Kay Ohtie

The straights are not okay

Mine ended 6 months after cold turkey on Zoloft. Doctors just… Didn’t know at all, when it happened.

I was thinking I still get them from time to time but in writing this post I realized I only get shivers, not the full zap.

I used to joke that the CEO of my former employer must subscribe to some magazine called “CEO Weekly” in which they must periodically mention, in a similar “no examples of usage, just KPIs” manner, webchat. She would always forget about it promptly and then random number of weeks later bug my boss again.

I told him if they want me to come up with how they can use webchat and be their solutions designer they need to double my salary. $60k USD was not enough for being a tier 3 systems admin, a fax and telephony specialist, and figuring out their use cases for them just to check a box that says “we have it!”

Signal have published several times when they receive a request for data and their response.

Due to the mechanisms they employ, all they can actually give is if there’s an account associated with a phone number and the last time it logged in, if even that last bit. There’s some fairly detailed articles diving into how this works so well under the hood from a cryptographic standpoint, but it basically amounts to even addresses of users being able to be secret to minimize shared metadata to a bare minimum.

Also the software is entirely open-source – app and server both – and are frequently audited on this. The server never has an opportunity to receive any plain-text data to store.

The weak spot is always just having access to your device.

I was gonna say like “ok but why’s he gotta be kinda hot tho”.

Delighted that this is actually a painting and not some generated image.

I always heard “good-a times” and “bad-a times” oops.

Had what felt like the worst gas pain of my life. Started as indigestion feeling but slowly “resolved” down. And then resolved to the right.

Congratulations to me I had appendicitis and caught it before it burst whee.

Will it make you even more frustrated to learn Steam has a Linux-native build of Substance Painter, but Adobe still won’t support it themselves?

Bazzite is basically that, with a foundation of Fedora Atomic instead of Arch, but otherwise it’s extremely similar, designed to be super easy. Even as a Linux nerd it was a breath of fresh air compared even to the simplicity of some other distros.

The ADHD response to stimulants the first time is cleaning your room finally.

Not…whatever this is.

Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways – broken in ways I’ve never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

• Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it’s open, until you want another window) (I’ve only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
• The “home” view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that’s empty – sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I’ve repeatedly suffered this)
• Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn’t from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
• Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

And that’s just my personal experiences. The ones I’ve seen others deal with is much weirder.

Honestly I’m buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.

Shit post != Shitpost

Easy mistake.

It’d have to literally be a full CPU that somehow has only read access to the RAM such that it’d be a genuine feat of engineering. Either that or the whole thing is just a virtualized device, but the cooling demands for either method would exceed the threshold for passive cooling in those enclosures and require fans at that point.

Bloomberg wrote an article several years ago that was absolutely slaughtered for making up from bad sources such a chip concept except even more unbelievable because they claimed it was hidden inside the PCB itself and only like 6 or 8 pins? Absolutely absurd for anyone who understands electrical engineering or microcontrollers at all.

9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)

I never got contacted about this but my old fursona’s name apparently overlapped with some French dental surgery study facility. I had no clue when I came up with the name. Derp. X3

I hate that this is the most accurate answer almost certainly. Maybe it’ll shame people into not submitting more often than it would’ve for people sneaking it in.

I just noticed the 6 string also only has 4 strings by the time it reaches the body and approaches the bridge

I’m not even sure this is a real photo. There’s multiple eras of clothing on display. A prompt for “old timey clothes” could potentially include the 60s on up in the mess.

I hate that it’s so damn hard to tell sometimes what’s what. Is this real history? Is this staged for fun/selling? Or is it generated?

Can’t tell if good old fashioned potatochop or generative garbo