Once my wife made a whole bunch of fake blood to dip one of our kid's Halloween costume in, and so I took some and started covertly putting it in the toilet tanks. As long as the toilet gasket is good and it doesn't leak, when they flush the toilet they have an Amityville Horror situation.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Mysterious strategic coat hanger.

To lift the plunger to flush the toilet this morning

I'd just use my hands, I've done that. Some nice, cool tank water.

Mysterious strategic coat hanger. So what are you saying, you're some kind of fat cat with a fancy toilet repair kit? What are you too good to use your hands and a coat hanger? You disgust me.

@obsolesce said in What are you using for Documentation?:

I use WordPress.

@scottalanmiller said in If Windows become subscription based...:

@stuartjordan said in If Windows become subscription based...:

@tonyshowoff said in If Windows become subscription based...:

Now to undermine your thread, I think a more interesting remote possibility is: what if Windows (for some uses) becomes free? Well, as free as far as the user is concerned or sees it anyway. Doubtful for servers, but for everything else depending on the way devices go it may force Microsoft's hand. They ended up making free versions of things like Visual Studio, they're stunted, but they work... I never thought they'd even do that.

This could be completely possible as well and would be great, and they probably already earn a fair amount with the Microsoft store and bundling apps like candy crush to support this direction.

I didn't create this thread because I believe Microsoft are taking this path or because it's my opinion, I was just interested if people would pay monthly for their OS, or wherever it would push them in another direction..

I would pay monthly for my OS, but I wouldn't pay for Windows (and I don't.) Most people pay for Windows already, so moving to paying in a more sensible way wouldn't be a big barrier. I'm often shocked at how many people pay for poorly working OSes, when more solid ones are free. But for a really good one, I'd be okay with paying monthly. I'm glad that I don't have to, but it wouldn't be a big deal.

If I may repeat the constantly repeated non-sense from the super Windows IT warriors:

Hurr durr, ya get what ya pay for!

P.S. I don't know a damn thing about my own job.

Now to undermine your thread, I think a more interesting remote possibility is: what if Windows (for some uses) becomes free? Well, as free as far as the user is concerned or sees it anyway. Doubtful for servers, but for everything else depending on the way devices go it may force Microsoft's hand. They ended up making free versions of things like Visual Studio, they're stunted, but they work... I never thought they'd even do that.

I think it's possible, but it may be only if the sort of devices people use it with change in some manner down the road, but for PCs and Servers it isn't really a good way to go for anyone I don't think. Like SAM said, it would undermine their entire ecosystem, but for cloud or goofy end consumer devices where the subscription is possibly bundled with some other service fee, certainly possible.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got done trouble shooting a kitchen printer problem

Is it covered in grease and the floor so slippery you think you're on an ice skating rink? That's my experience.

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched Solo last night. Had no idea Ron Howard was the director.
This was really good.

Ron Howard I think was the 2nd or 3rd director on the project. It apparently was a nightmare during production.

Still haven't seen it, it's on my list.

George Burns was right, show business is a horrible bitch goddess!
-- Bart Simpson

I was going to say something off the wall like "Not doing your mom because I'm too busy doing your dad" but instead the real answer is: dealing with Java

Well the tag is for:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/releases/tag/v4.19-rc4

That's in the latest release candidate, so there is no stable with this yet.

If you're daring, you can pull the driver out of this release and compile it with the 4.18 release.

@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:

Do Androids Dream... on Amazon
Like Black Mirror/Twilight Zone, serial scifi stories about an hour long. Got a few episodes left.

Speaking of Twilight Zone, I'm watching Rod Sterling's UFO program from 1974 called UFOs: Past, Present, and Future.

Persketti

Or Spaghetti to the lay person

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/myth-authoritarian-competence-turkey-strongman/570514/

The attempted coup was a missed opportunity. Now if this was reddit I'd have to worry about being swamped by Turks like in World War Z telling me how stupid I am.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Watching Now:

Part 5 of The World at War from 1973.

Spoilers: the Germans lose.

Or do they?

I'm not so sure anymore, maybe there's an alternate ending

This is where we joke about the current state of the American government and note that in the long game, Germany won.

This Reich will last for a thousand beers.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Watching Now:

Part 5 of The World at War from 1973.

Spoilers: the Germans lose.

Or do they?

I'm not so sure anymore, maybe there's an alternate ending

I personally have refused to comply with GDPR. There's a weird irony in that so many non-EU companies (specifically American) felt the need to comply just because, as I saw on SW oh no, the EU gonna come after you somehow! yet when the EU implements a pain in the butt copyright law, suddenly "well, those laws don't apply to us." So I moved my company location from Czech Republic to Russia, and I'll sell to EU citizens anyway. I say, bring it on:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My fiance has officially destroyed my Netflix account

I guess you can't marry her than. Time to find a new one, and create a new Netflix account.

Top suggestions for you:

Gay crossdressing makeup artists do their makeup while climbing mt everest

mexican single mother navigates the dating world and is just SO funny and cute

white girl who is not awkward or nerdy is awkward and nerdy

Someone stab me in the jugular

Ain't you ignernt! Haven't you seen To Wang Fu? Everyone knows that straight men who wear women's clothes are cross dressers, but gay men who have way too much fashion sense for one gender are called drag queens. Can't you believe you didn't know that.

It amazes me how you lost the accent the longer your paragraph became. . .

It's simple, I forgert

Part 5 of The World at War from 1973.

Spoilers: the Germans lose.