IMALlama

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[–] IMALlama 1 points 3 months ago

I still view it differently than being locked out of using actual OEM features of the car

Totally agree!

I do find this unsurprising though based on the metric fuckton of spam you get from SiriusXM after buying any new or used car from a legit dealer.

I've always wondered how much this costs relative to the number of takers they pull in.

[–] IMALlama 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The song in the meme is Ohio is for lovers by Hawthorne Heights.

And I can't make it on my own (And I can't make it on my own) Because my heart is in Ohio So cut my wrists and black my eyes (Cut my wrists and black my eyes) So I can fall asleep tonight, or die

Deep, I know.

Not to say that Dashboard Confessional doesn't have similar lyrics, lol.

[–] IMALlama 2 points 4 months ago

I would love to teach kids. I take any opportunity I can to mentor people at work, but in a school setting would be super cool. The pay cut relative to what I make now just isn't worth it. Maybe in another decade when we have enough set aside...

[–] IMALlama 0 points 4 months ago

Teslas unlimited Internet package is also super cheap at $100/year the last time I checked. Competitors are multiple times more expensive.

[–] IMALlama 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

SiriusXM does revenue share with auto companies.) Old article, but I'm too lazy to dig through a financial report or find something newer.

[–] IMALlama 2 points 4 months ago

If you add corned beef to the mix you'll have yourself corned beef and cabbage. Our "soup" always had way more cabbage and carrots in it than beef.

[–] IMALlama 1 points 4 months ago

I just said the same about a PS5. We used a PS3 for a while too, but it eventually gave up the ghost. I haven't done this in a long time, but the PS3 could also connect to locally hosted media servers. As an American Top Gear fan, this is how I watched that show.

[–] IMALlama 1 points 4 months ago

We use a PS5 for exactly the purpose you describe, sans casting. I am not sure how many of the streaming platforms have an app for it, but the ones we like are all here. For casting we use a Chromecast on another HDMI port. We very rarely cast though.

[–] IMALlama 3 points 4 months ago

Tomatoes, beans, eggplants, and peppers that have already set are still maturing, but the plants are nolonger putting out anything new. The raspberry weed grew like crazy, so we should get a decent yield next spring. We pulled our carrots last weekend. I'm going to have to dig the artichokes out and put them who-knows-where for the winter soon, that's going to be fun.

All our gourds are either not producing anymore or fell victim to powder mildew.

One of our potted strawberries looks pretty pissed off because I was neglectful with water during a dry spell. It will likely be fine. If not, we have two more pots of them.

I think I missed planting fall snap peas, but am tempted to do it anyway incase I get lucky. I will plant our cover crop soon and leave the dead/dying foliage that's already there for the spring.

[–] IMALlama 3 points 4 months ago

Hence my wonderment, lol. I meant more organizationally, but if you're putting out a crappy product things probably aren't great working there.

[–] IMALlama 1 points 4 months ago

Hopefully you're also contributing to higher yield and tax advantaged accounts!

[–] IMALlama 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I currently work on software in automotive. Everything seems completely insane. We have tons of process and technical debt, executives that are super out of touch and all have their own pet projects, we have hundreds of executives so we have 100 number one priority pet projects, we have a very distributed hardware/software footprint due to the affirmationed process/technical debt, each vehicle has a different hardware footprint which means we constantly have to make our distributed software work when a piece of the software needs to be rebuilt in a new controller, etc etc.

There's also the whole mess of trying to run agile at scale, managinga very distributed backlog, trying to balance priorities across teams that have to coordinate work, everyone leading with "how they want it" instead of "what they want", total disregard for WIP limits, etc.

I know where I work is a shit show. I really wonder if it's much better elsewhere. I also wonder if this place has always been a shit show and I just have more exposure to it now.

And yeah, alcohol. I'm trying to cut back but the mood here seems to violently oscillate between "this is OK" to "what the hell" and back again. We're probably due for another swing soon.

Some days I do think about going back to waiting tables. It took me years of working elsewhere to stop having the waiting weeds dreams though...

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