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Not church per se, but my uncle blew his brains out. At the wake, the priest turned his little speech into how evil abortion is. Yes, let's talk about killing babies... Anything not to tell about the dude who killed himself.

Man, I taught English for 6 years... It was year 6 when I found out there were teacher guides.

I had spent the whole time actually making curriculum. No wonder I burned out

To speak to your points, I started with about 1 year ago in a new career in IT. We initially were coming in one day a week and this has moved to two days.

First, when we moved to two days, I have it about 6 weeks, then started crunching numbers. By the sole metric of closing tickets... My team as a whole is more productive in the office. I didn't break down exactly who was more of less productive, but I have my ideas. I'm willing to bet that I work better at home, but it's a moot point as the team is better on site.

As far as learning new skills, even at one day a week, I've caught up to the rest of my team and have surpassed them technically. Again, it's IT and I've always had a strong interest, whereas I see some of the team probably view it as "just work" I'm actually enjoying the work. Again, it's a second career so maybe maturity is in play here too, but even the younger guys who were hired after me are growing very quickly.

You're absolutely right about networking. I felt so isolated when I started. It wasn't until I learned a few people a few steps above where I was that I learned who is a good resource, and who I can trust. Once I got my head around that, I think people actually see the work in doing and redirect me for it. If I were 100% wfh I don't think I would be having as good a time.

Just my experience

Mines not so interesting, but I do have an original N64 from launch. I wish I had picked up the gold plated Zelda console, but I instead grabbed the regular grey one that came with Mario...I had never played a Zelda game before and regret the decision today.

If I'm going even older, it would probably be the planer that my father made about 50 years ago. Still works amazingly for being all cherry.

Holy shit, I installed it on my Lenovo tablet laptop, and everything works out the box... Even the gyroscope! I couldn't believe it. It's the first arch based I've tried and I think I'm hooked.

To note, I think I tried like 8 other distros before finding endeavor.

Is there a good, free, cross platform alternative?

I also want to push Microsoft learn. I'm a 30 something year old who is 2 years into an IT career. It's been awesome so far. I think the Microsoft route is best bang for your buck. Basically self guided learning and you pay for the test. At my job specifically, certs are what's really going to make you stand out.

I'll say this, I never used edge before, but it's comparable with a bunch of my work sites so I was kind of forced into using it. It's actually pretty great. Better overall than stock chrome, though I prefer brave or Firefox for non work related stuff.

Once I started using Edge, I was surprised by how well it worked.

Dude, I know this is a weird question, but where do you buy your underwear. I've been wanting to try it out, but I can't really find a site that doesn't fetishize thong underwear for men.

Btw, I think there's nothing wrong with wearing something you're comfortable in.

Man, I remember as a kid we had a box of bulbs for when inevitably one burnt out each month or so. Now, I have a drawer with a bunch of led bulbs I'll never use because they don't burn out!

Use my pen knife my good man!

I just gotta say, none of these let me down

Not trying to poopoo on anyone here, but it seems neat... But at double your budget it's just a neat toy. Can you afford that? If so, hell yes.

Otherwise you can find second hand laptops with great specs and upgrade that your self for cheaper.

I wish I could pull the trigger on one of these, but here I am just surfing eBay lol

What software do you use for monitoring this?

Was gonna say, I've been having double dogs for 30 years.

That's actually my thought, though even if it was a mistake, it had to go through multiple people before the 22oz cup made it into this guys hand. I hope he wins

If I were to guess, most likely Japanese cakes or Korean cakes. The Korean market near me has what they call a French bistro inside the food court. It's got amazingly fluffy, spongey cakes that are just lightly sweet. Most of the actually sweetness seems to come from the fruit on top. And actual whipped cream instead of our Western sugar paste cream, ew.

Dude, I know Russia has poisoned people... But panties? That's a new one for me.

I ran ltsc for a few months... Then I found it didn't have simple stuff like the camera app? I forget why, but there was one all I really needed that I didn't have, so after fighting trying to install it, I just want back to Windows pro. I might give windows enterprise a try though.

Ya, this comment is way too far down. All 365 apps with within the browser. Problem solved.

