I don’t really think its healthy to assume that your life has to be shitty before it can get better. The professional “paying your dues” is not a very helpful system. In many cases, it’s more office hazing than learning the ropes, and perpetuating the idea that we all must “pay our dues” is tricking people into…

Unless you are concerned that someone is going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars trying to recover your data, “Empty Recycle Bin” is sufficient for you. All of the security theater in the world isn’t gonna make you safer, it’s just going to waste more of your time.

The Restaurant that my wife tends bar for charges $15 (per bottle) for corkage when you bring your own bottle. For a low end bottle, that is pretty close to the markup that we put on bottles. If you’re looking to bring a low end bottle, its prolly not worth the time and effort required, but if you want to bring…

No.

This is true. It is proper to call in advance and see if it is allowed. Some restaurants won’t let you do it, even if it’s legal. I recommend finding other restaurants in those situations.

Most waitstaff don’t know a damn thing about wine, nor do professional sommeliers. (Wife is a bartender, I’ve waited tables, I don’t know anything about wine, but I’ll say a lot of BS to get you to buy a bottle) The great majority of wine connoisseuring is made up shit and trying to convince people that expensive…

This would be bad for Amazon. They would have a huge amount of wasted cardboard. Plus, all of the non-standard sized boxes would be extremely difficult to neatly stack and ship efficiently.

IMO, the money spent on those educational campaigns should have been spent on plastering cities with printouts of “We get it, you vape” macros.

You know what is really impersonal... giving gifts at calendar mandated gift giving days because you are supposed to give gifts on those days.

I’ve got an abbreviated list:

For those in IT looking to stop this sort of behavior:

I like to set up group policies preventing this sort of crap. But, I’m a control freak who doesn’t like fun.

Does anyone else pick up on the irony that a “gamer” is using a macbook?

Yup, I was sleuthing myself when I first read the article, but things came up and I ended up posting my findings a bit late. I dug through aliexpress and found the majority of the components and listed the prices for single items.

As an Engineer, single points of failure make me sad.

I looked at it a bunch and figured it was an Orange Pi Lite, the port layout is identical.

(Posted this deeper in a thread, but figured I’d post it up top)

Specs match Orange Pi Lite. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepilite/

If your review suddenly becomes a trial, and you need to present evidence, you might be in a hostile work environment and should seek employment elsewhere.

Have another manager review. If a bad review (as in quality of the review, not content of the review) comes from a bad manager, there is little use in getting another bad review down the road.