Oh god, I set up a print server at work, it’s been a minute since I managed printers, and somehow I became convinced that HP’s Smart Universal Driver would work for all the HP printers.

Well, first off, if you set up a print server, Microsoft automatically implements the setting, “don’t download drivers from server, use Microsoft generic Point & Print drivers,” which don’t work at ALL.

So I undeploy all the printers and redeploy them with the correct setting - well that Microsoft drivers is still installed on all PCs and they want to use it by default. So lots of individual workstation fixing.

And then the HP driver fails, directing every HP printer to use Tray 1 (bypass) by default, not the drawer full of paper like it would normally.

So I’m 3 months into this job at this point, and everyone thinks I’m a moron.

Good times.

It’s PTSD now. “Oh my god my last boss gave me PTSD”

“…I can’t trust the physical sensations in my body which are completely out of control, my entire arousal network is wired wrong, and my threat detection system is run amok.”

“Oh, I meant like, he was super mean.”

At this rate HGTV will have turned everyone on Earth into a house flipper by mid next year.

I’m a millennial with a house but no retirement savings, and the WSJ tells me the average millennial has over $1m in retirement assets now, so fuck y’all and your privilege. (I’m just kidding, I know you’re poor too)

A thousand FBI agents working for weeks did the initial redactions back in the spring. Way too big an undertaking, and too quickly accomplished, to have gone right. I have old posts here predicting they’d fuck up the redactions on quite a bit of stuff. And I’m so glad to see it happening.

Dressed to the nines no less.

We better 86 it with all this numbers business tho.

Ugh I had to do this with an internal SCSI drive many years ago, it would only reliably save if you held the back of the cable in, otherwise the pin might short just enough that the operation wouldn’t work. But I was a broke Jr High kid so there was no choice. Bent pins give me nightmares to this day.

I’ve heard of this! It was called joor-nalism by our ancestors

I was living in a 10th story penthouse apartment as a new building started beside us. The contractor put a webcam high up on the structure so people could watch construction live on a website. They left the control panel fully exposed so all you had to do was find the IP address of the camera and boom, you had full control. I would point it directly at my apartment’s window and wave, or my friends would do silly shit. Every morning the cam would be reset, but they never actually secured it. That’s when I realized how fucked we were, 20 years ago.

She’s stacked herself up as one hell of a sacrificial lamb, all these crimes committed on Trump’s behalf by one person, her head is going to be the first to roll and I think it’ll include prison time.

Meanwhile both of the, Apple especially, kissing Trump’s ass and licking round the hole. Ballroom Atrocity, sponsored by Big Tech, tells me which companies to avoid.

But if you actually own one, the cost of everything maintenance wise is through the roof, contractors are difficult to get in a saturated commercial market, basically you can go from able to afford the house to struggling in a few years, housepoor just because things declined faster than you could account for. But you can’t sell it because rent is now way more expensive than the mortgage, even divided in half.

Oh god yeah, so many LED grow lamps and LED drivers that melted or burned out well below their rated amperage. Leaves one to wonder if an entire house is worth saving $10.

Ukraine support doesn’t bother me, that’s not splitting anyone here. Palestinian support, when it’s fervent enough to make Dems vote against Dem candidates, now we have a problem. Domestic issues, when they involve a fascist takeover, are simply more pressing than 70-year-old foreign policy, even if it does need fixing… it has for a long time. We won’t be able to get there if we’re an authoritarian hellhole.

Fuck Santa, I’m going to talk to GOD

In small quantities nitrous could accidentally be good for some people, it has anti-depressant properties, although self medication is not ideal and can be habit forming in these circumstances. I’ve seen my own cobwebs blown away by dental surgeries, I’ve also seen friends go down the drain entirely, their backseats full of empty canisters.

Think of it as a remainder from a math problem. To keep a subservient middle class stretched across the lowest income brackets, you’re going to have a certain percentage of people who simply can’t afford to exist. They know that, it’s inherent to the system. It’s like that story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” That’s why there’s never any serious interest in fixing the problem - it’s just going to keep happening because the system generates it, so housing everyone homeless right now wouldn’t solve homelessness in 10 or 20 years time, it’d start all over again. Systemic.

The 14th amendment being nullified by SCOTUS won’t provoke much more than some peaceful protests that, at least around here, get minimized by the media. People like my neighbor, a Mexican-American (who fought in Iraq), will be using their dual citizenship to leave, but that’s about it.

Customers walk by for 10-15 seconds. Day laborers hang out for hours.

Lowe’s is also conservative leaning, but less rabidly than Home Depot, and they have a program for hiring veterans, so it’s a lesser of two evils, I go there first. Ace used to be cheaper and closer, now it’s far more expensive.