I usually describe the effects of the escitalopram I take as not really directly making me “feel better”, but mellowing out the uncontrollable emotional spikes enough that I can actually work on anxiety management skills. So far Vyvanse has worked for me in similar ways, in that I can actually focus on things now, but I’m also about 30 years late at developing proper task management skills.

This. I’ve been laid off at the beginning of the month as well. Three of the four interview leads I have right now are through references from old colleagues I’ve enjoyed working with and never completely lost contact. Not necessarily friends, but people you know are pleasant coworkers or have good judgement is more than enough.

All other companies I’ve applied to have either completely ghosted or rejected me pretty damn quickly despite being rather senior. This market is the worst we’ve seen in this field in a long while…

Same. I’m another one of those Reddit refugees. Haven’t logged in over there since the API changes went into action and my app of choice stopped working.

There are cheap NASes/home servers to be bought/built for a couple hundred bucks, with very limited RAM, while TrueNAS recommends 8GB minimum. It’s also often much cheaper to have the option to buy mismatched drives on sale and expand your storage over time, than having to buy matched drives, and having to plan long term for potential expansion of else have to replace a whole set of drives at once if you need more. But fair enough, yes.

My wife introduced my 6yo to the “old” Mario games on the Switch virtual SNES. He actually launches them instead of the other Mario games we own pretty often. It’s always hilarious to me to hear that old chip tune lol

I’m not the same person you were initially talking to. I’m not sure calling it indignation is necessarily dismissive - indignation can perfectly be justified. I’m really surprised it carries this subtext. I can’t seem to find any reference or definifion supporting neither this nor the expression itself though, but I may be looking in the wrong place…

Some time before Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04), so somewhere around 2006-2007. Had a spare laptop I had installed (unsuccessfully) Gentoo on, then played around with stuff like Mandriva and Debian, and early versions of Fedora and OpenSuse. I’m a developer now, using Pop right now. Honestly I don’t really care which one as long as my tools and hardware work, and it works well enough on Pop.

Moving into a building with only 1 choice sucks and should probably not be allowed if it's a contracted thing.

It's what we get for still treating the Internet like a commodity in 2023. At this point, it's pretty laughable to try and make the argument that it's not a utility.

I mean, you do have it codified in your Constitution as its very first amendment. Now, how much is it really protected, in practice...

If you trust your barber's work quality, you can always straight up ask him for input. I told mine I don't want to deal with styling my hair every day, but would still look fine if shaped. He asked a couple questions on my preferences - clipped and/or faded sides and back, length, integrating the beard or not, etc. Then off he went. I keep going back despite him being a bit more expensive than all options around cause I just don't have to worry if I'll like it.

A CLA isn't worrying and in of itself. Not all CLAs are made equal. No idea about Audacity's specifically.

Sandisk MP3 player stuff has always been kind of meh, IMHO. It's mostly that the wide market quality stuff has disappeared. A similar thing happened with CD players when MP3 players became commonplace. Barely anybody buys them anymore, so the only brands still doing it are probably just recycling old designs and doing with whatever hardware they can get batches of on the cheap.