And the one you make at home is always better anyway. Just requires more labor.

I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugin, but I can’t recommend that for ‘normies’ because the interface is not simple, and I still have glitches with it.

I’m also looking for a solution like yours, but wanted you to have that feedback.

Life must have been dull as hell back then.

He did not, in fact, live to be 120 years old.

Good on ya mate. I retired, at least temporarily, from almost 30 years in IT today. I may do some part time consulting to pay for vacations in the future, but my FT days are over. I hope you enjoy being away from it as much as I will.

After 3 decades in IT let me share some wisdom.

What you describe is not ok, and it’s just letting the company walk all over you because it sounds like nobody had the experience to push back. There should be a senior guy somewhere in that team going “yo this is bullshit, we’re not doing this” and making the company define the criteria so you can say yes or no. Otherwise you just don’t comply, and everyone on the team has to be onboard with that. Gotta have boundaries in this career or they will literally own you and all your free time, and if shit hits the fan, they will scapegoat you in a heartbeat.

They need you more than you need them. Never forget that. There are lots, and lots, and lots of unfilled IT jobs out there.

A company I used to work for is big enough that everyone reading this has heard of it. They had this wonderful security nightmare going on:

When you were hired, the company would issue your user credential with a standard password that was “CompanyName1” and require you to immediately change it at first logon. Everyone knew this password because everyone got it when they were hired.

Password policy required everyone to reset their password every 60 days. Not the worst ever but still pretty aggressive. And with the rise of all the mobile devices connecting with your corp account it was getting to be a worse and worse experience.

Can you guess yet how these two policies are linked in my story?

Well, some of the C-Suite executives didn’t have time for any of these security shenanigans. So they would have their executive support person log into an administrative console and reset the exec’s password every 59 days to the same value that it currently had, thereby bypassing the password re-use filter.

That value they were continuously setting was… “CompanyName1”

I know of at least two executives that were doing this while I worked there.

Apparently this is a real term.

https://www.northcountrygazette.org/2025/01/05/deer_jacker/

I have a Xanax script and I use it as prescribed (for sleep). I don’t like the way it makes me feel if I have to be awake, so abuse is not a temptation.

You will know what it is like to feel true emptiness.

I switched from booze to weed and my life got a lot better. Very similar “I would like to escape from the hell that is humanity, ahh that’s better” effect, but without feeling like dogshit in the morning.

Never considered olive oil as an alternative. Although I think drinking a lot of that would lead to the wrong kind of ‘fucked up’.

Let me tell you about the time I ate butterfish.

More accurately, let me tell you about what happened about 3 hours after I ate butterfish.

On second thought, nobody wants to hear the details. It was bad.

The election taught me that:

25% of the country is sorta paying attention.

25% of the country fits into two categories, Evil (100% selfish goes here, still counts as evil), or stupid as a bag of hammers.

50% of the country can’t be bothered to participate either way. Gonna lump them in with the hammers.

Not great.

This movie has long been a guilty pleasure of mine.

“Chefs do that!”

Who read their old yearbooks while they’re on the toilet? You’re supposed to read them once every few years when you find them while cleaning out storage to move to a new place, bringing all activity to a halt for an hour or two while you drown in nostalgia. You know, like normal people.

The problem for them is those aren’t things you can buy.

Based on the picture it looks like he vowed to never take another shit for the rest of his life.

There are definitely people in their 90’s using Lemmy.

I do appreciate how hard it can be to tell the difference sometimes.