I wouldn’t consider myself an audiophile, but I lean more in that direction than the average. I’ve had the pleasure of working in a sound studio, and as such I learned to appreciate the quality that comes with the gear.

In general, professional hardware is miles beyond consumer hardware. And enthusiast hardware is more akin to consumer hardware with extra fluff.

Nah. I live in the middle of nowhere, so it’d just be an annoyance with no benefit.

I haven’t locked my front door or car in years.

I was never into furry stuff, but I hung out with an online furry community way back in 2006. Furries are cool. Furryism is just not for me.

“Just be yourself” without clarification.

There’s something to it, but too often it is interpreted as “no need for introspection or improvement”

IT related to ships and geophysical surveys.

For larger projects, as long as the heavy duty work is out of the way, grabbing a beer or two with the meal is pretty common.

Related story:
We were mobilizing for a project, and I had a real headscratcher of a problem. Work day was over, and we all headed back to the hotel for the evening. We all met at dinner, and I called it “a night” early as I excused myself after a few beers to head back ip to my room.

Project manager, who knew of the issues I was having with the system said something along the lines of the issues being serious when it caused me to be the first to leave the bar. “Nah, I’m gonna VPN in and try something I just thought of”

Yup, turns out it was abgood idea: Misconfigured soanning tree was the root cause, and the fix took 5 minutes. It was fun rejoining the others and Announce that the system would be ready the next day after some cleanup, and all that was missing was a few beers. The Ballmer Peak is real.

My job is pretty chill, so I only have a todo.txt on my desktop

Servers: it doesn’t have to be built for the purpose. In a pinch, any PC will do.

Chess: Fried liver attack doesn’t work above 700 ELO and is easily countered with a possibility for a smothered mate.

Guitar: Playing 5 minutes every day is better than playing an hour once a week.

42069 was never funny and never will be for those of us aged 16 or older.

None that I can think of, honestly.

Same but 34 exactly, here. At 35 one of my wisdom teeth started acting up, and I didn’t even become any wiser.

I’m sure they have interesting things to say about the covid vaccines.

“It does in fact run Doom”, he said before he snorted a line of his new favorite drug - a dark grey line of Megaflops.

Wear your N95 around the next gen SoCs. We don’t know the effects of inhaling them (yet)

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Nah, I’m a simple man and I’m siding with Janeway on this one.

Not even Picard could convince me to enjoy tea. Janeway knows best.

My English is an odd mix, and I’ve noticed that I tend to subconsciously emulate the accent of whomever I’m speaking with. Lately it’s been mostly Texans, but as I work in an international environment I’ve been all over the place.

Not that many years ago my combination of coworkers resulted in some weird interpretations: Brits thought I was American, Americans and kiwis thought I was Canadian, and Canadians thought I was British. They all noticed something was up with my accent, but nobody was able to place it.

Politicalmemes could be a general place, but you’re most likely better off posting your artwork in communities oriented specifically towards the political position your artwork is for.

I find that the best way of discover communities is to browse “all” and sort by 6 hour best. Do this a few times over a few days and you’ll probably find communities that are suitable.

I never understood the fascination with dick picks… but OK, here’s my contribution.

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons. Because I want to make sure it lasts.

Alternatively, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, as that’s technically one song.

Destiny Potato. Technically impressive, cool songs, catchy motifs, and at the same time they show that it’s possible to make fun music. Plus at the time of their first release, it was a refreshingly different kind of djenty progmetal.

They’re known as Sordid Pink now, by the way.