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4 months agowith ublock origin plugin, it’s amazing
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so tired of people recommending thinkpads when there are much better options. the fact the control and alt key were swapped for years is enough to never get ibm or Lenovo.
I’d check local places like offerup. can get business laptops for cheap when places refresh. there are a few people around me selling 3-4 year old dells with i5/i7, nvme, etc. take a Linux USB and install it on site before you buy to test. they’re more than enough specwise for daily use or testing. often sub $300
6·5 months agoone of my favorite groups is Mischief Brew from Philly. Very folksy, anti-cop, anti everything government lol
Lazy for not wanting to have 6 different accounts and launchers? Nah. It’s easier to just get a pirated version than trying to remember which service you bought what on.
Convenience, the whole reason piracy took a backseat for a few years. Inconvenient? Hit the seas.
1·5 months agooh god, the difference between some of my old rips at 128 and 320 is damn near night and day. i though the song just sucked, but the quality was just shit. also found a track that got corrupt, but still played, but at 1/10th the speed, it was about 30 minutes long, but normally only 3 lol. just stretched the fuck out of it.
yeah, i’ve thought about it. but it’s cathartic to find music/movies, download and organize them, choose artwork in Plex, things like that. I’ve got them all organized in media monkey.
I use OnTheSpot downloader to grab albums from spotify at 320kbps - https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot
Use Soulseek (nicotine+) to grab more obscure stuff. Can get everything on there, just sometimes slower and not as reliable as a torrent.
I use these sites for movies, in order of convenience:
https://ytssss.jamsbase.com/ (basically just YTS)
https://www.magnetdl.com/ (search sucks, but if you get used to it, it has huge libraries of TV series)
https://en.torrentgalaxy-official.site/
https://psa.wf/ (PSA RIPS)
I don’t really download apps anymore, so malware really isn’t an issue, but make sure you’re using UBlockOrigin plugin and a VPN like TorGuard
Just upgraded my truenas and plex to 8tb drives. 1600+ movies, 60+ TV series, 40,000 songs. I seed as much as I can, have uploaded over 5TB this month alone. Come get some.
I actually threw away my red Nike hat just to avoid the confusion. Fuck trump.
I recently discovered the band Ween and the song Japanese Cowboy is so pleasing to hear.
First, I never said I was in programming. Second, the topic was that there is no way to track productivity, which is just wrong. May not be 100% accurate, but it can be tracked.
Lol ok. I guess we’re done here
Metrics are mostly bullshit because it’s not possible to measure productivity for most tech roles and its impossible to measure productivity for soft skills.
Where are you getting this? It’s completely wrong. I work in IT and I have a timesheet to fill out on each ticket I do, and document what was done. You can look at my weekly hours and see exactly what I’ve been doing and how my time is spent. They don’t care if I put “watched youtube for an hour” if there isn’t immediate work, it just needs to be filled out. That is a measurable metric, in fact we let a guy go last month because he could only account for about 15 hours a week that he was working and when asked about it, he had no answer on any of it.
So I don’t know how you think it’s “unmeasurable”. Of course I could make shit up and fill in fake hours, but it will catch up when the work isn’t done and they start asking questions or the client starts asking what’s going on with their project.
What metric do you use for a coder role? Sloc? Ok, make a bunch of garbage code. Tasks complete?
And then when they see that you can’t do the job… you’re gone. that’s measurable over time, very easily. They’re going to see that you can’t perform the job based on your results.
Senior Engineers should be mentoring and influencing their team members. How do you measure that? How do you measure how well a TPM gets people to work together?
You put it on your calendar/timesheet that you had training with X employees, or helped so and so work on a project. It’s not hard and is a requirement in many Tech places. This is a way to make sure the team isn’t overwhelmed, work is done in a timely manner, and how we’re communicating with the clients, as well as many other things. The guy was let go because he was taking over 2 hours to do a password reset. I remoted in, changed it, gave the new password to the client and it was done in about 8 minutes. He just wasn’t up to snuff to handle even the simplest things. Measurable actions. 10 minutes vs 120 minutes is a massive difference for simple tasks that we have documentation on how to do.
Whether you agree or not, that is a metric used to measure performance and see where employees stand with the workload. So your first comment is such a broad stroke it’s completely wrong.
I’ll let you in on a secret: they can’t tell. There’s absolutely no way to know how productive someone is. It’s a popularity contest with extra steps.
12·6 months agoIt is a lot, but it’s rated high because it’s amazing. You could start with better call Saul, little slower and still as amazing.
Watch the wire instead. Again if need be.
2·6 months agoYup. I use one for DNS / pihole / remote into network. Already tiny, easily replaceable parts and any OS. I do prefer the dells over Lenovo though.
true detective. 1 is up there with goat, 2-3 is meh, 4 is tops again.