Classic, “what the fuck did I do here and why did I think this was a good idea,” material.

I am in this comment and I don't like it.

Additionally don't do maintenance on your computers when tired, learned from experience

Are you me, I have experienced this 2 days ago

Ha, I don't fuck around with anything that make break my PC or phone until a weekend with no commitments comes up.

I once tried partitioning the disk i was running on because i was new and didnt know that wouldn't work, cfdisk now has a warning if you try to do that

I had to extend the boot drive on a VM that also happened to run the application our entire company used to make products. This was back in the day when extending VM drives took forever because of the way the hypervisor worked. I only had a small window to do this between our Europe plants going offline and the US plants starting up.

So I used a community tool that would extend the drive in seconds. Turn the VM back on and queue "NTLDR is missing". I also discovered that the backups for that server hadn't completed successfully in so long there was nothing to restore from. In my effort to save 30-45 minutes, cost me 8 hours completely rebuilding the server and a day of lost production in the US plants.

Or df in Diskpart.

This one hurts. I’m sorry, friend.

🫂

But what if I...

I never liked taking pictures of friends and family when traveling, cos I could see them anytime I wanted, but the places I was visiting I didn't plan on going back to.

Comically sad when I found out it was the other way around.

My brother passed away in November - it hit me worse than many losses I've experienced. The calm and waves of sadness is so accurate, but nothing can prepare you for it; I spent years preparing for my brother's death, but it did nothing when it actually happened.

Lmao nice. Here's a similarly embarrassing story: my refrigerator light was burned out and I was too lazy to replace it for a few years. When I finally got around to it, it turned out I had the exact replacement bulb in my possession the entire time 🤦. Ofc replacing it also only took ~30 seconds.

Rogue: deviant from the norm.

Rouge: a shade of red.

If your pee is rouge when you stand, you need to see your doctor.

I learned this lesson pretty quickly, once I started to have to clean my own apartment.

Weird, based on your username I'd have guessed you had different pissing habits.

I do notice though that when trying to pee sitting, I don't get everything out. A lot of times, I stand up afterwards and still get some more out

Some men feel emasculated by the idea of sitting to pee. Really guys? I wonder what goes on in the privacy of their bathrooms, when they’re pinching the proverbial loaf. Do they stand up to pee and sit to pass? Of course not. :: Sitting to pee is what you do if you want to keep the toilet area clean. You can be a big strong man and still be a sitzpinkler.

Well, this is news to me. Thanks! I often get worried that I accidentally turned off navigation or something, and hearing it repeat the next step would be great.

Holy crap, this could be a game changer for me. I live in an area with a ton of highway interchanges, so it not uncommon to get directs that say in 5 mile stay left on road XYZ, then right after that, it like exit right in .0001 miles. So, I'm always scrolling up on the map to see what's really coming up.

I had only ever see trebuchet written, i had never heard it spoken. So young me thought it was pronounced tray-bucket. I was in my 40s before i finally heard someone discussing catapult vs trebuchet and realized it was french.

That's a wonderful eggcorn.

I was watching a video talking about how eggcorns are an unusual category of error because they require intelligence and creativity to make. The argument was that the process goes like this:

A new word or phrase is heard, but not understood. The brain makes sense of it using existing vocabulary that has sounds that are close enough. This is accompanied an explanation for why those specific words make sense in this new context.

For example: the original eggcorn was a mishearing of acorn. Egg because it's roughly egg shaped, and corn is sometimes used to describe small objects similar to how grain can be.

All this to say, it's maybe not something to feel dumb about. Your brain did something neat.

It actually refers to tying a napkin around your neck before eating. You had to "make the ends meet" before you could eat

Words mean how people use them. There is absolutely an animal called a cow, regardless of sex, and it's a synonym for cattle.

You are also correct that cow means female is many species.

Similarly, and also often misunderstood...

Peacock only refers to the males. A female is called a peahen.

