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hactar42

@ hactar42 @lemmy.world

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  • "My house is on Fallingbrook!"

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  • It's actually Mountain Home, Idaho. I have no idea who came up with that system. When I lived there 20 years ago they were talking about changing it. But it still remains to this day.

  • "My house is on Fallingbrook!"

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  • No confusion you say

  • Have you tried LocalGPT PrivateGPT or other similar alternatives to ChatGPT?

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  • I've played around with a few of them. I've found LM Studio the most robust and user friendly.

  • Are you ok (really, are you)?

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  • I feel you on hating the holidays. I get so little time off of work that I just want to relax, but the expectations of the holidays make it near impossible. I have 4 siblings and they all have 2-3 kids and them and my mom always try to plan something for Christmas. The problem is we all live at least 4 hours away from each other. It is a logistical nightmare. This year I finally put my foot down and told my family I'm not doing that this year. I also told them not to get anything for my kids because honestly getting presents for 11 nieces and nephews is getting ridiculous. I even told my mom not to come visit because I just can't deal with her histrionic personality disorder right now. Of course, I couldn't put it that way, but to my surprise she actually listened for once.

    I do still have to deal with my wife's family coming over, because apparently me saying I don't want to do anything for Christmas means I'm find with doing Christmas stuff on December 23rd. However, beside my wife stressing about making our house completely spotless, her family coming over isn't that bad. They will come over for like half a day and go home, and there is never any drama.

    Stay strong, the 26th is only a few days away.

  • Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

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  • Seems like they never recovered after the whole YouTube Red exclusive stuff they did. I was glad they came back, but you're right, it just doesn't hit the same.

  • What are you most looking forward to?

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  • Moving out of Texas. Waiting for the school year to end, and we are getting out of this backwards state.

  • Do cosmologists know for sure that the Big Bang is propelling all matter away?

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  • I saw a really good demonstration of this once, but I can't seem to find a video of it.

    Basically imagine a rubber tube with 4 balls equal distance apart from each other.

    --0--0--0--0--

    If you stretch the tube from both ends all of the balls move an equal distance apart.

    ----0----0----0----0----

    There is no one ball that is the center or the starting point. However if you focus on one ball while stretching it will seem like the others are moving away from it. But in reality they are all moving away from each other at the same rate.

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • I was the same way. Especially as someone who lives in Texas and is surrounded by those types. Not to give anything away but it is closer to mobster than evangelicals.

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • I swear this feels like a plot point from a Righteous Gemstones episode. Sounds like you have a real life Uncle Baby Billy

  • PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?

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  • Slay the Spire works great on a touchscreen as well. It runs great on my Surface.

    However, there is a weird bug if playing on a Surface, that I feel obligated to let other know when recommending this game. You have to have the keyboard attached for the touchscreen controls to work in Slay the Spire. But you can flip it around the back and still play with the touchscreen.

  • What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?

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  • I've worked in IT consulting for over 10 years and have never once lied about the capabilities of a product. I have said, it doesn't do that natively, but if that's a requirement we can scope how much it would take to make it happen. Sadly my company is very much the exception.

    The worst I saw was years ago I was working on an infrastructure upgrade of a Hyper-V environment. The client purchased a backup solution I wasn't familiar with but said it supported Hyper-V. It turns out their Hyper-V support was in "beta". It wasn't in beta. They were literally using this client as a development environment. It was a freaking joke. At one point I had to get on the phone with one of their developers and explain how high-availability and fail-over worked.