You don’t “turn this shit off”. They’re not asking. They’re telling you you’re using it now. Learn to love your new lord and savior Gemini.

My wife and I bought our first house before we had kids. It was ~1000sqft, 3 beds 1 bath and perfect for just us. Granted we had 2 dogs and 5 cats so it felt hectic at times, but with a nice little back yard the dogs we’re much more calm.

After having 2 kids it started feeling cramped, 100% doable, but as someone who works from home I was dying for more space. The layout was also awful, it seemed like one of the previous owners tried to make it “open concept” and didn’t think it through, so there was nowhere you could go to get an ounce of privacy aside from the bedrooms which were 8x8 all around.

We recently moved to a 1900sqft house and its absolutely great. I can take work calls while everyone’s yelling in the living room and its not a bother. My toddler can play whole the baby’s napping without waking him up. The bedrooms are big with honestly huge closets. Before I was sharing a closet with my toddler and mostly living out of hampers, now he has a closet that his bed could fit in.

My only desire is am extra to for guest if anyone needed to stay with us for a while. I’m hoping to fix up the basement soon and make it a nice 900sqft guest house type thing.

I think we have more space than we necessarily need now, but that makes me happy.

I unfortunately am in the middle of a huge renovation for a new house I just bought 3 week ago. I guess I’m fucking up big time but I’ve had to buy quite a bit of stuff this week. My dryer broke, dishwasher shit out, heater went kaputs, I needed some lumber to keep my porch from caving in.

At least the only new thing I bought was the dishwasher because the panel to get it working would’ve cost me $200 since it’s so old. Everything else has been fixed instead of replaced.

Ah it it! There’s a metal box in the basement labeled Ademco that I hadn’t gotten around to checking out. I took a quick look inside and did see a plug for a landline. Is the landline just for having a company monitor stuff? Should it still work locally just to like set off an alarm if the door open or motion is detected when the system is active?

When the kids are down I’m going to have to do a deeper dive. Thank you very much

That’s very cool! I have home assistant set up on a pi but I’ve never really had enough smart things to find it useful, I just think the idea is neat

I haven’t seen a single brand name on any of the equipment which has made figuring it out that much harder

I’m almost 30 and just starting to feel like a kid.

I’ve had to be an adult since I was 10 but getting sober and having my first kid really brought me back to life. We play with a hotwheels track that we call car thing, we wrestle everyday, we have jam sessions where we switch instruments so for half of it I’m playing a tiny piano. When I buy clothes I let him help me pick stuff out and most of it’s from thrift stores so my outfits have gotten very funky.

He also makes doing adult things more fun, we do everything together so he helps me with house work. There’s the shark vacuum, the carpet cleaner turns the floor into lava, laundry basketball, we cook dinner together. My favorite is making pizza dough with him, it takes longer to clean up than it does to make the pizza but it’s a blast.

I usually get “stuck” in whatever horrid nightmare I was having before waking up. For the first 5-10 minutes I’m not sure if I’m still in a dream or not, then I spend a while panicking about how I couldn’t figure out reality and if anything is real.

Although things are usually a lot better when my son decides to sleep with us. He’ll wake me up before the sun just yelling the most nonsensical stuff and it snaps me back to reality pretty quick.

My favorite from this week was “wake up daddy put your jeans on! (Throws my jeans at my face) We’re late for work!” At 5:30am. I work from home an don’t have a set time to clock in but oh boy I clocked in early that day.

They tried making us come in one day a month so me and the other developers just wouldn’t work when we were in the office while we were “planning”. Then it became “we need the day before to plan what we’re going to talk about tomorrow” and “we take the day after an office visit to go over what we talked about”. So 3 days out of the month where nothing got done and it made enough of a difference the office days lasted maybe 3 or 4 months before they fizzled out

I’m 6 years sober this month

Thanks for the reminder

Sadly I thought this was the US and was genuinely shocked that they received any kind of punishment, even an arrest. I came to the comments to look for the “they’ve been released and charges dropped” comment.

I have never just clicked around in a gui unless its me testing something I’m building. I would suggest finding some better tutorials.

Today I added a few features and fixed a couple bugs.

We have a screen where users can basically click through a list of contacts to send out emails. The list is system generated, and sometimes users want the email to go out to other contacts not on the list. So I added a section to the screen with a typeahead input box to search through all the companies in our system. Once the user selects the company it has to be broken down by branch (region) so I had to build out a small api for getting the company branches and filtering by some criteria to see if they’re even eligible to receive these types of email, so with that data returned I generated a drop down to select the branch, from there another api call to generate a list of checkboxes for each contact at the selected branch. Then I had to build out a mysql table to store the additional contacts to email and work that logic into the code that sends out those types of emails.

Right there you have perl, mysql, html, CSS and JS.

Another thing that everyone’s gonna lose it for when it goes live but took me no more than an hour. A lot of our accounting pages are historical reports, there’s only a few that are updated in realtime, and almost all of them were super slow to load because of all the heavy calculations. I added a couple tables and a cron job to run daily and populate them. So now instead of doing calculations on the fly those pages just pull the data from the db and load instantly.

My 3 year old wakes up screaming at exactly 1 am every night. Not crying or yelling, full screaming like he saw a ghost. It usually wakes up my 6 month old and then we’re all doomed.

I started staying up and waiting by his door so I can run right in. He’s always fine and just goes “oh hi daddy do you want to sing me a song?”

Oh my god even a game that’s already downloaded takes forever. I had an old Xbox and assumed it was just that until someone had a brand new Xbox that they didn’t want for some reason, still sealed in the box the model was like 2 years old. It still takes like 5 minutes for the game to start and skip through all the intros to get to the main menu.

Usually I’ll pick my game and go to the kitchen for a snack or drink of water, by the time I’m done snacking if the game is even loaded yet my interest is almost all but gone.

I remember back in the day I could be playing an online match in under a minute

A few years ago when I went to actually use the GPU in my laptop I realized I never installed the drivers. I think it was a 3050 or something pretty low end.

It took maybe 20 minutes, most of that time was waiting for things to install. I’ve heard the horror stories so I wasn’t excepting it to work and was ready to give up at the first sign on resistance but there really wasn’t any. That was on Fedora, a bit later I switched to Debian and I remember running into an issue getting it to work but it was small enough that I don’t remember what the issue was.

Socks at all times. The plain black ones that end right above the ankle and I change them about 3 times a day even if I’ve spent all day sitting at my desk.

fuck this guy

Very cool. Godspeed to the real heros.

So I was telling my wife about this weird daycare and she suggested it was probably preschool. I thought about it for a bit but I remember preschool fairly well. It wasn’t like a real school, it was some rinky dink Catholic school thing at the church my grandma went too and I think they rotated teachers and my great aunt was one of them.

I do remember there was a billboard outside or very close to the daycare with a dog dressed like Peter pan or something of the sorts.

This place haunts me for some reason…