Upvotes aren’t private, therefore not so mysterious.

And while it’s not EXTREMELY easy to find the public information, people definitely go digging for it. And it’s public by design.

The only people who will dig? The group you offended.

There’s a gnome extension called Wiggly that does a similar thing 👍

For those interested, there is a gnome extension called Wiggly that does this a similar thing.

Used to be called Wiggle, but development and bug fixing seems to have stopped on that one.

Thanks!

What does eta stand for in this context? I’ve seen it before and can’t figure it out

Don’t see “Half As Interesting” listed here. His stuff doesn’t usually go super deep, but I’ve learned a lot from him.

And just recently he was accused of using AI for a thumbnail and this was his response:

I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.

10/1.5 was tough but doable.

1.5/300k was impossible.

Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.

After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.

Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.

Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.

But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.

This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.

Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.

We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.

Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.

Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.

The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.

The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.

The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.

I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.

So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.

He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.

Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.

So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.

He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.

So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.

When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.

Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.

Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.

Obligatory “Android had it first”. That is all, carry on.

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.

I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

Way more than dozens, certainly

That’s a fair assessment.

IDK man, I bought a 10 pack of cheap thumb drives on Amazon a year ago, just big enough for giving to friends full of files or installing Linux or whatever. They were microcenter brand… Not high quality.

The other day I used the last two, took them to work. Went to buy another pack? More than double the price I paid last week.

Yeah yeah it’s flash, not HDDs. I don’t think it matters. Everyone is riding the “computer get more expensive” train. And once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down.

We’re boned.

My TV is a 50" I think? 1080p from 2013. It was cheap then, and it’s worth nothing now, on the market. But it works fine.

The backlight is evenly distributed, which is good, that’s a pet peeve of mine. But otherwise it’s unremarkable.

Honestly, I’d really like to try those new HDR TVs, a mini LED or OLED or something. But I just can’t justify it. Why? Because the TV I have, works fine 🤷‍♂️

If it magically died tomorrow, I’d upgrade. But I definitely don’t need 8k. Heck I don’t need 4k. I barely watch any content at 1080, it’s mostly 720 🤷‍♂️

Knew what it was before clicking. Gotta love chubbyemu

That’s extremely frustrating. Like, it’s literally your job to get that number correct…

People frustrate me

Opposite directions? That explains why mine never worked!

That’s crazy to me. I’m on a phone too, and it’s… Just garbage content.

Technologically speaking it’s amazing! Very close to real. If it was on in the background at a bar or something I probably wouldn’t clock it.

But watching it? With my eyes? Immediately obvious.

I wonder why some people can’t see it? Do you notice other AI stuff? Like even a lot of animated pictures and memes are AI now, as I scroll by I’m like yep, there’s more. And I’m sure I’m not seeing it all, and I’m getting fooled by some of it, but all the time I’m seeing it.

Do you have a technical background? An artistic one?

I just like tech, never been one for art.

So my SO really wanted to try this. We were vacationing in Mexico and bought it at Walmart of all places.

We were at an Airbnb and were gonna make it, but we chickened out. Afraid of doing it wrong and getting sick.

It’s like, with chicken, I’ve prepared it enough times that when I crack open the package, I can tell pretty easily if it’s gone bad. Or when I cook it, I know to cook it long enough so it’s not pink.

But that stuff? There’s so much we didn’t know, and were too afraid to try. A missed opportunity for sure.

As I understand it, it’s not legal to sell in the US.

I have no experience with any type of backend mail management or anything like it.

But I do have a corporate email through Microsoft exchange. I hate multiple apps on my phone, so I have it as an extra account in my Gmail app.

And it sucks. I don’t get a lot of emails, only the last 3 or 4 emails actually show up in the app.

But my biggest, angriest problem… Is mail getting stuck in the queue.

If I’m sending a short email? Fine, I can use the app. Fire it off and it’ll send immediately.

But if I write a long email? It will say it’s sending, it’ll sit in the outbox, but it will never… ever… send. Ever.

No amount of Wi-Fi cycling or data cycling, cache clearing or phone restarting will ever ever get that email to send. It will just sit there silently failed. Not even acknowledging it’s failed when you poke at it, let alone with a notification or something.

The first time I realized it happened, it was an unfortunately important email.

Would you like to guess what the problem is? I pulled my hair out for like a day before figuring it out. I’ll put it in a spoiler tag so you can guess.

Again: short emails send immediately, long emails never send, and sit silently failed for eternity.

I guess technically it’s my own fault, I could just use the exchange app and it would probably solve this. But I don’t want to, and I shouldn’t have to, email is not new. But it is terrible. Like printers. Bah.