I’m Asian and live in rural Oregon.

You win my favorite internet comment of the day.

My personal cuticles need more seasoning.

Where is here…asking for a friend

I have a 2TB SSD and a 1TB SSD. My Windows VM is allocated 100GB, so it really isn’t bad at all. I use VirtualBox and it starts up basically instantly.

I just realized I have an oldish laptop with Windows on it though so I’m thinking maybe I should just remote into that instead…derp

For Visual Studio Enterprise, Adobe PDF editing, native Office apps, SSMS, and RDP thin clients, I use a Windows VM.

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Favorite I’ve owned? Model S Plaid

Favorite impractical? Maybe a Porsche 918 Spyder

Favorite classic? Ford Fairlane 427 Black on Black

Favorite right now but I haven’t driven it or seen it in person? Maybe the new Corvette AWD Hybrid.

How’d uBlock (Origin) get around that?

100% this. I used to be able to control my ceiling fan, my portable a/c, and my TV from my phone.

Now I have to use the fan remote, the a/c remote, and install and create an account with some stupid TV app.

…it was also fun for changing the channel of TVs at bars & restaurants.

I sold cars for a year. During the initial onboarding we were asked to “sell a pen” to the trainer.

Everyone jumped right in to selling the qualities of the pen they had in hand.

At the end of the exercise the trainer said, “I’m looking for a pencil”.

The point was, don’t assume what the customer is looking for. Ask qualifying questions and identify 3-5 hot buttons, then based on what should be knowledge of the inventory and inventory of surrounding dealerships (yeah, they’re all connected to some degree), make recommendations that fit their needs.

Then describe all the ways it could fulfill their wants using positive, yes questions. Don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to. We were taught that it takes 5-10 Yes responses to offset the negative mental energy from a question asked resulting in a No - so we weren’t supposed to mess that up. That was just one of numerous psychological plays we were taught and forced to use or get threatened with being fired or having bonuses taken away.

The whole training series was bullshit. And I say it was bullshit because it sucked playing all these games on people. Yeah, 1/5 of the time it didn’t work because they caught on. But the amount of times it actually worked made me feel guilty and sad.

The amount of times you put someone into a car they couldn’t afford because you successfully sold them on their wants and not their needs was awful.

I quit near the end of that year because fuck car sales and fuck car dealerships. This was 15 years ago, so who knows what it’s like now.

Also, because I assume someone might ask (lol assuming, I fail), this was for a conglomerate that owned 5 used car lots, a Scion lot, a Toyota lot, a Lexus lot, and oddly a Ford & Chevy lot. Last I heard they’re just down to a Lexus lot and one used car lot now. Apparently the mortgage bubble and COVID hit them hard. Fine by me.

Absolutely.

But, no, however the sentiment makes sense and as I am trying to disperse / decentralize most everything I can these days, including getting away from Google services, for example, this does make sense as well.

Got it. Damn. I just switched some services to CloudFlare DNS today…now I guess I’ll change them back.

Yeah, sorta. Nobody would provide internet to where I live, so I finally convinced a company to trench fiber to my house for me.

Unfortunately I’m paying $500/mo for like 96 months now so they can offset the cost.

Worth it though. My alternative was 512kbps DSL that would have outages daily and I’m a remote software engineer. It just didn’t work.

That’s awesome!

I had a similar but not really experience with one of my businesses where they messed up and I basically got business gigabit and four TVs and sports for something ridiculously low (business wise) of like $120/mo.

I later needed to add a TV and the rep put me on hold and then came back and said something to the effect of, “Here’s the deal… apparently we messed up your contract so your current price is locked in for 2 years. If you add this, we have to redo it, and it will go up to $450/mo. I would suggest you don’t add a TV.”

So I didn’t. I bought a $12 adapter off Amazon and just split the cable line instead.

Rural Oregon. 1gbps up and down. $600/month. I never go below ~930mbps each way.

Wait, why do people like to dump on CloudFlare? I must be out of the loop.

Recruiting Hell and Kitchen Confidential.

Total points comes back from an endpoint, so if you hit that endpoint it tallies it for you.

Also depends on where you live. I can charge my Model S from 0% to 100% for about $5-$6 and get 350-400 miles.

But my friend in California would have to pay something like ~$40, which makes it a much harder sell.

Just repeat the last character two more times and call it a day?