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  • You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!

    It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.

    More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.

    Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.













  • Oh 100%.

    Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.

    And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.

    In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.







  • At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.

    A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.

    Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.


  • Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.

    Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:

    • 1 Week: Install in the background silently and finish when the machine reboots.
    • After the week, 2 Days: Warn once that the machine will automatically reboot in 48 hours.
    • 12 hours before forced reboot: Pop up a warning in the corner with the countdown before reboot. Options are reboot now or warn me again in X hours. If you dismiss it without selecting, it pops up again in an hour.

    If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?

    That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.