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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Ehh, maybe it started of as a religious thing, perhaps why Sunday was chosen specifically; but the idea of forcing everyone to have a day off is wonderful.

    In the us, there’s no federal law limiting the number of days people have to work. Some states have a 1 every 7 days rule. But that’s not specific enough, for shift schedule work, they can set your off day to be Sunday this week, and Friday next week, and only schedule you a few hours a day so you get to work almost 2 weeks in a row with out overtime pay.

    IMO, it should be (regardless of number of hours worked) on day 6 your pay is 1.5x, and day 7 is required off. At day 8 it’s 2x pay, +2 days of paid vacation time (worth 8 hours or your typical shift length (which ever is larger)). It all doubles each day with out a day off. With a signed agreement between you, HR, your boss, whomever is “in charge”/owns the company and the labor board with specific documentation explaining why you have to work so many days in a row and why the job can’t wait a day or someone else can’t fill in. Failure to do this step results in x5 back pay for everyday worked after 6. Doubling everyday after 8.






  • Unfortunately, that’s probably not gonna happen without some new hardware.

    You could setup a wire guard at the router (can you setup tail scale on a router? idk). If she’s renting the ISP router, replacing that could save a 100+ a year, depending on how much the isp is scamming her for it.

    or you could repurpose a minipc/nuc from bay and set up a jellyfin streaming box with tailscale.

    If you have the extra hardware, you could also setup a local server with her jellyfin and use wiregaurd/tailscale to remotely connect to it and run backup/sync during off-hours.




  • Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It’s not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There’s a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.

    If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.




  • I don’t think it should be illegal either, but there should defiantly be limits and protections in place so people don’t piss away their life savings over a slot machine.

    Often people in difficult finical situations are the most addicted to gambling or playing the lotto because they are manipulated with hopes of a life changing big payout.

    One simple idea to help, have a seperate bank account. You get a special “gamble debit card” that you can deposit up to 5% of your earnings from the previous year. Any kind of gambling can only accept this card - including food/drink at the facility. Winnings can be cashed out or used to refill the card.

    Even if this isn’t a regulated thing, people can do this on their own - leave all the main cards at home and make sure you can’t transfer money to your debit without physically going to a bank.