Hey, that means a lot. Thanks! :)

“But that guy’s taking a 7 day work week! You don’t want to be seen lagging behind, do you? NoooOooo…”

This is incredible. So much that it’s kinda hard to believe.

Yeah, as it sounds like you’re aware, if you’re not a full-time-company-person in the U.S, you’re basically expendable dirt here.

But we also have a majority of benefits tied to full-time employment. My wife and I live with family and both work part time…we both agree that jobs’ intrusion into peoples’ life space is a huge source of destroyed relationships and broken homes, depression, and plenty more social maladies.

It’s simply not worth it.

Honestly? I often ponder this. It’s amusing when you consider how enamored we are with bosoms.

I’ve heard it described that “Woman is the most beautiful shape in the human consciousness.” And that stuck with me.

My wife often catches me gawking and thinks it’s weird but I’m just like “You’re just amazing. All of you. Everything about you.” I feel like an idiot because I can’t explain what the heck I actually mean.

It’s just hard to fathom how a single being can be so… naturally aesthetic!

Women are just awesome. As a visual artist myself, I totally understand the compulsion to depict cute/pretty/happy/sexy ladies all the time. Heck, some artists do this exclusively. Variety is the spice of life, artists, but I get it. 😂

I think we’re coded to enjoy rounded elegant shapes, but there’s something enchanting about femininity as a whole, and boobs and butts signal “feminine!!” to our brains.

Also I’d say size and such really doesn’t matter. I think the really fascinating thing is the sheer variety, to the point they’re unique to the woman as an individual person. And it has nothing to do with biological essentialism! (Tiny boobs are just as good at feeding young as ginormous ones)

It’s also a bit cultural, I think. They’re so obvious, yet hidden in polite company. So seeing them exposed feels like you have an intimate window into this person’s world, and you feel special for the privilege, I suppose.

Lol now I feel like a weirdo, typing this all out. Does that help? LOL

Edited: Made my reply at root level instead of piggybacking yours with a ton of paragraphs. :p

Y’know, in Minecraft maybe.

This humor indeed is.

Is humor indeed this.

Haha! I don’t mind it either. I just wanted to make sure anybody coming across this in the future could still find the software without having to look too hard. :)

Now we’re talkin’! Figured here’s the best place as any to try and get the word out:

Since MineTest is such an awkward name stemming from a prototype project, they’re trying to rebrand it as “Luanti” now. (Luanti.org)

This might be confusing especially since the new name isn’t particularly memorable. But information and updates and stuff might be sorta split in the near future as that goes forward.

(hugs)

Mass Effect 3’s (ultimate) ending:

I get it. I get that after a series of EXCELLENT games that touted meaningful choices, “select an ending video” was lame.

Were there better ways it could have been done without planting an infinite “tree of death” taking into account every player’s individual choices from the entire trilogy? Sure!

I’m sad that this resulted in things like death threats and crap, from people who obviously have no idea what game developers do for a living. They obviously didn’t deserve that.

The added “green ending” still gets hate even. It was fine. The game was fine. It told a story and was a blast to play through. (Even despite EA’s constant executive meddling!)

I wish it wasn’t profitable to whip people into riotous frenzy over such things.

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Haha I used to wait tables long ago. I know exactly where you’re coming from!

My most recent job nearly drove me mad. I worked for a public library computer lab. I got a chair, and could look busy scrolling reddit instead of hurredly rushing to the walk-in freezer to scream. Hooray!

But it actually made me miss the simplicity of taking and delivering orders and “flipping” tables. This was a job where I’m pretty sure I did some good sometimes, but you might know how dumb and angry people get with anything digital.

I genuinely want to help people live better lives. And I seized the opportunity when I could, but man, people have bandwidth. Dropping the individual systemic issues of an entire society on singular “caring profession” workers is downright vile. I’m so thankful I escaped. I’m still mentally recovering.

But hey, making more then $2.14 an hour was nice. Lol

You shouldn’t choose things to do that harm your own well-being.

Yeah, I agree. I hate that socioeconomics always seems to push us in that position. If it’s not harmful, it seems to be relegated to the select few or outmoded as a job, it seems. (I’m trying REALLY hard to not be a doomer! Lol)

You’re absolutely right though. I struggle to “not care”. I think if everybody cared more about each other things would be better, but y’know, reality. Lol

I want to be social monke and love and help people, but everything must be some kind of infinite assembly line of the screaming masses. :(

I’m trying to finally be a digital artist and make games instead. It’s definitely not the moneybags route, but I have a lot more energy to put towards the people who deserve it from me…

Cool! I appreciate your opinion! I should really stick to it this time. It seems besides The Expanse (still gotta watch that one) or Orville, we’re simply not spoiled with great sci-fi/sci-fantasy shows anymore. :)

No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion.

Oof, you’ve got a point there, pardner. (cries in Firefly)

That’s pretty hilarious and I don’t doubt it’s efficacy!

I’ll admit my trouble with these situations is I can’t help but care about people or fixing things, often to save them from themselves as if they’re, like you said, toddlers.

I start to resent being taken advantage of though. It’s tough. :(

Honest question: So it’s still worth the ride?

I loved the vibe, and the Newtonian (-esque?) space battles, but I kinda dropped off, and after the ending was spoiled for me I was like “Wow. Saved myself the time.” Lol

But is the show worth it overall? I’ve liked things with silly/bad endings before. :p

That was a weird time, when troubleshooting internet connection issues was like “Is anyone using the microwave or perhaps a cordless phone at the moment?” Lol

Hey sorry for the delayed reply! That’s a VERY good question, since things got a little different since they moved away from Portainer I remember a bit of friction switching over, but geeze it was a while ago…

I did find this link though:

https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7%3Adocker_in_omv

That might be similar (and possibly better organized!) than the guides I was working with when that OMV subsystem was still a bit new. I hope that might help! 🙂

That’s so cool! Nice work! I feel a certain kinship with anyone who also got tons of 3D printing XP by building, rebuilding, researching, modding, head-scratching, laughing, crying, screaming at an A8 lol.

This here is mostly fire prevention: Basically an updated stock motherboard, better PSU, an aftermarket MOSFET board for safety, thicker gauge wires with ferrule crimps for all the power cables, the bed is now attached directly to the thicker wires by way of crimp connectors.

The printing surface is upgraded to carefully cut and polished picture frame float glass. 😂

Added that sweet fan duct mod, a little Noctua 15mm (because it softened and jammed otherwise LOL), and printed that purple bracket at the library because the plastic decided to literally crumble away.

Also the adjustable Z-stop was nice but the PLA softened so it’s a bit unpredictable, and the right motor will gently slip until it’s engaged so the gantry needs to be leveled every time…I also can’t guarantee that the Z rods are straight anymore because it requires such a Goldilocks level of tension I probably overdid it lol.

Oh yeah, I had to replace the main power cable because the one provided just…had a break in it.

It still works for small jobs though! And it printed all those parts for itself, so that’s kinda the RepRap dream right there right??

Lol I feel like an amazing machine is in here somewhere if I bothered to research custom boards and stuff. The stock bearings are also terrible. But if I can bother someday I’ll stick Klipper on it maybe.

It was a crazy, stressful journey…but I learned a ton of electronics stuff, and how to use a multimeter, and engineering stuff! XD

My Ender3V2’s felt like such a crazy luxury by comparison. 😂

Android at least has this neat app named TagSpaces… but yeah I really hate how the entire filesystem is basically Windows’ “Documents” folder: Various apps just dump things wherever the heck they please!

Edit: Thanks for mentioning those really cool Linux tools!!