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Imagine the horrors of manchild...

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If we're talking Android, I can recommend MJ Pdf 100%.

kurcatovium ,
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Try Vikunja, it might tick the box for you.

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

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Tbh Apple Vision pro was probably designed to add more visual spam, not reduce it...

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How does tomato sauce differ from ketchup? Isn't it the same thing with different names in different parts of the world?

kurcatovium ,
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Good to know. In that case I've never seen tomato sauce where I live, only ketchup.

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Yes.

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How does it store images? Does it make one huge pile and sort it by metadata and external db magic?

kurcatovium ,
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Ok, thank you.

kurcatovium ,
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Thank you, will have to check the docs... I remeber someone told me it can't import folder structure, but it's been a while.

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Yep, either napalm or nuke. Depends on how big the garage is.

kurcatovium ,
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I have it the same with Morrowind. High res terrain and shaders for water or grass? That is ok, but do NOT touch a single polygon of NPCs!

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Option 1: Be professional and polite.

Option 2: Scream Leeroy Jenkins and run through the door in the middle of it.

1/2 depends on how probable it is for you to need them in the future.

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I'm no runner, I was always terrible at it since childhood. Anything above 100 meters was too long and I couldn't breath through it properly, which was quite a thing at school. I'm ordinary sized person, no (serious) health problem, just lack stamina for running.

But lately I found running to be quite "fun". Or better world would be "relaxing". I still suck terribly at it, but as I'm older, long gone from high school, I don't care. I live right at the edge of town so literally hundred steps to the nature, so once I feel like I need to empty my head, I go running. While I slowly choo choo around I can turn the brain completely off and just relax. And feel like dying later because I still lack the stamina past first kilometre lol.

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Most of the remaining space is used by porn obviously...

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Holy cow, I hate rhubarb. We always had it in the garden and my grandma used to bake cakes with it. Thos sweet cakes would be sooo good, but that pos plant always ruined them to non-edible garbage. At least for me, some people like that taste, though. (Europe)

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Don't. It's evil. Even though you might like it, it's not worth the risk.

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I once met a Finnish and he gave me something like (salty?) liqorice candy. It was basically black jelly, shaped like small hockey puck. Pretty good.

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Mmm, Barf soda sounds so tempting... :-D

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It is possible. It's been some time, though, so can't be 100% sure.

kurcatovium OP ,
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There are multitude of OS & software in running. Some people still use DOS, but most of those were already upgraded - to windows XP. These machines are currently being replaced with Win10 ones. But due to some specific old SW there still need to be some DOS machines running, at least for couple upcoming years. Linux is sadly not an option for typical office workers, again due to some software in use. There's at least open source in places where possible with more (Firefox, Thunderbird, tightVNC, ...) or less (LibreOffice) success.

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Thanks for deep reply. I'll chew through it.

Documentation is non-existent now and that's what bothers me the most. I, at least, started to put my agenda and acquired how-tos to plain txt files for future, because with so much shit going on I tend to forget stuff. I'd like to extend it and make it system-wide to cover all the IT related stuff in the company with some proper software to do it in (no idea which). But there's virtually no way this lack of documentation will change dramatically anytime soon. There's simply no will from higher ups and even if there was, there would be no manpower to do it :-( We're barely holding things running.

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It's small grocery store chain in the middle of European nowhere, with about hundred of stores run mostly in small villages. Some of those ancient software was made in-house decades ago for internal ordering from wholesaler (also run by the company) to individual shops. Everything in wholesale warehouse runs on the same DOS thing too, with stock inventory, invoice, ordering, ... There's already plan to (finally!!) put it to sleep and replace with something newer and more flexible, but given how low on resources and manpower the company is, it's not going to happen fast.

kurcatovium OP ,
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We recently had discussion on this too and 365 is also a possibility. Nobody wants to deal with MS and their licensing though :-D

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I haven't tried, but given how quirky it is (in house development decades ago with patches and hotfixes stuck to it over years) I highly doubt it would work. The main problem is that there's no will to use Linux in office environment...

We're at least running it on POS machines - about 150 openSUSE installs - where there's nothing fancy needed.

