How weird! I ran two Windows VMs with USB and GPU passthrough as my work and gaming daily drivers for about six years. Now I run Mint and Bazzite with the same setup. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t have issues, both Windows and VM related, but I never saw one even vaguely like that.
I always thought that was funny. Same with cheap, stick-built apartments with only the wood studs and two layers of drywall between them, the hallway, and other units, but tenants massively fortifying only the door.
I dunno, does it mount vertically or horizontally?
You’re not a mean cow at all! As someone that’s about to start therapy with a spouse with a similar issue, you just handed me the beginning of the proverbial thread I need to start pulling on. So serendipitous!
I keep trying to point this out to my mother, who keeps overreacting to one news story after another. She agrees in the moment that it’s all theater, then goes right back to being outraged by every obvious bait story.
We’re going to need a Butlerian jihad at the rate this is going.
It’s less about no microbes than starting with a reasonable amount. As long as the wound is cleaned of debris and large amounts of dead tissue, one’s immune system will typically be able to prevent bacterial overgrowth or handle a small amount of pathogenic bacteria. I make the distinction in the hope that people don’t go overboard with disinfection. You just need good enough.
I had a sizable wound treated with a hydrocolloid bandage. They’re sealed to form a moist environment by retaining exudate and are changed every 5-7 days. No antibiotics are used. It should have been a festering mess according to previous wisdom, but it was fine the entire time.
I was thinking a “poorly aimed” bottle rocket “from a neighbor kid”.
I’m glad he has work, but that poor man…
DIY concrete is fucking brutal work, though, even with a mixer, unless you’re pretty strong or have strong friends, and you have to do it in one go if structural strength is a concern. I love the savings and personal satisfaction of DIY, but I started eating the cost of getting concrete poured professionally somewhere in my early thirties.
I just exclaimed “HOLY SHIT” loud enough to get my partner’s attention. There are two in my area! They have so many tools!
Why didn’t I know about this?! I considered myself educated, but now see I still have much to learn.
Internal Family Systems teaches that we have multiple internal personas that have different roles in protecting the true self at the center. It has been useful for self discovery, though I don’t know if I believe it’s completely correct
I did learn that I have multiple sets of behaviors that l adopt based on need. It’s like code switching, except it changes everything - speech cadence, word choice, body language, thought patterns, you name it. It’s not multiple personalities or anything, just changing relative proportions of various traits for a given situation, like job switching in an RPG. It was initially really jarring for my partner. They are one of the few people I’m genuinely myself around, but if I’m in a very stressful situation or interacting with co-workers about work, they see me acting very differently. It’s disconcerting but it makes me more flexible in social situations.
Edit: I also recently learned I’m what is known amongst the commoners as “autistic as fuck”, so that may be a factor. Still learning!
I was worried at first you were having a stroke. It took me a moment to realize it’s a damn good impression of the president of the United States.
2025 is the worst year… yet!
Same, it’s great. Battery life is extended, the fan isn’t screaming, and I have great process continuity between devices since I’m usually connecting to a central point.
Pot roast smell, just musk and a little rosemary essential oil, was my single times secret weapon. People asking about it was a zero effort conversation starter and it dovetails perfectly with my style of attempts to be charming.
Yeah, alum, usually potassium alum, is just a solid block of one of the ingredients used in antiperspirants to plugs up sweat glands to keep you from sweating as much. That’s partially how it works as a styptic - it’s irritating, so blood vessels will contract, but it also just plugs up some of the smallest vessels. Its use was much more common before the widespread adoption of electric razors, even if just as a little styptic pencil.
Yes, I’m one of those hobby shaving people.
And lasts for ages. You can also use it to stop bleeding, though it STINGS.
Fuck yeah, rock it. I am a naturally very manly smelling person, sometimes to my dismay, so I always stayed with scents that “matched”: cedar, sandalwood, rosemary, juniper, bergamot, and the like. I often smelled like a lumber mill or a very conversational pot roast.
I got a scent sampler pack from Boy Smells a bit ago and I get so many compliments from others when I wear them.
Hey, you’re right! I didn’t even realize.
YES. I’m piggy backing on your post to drive home why you keep your receipts.
I was fired for performance issues after a little over a year of employment. They claimed I was working at a level lower than an entry level new hire. This was a big surprise to me as my most recent review was glowing, my expertise was carrying the department, and no one ever mentioned any concerns. The company was having issues, though, and I was the highest paid person in my department.
Unbeknownst to them, I keep a work journal. I spend five minutes at the beginning of each day reviewing what I did the day prior and what needs to be done that day, then recording it all in a little notebook made exactly for the purpose (I can link anyone if they’re interested). So I spent about 20-25 hours over my time there doing this and had meticulous records of the entire time.
What’s fun about my termination is I was out for 2 months recovering for surgery from a work injury. They fired me the day I returned for unsubstantiated performance issues that I can refute by the day.
Guess who is getting a $150k settlement.
That little notebook, on top of keeping me on track and making work easier, earned me about $6000/hour.