AlecSadler

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AlecSadler,

Got any go-to recipes?

Lately I’ve been doing an instant pot basmati rice cooked in beef broth and finished with lime zest and cilantro.

AlecSadler,

…what??

AlecSadler,

I really wish half loaves of bread were more common.

AlecSadler,

Serious question, why SimpleLogin vs Proton aliases?

AlecSadler,

Yeah, my bad, that’s what I do - so I just wasn’t sure what the benefit of SimpleLogin was…fully open to admit maybe I’m missing something though.

I basically create an email alias for every service I use and when leaks happen I know exactly who the offender is - which is nice…I guess.

AlecSadler,

Ahh, okay, that makes some sense. Thanks!

AlecSadler,

My wife and I started living together after 3 months, talking marriage at 6, and formally engaged at 9 months. We’ve been married over 6 years now.

I don’t have time for high school nonsense. I’m not going to burn 1+ years of my life on a “maybe”. The older I get, the better I learn what I want and don’t want.

We both had similar goals, or rather, goals that we could grow in together and not go separate ways. We had a shared sense of humor. My weaknesses were her strengths and vice versa. And we have activities we love doing together and things we love doing alone. It’s fucking great.

AlecSadler,

I…never thought of this, thank you for the idea.

AlecSadler,

Sad, but true. First 7 years of my software career were split between two companies and despite 3 promotions and exceeding expectations in reviews regularly, salary growth was between 2-5% YoY.

Most recent 5 years of my career I’ve changed jobs every 6ish months and am now averaging about 40% YoY salary growth.

AlecSadler,

It’s an absolute cluster. It’s also led to me just not caring about the job or company anymore (not like I should).

I love supporting the team and my immediate coworkers, but I’m not there to make friends. For all we know our entire project gets canned one day anyway.

It’s a sad state of affairs to basically take advantage of this situation, but like…company loyalty doesn’t pay my bills.

AlecSadler,

Absolutely! I had a job some 3 years back that said if I continue to perform well, I could probably be promoted in 2 years.

This was on the heels of no bonuses or raises that year (well, for the team I was on).

2 years? Also that was the team’s reward after a year of work? This was a Fortune 500 company with over $10B in revenue.

The next month…layoffs. We spent the month figuring out all the tribal knowledge that went out the door.

The next month after that…contractors must take 2 unpaid days off every month and holiday closures don’t count towards that.

The next month they said, “Good news! We’re renewing your contract.” - Nope. I’m out.

Last I heard everyone on my team also left in the following 3 months, the director of the department also left, and the VP got forced out and replaced.

Endless cycle of garbage.

AlecSadler,

My college used to call me monthly and I kept telling them I was unemployed, for a year straight. They haven’t called in ten years now 🤷‍♂️

AlecSadler,

Personally, I use GPSLogger from FDroid on a 15 minute ping interval and then load the files into Location Map Viewer (also FDroid) for my own location tracking. Disabled Google awhile ago.

I back the files up to a home NAS.

AlecSadler,

Looks like most of the existing replies captured my same use cases!

There have also been a couple of times where my wife and I disagreed about what we did on X day and it’s kind of nice to see who is right 😂

I think I also just like the raw data. I also keep spreadsheets of my utility bills over time, for example, because it’s weirdly fun to look back and see or compare.

One thing I’d really love is a self-hosted all-day heart rate tracker, but have yet to stumble on such a thing.

AlecSadler,

I hadn’t! I’ll check it out.

AlecSadler,

As an American, it is horrifically dystopian and deeply saddening. Send help.

AlecSadler,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/20016e30-aca4-4005-b724-56a6d5aeb891.jpeg

AlecSadler,

That was way more clever than I think people are giving you credit for.

AlecSadler,

Serious question…how do we end capitalism?

Like, even a near-term steps to take would be sufficient. I’m just feeling a bit run down these days. It seems like when we, the MAJORITY PEOPLE, get a win… we’re slapped in the face with ten other losses. Fascism is on the rise, inflation is insane, housing prices are insane, here in the US there is a legitimate chance Trump might win again which is extremely disheartening.

AlecSadler, (edited )

I agree with the other comment.

I found KDE Neon and Ubuntu pretty easy to use out of box as well.

PopOS has, maybe, a benefit of Nvidia drivers? But Mint installed them for me during the intro Toot Oriole.

edit: Clarified KDE to add Neon

AlecSadler,

Ah, thank you. It was KDE Neon, sorry!

AlecSadler,

Billions for me. The spinoffs don’t sound appealing.

AlecSadler,

I…can’t actually tell if he’d make a better duck or lemonade stand character.

AlecSadler,

Is there a good alternative, maybe locally hosted, for location history?

While I’ve recently disabled it for Google, it actually was helpful for going back in time and remembering where I was on X day, on numerous occasions. Would be cool if there was a locally hosted, open source alternative.

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