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I don't know what it's like in the US, but in the UK renting sucks. Landlords and letting agents are generally awful people. Trying to get a landlord to fix anything is often a nightmare. Standard contracts mean you can get evicted at any time with just six months notice, which is particularly awful if you have kids and are forced to move away, maybe twice a year. And then they will try and steal your deposit on spurious grounds. You generally can't have pets, decorate, or even put up pictures on the wall. Mostly, you're treated as second class citizens.

At best, renting is ok if you're young and don't have kids, which is just as well since it's pretty much impossible to afford a house here if you're under 30.

I believe it's a lot better in the rest of Europe.

Oh, and "water cooler" time is good for generating trust and forming bonds within teams, which is essential. Raj Choudhury has some good things to say on this subject here https://hbr.org/2020/11/our-work-from-anywhere-future

I don't know who needs to hear this, but trust me, this is pretty amazing.

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Office Desk at the new job, Dilbert riding shotgun today
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@IRJ said in Does this speak to you?:

@gjacobse said in Does this speak to you?:

In Dec I was informed I was going Month to Month at the end of the six months..

I think that's you're answer. They feel like they need to revaluate month to month. I would have argued for at least 3-6 month contracts or been looking to leave within a month or two max

I agree, that's your notice that you need to be actively looking. Month to month means that they AND you are supposed to evaluate the relationship every 30 days.

My manager (IT Manager) messaged me a screenshot of speedtest.net results from one of our DC's that showed there is 33 ms ping times, and that I should look into this. I login the DC, pull up command line, ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 with solid 3ms ping times. I sent him a screenshot of the command prompt and said ping times look solid to me, and speedtest.net does not give accurate results of network latency from a computer as the built-in ping utility from windows.

This is basic troubleshooting, and is just sad.

@JasGot said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:

@Dashrender said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:

@JasGot Aren't you the one who asked how to do this?

I assume you are referring to my post of the script I came up with yesterday AFTER I read your post suggesting a script to do it?

Geeeeesh. The next time I want to share a solution I came up with, as a result of your suggestion, I won't.

LOL - there was no indication that you just created that -but that's awesome that you tossed something together so quickly.

Liesl is addicted to the Danganranpa games. She's binging the second one now. Finished the first one yesterday.

@amarendra said in Looking for an Active NodeBB Community:

But now I get the message that I do not have enough reputation.

I'm not aware of any reputation limit to posting a question. What topic are you trying to post in?

For a week my app has not been showing all of my crowns, either. And some achievements disappeared (not my progress on them, the entire achievement.)

This is my friend Bohdan. He's one of the people who pre-purchased a ticket for MangoCon 2020 that got postponed because of COVID. So everyone almost got to meet him. He was working in Dallas in 2019 and we hung out a bit. He's a software engineer based in eastern Ukraine. He recently opened a bar and was interviewed on CNN talking about the war.

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I found an old Midi to USB cable over the weekend. ordered a USB to lightning adapter to try it out on her iPad.

Currently having my mind BLOWN by this crazy, Siberian throat singing album my neighbor let me borrow. It's kinda metal-esqe, very heavy, but it's just voice and traditional folk instrumentation. And it's a studio album, so their use of reverb and other effects add to the uniqueness. NYTT LAND!!!

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@dashrender said in Hello:

@dafyre said in Hello:

My wife and I were out to lunch one day and within seconds of one another, we got phone calls that appeared to be from her number.

It was hillarious. Of course, we didn't answer.

I raise holy hell with vendors who do that shit! How fucking dare you call me pretending to be my own number!!!

I guarantee if I get a call from my wife's number or my own number (has also happened once), and it is a vendor, I will be reporting them all over the place... oh, and not doing business with them ever again.

Besides, I only have once car, I don't need six warranties.

Saw that, so sad. He wasn't all that old. But definitely not in great physical condition.

@irj A Domain Auction site like?, https://www.godaddy.com/en-uk/auctions/domain-auctions