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i don't know anything about kagi search, except for the following:

• it's under a proprietary license

• it emphasizes privacy and a zero-surveillance approach

• it requires that you create an account in order to use it

they're lying. it will take extremely compelling evidence to convince me otherwise.

In inheriting the wholly unmitigated dumspter fire left by my predecessor, I got to introduce myself to the company-proclaimed old-world AIX wizard today. A resident graybeard, from when the environment as it exists currently was first stood up. He had been described to be an asshole of the highest order. A preternatural douchebag who would just as soon insult you as fix your entire cacophony of issues with a single one-liner. Alignment true neutral, leaning chaotic.

After exchanging messages with him, I discovered in fact the opposite. He was willing to tell me whatever I needed to know, often with either more supplementary information or with a source on where to find it. I told him upfront and early-on that I really only work effectively when I understand the mechanism, and he delivered exactly. He didn't have any patience for ignorance on the basis of stupidity, which prompted me to consider my questions three times before I asked them, but he welcomed our discussion.

We spoke about why I was requiring instruction from him, as the communication in my department is so poor that he didn't know that this shit show was my inheritance. I communicated my worry about inheriting things from a guy who had 2.5+ jobs in the company when I had a job I was doing already, and he exrpessed empathy of all things, as well as total agreement with my assessment. He wasn't an asshole; he had boundaries! Further, he respected my own boundaries!

All in all, we seemed to value the same things, all the way down to the way we aim for clarity in our communication, sometimes ad nauseam and at the expense of brevity. The one place where we differed was his proclivity for ellipses in his normal mode of composition. I think I can deal with that, though.

the knighting of Brienne of Tarth is probably the best part of the whole show

anyone manage to actually place their #steam controller order? mine is hung up in the checkout screen

pretty sure the itx motherboard in my gaming console computer has shit all up in the bed. it both won't show output to hdmi, and can't connect previously configured wifi. can't see it on the wifi access point config. multiple system failures at one time points me to the mobo. however, i haven't even cracked it open yet. i don't have troubleshooting time this weekend, only relaxing time.

emotionally speaking, i am handling the loss of function in one of my major recreational platforms way better than i have in the past, so i'm counting that as a victory

Some days I stay on all day, some days I get derailed early on. Other days, like today, I never find my way to the tracks at all

My boss is on a fucking cruise and I just remembered that I don't have to deal with his shit all week

Let's fucking party

i still maintain that Sandor Clegane is the best character in the show

they want me to both do 50 tickets a day, and perform regular deep dive troubleshoots. i can't do both, and i don't know how to tell them that and keep my job

ORACLE LINUX CAN KISS MY PISS

Know what, fuck it.

some of the yasuke drip in ac shadows is immaculate

did you guys get any tracking info on your #steamcontroller yet?

the word "elif" should be added to normal english speech, if it hasn't already and i was just unaware

i built a whole 4-floor assembly line complete with packaging station in satisfactory, i think i can learn c

just got out of my physical, and apparently i've got high blood pressure and am losing my hearing. i feel like i knew that already. anyway, i hope insurance covers my annual physical. i'm going to die a renter

today, i'm moving the would-have-been sunshine server to a room with a tv, for use as a standard console. this in done in preparation for the steam controllers i ordered yesterday, and it will be using a standard bluetooth controller in the meantime. i hope it can drive a 4k display

assassin's creed odyssey should absolutely have a greek audio reel. the fact that it doesn't breaks immersion for me

lately, i find myself regularly feeling so accosted by just the normal events of life in a society that i might as well not have a weekend at all

i just let myself have the "what would i do if i won $1 billion in the lottery" fantasy, and now i'm depressed

I got a galaxy tab S10 ultra like 18 months ago, and despite all its proprietary bullshit, it's a really cool piece of technology. I'm absolutely a tablet kid

I have ADHD, which for me means that my house is overrun with the dilapidated carcasses of thousands of hobbies-for-a-weekend. Lately, i've started looking more into creative writing as both a therapeutic outlet and a means for community. I don't know if I'll stick with this one, but it seems that I already have the required materials to do it.

scuba is the single best experience i've had. snorkeling has given me anxiety attacks more than once. i don't understand people who equate the two

it's friday. i got clearance to make two new admin-level accounts to assist with my 400+ tickets. someone called me a half hour before shift is supposed to start, and i ignored them. i have not yet been appropriately medicated for my day. i'm probably going to be written up for *checks notes* only being one person.

do they have cis male bog witches, asking for a friend

i've shifted from "i'm going to do my best to do this insane amount of work" to "it's absolutely comically futile to try to do all this work, i'm gonna do what i can and let them fire me for being one person"

it's very liberating, the latter is much better for my mental health than the former

what we need is to replace human-interface points of sale with an anthropomorphic robot with a complete conversational text-to-speech enabled LLM onboard, that sits integrated into a point of sale assembly, so that it may take items from shoppers to scan them and then take payment in exchange for them. they would be incredibly efficient and able to operate independently from human input, cutting down on required manpower, though they would require a dedicated team of hardware technicians, admins, and network engineers in order to properly maintain

do we all understand how fucking idiotic it sounds to replace human beings with machines imitating human beings?