halloween_spookster

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[–] halloween_spookster 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Tomatoes. I disliked them for a long time but a few years ago I tried them again. I don't remember how I made that decision - it may have been from forgetting to ask for no tomatoes on a burger but I ended up trying them more and came to like them. I don't like all tomatoes and not in everything, but I do enjoy them in sandwiches, burgers, and a few other things.

[–] halloween_spookster 5 points 13 hours ago

We have both MySQL and PostgreSQL in our production environment. Postgres is way nicer as a user of the DB. I created a document months ago outlining a dozen different things that Postgres does that MySQL either doesn't do or does worse. I can't speak to managing the DB as I don't have experience with that.

[–] halloween_spookster 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Worm regards" just to be chaotic

[–] halloween_spookster 13 points 1 week ago

I refuse to write company fan fiction without getting paid

[–] halloween_spookster 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm skeptical that anything legal will work for very long because they will quickly work to make said legal action illegal.

[–] halloween_spookster 17 points 3 weeks ago

No one has asked the important question: what do you need the laptop to do on this camping trip? The answer to that will drastically change the answer to your question

[–] halloween_spookster 2 points 3 weeks ago

The company I work at is considering moving some/all of the "not business differentiating" work (aka boring or terrible yet still critical work) to teams in India. I agree with roughly colocating teams (by time zone. Working 12 hours apart from half your team isn't practical). I disagree with the Indian teams taking all the bad/boring work.

[–] halloween_spookster 3 points 1 month ago

Progressing languages aren't about computers. They're about humans.

[–] halloween_spookster 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where in that video did he "catch the casings"?

[–] halloween_spookster 4 points 1 month ago

Incorrect. There are a lot of companies that make silencers.

[–] halloween_spookster 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn. I'm impressed. How often do you get disoriented moving around and thinking things are smaller than they are?

[–] halloween_spookster 3 points 2 months ago

I have been running Linux full time on my gaming PC for a number of months now. I have found only a few instances where a game hasn't worked. I know that certain games won't work because of their invasive or Windows specific DRM, but for me personally I don't want to play those games anyway. Some examples of games I can play without issue: Horizon: Forbidden West, Brotato, Plate Up, GTFO, Dome Keeper, Noita, Enlisted, Power Wash Simulator, Risk of Rain 2 ...

 

I've been trying to boot a Ubuntu 24.04 USB (please no discussion of distro choice) but I keep getting a very unhelpful error during the initial startup. I've tried using a different USB drive, a different USB port, booting from UEFI. The only thing that has made a change was booting into safe graphics mode. It got to the install wizard but when I got to the end of the wizard it gave me other seemingly useless error messages.

I'm concerned there's an issue with my motherboard but I don't have strong evidence to support this idea. I recently took a trip where the computer was fine before I left. I turned it off while I was away and when I came back my main drive no longer worked. I couldn't boot from it or even see the drive in gparted. I've replaced the drive without issue though. If my motherboard is somehow going bad, it's being very subtle about it. I was ready to blame Nvidia but when I got it into safe graphics mode, it didn't get to the point of having Nvidia drivers.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on or any way I can get additional information about the errors I'm getting? The lack of information is really frustrating.

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