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That's what we're using now and where quite some problems come from. I don't have anything against it, it's awesome suite for personal use, but running it in company we constantly run into problems with compatibility. Every partner we're dealing with is using MS Office and when they're exchanging spreadsheets or documents with us it's often pain in the a*s to make it work. And MS is not helping in this...

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Came here to say this. But as usual I came too late (except for intercourse, where it's the opposite).

kurcatovium ,
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Somebody already recommended Primus so I have to come up with backup. And that is:

  • Nuclear Power Trio
  • Carnival in Coal
  • Igorrr
kurcatovium ,
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Decade or two ago I would agree with you.

Nowadays not that much. Ofc those radio songs you've heard more than billion times are awful and helps nobody to appreciate Beatles. But if you dig a bit deeper into songs that are ignored by radios, there are quite some good songs.

For one, I can't believe Helter Skelter was made by the same Beatles as e.g. Help. Or whole Sgt. Pepper album is nice too.

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Most unpopular among my friends would be something along the lines of "metal is the best music" or "electronic music/techno sux, because it's all the same".

I like to troll a bit with them, but honestly I do like me some metal. It's so variable, there's progressive Opeth on one side, brutal machinegun Cannibal Corpse on the other, insane meatgrinder Mayhem on the third and groovy jumpy Pantera on fourth. And we're only at the beginning. But I get that some (most) people find it all too heavy. Their loss, not mine ;-)

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Go listen Helter Skelter then. That's some Beatles I can appreciate.

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Next level: set it as your boss' phone ring tone.

kurcatovium ,
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But when every leg is replaced? When head is replaced too? When torso is broken and remodeled? Is it still that dog or something different?

I'm ok with band switching members, but there should be a limit...

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What about some post rock? I find it very nice relaxing music and being without lyrics is also part of that. Bands like God Is an Astronaut, Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Mogwai, etc. Even Sigur Ros which technically include singing, but it's just gibberish to have "another instrument".

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It's insane how versatile their music is. One song is calm prog like Pink Floyd the other is really metal. And the singer rocks, going through all this like it's nothing.

kurcatovium ,
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I had to google whether this is some idiom unknown to me, or if you're mocking me, or what it really is. I'm no philosopher, but at one point it's not the same ship for me.

kurcatovium ,
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Sure, no problem. I discovered the genre at uni and it really helped me to focus on studying. It's probably not for everyone (what is), but I really got into it. Love the soundscapes people are making there. Close the eyes and let your mind go...

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Yeah. I was thinking like the usual 4 piece rock band. You switch one member and it's ok. Let's say next year one member dies, so he's replaced. Still ok. But when there's ultimately nobody from the original lineup, it's just not the same band for me. On paper it is, but for me it's just milking the name...

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I'm a simple man, I see Monty Python reference I upvote.

Same goes for boobs.

kurcatovium ,
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I logged in to my bank account the other day...

kurcatovium ,
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I assume this is that famous american thing where you're punished for paying cash, avoiding leasing and subscriptions?

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Came here to write this.

Another one would be Jacob's ladder, but compared to Come and See it's fairytale.

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Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic movie. It's just... it kind of fucked my mind when I saw it.

Same applies for Come and See. It's amazingly done, but it's brutal. Which is no surprise given the theme, but the difference is it's so naturalistic and shows all the wartime horrors. Most films tend to avoid these and show only the heroic parts of war.

Speaking of which I'd sneak in Apocalypse Now and Casualties of War.

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So they give it to you and once you turn 18 they sue you for theft?

Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) ( snikket.org )

For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you'd expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps)....

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Yeah, I get that. But since it's (basically) XMPP, can't it be used with such as Converse.js?

kurcatovium ,
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Yep, it's a lot, but it should be right. Hope I did not misread the numbers. It runs quite write-heavy warehouse and cash register store database, running 24/7. I don't have the drive by me now, but I'll try to remember and post pic on Monday when I'm back to work.

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Well, I remembered it wrong, it's only 100 TB written. Still quite a lot IMO. Reads are 300 TB+ though.

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