I just work a trade. Nobody is trying to network with the guy there to rewire an electrical system in a steel mill. Unless it’s to poach to jump ship to a different job haha

It’s incredibly common in industrial automation to control things over networking. Usually it’s an Ethernet connection to a computer or laptop interfacing with a PLC that’s running code, but same idea. I’ve built and installed control rooms in steel mills, they’re mostly computers running Siemens or Allen Bradley (Rockwell) software, monitors hooked up to cameras around the mill, and operator stations with push buttons, joysticks, lights, e-stops, etc. And plenty of HMI’s (big touch screens). Think Homer Simpson’s job

My fiance is not into gaming whatsoever. He only played a handful of games as a kid. He’s 30

I saw a dog sitting in the middle of a busy road. Clearly wasn’t a stray, but just lost and confused and all the cars were just driving around it. I got out and lead it to the sidewalk, but my car is still just sitting idle at the intersection. Cue people honking at me to move, because of course. Some drove around me. Finally one dude hops out, tells me to move my car while he holds the dog, then I do the same for him.

The dog has no collar or tags and at this point we’re like well idk what to do now because this is clearly someone’s dog. We poked around a little bit, then call the cops for them to deal with it. Cops show up, say they can take it to the pound to see if it has a chip. We’re literally all picking up this big 80 pound dog into the back of a cop car when a lady comes running down this big hill and is like “that’s my dog”

Like the illegal sports streams? Ehh. I use them to watch games I can’t get over (free) OTA antenna TV. They very frequently cut out and freeze, or get shut down all together and you have to go hunt for a new one. It’s a game of cat and mouse, and can be very annoying when the broadcast is live. I still put up with it because I can’t be assed to pay to watch sports lol.

I wouldn’t bother with a VPN for simply visiting a website and watching a stream. If anything that will make your connection worse, and a lot of those sites detect when you have a VPN active and won’t let you stream.

I highly recommend an antenna TV for picking up local channels if you’re in the states though. I get a few dozen channels, including the major broadcast ones like CBS NBC abc fox, all in HD for free off the air. I actually built one with my dad close to 20 years ago using scrap copper wire, a plank of wood, some PVC pipe to hold the wire, and a coax adapter we got at RadioShack at the mall. You can just buy an antenna on the cheap though if you’d rather not build one.

There never used to be tornadoes in my area. Now there are. With climate change, anything’s possible!

My friends don’t have it set up. Some of them are friends of friends, and people I don’t talk to regularly. I’m not going to try and convert them. It’s also a bit more complicated via tailscale or VPN reverse proxies and Plex “just werks”. If there’s anything beyond just installing an app and clicking an invite, a bunch of people who use my library are going to have a hard time. Like my dad, he’s pushing 70. My friends would also have to do the goofy networking setup for it to work for me.

I’m also not even sure if people I share with have means of installing. My one friend who uses my library a lot does it through a Samsung TV. That involves sideloading the app to install jellyfin.

Lastly, like I said, music. Plexamp is one of my #1 used apps. There’s a lot that goes into that beyond just being able to play media. It curates playlists depending on what you just listened to or gives you similar artists, similar to how Spotify makes a “radio” after playing something.

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Something that’s getting glossed over in these comments is the ability to easily watch or listen to friends’ media.

I have my own library with about 1k movies, a bunch of anime and TV, and 10k albums. But I have like 6 or 7 friends with libraries even larger. My one friend has 37k albums, they all have thousands of movies I never even heard of, etc. It really makes it like my own mini streaming service, and I love throwing on a huge music library on shuffle via plexamp while driving to/from work.

I paid like $70 for a lifetime pass years ago, so I’m along for the ride I guess. I really rely on the music aspect of it, I haven’t had a spotify subscription in like 7 years.

I know they changed a lot lately, and particularly what pisses me off is how vague and how they intentionally obfuscate how their model works now. I have friends that for years used my library, and recently have been like “I saw Plex started charging now so I stopped using it” and I have to be like “no it’s still free because I have a lifetime pass”. It’s definitely just to trick people into getting monthly subscriptions.

Hell yeah

Nah this is some whack advice. I go to plenty of shows, small little ones that have 20-50 people or giant stadium tours.

If something is prohibitively expensive and you can’t afford it then that’s different. But going and seeing some of your favorite bands is a memorable experience and usually a social one as well.

Like when Radiohead played my city in 2018 that was the first time they played here since like 1996 or something. I doubt they will again within the next decade. I’m supposed to just go “I don’t like ticket sales practices so I’m gonna miss this opportunity all together”?

I guess if you want to feel special for going to local shows to “stick it to Ticketmaster” go ahead, but that’s a far different experience then seeing big acts. Ticketmaster is not even going to notice that you skipped a concert because you don’t like them. People aren’t going to every concert under the sun, only the bands they like. How well ticket sales do is going to be determined by how popular the band is. That’s all they’ll be considering when they look at sales vs venue vs marketing, etc.

Scalpers are another thing all together. I’ve never purchased one from them. If a show sells out, it sells out and becomes not worth it to me 9 times out of 10.

My friends book a lot of small DIY shows. The kind you pay like $5-20 at the door in cash. They’re usually very niche or underground artists. It’s just a fundamentally different experience.

If a band has any sort of notoriety and it’s at a medium sized venue the concert is almost always being booked by Ticketmaster or livenation anyway.

I live in a big old house from the 1800s with my fiance and a roommate and a dog, with a little yard but it’s tucked away from a lot of the hustle and bustle. My closest neighbor is about 100 feet away.

This is still in city limits. I can just as easily walk, bike, bus, drive wherever to go do fun things. But what you were describing of being occupied at home by hobbies and things to do still applies to me. I’ve been slowly renovating the house myself over the years. Just been working a lot of overtime lately so it’s a bit hard to find the time.

This is in Pittsburgh PA. Most of where people live is in similar situations of old 100+ year old multi-bedroom homes. There are some new “modern” or “luxury” apartments going in around town but if you live in one of those you’re literally just an idiot or an outsider to the area and think that $1.5k rent for a 1br is “cheap” (my whole mortgage is $860 split 3 ways for context)

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I’m seeing AI being tried to be used for coding industrial systems. Think like molten lava pouring steel in a mill or foundry setting, incredibly dangerous machinery that can kill you in an instant.

I guess it all gets reviewed and refined and tested before shipping the system but what do I know, I’m just a technician.

I’m still just like… Why

The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I’m not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.

Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn’t have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI “summary” suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics and using acrobat to document changes, etc. I doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me “this is a schematic”

Does it matter?

When I was a teenager, I used to think I was straight. Now in my 30s, I know I only like men. I’ve been with the same partner for 10 years. At some point I guess I stopped being attracted to women or wanting to pursue a romantic relationship with them. It didn’t happen overnight.

Meeting the right person changed something for me. I wouldn’t get too hung up on labels. Date whoever you want.

I liked when someone at work told me that yellowjackets are bees and I showed him the wikipedia page that says they’re in the wasp family and he was like “no that’s wrong”.

Then another guy came up and he asked him and that dude said they’re bees so he was like “see? I’m right”

I bought it on humble because steam was broken. They ran out of keys shortly after I purchased it, had to wait a few hours until they restocked them. They temporarily took silksong off their store during this time.

So gog might be the only one that wasn’t broke