I just wish my microwave could have a Facebook login.

What is this even

Too many furries.

A rather neat feature is scanning the barcode of an item with the phone app and the heating program is set automatically.

But setting the time automatically using ntp would have been enough for me.

You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.

Wtf.

French Canadians have a stereotype of being pretentious and I love it. Keep being odd Quebec.

Before monthly patch cycles were a thing this was a fun stat. Sometimes you’d find a netware server behind a wall with multi-year uptime.

Now I’m only interested in HA cluster uptime. My firewall pair has something like 4 years. My SAN is similar. I get alerts for anything else with 45 days of uptime or more.

Yeah it’s not amazing but I was entertained.

I just watched Leave the World Behind and it’s pretty good.

Lenovo won the laptop war? They won it because they ship Ubuntu pre-installed? Where are you getting these jokes from?

Joyriding as a teenager.

A little of both. The transit authority gave cops the job of ticketing people.

Years later and no one is checking tickets.

I’m over it now, but for 5 years I was anti-public transit. After working a 12 hour OT shift I took the train home. Sherriff was on the train and started checking peoples tickets. I opened my bag dug around literally 30+ other tickets, found my day pass and turned it over.

But I didn’t get a day pass that day, I got a one way because of my OT plans was supposed to be an Uber home.

So I got fined $250 for it. The crazies would just get pushed off the train but normals would get fined I guess. Pissed me off so much I just stopped using the public transit for half a decade.

How is your BMW these days?

A newer employee was always complaining to management about our dept. at one point he wrote a long email that was mostly quotes from industry leaders saying how the industry despises our dept, that the changes we make are unnecessary. Our dept head received that email and showed it to me. It was pretty scathing.

So I looked up the quotes.

The employee had changed the quotes to fit their narrative. This is a no-no in their industry. The real quotes actually said that even though change is hard, it’s necessary and our dept is essential in making it go smoothly.

I wrote back to management, highlighted the changes they made to the real quotes, and suggested two things:

What they did may be ethically wrong.

How they did it in such a dumb way may be how they approach other aspects of their job. Maybe they aren’t good at it.

Never heard a peep from the employee again. They were asked to leave. I chortled when I saw their departure notice.

No one is driving those past 100k miles with 10k maintenance intervals though.

Engines. 300hp out of 2L is impressive. It scales even better. V8’s can put out insane numbers.

I can understand replacing 1 axle at a time if the tires aren’t cross rotated, but one new tire and one old tire on the rear axle will lead to some odd fishtailing under emergency braking…

This has been the norm for the past 15 years.

Just like how people can use different browsers to get to content on the internet, people can use different websites to get to the fediverse.