toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When I started at my current job, every new hire was given the choice of a MacBook or Linux laptop. I only encountered one person who chose the former and he only chose that because he thought it'd be funny to use Windows on a MacBook in his professional environment. (We were allowed to do pretty much whatever with our laptops so long as we could fulfill our work duties. My then manager replaced Ubuntu, with which we were provided, with Arch on his laptop.)

Two or so years later, the IT department said that they didn't really know how to maintain security compliance on Linux, but they did know JAMF. Thus, they took away our customizable Linux laptops and foisted MacBooks on all of us. I'm pretty sure even the Windows guy lost that, but he was an exec so it probably took longer.

I still remember when they announced that this would happen. They said it without a timeline in the company-wide group chat and someone I respected previously and respected more afterwards said "so when are you taking away our good laptops?"

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

I thought this was going to be a rickroll or similar. Pleased (sort of) to discover otherwise.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't wanna do it again because I used up all my luck with the awesome kid I already got.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Indeed, that was as it was described in the book. Apologies for not elaborating.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I learned this from Scrubs and cited it to my wife just yesterday!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

According to American Dad!, also from overdosing on prenatal medicine.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I remember an Iron Man novel that suggested Tony had poor hearing because he played heavy metal in his helmet while flying from place to place.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is "kill all men" progressive?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

This was one of the first two games including an accessible level editor that I ever encountered. I loved the game on its own merits, but I also loved creating multiplayer levels (not that anyone was playing it multiplayer back then).

My favorite level that I created for this game was based on the Mexican hotel shootout from Way of the Gun.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Back when bash.org was a thing (I'm aware it has since been archived in multiple places), there was a quote that went something like "you only have a name because your mother was suspicious it took nine months to take a shit."

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm really bad at faces, so I apologize for the stupid question.

Is the second image also Clinton?

 

Nothing to add here.

 
 

Now it's a genre.

 

I'm not really sure why.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by toynbee@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 

Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.

Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.

Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.

edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.

 

But there's something about them I find distracting.

 

I didn't think my cats would care, but since my dog died, Maze has been ... Aggressively affectionate. To the point that I need to shoo her away if I need any alone time. She wasn't this loving any time over her past fifteen years or so of life and didn't seem like she cared about the dog, but she's been completely transformed since then.

 

I mean, just look at it.

edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.

 

They almost blend together.

 
 

Newbie was a rescue from a dog fighting house. According to the shelter from which we got her, they couldn't get her to fight, so they used her for breeding. For her entire life with us, she had scars from where they tied her down for breeding... But despite coming from the most abusive background imaginable, she was the absolute sweetest dog. She was in my life for about a decade and, other than in her sleep, I never once heard her make an aggressive sound.

Unfortunately, she died a few years ago from a failing pancreas. She's the only dog I ever had to choose to let die. I wish she were still here.

edit: She was really stinky, though.

 

A while ago, Maze hurt her ear. Since then we've been giving her all kinds of medication. Obviously things aren't pristine, but she's doing way better and her wheezing has nearly disappeared!

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