Wait. The singular of cattle is cattle? I think that's the part that confuses me. Or is there no singular and you must use cow/bull? Either way I've never really thought about it and now I can't not

Words don't work this way. They more often than not have multiple, somewhat overlapping, meanings. For example, Wiktionary lists five meanings for the word, when it comes to quadrupeds:

1. (strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
2. (loosely or informal) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
3. (uncommon) Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
4. (uncommon) Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
5. (biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.

You're likely referring to meaning #4 or #5, but keep in mind that #1 is the most common and #2 is likely the original one (due to the cognates).

Wut.

Late diagnosis sucks in a way. You finally understand why you’ve had so many difficulties in life. Why you maybe didn’t fit in, why people treated you differently, etc. I mean, it’s such a relief when you understand why you had all those issues, but the other side of that coin is that you also understand how much of your life was lost to the untreated and misunderstood part of you. Maybe people get physical and/or verbal abuse as children because parents can’t get a diagnosis because they don’t understand, or think you can be forced to be “normal”. Peers don’t get you, you’re the wierd kid, friendships are difficult. Missing out on connections that can help move your life forward. Lots of stress and anxiety.

It good to know now, but it hurts to know that life could have probably been different if you’d been understood and been offered tools to help yourself.

My daughter swears I’m autistic. I was talking to her this morning and said, “I spent every year with my desk right by the the teacher’s desk. I would have wondered if they all got together and planned it, but that’s where I was at, multiple schools in different states.”

She replied, “Dad, go get diagnosed. Seriously.”

Do you find it helpful to have a diagnosis, or would you have preferred to just be "weird"?

Did the discovery have any deep impact on your life?

For context: I'm asking this because I'm socially close to a woman roughly in your age range that shows clear signs of autism, and I don't know if I should encourage her to get diagnosed.

Knees don't fail from wear, they fail from tear. If you're not actually injuring yourself, they get stronger from use, they don't wear out.

My main takeaway from this is that I should eat 5 times my daily calorie count in chicken breast and I'll turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Time to get out my KFC coupons

My kids love that I now make eggs and Canadian bacon with pancakes. They think it’s just a more elaborate breakfast. It may not actually be healthy but at least they’re getting some protein Instead of just massive amounts of carbs

Eat an inconvenient amount of protein, it’s also good for you.

No. You just shit it out. Your gut can only absorb so much protein in a day. Even if you only eat potatoes or rice, if you are meeting your caloric needs, you will automatically be meeting your protein needs. Meanwhile, animal protein is associated with very serious health issues.

And of course the facts that you have known all along but choose not to connect with emotionally: that the experiences of animals are real and matter.

Unfortunately, it's not always that black & white with an assured outcome. I just had to make the difficult decision to put my cat down, kidney failure.

As a result, everything in her was shutting down. It would have taken several days and thousands of dollars just to stabilize her at an inpatient animal hospital. The cost aside, it would have required much more stress, pain, and separation for her, with pretty much the same unfortunate result. So I declined, and it was the right thing to do. I miss her terribly...

before you get married to someone you might want to discuss this. some cultures/families/people would happily spend a hundred thousand plus on chemotherapy etc on an old pet, while others draw the line at $200. understand their values.

That would have made a lot more sense than what actually happened.

I personally find it easier to use my bootloader's menu (I use systemd-boot instead of GRUB) to decide what to boot into. It's a lot simpler than clicking through to the boot submenu in my BIOS.

You don’t even need grub to boot Linux; the kernel can be its own bootloader.

That's the right amount of loudness, considering its purpose. Hope you were able to replace the battery with a minimum of misery.

You sleep in your office?

Link to the video?

Friendships fading away are very painful.

coney ferns

Don't you mean chemtrails?

What a beautiful face I have found in this place

I told my nephew that's how they make the isobar lines for TV News weather maps, but he didn't believe me. Little dude's awfully cynical for a six-year old.

The sulfury water may be part of the appeal to those who like it.

There's a handful of other sulfury foods that I love, but usually avoid if I know I won't have enough alone time for the embarrassing afterparty.

How so

Your wife has seen the most dicks out of the two of you is all