Going to use this again maybe? Updated stuff. We'll see.

Only using this and Bluesky at the moment.

Not sure what's the cooler thing this Monday morning, kickoff of a new (badly needed) project, or the palace intrigue of my boss' boss leaving.

Actually, it's coffee. Coffee is the coolest thing.

Excuse me while I vibrate out of my skin.

Zelda understands Sundays.

@therealahall from Smuggler’s Coffee down the way in Dyer, highly recommend whenever you’re in town

Blew a bunch of money at a local brewery/market. Got some extremely good sourdough bread, coffee, hopped tea, craft root beer, and some t-shirts and coffee mugs. All local.

Feel super great about it. Highly recommend.

Somehow we made profile syncing a simpler, completely understandable process, and there's much hand-wringing because really all we've accomplished is showing how many problems there are

@hacks4pancakes

Absolutely no one:

Lesley: YOUR PLUMBING PRACTICES ARE AN AFFRONT TO GOD

please never, ever change

the test happened and now I'm a nerd

I was a nerd before, but am still one, now

This dog is too much.

I quietly changed to Bing (my career is very Microsoft-tech focused so I use it for research) and DuckDuckGo a couple years ago, basically feeling that Google's results just got a lot worse

Sometimes being proven right doesn't feel good though

Like this

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

My new hobby is gaslighting every single user in my organization with "use the web client" when confronted with any problem in Outlook or Teams

The secret: it's not gaslighting, it's the actual solution like all the time

So it's now the first Monday morning after this "plane-landing", where we actually learn how good or bad it is.

We found a couple problems, nothing earth-shattering but definitely stuff I'm glad we found on Sunday and not like, right now.

Fingers, toes crossed.

Ended up breaking at 2:30 am with an AD restore in progress.

Started again at 9:30 am. Eventually got everything good by about 2 pm.

Somehow we landed this plane without it exploding.

You know it's a bad project implementation when you make a latte (not coffee...espresso!) at 10:30 pm.

@dangoodin @nyquildotorg Literally just my own curiosity probably from about a year ago. I think I was in a conversation about bands and bass guitar (I myself am a bass player) and I searched and found this anomaly. Was true as recently as a few months ago, but now appears to have been "fixed" one way or another.

So this is all anecdotal, but some webarchive sleuthing could likely find what was up.

@nyquildotorg It's largely been fixed now, but for a good while if you searched on Google "famous rock bands without bass players" you'd have auto-populated results of "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "The Who", and some other bands who, incidentally, contain some of the most iconic bass players of all time. All referenced from a fistful of AI-driven sites that fooled each other into that non-reality.

This reeks of "plastic straw" nonsense.

Yes, AC isn't good. We should use less if we can.

But: AC use is a drop in the pond of things we should cut back on in the name of environmentalism.

And: AC saves many lives, and access to it is essential for many people in many places.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/interactive/2023/air-conditioning-climate-change/

@therealahall I had been wanting to do a new build for a while; saw this case and was immediately wanting to do it

It's just rad. Also just real nice too; it's pricey but no expense was spared, it's top quality

@FishermansEnemy The pictured cooler was "fine" under reasonable loads, but if I pushed the system it got into the high 80's, which is technically within spec for Ryzen procs but...I knew I could do better.

With the bigger cooler it rarely gets over 75 now, even when pushed.