Could go either way. Lots of people joke about it, but it has been happening since at least the mid ‘90d. The gym teacher at my middle school made post-class showers mandatory, distributed the towels (instead of letting students grab them from a stack or something), and intentionally threw the towels high so the boys had to reach up to grab them.

…and yet it’s still all over the place and not going away. I thought the “market” was supposed to decide whether these things stay around or die on the vine.

…and still only two PCIe slots. Do you remember when you could slot four cards into your mainboard without going to a “Pro” or HEDT platform? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

…and a lot of them hate the end-user, too. Why must we involve people in the whole computer thing? Isn’t an abacus and a box of crayons enough?

May you run into a nerd with a Ventoy USB full of beginner-friendly distros in their back pocket to help you along your journey.

There are at least two of us out there, I’m sure of it.

I’d love to see Linus verbally bitchslap the fuckwit. Or physically, that’d be cool too.

With UHC, this is not unrealistic in the slightest.

I had a follow-up appointment with a specialist I’ve been seeing last Friday. My lab results didn’t show the progress we were expecting, so we decided to attack the issue with a particular medication. This medication is injectable, not a pill like the ones I’ve been taking that have proven to be ineffective, and it’s sold under three names; we discussed all three, and before I left the office, he submitted the prior authorization request.

Given that I’m insured by UHC, the prior authorization was denied. Not only was it denied, they robo-called me to say so, sent a letter via mail, and put a copy of the letter in PDF form on my account, before I got home from the doctor’s office.

Not only that, but the section of the letter where they’re supposed to recommend alternate drugs was blank. So basically, “we’re not going to cover that, you can keep suffering, go fuck yourself” in less than 15 minutes.

UHC is exceedingly efficient at not giving a shit.

This should not have been a surprise in the wake of Kevin Hart being cast as Roland. In what world did that make sense?

Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.

I currently pay $45/mo for 75/20 DSL over 1960s copper. 3 streets over, they’re paying $45/mo for 300/300 fiber from the same ISP. You tellin’ me the FCC can punish them for that?

I’d say “the office dress code,” but what I really mean is my gut.

I just want it to stop self-destructing every two hours when I’m running it as a VM under Linux.