Man, I've been running Plex for about a decade without a ton of issues. I tried jellyfin, and I can't get video to play anywhere that's not the PC that's running it. What am I doing wrong?

I find that endeavor is pretty nice as someone who typically uses windows...I just can't wrap my head around not having a GUI for software installs. Like, I want to install jellyfish, but when I search for it, there were like 30 different ones to choose. Installed a package that I don't want, where do I go to find the exact name of the package and then uninstall?

It was enough to send me to kubuntu, which is what's on my laptop now. Basically only use the laptop for the web too, so likely no reason to change anything up.

My debt

I just tried Bazzite on a laptop and doing it to be quite good. I prefer kde plasma anyway, so it's been pretty awesome. I was even able to install ghost of tsushima via repack, so I'm considering imagining my actual gaming PC...I just want to finish BG3 first cause I'm too deep and would flip the duck out of I couldn't finish

Ya actually the buldak stuff is really flavorful, as well as being blast your ass tomorrow morning hot

I installed Bazzite on a Dell latitude just to check it out... The son of a bitch booted once, let me install updates then never booted again.

I can't believe that I scrolled the whole thread and didn't find Operation Ivy.

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I'm running endeavour os on a Lenovo duet 3. It's fully functional including the gyroscope, which is super damn amazing. Windows basically wouldn't run, but I feel like a super user when in using endeavor on it. It's so good.

I'll only mention it because I haven't seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it's been pretty Great

I just installed kubuntu on my daily driver. That didn't go super well so I tried endeavor, also didn't go well. It could be kde plasma, but it did not feel like Linux is ready to compete for something that is ready out the box.

That said, I run endeavor on my little netbook tablet and it works a wonder, so no idea. I couldn't even get steam to load on my desktop for some reason. I tried Linux on my desktop for half a day, then decided to run back to Win11 with my tail between my legs. It just wasn't with the hassle. Steam didn't work, permissions for my second hard drive for Plex were messed up. I just didn't want to have to figure it out. I'm back comfy with windows, and just experimenting with my netbook for the time being.

I really wanted Linux to stick this time... Oddly, I was using Ubuntu on my daily driver back in 2012 without a problem.

I agree with this 100%. I've actually found that one distro can work out the box with my hardware, and another distro is impossible to use. I think it's important to try out a few and see what appeals to you. Example, elementary os is pretty nice, but it almost seems vacant because it tries to mimic Mac. Zorin os is also really nice, but there's something about it that just feels off. I recently installed endeavor os on a tablet PC, and everything is working out the box. I can't believe how easy it was, and I've been using Linux on and off since 2004.

I've only gone back to Reddit when Google lead me there. Otherwise, I'm here.

Honestly, I installed it on my windows PC recently, and I found it really clunky. And it sounds like there's no dark mode?

I do IT for a living, and for as big of a bitch Office is, it does work pretty damn good... When it's working. I felt like I went back in time a decade when I was working with Calc.

I'm not trying to fight, but I'm genuinely curious, do you only use Writer? Have you worked with Word lately to compare how they've changed? Thanks

Agreed, best shape of my life was when I took a rock climbing class... And now I haven't excersised in years.

Hey, you know the keyboard shortcut for endeavor that does the same thing as the Win+X for Windows? That's always how I shut down our restart my windows PC. I installed endeavor on my Lenovo duet 3 that came preinstalled with win 11 and that is one of the few things I'm missing. Snip with shift+win+s, and the clipboard history would be the others.

I'm debating if I want to dual boot endeavor on my main PC, but I'm not sure about it because my nvme is pretty small. I also networked my kids computer and my garage computer for file shares and I'm not quite sure how well using those windows PCs to get files off a Linux system would work. Thoughts?

Agreed! I was trying to figure out how to remind the default screen shot button in flame shot, but it wouldn't let me. I just used power toys to remap a different key melted to the print screen button. Works flawlessly.

Actually, I work in it and had to install a xerox printer for someone's home office yesterday. Grab the driver's, go to install and it completely failed. I told the guy to restart and we'll try again tomorrow since it was the end of my shift. Guy messages me back, the printer and PC restarted and when he walked back to it, there was a page printed that said congrats on your new printer.

Fucking thing failed successfully.

I can't check right now, but I know for certain I had at least 13 years