If you really want to use a chromium-based browser, Vivaldi does all this and for free. It’s not bad, definitely a bit faster than firefox but that’s the nature of the beast for the web these days. I also like having my tabs on the side rather than the top. I think you can do that with Firefox via an extension, I’ll have to play around. But I much prefer using Firefox in my daily life

Man this bullshit seems to have gotten so much worse since I last looked for a job in 2023

Prior to my current job, I worked at one for 7 years. I’m an industrial electrician, so maybe the demand is higher. But in 2023, I applied for 12 jobs, got 3 interviews which resulted in 2 offers. All cold applications on indeed. I was picky about which jobs I even applied for. For one of the offers I did not want the job and it paid too little so I strung them along as much as I could before I finally turned it down as I had a feeling I was getting my current job, but it took forever for some management to come back from field service for my second interview.

Hunter x Hunter manga, currently in the chimera ant arc

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Technically still reading the Dune series but I need to get back to it.

I remember I was working at my old job, and me and this other dude both worked at GE in the shop together before that. There was this older dude who was a massive dick to everyone, would just bark and complain about stupid shit at everyone all day long. Well since GE closed the plant and everyone got laid off, he applied to work where we both did. It was a pretty small shop too so it’d be even worse. Word got out and we were like ehh yeah it’d suck but I’d hate to get in anyone’s way of securing employment, maybe he has a family. But after a bit I was like man I’d really hate for this dude to fuck up my daily life and ruin this shop, especially since it was basically brand new and I was one of the original hires there.

So I went to my boss and was like hey I heard that this dude applied, you might want to rethink it. And before I could even give reasons why, he was like “just based on his phone interview alone, I’m not going any further with him as an applicant. Seemed like a bad fit”. And this was a dude with a lot of experience in our field. Like how do you fuck up a phone interview hahaha, it’s basically there just to make sure you’re a real human and can come in for one in person.

No? Industrial is an entirely different aspect of electrical beyond just building power like commercial is. I’m specifically in the automation of steel mills and other heavy industry. We control motors larger than houses or various systems and functions of the mill via control panels, PLCs, massive person-sized variable frequency drives, contactors, relays, software programming and fine tuning, all powered by busbar we bend by hand or parallel runs of large wire per phase that are much larger than anything commercial will touch, minus except like data centers I guess. Plus thousands and thousands of small control wiring of various sensors, control logic to PLCs, device power, etc etc.

Industrial electrical

Nope! I love working a trade. Can’t ever do anything else.

Working a desk job would prob burn me out tho

Everyone should dodge the draft. I’d rather go to prison than serve

Any and everything is on soulseek

Fwiw, soulseek’s usability is not horrid. I have about 8500 albums, mostly downloaded from there and bandcamp. I also combined libraries with a few friends over the years, which is always fun to just bring over a hard drive and share.

Yes, it’s more work but with things like Plexamp I have all the music I could ever want and it works wonderfully when remote, even does the whole “radio” suggested artists thing within my own library.

Another friend of mine has 38k albums. Sometimes I’ll change the source to his and bop around.

What good is piracy unless you’re amassing a huge server full of all your favorite media

Are PVC pipes like that common for water lines in the UK? In the US they’re illegal in some parts of the country and are typically seen as “not if but when” they’ll fail. I’ve seen them just randomly explode and dump full pressure water into somewhere.

Might be slightly different in the UK but the way they’re installed in the US is gluing the different CPVC pieces together. This is different than PEX which is the more modern method and is crimped water lines.

Yeah. It’s the same thing Uber did with pushing cab services out of business.

Not only that, but AWS is the real money maker for them. Not that retail and gaming and prime and whatever don’t also make boat loads of cash, but it doesn’t even graze AWS. The scale of these data centers is unreal and most of the internet runs on AWS.

I’m an industrial electrician with background on what they’re ordering and installing in terms of control panels and if you saw the weekly shipments it’d make you sick. And we’re only one supplier, they have others.

Rbtv77 has been exceptionally stable for me this year. It’s a sideloaded android app, works on TVs too.

There’s the big 4 sports plus soccer, but there’s also a ton of international niche sports. Like I fire it up and catch cricket, handball, rugby, half court basketball, volleyball, table tennis, billiards, days long car races, whatever. Some of the games have an audience of like a few dozen people and aren’t broadcast in English but only if they’re international.

Actually funny enough it was probably Linux ISOs

Soulseek >>>>> piratebay by a wide margin for music.

Only place I’ve found like 90s underground Memphis rap demos and obscure black metal and shit that’s not even on spotify.

I’ve been building my own collection for years. I have around 8k albums.

My friend does the same and is up to 38k albums. I connect to both of our libraries via Plex.

For everything else I use private trackers and torrent. I’ve also built out huge movies, tv, anime libraries with my friends.

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Why is damn near everything in Chinese?

That does sound pretty jank for other reasons but those post jacks being installed long term are incredibly common around here, and yeah they’re only supposed to be for temporary use. I’m more surprised when I walk into a house that doesn’t have them. My house has them and if you look at the floor joists I’d be scared what would happen if you spun them down haha, the joists are all bent and there’s a slight warp in the floor in the portion that don’t have them. It’s a 135 year old home so I’m not really worried about it.

Oh right on. Genuinely didn’t know this

I’ve never opened a port for Plex.