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  1. ncts_dodge_man

    ADHD Impulse Spending & Credit Card Debt

    Even something as simple as a spreadsheet - Excel/Google Sheets/what have you would work. I went through the same thing that Patrick did - make a list of everything and average things out for the year, then I have a tab for each of my paychecks (adding my wife's disability in monthly) and put...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    Having been playing since Alpha... 9 or 10 (or whatever it was in late 2014) and over 1400 hours in game, it's been a long road to 1.0 / Alpha 22. For those who haven't played it yet - it's on sale on Steam for 76% off until April 29 before the price will increase for full release.
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    Pen & Paper Role Playing Games

    It's an interesting concept - not sure if I want to play it just yet, but then again, I don't have a ton of free time to try it out. CR did a session zero and a one-shot of it:
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    :3

    Well.. you know.. Husky gonna Husky (even at mix-levels).
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    The Enshittification Thread

    Ha, don't got into Azure Cloud then... it's all Hyper-V - one of my clients uses it and you see the Hyper-V boot screen briefly if you catch a boot image. But they don't let you actually log into a console...
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    The Enshittification Thread

    Yeah - I work in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure/End User Compute world, where the two major players are currently Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and VMWare Horizon, and Broadcom(VMWare) wants to drop Horizon and sell it off. Horizon is heavily tied into ESXi, so I don't know if it'd be...
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    The Enshittification Thread

    What, you expected Broadcom to not start cutting everything off that wouldn't put massive profit? I've seen lots of people start talking about going to Nutanix, Proxmox, and the like - especially in the enterprise level.
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    [Brazelton] Toby Keith dead at 62

    He announced that he had cancer last year two years ago, but kept touring as much as he could. He wasn't my favorite singer but some of the songs he did were good. He more stood out to me with his support of the troops and their families.
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    Weird weather

    This morning, I woke up to a real feel of -34 degrees F at almost 8 AM.. Current actual temp is -3 degrees and a real feel of -25 degrees. Get to deal with this through Tuesday and I'm not even in the worst of the cold areas.
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    Random Video Game Crap

    I've been watching her too with this Mass Effect play through (she started with ME1) - being active military, she has some interesting insights into how some of the things are similar to the real military. However, it's rough as heck watch as she just breaks down, as it reminded her of the...
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    Halloween (2023)

    Since I would like to share:
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    Halloween (2023)

    It was cold, windy, and flurries here, but I had a steady stream of kids for the first hour and a half... They barely made a dent in the candy we put out, but the non-candy stuff we put out went over pretty good. We had squishy eyes, necklaces, bracelets, glow-in-the-dark bats and hands, and...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    Unity's "revamped" policy - "I am sorry" Further info: Our Unity Personal plan will remain free and there will be no Runtime Fee for games built on Unity Personal. We will be increasing the cap from $100,000 to $200,000 and we will remove the requirement to use the Made with Unity splash...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    More Unity - now they're backtracking - kinda. "We have heard you," Unity wrote. "We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the...
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    Weird weather

    US National Hurricane Center's prediction for Lee from this morning:
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    WiFi Router

    As someone who's running my TP-Link Deco mesh with wired cabling between the two - I would heavily recommend this option if at all possible. Least possible interference in your signal.
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    The Undisputed Unified Wrestling Thread

    If (big if) one report is to believed (as it says they had permission from the family), he had caught Covid earlier this year and passed away unexpectedly due to a heart attack... Even if that's not true, 36 is way too young (younger than I am) and he had young kids and was planning on getting...
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    Both Monitors Suddenly Stop Working

    Did the drivers get updated? I had an issue before with buggy drivers. Microsoft has been pushing drivers in Windows Updates.
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    Reaction Video Showcase

    Badd Medicine A group of 4 guys who react to movies and TV - sometimes one (or more) of them have seen whatever they are watching, but not all of them have. The one(s) who have seen it, don't spoil it for others.
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    Weird weather

    I just got power back after 9.5 hours... I live in the eastern side of central Illinois and was in the path of today's "derecho" - totally not fun to be in and really not fun to not have power that long.
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