You never forget your first.

Physical buttons in cars for radio and environment settings.

There used to be a time when I could have my hand on the gear shifter and just reach out with my fingers to change radio stations or adjust the heat or a/c without needing to look down at all.
Now with modern touchscreens in cars, you can't do any of that. I have gotten used to playing with the radio via the steering wheel buttons, but anything else requires hunting around, looking for the correct spot to touch the screen.
And yet they say, "don't take your eyes off the road!"

Trump, Trump, Trump. "All these things Trump could do..."

How about, Biden could have Trump assassinated as a political rival.
Done and done.

Funny how surgeons don't seem to have the problems this flyer describes.
And I better not open this person's closet and find a single scarf.

How anyone can still believe this shit just confounds me.

I asked my 79 y/o mother if she knew. She didn't even blink. "Because they're not blue."

Impossible to argue with that logic.

What the fuck are the moderators even there for?

So much time is being taken with, "let me keep talking about the question from ten minutes ago and ignore what you just asked."

Sorry people with children. The question that focused on your issues were just skipped over.

And he slides out of another one.... Fucker is so slippery that even bullets don't stick.

If only we had vaccines for this.
Oh, wait.

Time to start seeing just how "mandatory" they're talking.

That or I would just have one stock answer every week. "I like to keep my personal life out of your fucking meetings."

Because news cycles play to the lowest common denominator.
Sex, scandals, arrests. Those topics get eyeballs.

And in the case of Faux News, they take that to the extreme by blatantly ignoring anything good that Biden may be doing in favor of spewing the latest far-right lies.

Biden could announce tomorrow that he has a proven plan that will end world hunger forever and the majority of people will still just tune in to whatever crap is currently on TLC.

What distro are you running as your daily driver?

Apps don't suck if they work.
If an app looks great and flashy but functionally is garbage, then what's the point.

Give me a plain looking app that works well every time.

Looking forward to grabbing this when it's available.

I'm so fucking embarrassed for my state right now.
This makes two assbag comments just in the past three days.

Most of us here really are rational, normal people.

Strap in friends, because this one is a wild ride.

I had stepped into the role of team lead of our IS dept with zero training on our HP mainframe system (early 90s).
The previous team lead wasn't very well liked and was basically punted out unceremoniously.
While I was still getting up to speed, we had an upgrade on the schedule to have three new hard drives added to the system.

These were SCSI drives back then and required a bunch of pre-wiring and configuration before they could be used. Our contact engineer came out the day before installation to do all that work in preparation of coming back the next morning to get the drives online and integrated into the system.

Back at that time, drives came installed on little metal sleds that fit into the bays.
The CE came back the next day, shut down the system, did the final installations and powered back up. ... Nothing.
Two of the drives would mount but one wouldn't. Did some checking on wiring and tried again. Still nothing. Pull the drive sleds out and just reseat them in different positions on the bus. Now the one drive that originally didn't mount did and the other two didn't. What the hell.... Check the configs again, reboot again and, success. Everything finally came up as planned.

We had configured the new drives to be a part of the main system volume, so data began migrating to the new devices right away. Because there was so much trouble getting things working, the CE hung around just to make sure everything stayed up and running.

About an hour later, the system came crashing down hard. The CE says, "Do you smell something burning?" Never a good phrase.
We pull the new drives out and then completely apart. One drive, the first one that wouldn't mount, had been installed on the sled a bit too low. Low enough for metal to metal contact, which shorted out the SCSI bus, bringing the system to its knees.

Fixed that little problem, plug everything back in and ... nothing. The drives all mounted fine, but access to the data was completely fucked,
Whatever... Just scratch the drives and reload from backup, you say.

That would work...if there were backups. Come to find out that the previous lead hadn't been making backups in about six months and no one knew. I was still so green at the time that I wasn't even aware how backups on this machine worked, let alone make any.

So we have no working system, no good data and no backups. Time to hop a train to Mexico.

We take the three new drives out of the system and reboot, crossing all fingers that we might get lucky. The OS actually booted, but that was it. The data was hopelessly gone.

The CE then started working the phone, calling every next-level support contact he had. After a few hours of pulling drives, changing settings, whimpering, plugging in drives, asking various deities for favors, we couldn't do any more.

