Sweet! This is really cool and inspired me to try something.

Unsubscribe is your friend.

FOMO is a marketing strategy.

We want to stay in your inbox so we can temp you on big marketing days.

As a person who manages people, I cannot fight for your raise if YOU don’t fight for your raise.

I cannot tell you how many times where something like this happens. I tell my higher ups, “Sarah should get promoted and increase her salary” and then my bosses go up to Sarah and she responds all limpdick like, “I like my job and I’m happy.”

God damn it Sarah! Flex a little. Talk about how you see a opening you want. Stop being a keyboard warrior on Work Reform and actually SAY IT OUT LOUD. Share your wins! Brag about your value to the company. Demand your worth to MY BOSSES TOO.

It’s not a single person who makes these decisions. It’s multiple people.

Nobody is going to hand you shit if you’re timid about it.

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

They really thought they can sprout gibberish and mic drop. Discount Ben Shapiro over here.

Every single post about ad blockers will be someone talking about how “good” Brave is. Drives me crazy.

You get used to it, I don’t even see the code. All I see is Red Plumber. Coin. Mushroom. Pipe.

I would have 1 Call of Duty asset.

Monkey’s Paw: but it’s the shareware version and only has the first episode.

I’ve been calling this out for years.

And every time, some commenter goes, “Nu uh, look at their website bro! It’s super private!”

I’m laughing way too hard at this.

Honestly this is the best answer.

Like, use the tools that work for your use case?

I fucking hate macs but man using a video editor on windows was a pain back in the day. Where I would rather set up a server on Linux, than use whatever the hell windows servers operate.

Working in open-source, frequent issues do end up being future feature requests.

How much do you hate them?

Name a number!

How about if I drop that hatred by 22% with a 2.1% financing? And throw in a free coupon to Chili’s if you verify within the next 45 minutes! Hurry act now we’re running low on coupons. And you don’t want to go home empty handed, do you?

Was just going to point this out too. It’s so stupid.

I’ve also done the math on dental insurance vs out of pocket and a few times, out of pocket was significantly cheaper than the service + insurance.

This is a major one!

Sleeping is a third of your day. There’s a lot of health issues that result from bad sleep/snoring. and the worse is that you’ll never even know it.

My wife had a sleep specialist provide helpful strategies after her pregnancy and her back pain stopped.

If you’re serious, study cyber security to start.

Then move towards devops.

Worse case scenario, you’ll end up in a 6-figure job making complaints into the void as you write bash scripts to speed up a pipeline by 0.1 second.

Best case scenario, you take down a massive criminal ring that sprouts back up like a weed a few days later.

Having a IRA or 401k.

I’m 40 and the amount of people who kinda know what a IRA is is terrifying. Like, you’re gonna die in poverty.

That was what I thought five years ago. I was on the verge of removing it, and the android Facebook app killed my phone’s battery, so delete it went.

And suddenly all my family drama stopped and if someone needs to get in touch with me, how surprising that they still found a way.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?