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Yeah. If you couldn’t tell by looking at the image, the spiral bound notebook and the folded blankets in the back are some more blatant give-aways.

Well usually, they put them on their feet as shown in the picture.

I am not asking about your business, just sharing my issues.

I self-medicated for a number of years, mainly with gallons of coffee in the morning and a couple of twelve-packs in the evening. That habit got super-charged when I started taking Adderall for a while. That was what it was, and it destroyed my stomach and the reflux was horrendous.

Once you get settled with meds, if at all, take a good look at your own habits and diet very broadly. Treatment for ADHD, in whatever form, will give you a decent crutch to adjust anything you need to adjust. (I had to get sober, slow down on the coffee, start running 20 miles a week and much more. Hopefully you have much lighter options and tweaks.)

My stomach has gotten better year-over-year now, so that was a huge plus. Of course, our lives are completely different and my case was a little more on the extreme side. I also am blatantly generalizing folks with ADHD by just implying that most of us have unhealthy habits, but it is not said with ill-intent and simply isn’t true for all people.

It may take years for you to adjust your life around treatment and making life decent again with a busted stomach, but don’t give up. Time, along with an adjusted lifestyle, can work wonders.

(GERD obviously isn’t alcoholism, and I am not meaning to imply that either. Regardless, I sympathize and can relate deeply with your issues.)

It’s one of the few playful arguments left in this world, I think. If there is one that can still be had online, it’s probably this one.

To be honest, I pronounce gif like “gif” or “gif” depending on my mood.

While my personal bias is in the creators favor, it doesn’t seem to me that GIF is even a proper word to begin with. It’s an abbreviation and a format extension. As such, there aren’t any rules that should be applied even if there were rules that could.

File extensions have such a wide variety of pronunciations it makes “gif” irrelevant anyway. (Is it E-X-E or is it “ex-ee”?)

Gerraffe it is.

#2 is close to being spot-on actually.

If you get pulled over and the cop asks “Do you know why I pulled you over?”, it’s kind of a trick question.

You can’t say “Yes”, because that implies you knew you were breaking the law with intent. You can’t say “No” because that implies you weren’t paying attention. (Reckless driving)

Answer a question with a question: “Why did you pull me over, officer?” You aren’t giving out any information and you can’t actually explain someone else’s decision. It may get the cop a little miffed if his intention was to trap you in a generic one-way conversation.

If you aren’t comfortable with that, just don’t say anything. Politely refuse to answer any questions so you don’t incriminate yourself.

Edit: Go to a carwash after that as many cops will tag your car with a fingerprint as they walk up to your window from behind your car. I get why they do it, but its better just to clean it off anyway.

“GIF” as in giraffe, btw.

You forgot the biggest pronunciation hijack of the century.

I always considered MMOs a bit on the dangerous side. Grinding takes a toll on your body after a while.

Unfortunately, I am not immune either as I have been playing Diablo for years. Thankfully, it’s just seasonal grinding until I max my character and then I can go back to playing healthier games like Factorio, that absolutely hasn’t sucked 4000 hours out of my soul as payment.

They kept the front-zero-ads thing over the years, but once you click through a search, it’s a thousand times worse than the popups ever were. The first search page is a huge AI spash screen and the rest is sponsored placement mixed with random crap results to ensure you scroll all the way down looking for what you won’t ever really find.

• Go eat a bag of cylinders.

• Your cylinder is too soft. No way I am sticking that in my mouth.

• You can pound your cylinder for as long as you want, but it’s not going to taste any different

Huh. I don’t think it’s a good replacement word for eggplant. Cylinder just doesn’t roll off my tounge any easier. It kinda makes me gag a little thinking about it, actually.

Age.

I get it. Many people have a hard time separating a single experience from an entire population, culture or cuisine.

While I am absolutely not a fan of the Russian government at the moment, I have to force myself to remember that many of the Russian people are no different than you or I. It’s all to easy for me demonize and generalize an entire population as much as the next person, if I am not careful. (This is exploited heavily by state propaganda to foster xenophobia, in many cases.)

Still, a culture couldn’t be defined as a “culture” of it didn’t have distinctive and common traits. The same goes for regional cuisine.

After thinking about this a bit more (and also deliberating if I myself was overreacting) what we have is a fine line of context. Me exclaiming that “that countries food is crap” wouldn’t be the same as “if you let those people in this country, our food will turn to crap”.

