@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've been "mopped into my office".

Now we have to play the game of, is this a metaphor or isn't it

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had a stickler AP English teacher who critiqued everything, even if there was nothing to critique. He used to say my writing was "too wordy" but when I reduced it, it was "too concise". Great. Anyway, I'm writing something for my boss that's going out to the entire company and I tried Grammarly for the first time thinking why not? Grammarly said my writing is "too wordy". FML.

So fix it, and then if Grammarly says it's too concise, call your AP English Teacher and ask him how's life at Grammarly, lol.

My boss liked what I wrote. F**k grammarly.

Risk of Rain on Sale for $2.49. Well worth it

@ccwtech Happy Birthday Dude!

Ubiquiti is selling servers now?

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/unifi-xg-server/

EDIT: Comes pre-installed with video/DVR stuff oh well

@kelly A lot of fan service

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Decided I needed to get going on this
Since I do not have a server this is where I am starting. I will be posting to this thread as i go along.

If doing Nextcloud on Vultr, you probably want a storage instance, not a compute instance.

huh.. didnt even think of that.. How can I go back and wipe out what I have done?

It's cloud. So you just delete the instance that you made and make a new one that is storage focused rather than compute focused.

I don't know that any storage instances are available, they sell out like hot cakes.

I thought they stopped offering them they've been sold out for so long

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My fiance has officially destroyed my Netflix account

I guess you can't marry her than. Time to find a new one, and create a new Netflix account.

Top suggestions for you:

Gay crossdressing makeup artists do their makeup while climbing mt everest

mexican single mother navigates the dating world and is just SO funny and cute

white girl who is not awkward or nerdy is awkward and nerdy

Someone stab me in the jugular

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Houston to get first robot brothel in US, according to Dallas morning news.

Altered Carbon was a documentary

@dashrender said in Star Wars - What do you like about the new movies, and what is not so great?:

I'm not a fan of the new movies. VII was a rehash of EP IV, really? another trench run? another deathstar?

That whole sucking the light out of a star, yet somehow the star reignites (lights back up)?

Hyperspace through shields? (falcon had to leave hyperspace super close to the planet and not crash)
This part speaks to Kelly's question - hyperspace into ships destroys them? Only thing I can think here is the idea is that they aren't fully in hyperspace yet, just going super fast, so that 'could' make sense.

While I didn't like Luke's (OK really the writer's/director's vision) disregard for the Jedi, etc - but I can accept it, not where I wanted it to go - but fine, it's a new direction.

I really did like the new force powers we saw - Luke projecting himself across the galaxy for example.

OK that more or less handles the new trilogy.

Rogue One for me is tied for best movie compared to ESB. It felt like it belonged in that universe. it fills in the gaps - why shooting a small port on the surface actually cased the DS to explode - Great explanation! I also loved all the easter eggs. It felt grand and definitely part of the SW universe. My main complaint - the horrible 3d job on Leia's face at the end. Luckily I didn't get that at all from Tarkin's face earlier in the movie.

Onto Solo - as a space robbery movie - it was fine, fun even - as a SW movie - meh. It filled in some gaps just like RO did, but for the most part I didn't care. There also seemed to be a preachy part in it with the whole pansexual thing ( and EP VIII had a preachy about corporations thing with the casino/arms sales).
In the end I didn't care about any character except Lando - that actor did a fantastic job. I guess I would like to see a continuation of the Maul storyline, but that seems unlikely.

I think Solo bombed mainly because The Last Jedi offended so many people. People just hated the direction TLJ went, so they showed that displeasure by not seeing Solo. The sucky thing about that is that Solo was basically an OK movie, not great like Rogue One (to me at least) but definitely deserved better in the boxoffice. And now, because of the wreck that was TLJ caused Solo to tank - now we won't see any more outside the box movies for a while.

I think this is pretty fair. The one thing I'd add is that regardless of anything, Star Wars fans are probably the hardest group of fans to please

@scottalanmiller said in Star Wars - What do you like about the new movies, and what is not so great?:

or people who thought Carrie Fisher was hot

Can't it be both? Carrie Fisher was definitely hot. There's no question.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm kinda enjoying watching the dev manager squirm over some lost data... that was on an old tower server, a server that has had 2 bad drives (out of a 6 drive RAID10) for quite a while. All concerned parties were informed of the drive issue, my boss said "screw it, we're not replacing those old drives". No worries, but again, people were informed about the issue and told to grab any pertinent data they might need. Fast forward to this week, I was instructed to P2V the machine since development "still needed it", even after migrating that workload to a VM. The C drive vhd worked fine. Creating the D drive one put the final death blow on the machine. I was able to grab a little of the data first, and luckily it had the DB backup we needed, but hopefully this will be an eye opener and will make it easier for me to get a backup solution.

Doubtful. In my experience no normal user ever has learned from mistakes like this and I mean ever

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Weird feeling that these co workers of mine are going to prank me while im gone.. Gonna come back to something completely new. at my desk.

The old Stapler in a mould of Jello trick eh?

Jokes on them, I love Jello and I need more iron in my diet.

(or are staples made of lead. . )

steel, i thought... can you get hte iron from that?

Steel is just Iron and Carbon after all

Considering why existence is considered a gift by so many people. Typical IT stuff

Anyone get a presidential alert on their phone just now?

@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:

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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm not saying Obama or Trump are great, that's for others to figure out. But treat the position with some damn respect and act like an adult.

Is that too much to ask from the POTUS?!

You're right. That is a 2-way street. He needs to hold his position with respect, and so do we. Trump will have to answer to his maker (whoever you believe that may be).

He was not born, he was engineered by combining the genes of Joel Osteens family and a collection of random Jerry springer guests from the 90's.

Too bad nobody allowed nature to de-select that worthless combination of DNA.

Nature tried to de-select me. Had my appendix taken out when I was 16. I legit should be dead by natures standards. My child will be the start of me polluting the gene pool

I shouldn't even exist by nature's standards. I was the 4th attempt after 3 miscarriages. Then the doctor literally broke the mold. Why anyone would continue trying after 3 strikes is beyond me.

My teacher tried to tell me I was planned because my parents loved me when I was in the second grade and I said "my mom and dad met at a truckstop in florida. I don't think thats the case". My grandpa is responsible for my sense of humor

@WrCombs At least you have a boss

Laura is sleeping at her friends tonight and will not be back until tomorrow. Probably going to clean the apartment ridiculously and use this as an opportunity to purge anything in our apartment that isn't needed. I am minimalistic with storage.