Even worse is that I used to be able to get Crucial drives for less than Samsung, and I trust them way more. The Samsung ones are fine, but we’ve never lost a single Crucial SSD in 14 years.

I’ll take a look at the PNY ones. We actually can use 256gb, since these are just backup drives that get a data dump every 5 minutes, so that may save some $.

We buy a decent amount of half TB SSD drives to add to desktop PCs that we sell to customers.

Samsung EVO drives have gone from $47 to $285 in the last year.

Your employer pays into it, but most of that goes to the state.

But yeah, if they aren’t going to pay out. Why should I keep paying it.

They opened one a few years ago here in SC. It was in a strip mall that was just 3 restaurants all owned by the same guy (the Donatos, his own private restaurant, and a Salsaritas).

After about a year he moved the Donatos menu to the restaurant, made it a drive through only for pickup, and expanded the restaurant bar into the old Donatos dining room.

5.68 minus gas and wear and tear on your vehicle.

I do some DD for extra cash sometimes, and see shit like this all the time. I don’t know who’s taking this shit, but it isn’t me.

Lots here still do too.

But I notice that both Pizza Hut and Papa Johns will send orders out to DoorDash when they don’t have enough drivers, or if the orders don’t have good tips / don’t line up with areas the drivers are going to.

I also know you can order Pizza Hut from DoorDash directly instead of via the Pizza Hut website.

I travel a lot for work, and use a cell modem as my primary internet source. Even when I’m at home, I get cloudflare captchas and sites requiring 2fa all the time, since my IP changes constantly.

I’m in SC, but constantly get geolocated in GA, AL, and NC.

I put up a VPS with WireGuard on it just to allow me to always be in Seattle for banking and business sites that constantly require 2fa due to location changes.

Same here. Running WireGuard on a VPS in Seattle.

Paying $10 a month, but that’s just because I also use that VPS for OwnCloud as well.

We’re in a kind of small city in SC, with a lot of rural areas around, so that’s probably why we get $2 per offer. We get offers for $2 or $3 dollars with 10+ miles all the time.

I generally average $20 an hour, but I do a lot of grocery shopping, and my wife often goes with me and drives (and helps shop on very large orders), so that speeds the process up. But I also don’t take anything under $5, and nothing less than $1 a mile ($1.50 with gas prices the way they are now).

I agree that tipping after would put pressure on DD to raise the base rate, but with almost 4000 orders over the last few years, I bet less than 5% of the no tip orders have ever added anything after the fact.

They won’t initially offer it for $10 without a tip ever.

I do DoorDash for extra money, and the initial offer in my area is always $2 if there’s no tip (for food delivery, shopping can be more), and since tips added after delivery are almost nonexistent, I never take these orders.

When I turn that down, they offer it to the next driver for $2.25, or $2.50, and keep going around until they find someone to take it. They’ll also try to bundle a couple of low paying offers together ,or find a higher paying offer to bundle it with.

But they don’t offer it for $10 unless they absolutely have to.

Does your motherboard have a boot menu option?

I haven’t done 2 Linux installs in this way, but for Linux / Windows I don’t really “dual boot”. I have two separate drives, with two separate installations. I can boot into either one, even if the other drive is missing.

I did each install with all of the the other drives removed from the machine to keep things clean. Then I can just select whichever drive I want to boot into from the motherboards / UEFI boot menu.

The only downside to this is that I do have to select a default boot drive, so if I’m not paying attention, Windows update will reboot into the Linux installation since it’s the default drive.

Went with Kubuntu as I prefer KDE, and it’s not been good on a multi monitor setup (at least with my hardware).

While I did make it further there than on some of the other distros I tried, it was still a no go.

Think I’m going to pave it and give OpenSuse another shot, just have to get some other bits sorted out.

No, there’s a new “Official” The White House app for Android / iOS.

While I don’t / won’t use the slop machines, I’m not entirely convinced that they haven’t / won’t just add a Copilot Free account to my VS or GitHub accounts: They did just this to my (now canceled) Office account.

I do think that a lot of people are missing that it’s just Copilot data that they’re using to train, not all of the repository data hosted on GitHub (or don’t trust that it will be only Copilot data long term).

For me it just means one more thing to move to our own servers (we always self hosted SVN)

Yea, the 2012 build was a 3770k with 16 gb ram, multiple SSDs, a GTX680, etc. So it was a pretty fast machine back in the day.

I upgraded the video card and SSD drives several times, just didn’t have the budget to replace it all at once for a long time.

Minus the case and video card, I have an entire 3rd gen i7 machine sitting in a box that would actually make a pretty good machine for a lot of different uses.

Same … I hadn’t upgraded since 2012, and had some extra cash, so rebuilt in August. Feeling pretty lucky to have done it then, and really glad I went ahead and put 64GB RAM in it.

Thanks.

Looks like it has improved quite a bit over the years.

It may have changed since then, but after my dad left the USAF in the early '80s, my mom was a civilian employee on the base for a bunch of years, and we didn’t have access to any of the additional benefits. I know that we couldn’t go to Aaffes, the Px, or use any base services. Not sure about retirement / insurance at that time, but we certainly didn’t take advantage of insurance if it was available.

About the only thing we had access to was some of the Recreation services: My mom worked at Arts and Crafts, and that was attached to the Auto Hobby and Wood Shop so they let employees use those facilities, along with the place where we could rent lawnmowers and other recreation equipment.

Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that’s where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.

I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don’t really boot back to the Linux drive.

I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.

Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.