THIS. After seeing other people use smart TV’s, I really love my Roku 4 on my dumb TV. Smart TV’s have convoluted menus and are so slow to load anything. I’m close to upgrading to 4K and I wish I could just buy a dumb one and not pay the premium for “smart”.

I missed it for a second at the end because I was still getting over how dumb the dialogue was between that dad and the operator of the place. “That is a ********** and is capable of hacking *****”. “Oh that’s right, you’re a softare engineer”? WTF.... we’re really relying on 80's and 90's references to “powerful…

Congrats, you deserve it. I can relate to how long that tunnel feels, especially when you have friends or colleagues who are happy in their jobs and spend their free time being young and carefree.

The best thing I ever did was not pass up opportunities for change. When I started I was in IT support.... Even if I could move up, the entire operation was worrying about other people’s problems and needs. It wasn’t for me. I switched to a middle management operations job after getting an MBA (was not a business…

Yeah, I get about an hour a day to myself if I go to bed at a reasonable hour so I watch movies. I should probably read or work out but that, along with video games requires effort.

I watch everything, good, bad, or otherwise. I give it a chance. It’s what my Netflix subscription is for. For people like me, the real reason why we haven’t seen these movies is because they aren’t out yet. The only one I’ve seen is Hell or High Water. Arrival is long wait, and everything else comes out next week or…

I don’t play video games, so I don’t know the game your referencing, but this still made me lol. Well played!

For any of you who are still in school or in deferment for any other reason, remember that in December you can make a one time payment to your loans to cover the interest that has accrued that year. It’s tax deductible when you file a couple months later, and your interest then doesn’t get added to your principle. My…

I pay for internet and netflix, using my own cable modem to save on fees. I then bought a Tablo 4 and connected a spare 1TB hard drive to it that I already had laying around. I also bought a lifetime service for Tablo guide info. The one time costs paid for themselves within a year. The Tablo acts as a whole home DVR…

At that cost, buying 2 or 3 reusables makes sense. Bag and tag one for later cleaning and put on a fresh one.

More math teachers should use that language with kids. They already know the word, and it drives home the point that reducing fractions is just what polite and civilized people do. It’s on par with, “clean up your fucking room”.

As a former intern, that’s a pretty standard response. In the office I worked in we would keep daily tallies on issues. So, if you called to say he should vote one way, we’d verify that you were a constituent by getting your address and putting a tally next to your stance on an issue. If I knew the Senator’s stance, I…

Yes, mostly people who either drink a lot (in college) or home brew. I home brew and bottling sucks. I have a chest freezer where I unscrewed the lid, put 2x6's around the rim of the opening, then screwed the lid onto the wood. Then drilled holes in the wood for the taps. 3 taps in one medium sized chest freezer. It’s…

You’re not wrong, but I’d also add that the democratic party as a whole has pushed these people towards causes, and working for good companies, rather than joining it. Hillary’s party was one of establishment. After being First Lady she won a senate seat, just because she was the machine and it was a tick box to get…

Pretty much.

By not having one. I honk as a warning to drivers that are about to get hit. I honk at people who swerve too much (where I am it’s drunk, not aggressive driving) and then I make sure they are in front of me and I take a different route. The best bad driver is in front of you where you can see or avoid them.

For most of my projects I don’t use the desktop environment at all, so there’s only the command line anyway, but to each their own. I do prefer using vnc on my media server though, because dragging and dropping is easier when organizing and then you don’t have to mount samba shares.

You should pull the trigger. Most things that you, especially at first is a copy of what someone else did. Really all you change is your wifi name and password. I have the model B and the 2. I haven’t got the zero or 3 because I just like to tinker rather than have them for specific projects. They’ve made it super…

The Sensi thermostat is great. I’ve had mine for a little over a month now. It was very easy to install with dead simple instructions. It doesn’t “learn” but we keep our house cool in the winter and warm in the summer, so I don’t need it changing on me five times a day, although it can on a set schedule. Logging in…

The Sensi thermostat is great. I’ve had mine for a little over a month now. It was very easy to install with dead…

My two year old just stares at me funny when I talk to Alexa. One day though she’ll learn what’s up and I will lose everything.

My two year old just stares at me funny when I talk to Alexa. One day though she’ll learn what’s up and I will lose…