I’m on vacation but it’s gonna storm every day. Luckily I just picked up a retro game I’ve been wanting to play, so that should keep me entertained.

Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

I finally got a Plex client up and running on a raspberry pi for my CRT TV. So now I can watch all of my old movies and shows without swapping out a DVD when I’m comfy.

That sounds amazing actually

Well, pumpkins, looks like it’s the age-old dilemma. Style… or substance.

NACs charging is the big difference

I’m too ugly to have sex so it’s a non issue

I live in a small condo and my washing machine is too compact to wash large bedding, so I take my comforters and blankets to the laundromat. I am far from poor, this is just how city living works for many people.

Is yours a 2025? I heard that they fixed the seat belt rattle in the latest iteration by making an indentation in the door

$12k for a 2021 with 30k miles. The rear seats folded to quite an incline in the Bolt, but it was flat enough to slide furniture into it. I hauled plenty of large items in it.

I don’t like them, they feel flimsy. I’m worried about how I will get into the car after an ice storm.

I’m planning to add a hitch to mine for my ebike. I’ll have to look into both of those options.

I managed to snag the Bolt brand new for $29k out the door, so I was happy with the price but it was definitely missing a lot of features that I wanted

Thanks! The car definitely stands out in a parking lot and I’ve received a few compliments from strangers already. Looking forward to charging it for the first time and seeing how fast it actually is, and the NACs port is a huge plus in my area.

But if you woke up as the opposite gender, you’d be a boy. Gross.

You’re hired!

This fits. I denied an applicant recently because he had not yet acquired the level of fear necessary to succeed in the role. Lack of fear means stupid mistakes. I’ll take the battle-hardened veteran any day.

Pros: high pay, it’s easy to find hybrid work, every day there’s something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.

Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)

I’d recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.

That’s that I like about IT - all I do is help people. I’ve had the privilege of working with some incredible nonprofits, and even playing a tiny part in their mission gives me hope.

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