ve trained new manager for my stores before when I worked retail. Truthfully, they are just people trying to get through the day. It didn’t matter they were my bosses they got trained and treated literally the exact same as any of my other trainees.

It’s not larping, it’s not PR, it’s literally just understanding core areas of the business so that any decisions they make they have context on what it will actually impact. As management, I’ve specifically gone out of my way to sit and shadow people so that I can understand their job and try and identify challenges they face. And if it was within my power or knowledge to explore a solution I would.

Data vs compute

It’s easy to send all the data in an x mile radius of the players position. Or to identify the players position, speed, camera angle, etc. render it all, compress it, and then send the computer, rendered, video fees.