The final possibility was to plug everything back in and let the support team dial in via the emergency 2400 baud support modem.
For the next 18 hours or so, HP support engineers used debug tools to access the data on the new drives and basically recreate it on the original drives.
Once they finished, they asked to make a set of backup tapes. This backup took about 12 hours to run. (Three times longer than normal as I found out later.)
Then we had to scratch the drives and do a reload. This was almost the scariest part because up until that time, there was still blind hope. Wiping the drives meant that we were about to lose everything.
We scratched the drives, reloaded from the backup and then rebooted.

Success! Absolute fucking success. The engineers had restored the data perfectly. We could even find the record that happened to be in mid-write when the system went down. Tears were shed and backs were slapped. We then declared the entire HP support team to be literal gods.

40+ hours were spent in total fixing this problem and much beer was consumed afterwards.

I spent another five years in that position and we never had another serious incident. And you can be damn sure we had a rock solid backup rotation.

(Well, there actually was another problem involving a nightly backup and an inconveniently placed, and accidentally pressed, E-stop button, but that story isn't nearly as exciting.)

Why would anyone be stupid enough to take video of themselves destroying ballots?
What? To go home and show your friends? To beat off to?

Anyone who actually buys this shit (Trump, MAGAs) is brain-dead.

I mean, I get why the video was made, to give Trump more reason to bitch when he loses, but it never continues to frighten me that there are people out there who will take this as something that really took place.

I wish she would secede from the planet.

He's a train wreck, and train wrecks get eyeballs which turn into sweet, sweet ad revenue.

It isn't "bad", as it does have a purpose. It's just fucking annoying to work with.

https://docs.platform.sh/learn/overview/yaml/what-is-yaml.html

Can this shitshow please be over? I mean, just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, another day comes around.

Mugshot released yet? Seems the county jail website is down. (Understandably)

I cannot wait to see the memes over the next few days.

So what needs to happen, since we seem to let heads of state address Congress, is to have a mandatory session where cancer patients all come out, addressing their concerns directly.
Since it's apparently no longer enough to speak at the ballot box, thinking that the person you're voting for might actually have your good will in mind.

Let the patients speak. Show the room their pic lines. Let them explain about how shitty they feel most days and read names of those in their families who have died from the same cancer they're carrying now.
Let them say directly to those who put bias and politics first how disgusted they are with the men and women who are supposed to be the ones fighting for them. Not against them like it's some highschool pissing match.

I swear, this family will pull anything out of their ass to delay when they know they're guilty as hell.

I support Biden not because he's an anti-Trump, but because he's a genuinely good man who gets things done. He knows how to work the system and gets results.

As do I. The problem this time around though will be the number of younger independent and third party runners that might end up pulling votes from the "Biden is too old" crowd. And unfortunately, every vote not for Biden is a vote for Trump.

No, but remember, those 70% will likely vote for the assbag, no matter how the legal matters fall out.

Another four year term from Trump would be absolutely disastrous. After being sworn in, I wouldn't be at all surprised if, instead of making a speech, he simply took a copy of the Constitution and just tore it up.

But if it's locked up, it takes too much work when you want to wave it around feeling badass.

Who had 30 minutes for the O/U on eating pets?

And the collective IQ of this country just dropped another few thousand points.

Let it burn.

Next year is going to be epic.
I see it as episode 10 of what will be the eventual mini-series.

Anything that gets nearer to a RES-like experience from Reddit is an absolute plus. This UI is brilliant.

Same. I read a few subs that haven't yet fully grown here on Lemmy, but I don't post.

I wish I could say that once the election is over, all this shit will just fade into the rearview.
Jan 6th 2021 however tells us otherwise.

I fear the coming months.

Trump looked like he wanted to avoid it altogether.

This here is really my only concern. I followed a good number of subs that existed for actual discussion, not just meme dumps, and unless they're migrated to Lemmy, I will be missing them.

Sure, I can access Reddit just for those topics, but so far I'm staying away from that site completely in my own self-protest.
( I know, I know, I'm a literal molecule in a drop in a bucket, but damnit, I'm doing my part! :) )

I think that getting peed on by an animal at a county fair is one of the entrance requirements for 4-H, so you can now check that one off the list.

I wore a standard wristwatch all the time until about 25 years ago. I began noticing that I was conscious of feeling something on my wrist and I couldn't stand it.
I then carried a nice pocket-watch around for a while until I got my first cell phone.

Greed.

No, no. Unabashed greed.

No, take it all the way. Fuck the little people to support my unabashed greed.

Who the hell cuts pizza?
Fold, eat.

500Gb maybe.

Rice milk not an option?
Literally a waste of time.