My reaction is exactly that same as yours when I see out-of-place comments bashing Americans. I never go out of my way to troll or spread hate against any common person and it sucks when I get pulled into a generalization for no reason. Trust me when I say I hate our government as much or more than most of Lemmy and more power-hungry slobs are not what this world needs right now.

So, after considering your position a bit more and reflecting on how I react to similar situations, it’s just as easy to portray being xenophobic as it is to be perceived as xenophobic. Both could be true or false, and the only hints we have as to the actual nature of it is context. Context, unfortunately, is something that isn’t expressed well in text on social media.

I haven’t read what you have read and probably might interpret it differently anyway. So, if you think something is xenophobic there isn’t much I can say about that other that what I already have. Perception is what tips the scales in one direction or another, it seems.

Also, it depends on the problem you are trying to solve and if the good deal lets you buy plenty of spare drives.

I have a 3 server cluster running 9 k8s nodes with persistent storage in Longhorn. While it thrashes the drives a bit more and I lose performance, I opted to use hardware RAID so a drive rebuild would be much easier. (I think with Ceph, it’s a step or two more to kick a drive out of the storage pool before you can swap the drive safely. The fact that I can’t remember much about Ceph already and it’s only been a month or two since I setup a Ceph testing cluster should alone explain my decision.)

Basically, I get volume replication backed by easy to manage and affordable drive replacements. I even get mirrored boot drives too. The setup is fault tolerant to a degree and it gives me enough time to shuffle things around if a server starts to die completely.

All the drives are used and have already had a full life, but yey, the risk is ok because the parts are cheap. I’ll probably buy another refurbished server of the same type just for the spare parts, drives and memory. I could even just use the extra server as a cold standby. Whatevers.

The cluster isn’t critical, to be perfectly honest. It really just holds a massive tool suite of containers that I need at random times and now I at least have solid templates and ansible confogs for all of those containers anyway. Even the data isn’t super critical.

Parts are cheap and my setup allows for disposable drives in a setup where risk tolerance is sky-high.

My NAS is RAID 10 with brand-new drives and read/write cycles are conserved. I care about that data and will probably mirror that storage that to an additional pair of mirrored m.2’s to absorb most of the read a cycles while adding an additional redundancy layer. (The hdds would primarily only see write cycles and probably just function as an incremental backup location for specific folders off of the m.2’s.)

Those are the cliff notes, and only I attempted to explain how I thought about risk in my setup. Volume over quality for my cluster: I think about fast recovery and how I can parch around a problem during a catastrophic failure. Long term: Multiple layers of redundancy for important data with less concern about price but I have less capacity and speed.

Having spent years around lots of equipment, I view a flashy red light on an HDD as a suggestion to do something about it in a couple of days if the server is just a worker node. (I have been desensitized to most hardware faults, TBH.)

I wouldn’t go so far as to say xenophobic. Ignorance is probably a better description in many cases. It is also ok not to like types of food, or be disgruntled if the only thing to eat was food that was not to your liking.

Xenophobia could absolutely be an issue in some cases, but applying it broadly is a bit harsh.

It’s got what plants crave.

So you are saying we should milk a rooster?

I was walking out of the gym today and some random kid stood up and gave me a fist bump for no reason. It’s been a shitty week so far, and that kid made my day.

While I suspect that my own kids are probably not human, that random kid sure was.

I just disabled it completely since I really only use left ctrl.

My acer “nitrosense” key got hijacked to launch other things as well. Just about any custom slop on laptops can be reworked when you realize that they really don’t spend much money on the software side of those fancy buttons.

What is cool though, is that I got a super cheap laptop that was heavily subsidized by MS in the early AI push. The NPU the laptop came with had its drivers deleted and the bloat spyware acer nitrosense shit turned off shortly after. (Reworking the fan and LED controls wasn’t too hard, but it took a while.) They absolutely lost money on me, so that is nice.

The lesson here is that cheap laptops are designed to incur long term costs, or in the case of the Acer laptop I got, it was probably designed to self-destruct via its original power profiles. Magically, once I killed the beacons back to acers CMS and “warranty tracking” endpoints, the fans magically started working correctly. (The bearer tokens were hard-coded, so I spent a day or so injecting random telemetry data with nasty notes “from noth korea” about the executives mothers from every model of laptop the json templates had.)

The candy. That is likely a bag of them sitting there too