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Cake day: February 25th, 2024

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  • Only because he’s white. If he was black, I would have said stereotypical black. I wasn’t addressing this at you. I’ll edit to say stereotypical douche bag frat boy turd thing.

    This is why giving importance to “not the focus” of the message gets in the way. Now we aren’t talking about -insert meme here- anymore. We are talking about someone’s personal issue with how I phrased something. Honestly, just proves the point of getting distracted by irrelevant things.


  • Why would anyone care who the stereotypical white dude is? That is giving importance/energy to the wrong thing. I didn’t even really notice nor care who he was (and still don’t). That said, I don’t generate memes with him in it so I guess I’m doing my part. 🤷🏻‍♂️



  • Meanwhile, if you use Microsoft Teams & Outlook with the Teams add-on installed … and you are wondering why your email links are suddenly opening in Edge instead of your default browser, disable the Teams add-on in Outlook and rage for a moment at the stupidity.

    Teams is forcing Edge browser to open links in new Teams and by extension, in Outlook. Setting the default browser to open links within Outlook settings just leads to un-clickable links. The only way to fix it is to disable the Teams Outlook add-on.

    Yes, same old Microsoft. Anyone who thinks they have changed in any way since the days of forcing Internet Explorer as the default are sadly and woefully mistaken.


  • Not a software dev but tech is central to my life.

    3 monitors for normal use

    1 - personal streaming, video meetings

    2 - remote business desktop access, main personal browsing window

    3 - online chat presence window, personal email client, other

    3 monitor gaming

    3 monitors for racing simulators and any games that support it (which make sense)

    Single monitor gaming

    1 - Game related content on left 2 - Game window in center 3 - Game related social media or streaming

    3 monitor home labbing

    1 machine or app per monitor Triple monitor stare and compare windows GUI / CLI / Monitoring system interface

    I didn’t realize how extensively I used my monitors until this exercise. Feel better about the spend and space tax related to it.


  • How do you run a business without employees? What kind of business is that? Just because you call someone a self-invested owner doesn’t mean they aren’t an employee. The only types of businesses I’ve heard of like this are Mary Kay and AmWay (there may be others I don’t know). Basically a sales ponzi scheme where you are the wholesaler for a distributor and the “self-invested owner” bought their products from you instead of directly from the wholesaler.

    I do agree with your stance on the state of education today but not in the same way. Some people party all through school and live off loans while others work during school to avoid loans. For every 1 person that takes the opportunity seriously and busts their ass to make something of themselves, there are 9 people who don’t deserve the free pass. Making it free for everyone costs too much for those who have to pay for those 9.


  • What about for people like me?

    I bought my device outright. No loans, no payment plans and no reason for that functionality to exist on my phone. Yet there it is, just waiting to be taken advantage of whether there is a valid reason or not.

    This is the kind of apathy that leads to phrases like, “If only we had known” but we do … and do nothing about it.

    I can and will at least do my part for myself and encourage others to do the same.