@tim_g said in Which to drive for? Lyft or Uber:

Do both?

Exactly.

@momurda said in Ug - can I buy a sorta not computer thing from Lenovo?:

The episode "Hated in the Nation" was most terrifying.
I wear earmuffs all the time now.

One of my favorites. San Junipero was, from my recollection, the only utopian future and it was by far the best episode.

@jaredbusch said in Nauseated or Nauseous:

@scottalanmiller said in Nauseated or Nauseous:

Famously (to me at least) Jared corrected me on misusing ignorance

Sadly, I have no memory of this.

Perhaps you are ignorant of it.

I have an account but I haven't had a need to use it.
black3dynamite#9661

@bigbear said in Amplifi HD vs ERX and and AP/AC Long Range:

takes pictures when it thinks it should

Like all angles of everybody's faces... sounds like a great idea.

Support the FairTax Act, you’ll get my vote. 😄

The technology certificate is an encryption certification that expires in the spring of 2018, which may open the product up to potential security vulnerabilities. We've refocused development resources on newer technologies, and therefore, we are not updating the Harmony Link certificate. We first communicated to affected customers in August 2017 that we are offering a free Harmony Hub to replace a Link (if within warranty) or a discount on the Harmony Hub (if out-of-warranty).

Makes me wonder if they used a SHA1 cert and the device doesn't support an upgrade. lol

@scottalanmiller said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@rojoloco said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@scottalanmiller said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@rojoloco said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@scottalanmiller said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@rojoloco said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

@bnrstnr said in Weird SpiceWorld HighFive Goodbye Email:

Like @jmoore said, it appears to be a guilt trip. I got one of these a while back after repeatedly telling dude I will contact him when I'm ready to move forward. I don't know if I was having a bad day or what, but I was pretty offended and basically told him to GFY...

Hey Nick,
I have not had much success reconnecting with you. It might just be that you don’t have any interest in talking with me -- and that’s okay. I just need to know whether or not to keep trying. So, to make this nice and easy, you can reply with a simple keystroke. Just reply with either A, B, C, D, or E and I’ll know where to go from here, but please do reply so that I can stop emailing you if you’re not interested.
A. I no longer need emails but send me invites for events.
B. No need to follow up we already found another solution.
C. We need to get something done but don't have time, don't give up!
D. I would like to schedule a time to talk.
E. Wait who are you again?
Thank you.

The perfect response:

"F - I hunt marketing and advertising dicks for sport. Better have your running shoes, I'm a good shot..."

The Most Dangerous Game - Spiceworks GG Edition

GGs are only dangerous when giving advice. Plus, I'd be armed, so their "dangerousness" lessens greatly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game

Yeah, read it. You seemed to imply that vendors were some sort of game that would be even mildly dangerous, and that is demonstrably incorrect unless you wield the checkbook for your company. I could hunt and kill every GG on SW in the span of a week while being armed with only a tablespoon, a small swiss army knife, and a single bamboo skewer. Please cross post this to see if any of them accept my challenge.

No, just that hunting them would be a fun sport.

Let's pitch that show to some network!!!! I just want to be the axe man, the last face they see before they bleed out... you can have all the producer credit horseshit. I just want to hold up an axe and make one vendor beg for their life after admitting to only posting sales pitch BS. Then chop down slowly, so it takes multiple swings to end their miserable existence.

@jaredbusch said in Do you think Sony will ever do anything with The Wheel of Time:

Branching off from the announcement about the LoTR series, I dug up the news from earlier this year about the Wheel of Time rights getting bought by Sony.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/the-wheel-of-time-series-is-one-step-closer-to-your-television/

oh been years since i read that but it was a classic. i am just wondering why they bought it...

The best part of this announcement is this here.
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To me, this means that they are working with Christopher and we will see something, likely from the Silmarillion notes (published or unpublished) that happens in the 60 years between Hobbit and Fellowship.

They will have to keep it between the two in order to bring in a wider audience.

Going back to the 1st or 2nd age stories will lose a lot of people and they could just do something without the LoTR IP attached.

@emad-r said in My Roommate Got On VICE TV:

@scottalanmiller

Looks Morrocan ? I can understand some Arabic writings, looks like cool place.

Yes, in central Fez.

@dashrender said in YouTube TV:

@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:

You visit Huly, decide that they are jerk faces, and leave. Maybe you'd have unblocked them, had they not blocked us.

This is so incredibly unlikely as to not be worth even discussing.

Normal people who turn on ad blockers will never turn them off, unless that's the only way to get the content. Those who troll around these parts are the rare few that might find real value in disabling them to provide funds back to the sites we visit.

Maybe, but that's not the point. The point was they block people who block ad blockers, it's not about the ads.

@jaredbusch said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

@reid-cooper said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

@dbeato said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

Things change very often, probably at the time it was not something a lot experienced and worked with.

Five years is certainly a long time in the lives of KVM or Xen.

Or Hyper-V

Maybe even longer there.

@reid-cooper Together.

My Chromecast is similar to that
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Also stumbled on this while looking for this thread...

https://mangolassi.it/topic/1960/lords-describe-right-to-be-forgotten-as-unworkable-unreasonable-and-wrong

@scottalanmiller your hometown got the credits now.Congrajulations

@stacksofplates said in Nest Secure: Thoughts?:

@bigbear said in Nest Secure: Thoughts?:

I use the outdoor nest cams because the install kit and magnet is better but mostly because the software is so much better.

The alerts, zones and ability to actually catch stuff as it's happening isn't something I've been able to replicate on a non-cloud DVR. I actually catch stuff while it's happening.

I won't put a nest camera in my house though. The garage is as far as let them into my house. Used to have it in kids play room but they are too old for that now, and even then it kinda bugged em. But still, the notifications were just way more useful. Probably a result of all the data they have access too.

The Ubiquiti ones have nice zones and they can be very very sensitive or very not depending on what you want.

I tried this but it was 2014 or so with all UBNT gear. Not sure if its improved then. That was also the peak of the UBNT home/office automation/sensors gear.

Things could be better now but I would expect them to be worst given their seeming abandonment of that product line for creepy necklace cameras.

@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:

Behavior. If their first post is raving about a product They will at the least get a follow from admins/CM's even if they don't trip the others. If their only 3-4 posts are about Proxmox (even if spread across a year) they are going to get frozen until they talk to a CM.

This also has not worked outside of the Proxmox and some limited cases. I catch this from time to time and often really obvious sock puppets are allowed to stay.

Have you reported them to the group admins...

Report the main admins to the group admins?

The Community admins are sock puppets on the storage forum? I haven't seen them ever post in that forum.

This gets back to an earlier point. As any community grows it's admins and rules will have to fracture. What's cool in the storage group isn't going to be cool in Newbies, or in the gong show that is the soapbox forum. Reddit survives because it decided that beyond some general community guidelines 100% consistent rules and moderation just wouldn't scale.

You asked if I reported someone to the group admins. I've already reported teh sock puppets to the official admins.