Do you have a lot of devices that are using WiFi 7? I think I only have two devices, my iPhone and MBP, that use WiFi 6. Everything else is a mix of 5 or 4, and even a couple IoT devices that are still using 802.11G!
Ha, perhaps I'm a bad influence as well! I'm definitely like you most of the time. I'm usually the guy in my office who's like, "People, relax; nothing we're doing here is life or death!" I'm constantly telling my co-workers to just breathe and slow down a bit (read: a lot).
And I've definitely had a few (past) co-workers consider me the "lazy one" just because I'm not putting in 80hrs a week, crying in the office due to the stress, even though I still get my shit done. Don't get me wrong; I've put in my 12hr days or working overnight or during the weekend to fix something. I work in IT, so sometimes I need everyone offline to do my stuff. But those are very, very rare.
But I still try to do at least some work each day. So it was unusual for two straight days to basically do nothing! You're right though; sometimes it just happens and you have to ride it out. Definitely much more productive this week already!
Hell yeah, good job!
That's exactly why I got a UPS! The electric lines to my building are overhead instead of underground, so sometimes weather makes things flicker.
And I'm using ESXi 6.5 still. There were free licenses available, but I think for the CyberPower UPS software that I'm using, it requires a non-free license. Luckily, there are license keys floating around the Internet.
A friend and I did consider buying a proper license (I have access to non-profit pricing), but with Broadcom's recent pricing changes and massive increases for VMWare products, that's probably not an option anymore. I think VMWare also pulled the free personal-use licenses, as well. I may eventually transition to Promox (which I do have on another server) or something else. Broadcom really did a number on VMWare =/
On the work front, I absolutely had no motivation to do anything on Thursday or Friday. Like I just sat in my chair all at home, sitting on social media/news/games. I really try not to play games during the workday, but I was just completely sapped of all motivation. Idk what the deal was with that. Not like the first half of last week was a hard work, either. At least, I was able to find some motivation and work on some things today.
I finally bought a UPS for my homelab server. Only 3-4yrs after first getting the server and like 6mo since a momentary voltage sag from the wall/mains power caused the server to shutdown unexpected and corrupt one of my VMs (at least, that's what I think happened). And this UPS even interfaces with ESXi to automatically -- and ideally, gracefully -- shutdown in case of a loss of power. I think I'll test that this weekend.
Also did and filed my taxes yesterday (Sunday). At like 5am. Because what else is there to do at 5am on a Sunday, other than taxes? 🤷🏽♂️
Yeah, we used to make fun of Kansas, especially during Kansas's Brownback years. Now they're recovering somewhat, while we're attempting to go even deeper into insanity than Kansas ever did. Guess we really wanted to stick it to Kansas and show 'em how it's done 🙄
Just think; only 12yrs ago, Todd Aiken rightfully lost is senatorial election to Claire McCaskill over his idiotic abortion comments. Now look where we're at! That would easily get a MAGA candidate elected today! Yet at the same time, we'd probably still pass abortion rights. Which is what I'm predicting will happen in November (provided the signatures all get collected and it gets on the ballot).
Missourians, get it the fuck together.
There's a chance it could still happen. I live in Kansas City and voted No. While spending public money on a private endeavor was certainly a big issue, I think a lot of people were more POed with the way the teams and county/city went about this. There were almost no concrete plans on remaining sources of funding, potential traffic/parking/public transit issues, if the affected businesses in the proposed district would even sell off their land and properties, and more. Plus the fact that the selected location seemingly appeared out of nowhere. For months, there were two other locations -- one of which is literally almost entirely parking lots and empty space -- that were being talked about. And of course the implicit threats of leaving if the vote failed. There was also the rushed vote. There's no reason this had to be voted on this instant. This could've wait until the November election. People rightfully saw this was a bad way to go about this.
I think if the teams and city/county go back to the drawing board, change the location, come up with more concrete plans, lessen the amount of public money going in (like maybe not have a 40yr tax), get the teams to agree to stay the whole term -- the teams weren't even guaranteed to stay the whole term of the tax -- and just in general make it more appealing to people (the Chiefs were going to use their cut of the money to improve/build out more premium suites that average people will never see/use), people might be willing to vote for it. It'd still be a close call, but I could see people saying Yes if everything lined up.
Another option is for the teams to go across the state line to Kansas. Which I'd have no problem with that. If Kansans want to pay, let them. It's their money, not mine at that point.
Banning lobbying would mean no one would be able to talk to a politician/official about an issue. Not even writing your local officials, proposing a local ordinance to making bike lanes or spending money to fix-up/improve a local park. Because that's lobbying. You're asking a government to wield their official power and/or spend public money, for your (and potentially others') benefit.
Even lobbying groups aren't necessarily bad. The Sierra Club, EFF, ACLU. These are American, but I'm sure there are equivalents of these in other countries.
So banning lobbying doesn't really work. Now if you're talking financial contributions and gifts and nice dinners from those who lobby, yeah that probably needs to be more highly regulated or stopped altogether. Generally speaking, any kind of quid pro quo.
But just talking to a politician should not be made illegal. In democracies, talking to people, talking to politicians, and trying to convince them to align with your view is the name of the game.
I think pirating educational materials is less morally bad than pirating entertainment.
College textbooks, for example, are insanely expensive. I once paid like $300 for a single chemistry book. I never made that mistake again. Not because I pirated; I just started buying used or past editions. It's not like chemistry for a 100 level class is cutting edge stuff. It's the same ideas and knowledge we've had for decades or a hundred or hundreds of years. It's all public knowledge at this point.
But you may need the book to do readings and assignments. So if you can't afford the book, even used or past editions, then it makes sense to turn to piracy. I would sometimes grab the library reference copy of a textbook and just go crazy with a copy machine. That might technically still be piracy.
Entertainment, on the other hand, isn't really required at all. So to me, that's worse.
That all said, 99% of the stuff I've pirated is entertainment. My immorality is only bounded by the size of my SSDs!
Nope, this was in the Midwest! Missouri, to be somewhat more specific. I do know our principal (who I didn't mind) was often in the lunchroom. Maybe she was from the south? No clue.
No talking during lunch. This was in a public elementary school in the early/mid 90s, at the first school I attended through second grade. Literally the only school I attended that was like that. It was so fucking stupid.
Of course, kids tried to talk to their friends, whispering and such. I got in trouble once because a teacher saw me whisper to my friend who asked me a question and so I got moved to sitting with older kids I didn't know for the rest of the lunch period. That was the first time I got in trouble at school, so I was crying.
Never understood why we couldn't talk. I think because it'd eventually get too loud in there? Which, who cares? Didn't matter; family moved and I switched schools. Where it was totally normal and acceptable to socialize during lunch.
Mainly playing Rimworld, FF7 Rebirth, and a little bit of the Ace Attorney Apollo Justice Trilogy. Also finished the visual Coffee Talk last night.