davidisgreat

joined 11 months ago

In my friend circle we will invite each other to stuff and ask "are you up or down?" Then schedule them regardless of response.

I tried AntennaPod but went back because of Android Auto. I just found this showing how to get AntennaPod on AndroidAuto!

https://antennapod.org/documentation/playback/android-auto

I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don't hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren't enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don't frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried that one time. I went over budget and sent a really nice gift. I didn't receive a gift myself. Then my recipient reported that I didn't send a gift. I got banned.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I never really saw the appeal, but my friends keep wanting to play it. There is so much waiting. I'm just bored most of the time.

I have a 2060 super. It has all the performance I currently need. I would like to buy a non nvidia graphics card but I can't justify buying a new card for that reason alone.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Plus it can support Nvidia out of the box.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When I was in Grade 9 we discovered how to make a smoke bomb with Potassium Nitrate and sugar. You can buy Potassium Nitrate at drug stores under the name "saltpeter". Potassium Nitrate is an oxidizing agent so releases oxygen as it burns. Sugar is naturally flammable but puts itself out. Together it burns hot and releases a lot of smoke. For Halloween we made 2.5 lbs of it and lit it in my back yard. It filled the yard with smoke.

In Grade 10 we tried to outdo ourselves. We found a much cheaper source for Potassium Nitrate at hydroponic stores. We made a 25 lb smoke bomb. We made a 4 minute timer from an alarm clock we got at a thrift store and it filled a park with smoke.

In Grade 11 we had a reputation to uphold. We took a collection from some of our classmates and got enough for a 250 LB smoke bomb. My friend's parents were out of town and he offered his house for making the smoke bomb. A lot of people showed up. We didn't plan for this but somehow alcohol showed up and there was a lot of underage drinking. The sugar has to be melted on the stove. We were making batch after batch of the smoke bomb and dumping it in a garbage bin in the middle of the kitchen on a dolly. We had only made about 20 LBs when some drunk girl came in and turned up the stove temperature. It lit prematurely which lit up the entire garbage can. We were instantly blind with the amount of smoke and had to leave the building. The fire department was called. The fire went up into the attic. We did about $18,000 worth of damage to the house.

My primary address is 127.0.0.1.

We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I've spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

  • oVirt and RHVC
  • Nutanix
  • scale
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • VX rail
  • Harvester and Rancher
  • A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anything with full grain leather and is resoleable. I have some Iron Rangers by Red Wings I'm happy with. I selected them because they were local to me.

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I need to wear dress shoes to work. Based on advice from Reddit's male fashion advice I bought two pairs of Allen Edmond shoes. The Strand and the Park Avenue. They have been awesome. I had them for 7 and 6 years respectively. Between the two pairs of shoes, I've had five resoles. This is a way better method then continually buying cheap shoes which I was doing before.

The time has come to finally replace my shoes. The uppers is on both pairs are quite damaged. I've been hearing Alan Edmond's is not what they used to be. I don't mind paying for quality but I want to make sure that it's cost effective. I don't really have any idea what other brands to look at.

Is it true that Alan Edmond's is no longer worth the money? If so, what other comparable brands should I look into?

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