Agreed, those people are the best. But also, that’s a bit of a nightmare scenario, because now you have to decide if you’re going to risk saying something from five minutes ago, or decline the kindness and feel bad for rejecting the gesture.

Awkwardly attempt to join the conversation, only to be talked over mid-sentence by someone else, and so you wait for another lull. Attempt to start again, only to be interrupted again by someone else. Watch helplessly as the subject of the conversation drifts far from the point you were going to make. Minutes pass, and everyone is glad to be talking about something else. You let go of the moment, and resign yourself to remain quiet. Then someone says to you, “Oh, what were you going to say?”

I did misread it, my mistake. Thanks for clarifying!

The Expanded Universe is not Disney canon. The Solo kids, Chewie, Palpatine clones, Thrawn, none of it played out the way it happens in the books. It is theoretically possible that between The Mandolorian episode where we see youger Jedi Master Luke, and the end of The Force Awakens where we meet Old Jedi Master Luke, that Luke met Mara Jade, got married, and fathered a child. But there was no mention of it in the new Disney trilogy or associated TV shows. So I would assume she doesn’t exist until someone adds her to a story, and even then I wouldn’t assume she would have the same role.

Ross Perot never had a real shot. The ruling parties would not have permitted it.

It’s a reference to spam callers. For a few years, right around when everyone was realizing they shouldn’t answer the phone for unknown callers, it was really common to get calls that, if you picked up, would play a pre-recorded message along the lines of “Hello! We’ve been trying to get in touch with you regarding your car’s extended warranty. You may be entitled to money and blowjobs, and if your warranty expires, your hair will fall out and your car will be repossessed. To speak to a representative, press 1. Por habla Esperanto, marqué νούμερο 二.”

If you pressed 1, you would ostensibly be connected to a high-pressure sales rep trying to sell you a worthless maintenance contract. Nobody is really certain, though, because despite hundreds of millions of people receiving twelve of these calls each day, not one person every stayed on the line longer than “regarding…” In fact, my memory on the end of that message might be a fabrication, because I don’t think I ever heard it.

Yes, which is why I am here and not on Reddit anymore. I got the assignment backwards.

Oh I think I misunderstood the question. My bad, I was talking about the things I miss about old Reddit, and why I’m here.

I miss being able to customize my feed through subscriptions and blocks. I could hide ads and ignore specific communities. That’s not at all possible anymore, and the ads have gotten much sneakier.

All of my local sports teams had very active communities. We had rivalries with other subs, some friendly, others not so much. You got to know regulars and could commiserate over the sports in your city.

Those communities exist in Lemmy, but they aren’t nearly as active.

I’m not an expert in any sense.

But it was always my impression that Ubuntu and Debian were what you use on personal machines, while RHEL is the baseline standard for professional servers.

Is that not accurate? CrowdStrike’s target customer seems to be the sort of company that would insist on using RHEL for the enterprise features.

It’s also a strong indicator that companies are not doing enough to protect their own infrastructure. Production servers shouldn’t have third party software that auto-updates without going through a test environment. It’s one thing to push emergency updates if there is a timely concern or vulnerability, but routine maintenance should go through testing before being promoted to prod.

They might be using it as a base for something else, like breakfast hash browns.

Canned potatoes take on a flavor I don’t like, but there’s no denying the convenience of having shelf-stable cooked potatoes ready to eat or cook with. I keep canned tomatoes in the pantry for a similar reason. I prefer fresh, but if it’s going into sauce or stew, canned is a time saver.

I have a friend who got one of the big ones, and I can’t remember which model. He loved it, loved showing it off, and loved all that screen real estate.

Then it broke and he quietly went back to a standard flagship.

Yeah, a lot of people are (understandably) mad at Crowdstrike right now, but I want to drag some c-suite executives into a conference room and impress upon them the value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery. Banks, airlines, service providers, these aren’t mom-and-pop bakeries and plumbers who don’t have time for all that nonsense. Every service that went down should be looking for the fuckwit in their organization, and they’re probably in the executive lounge. Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes dedication to systematically ignore the best advice of top experts in the field and run your infrastructure on a shoestring budget.

How do bad ideas like this ever get off the ground?

It’s basic functionality dressed up for marketing. It is silly, because you really don’t need a shutter button that often. But the device can do it, so why not? It’s not a selling feature, but it wouldn’t make sense not to include some kind of button function.

It’s like if a car manufacturer got really enthusiastic about how you can recline your seatbacks which lets you take a nap in your car. Like, OK, there are a lot of reasons to have reclining seats, but in practice you rarely need the feature. But to not have it would be even stupider.

You’re right, but moisannite can be distinguished without a loupe by a colorful flash. But also anyone knowledgeable enough to spot that at a distance probably does not have the same prejudices against lab-made diamonds. I mean, unless they work for Debeers.

Both are beautiful, and both are easily distinguishable from natural diamonds for being too perfect. The irony is that natural diamonds increase in value if they have fewer imperfections, but almost no natural diamonds have zero imperfections.

Value-wise, in theory a natural diamond will hold its value over time, but in practice the value of natural diamonds is manipulated by the diamond conglomerates that control the market. We won’t “exhaust the supply” of diamonds in our lifetimes, so there’s not much sense in worrying about the value of the gem either way.

Are any gems “worth it”? That’s between you and your wallet. It’s an entirely superficial item, serving no practical purpose. To paraphrase a modern American philosopher, you can get married with paper rings. The ring is a symbol of your commitment, and as long as your fiancee enjoys wearing it everyday, don’t stress about what other people will think.

Reddit wasn’t mainstream then. Comments could go unnoticed for months.