Yeah. It’s been mentioned that a memecoin has value only if it’s for bribe payment.

They called it an Axe Man, in my time. I’ve been at two companies hit with them, and I follow them AND the CEO who stepped down (once a reverted permanent one and the other a long-term leave) to see which companies are fucked next.

everytime

Not a word, my dude.

Latvia is not Russia

Yet.

And if you look on a Russian map, I’m sure it’s there already.

money to fix all the exploits in that spaghetti software.

This decade for SURE! We promise!

Libre Office.

Honestly - and flame away - I hate the name. I hate saying it. It’s the ‘moist’ of borrowed words. Leeeeeeeebr. And I’m a Canadian who did French up to university-level conversational “explain something for 20 min” French (from a gorgeous caribbean dynamo teacher, but I justif–uh, digress) so I know how to say the word and what it means.

And I still hate it. I’m a horrible person – even before I continued French study because the prof was so engaging and energetic and brightened every room and every day and made French interesting just on inclusion.

why not just do:

microsoft 365: 6.99

microsoft 365 + copilot: 9.99

Make the easy thing the better-for-sales thing, obviously.

But seriously, negative-approval has been a sales enabler for ever. People will often just roll over and accept it vs churning to something else. That’s why ‘loss-leader’ works, as people will start with one product and sunk-cost fallacy will keep them from churning as the vendor tightens the screw.

NO one using Microsoft is doing so by choice. If we haven’t learned in 30 years, then fuck us.

Yeah. So it’s

1. thunderbird
2. some add-on

right? I forget the name of that add-on.

No, that’s not it. I thought it was Open-Xchange; yeah, that’s it. But it’s only web-based, and not Tbird-based. Let’s ask Co-pilot again:

THERE it is.

But I learned there’s a second alternative, so that’s cool. See? Co-pilot has value!

So fetch.

This is his “fuck you I quit then” moment.

I remember interviewing at Google years ago (if you’re keeping score, it was 2012/2013 just before their stock hiccupped and my onboarding was killed as I was only a 97% fit), and the guy was religious about page load times. “We cut 200 lines of code if it’ll give us a millisecond of page load speed”, that kind of thing.

How they’ve fallen.

I dunno how long that’s been for you, but I got too injured while on the ROTP programme (that’s how poor kids go to school). And I was out with some non-transferrable skills (5.56 percussion, anyone? One-armed sign language?), surfing a couch and a little broken. This was early '90s.

You know what? You’re gonna second guess things for a long while, deciding things were or were not your fault. You’re gonna feel a little ‘flat’ about things for some time as well. That’s common and I remember it well. Like, the house could fall down around me and I was so dampered for adrenaline that I’d reeeeally not care but probably slowly cope with that too.

Save the manga. You’re maybe gonna like it again, along with other things too. Maybe, maybe not, but keep the options open.

Boot tears you down to pieces so they can build a soldier out of you, and getting dropped from a programme abruptly is super-jarring, but you have an opportunity to rebuild yourself as a pretty awesome human again. Decide who you are After Basic, take the good lessons and try to shed the OCD of boot and, um, Other Bad Shit, and see if you can build a You that is driven and goal-focused, but also invested in fluffy civvy stuff.

Then - in your own time - decide whats next with the help of your friends.

Render unto Caesar? :-D

If you believe my therapist friend who is also non-normative in a relevant fashion, demands for pronouns are often ‘othering’ in result, and thus go from farce to force.

So, I write fewer email.

I have a well-fenced server that I inherited 20 years ago and, but for power outages, has been in operation throughout. It survived a p2v but will not survive the coming v2v. #rhel4 #vmscare

simulates a connected monitor for the client.

EDID, right?

I have eaten 9 grapes.

I used to work as a sullen kid picking grapes for a winery in the summers. Hated the very thought so never ate any, not because I had any respect back then. As a poor kid, you aren’t forced to try something if it would waste food: give it to the people whom it can benefit.

Now then, decades later, and we’re touring another vineyard, me and my wife. “Here,” says the tour guide, handing me one. “Try it.”

Wife knows the deal - squick - but knows I won’t be impolite while this man shows off his livelihood. Her eyes flash a dare but I didn’t need that. I ate my first grape about 14 years ago from st hubertus winery in Kelowna. Didn’t make a face so as not to offend. It was meh.

Since then I’ve had one or two more. And then we go to this fancy pants restaurant and the appetizer on the pricy-ass set menu is this Italian salad thing with all.kinds of green grapes. Fuck me but it was expensive. Ate the whole thing because we don’t waste food in my family. She chuckled and rolled her gorgeous green eyes as she stole a few. That’s the last 6.

So 9.

I may have had 1 hundred strawberries too. I’m livin it up.

It makes sandwiches a little too ‘wet’ for me, but I’ll drag 'em onto the side and eat them separately so they don’t ruin it.

2025’s version of Gone Goat Farming ?