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    Boardroom Miscellaneous Thread

    It is 100% the worst part of owning a business. After all the other things that piss me off about owning a business.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Epica - Aspiral View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgWv_6ZtYvk
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    Trackhoes are easy to learn but take a fair bit of doing to really master.
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    Perpetual Defense Thread (Defense & non-commercial Space Nerds ITT)

    The final report on the loss of HMNZS Manawanui is out. Sounds like whoever had the deck and the con had no clue what they were doing or how to disconnect the auto-helm and they did the nautical equivalent of CFIT. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkGsfPJX20
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    what did you learn today? (part 2)

    We’re running mostly xcp-ng with Orchestrator. It’s not vSphere, but it’s good enough for us for now. And a damn site cheaper than paying those fucks at Broadcom.
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    Boardroom Miscellaneous Thread

    I picked the wrong year to consider large capital investments. Unfortunately the cycle was set before <soapboxthings> happened.
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    what did you learn today? (part 2)

    DC, IME, only makes sense in operations where you already have an extensive DC plant in place. We have a pretty underutilized DC power plant and could run some of our servers off the DC power buses if we wanted to but Dell only supports that on the PowerEdge XR servers anymore AFICT.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Unleash the Archers - General of the Dark Army View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVi0d7oqDvs
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    What are you listening to right now?

    BAND-MAID / Ready to Rock View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapNDHKbu0M
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    It sure feels that way.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Arch Enemy - A Million Suns View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhcRn_34ko
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    ?Por que no todos ellos?
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    But it might rot your brains out.
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    It usually is from my experience with customers in optometry.
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    They're not even getting live/live wrong, the one stupid advertisement I've been getting on repeat recently is pronouncing live (as in livestream) as Liv, the name.
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    One of the things I've noticed is that a lot of the shitty AI generated YouTube ads, especially for shitty trading and crypto scams seem to have trouble pronouncing live for some reason.
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    The mild annoyances thread!

    Our new thromstatmabobber. Our old thermostat would start cooling to the setpoint at the trigger time. New thermostat tries to reach the setpoint at the trigger time. Which is not the desired functionality.
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    We live in the 21st century. Dishes need to clean themselves.
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    One of my customers has somehow managed to attach our support/ticketing email to their Comcast account. And they are behind with Comcast. Again. Which pisses me off for 2 reasons. First I get stupid unnecessary tickets. Second I know they're going to be late paying me. Again. Unfortunately they...
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    The Aerospace Industry Discussion Thread

    Comfy seats are also (I assume anyway) heavier and burn more fuel and are thus undesirable unless you can charge more for them.