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  • For me I hate phone calls because it’s someone demanding I drop what I’m doing to address whatever they want. Keep in mind, 99% of phone calls I get are at work form co-workers.

    The number of “quick calls” that are actually quick I can count on 1 hand, and still have room for more. I have tasks to accomplish, things to do. And I’m spread so thin between all the things I do, there’s a fair chance I’m going to forget something about what you asked/told me. If it’s in text form I can review it when I loop back to it. You need me to check/validate/run something, cool. I have record of what, when, and if I completed it. Just because you have a question does not make it an emergency on my part.

    As for my home phone, the only folks who ever call me are either telemarketers or scams. If a friend called I’d probably answer (if I have the time). But I think most of my friends are in the same boat, we have so much to do these days (non-recreation) that it’s just not easy to find time. A lot of my friends have side-hustles or a second job or are in class (like me) in order to stay competitive. When I was a kid, I remember my parents could unwind at the end of the day, friends would just come over to hang out. It just ain’t like that no more.



  • I tried Prime a few times. Saw it at the gas station and figured I’d give it a try since I was going to grab a Bodyarmor. Very strong flavor. For me, really seemed to straddle the line between good and meh. Tried the energy drink once, terrible.

    Then I learned that dip shit was behind it. Haven’t bought it since.





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    Honestly, fuck Ansible.

    It’s the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

    It’s YAML is awful, it scales terribly, it’s so fucking slow at literally everything, it gives people who have no clue what they’re doing a false sense of confidence.

    The number of times I’ve seen app teams waste the time of support groups and engineers because something went wrong and they didn’t have the knowledge to know why and need to waste so many man hours having other people solve it for them. I (the engineer) was added to a chat that had 15 people in it because they, after running ansible, saw errors in their server… So clearly there was a problem with the server… At no point did they question there Ansible job.

    Of the various tools I’ve used, I prefer Salt. The YAML is slightly less ass and it’s so much faster while also seeming to scaling better too. It by no means is perfect.






  • Honestly, /r/freefolk really have a nice list.

    The quality of writing tanked.

    Multiple story threads from all the way back to season one went literally no where (like the patterns), Arya and the Faceless Ones. So many characters who just blinked out of existence because D&D forgot they existed and they didn’t directly server the plot (like literally everyone following Bran around for so many seasons).

    Characters started not acting like themselves. Daenerys went from the savior of the people to mad queen… a roll that better fir Cersei, in a blink of an eye because of “bells”. Cersei nukes a chunk of the cities. Daenerys earned the title ‘Queen of Meereen’ from her campaign in Slaver’s Bay. Bran was shown to be the villain and it’s literally never addressed. He has wild powers and doesn’t use it. Seems to go from an innocent child on a wild adventure to positioning himself as king… instead of anyone else that would have made sense. “Who has a better story”… FFS, EVERYONE. And D & D seemed to forget the “Mad King” was saying “Burn them all” because Bran, yet again, fucked with someones head.

    D & D forgot where Westeros was… Also forgot about the Iron Fleet

    Cersei dies by brick to the head… (just more pointing out the lame writing). Contrast that with like, Eddard’s execution.

    Just go to /r/Freefolk… Season 7 and 8 were shit. Because D & D wanted to abandon GoT to go do Star Wars. HBO had more money for them, told them they could do more seasons. Naw, last 2 they phoned it in with 2 “seasons” there were the length of 1 and the quality of the aftermath of a night out of drunk taco bell binge eating…