Same here, I’m a computer engineer trying to do 20-30/week. So far the only places that will even talk to me are where I formerly worked full time.

I’ve had multiple people suggest that I simply agree to work full time and then just not, but I’m not sure if those folks realize how stressful that can be.

I wish you luck in your situation!

I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!

Sookie! [Bill Compton accent]

I had a portable talking version of battleship (Battleship Command) as a kid and it has these little planes. If I remember correctly, I think they allowed you to “see” a little bit of the opponents board and you placed them on top of your own ships?

Also the sound effects in that version were great, almost all done by human voice. The ship sinking sound was hilarious “glub glub glub”

Edit: in fact, this picture definitely looks like it’s from Battleship Command!

I Circe what you did there!

I don’t think so, accessibility is a high priority for me.

Y’all using toggle switch panels to directly program your memory?

Interesting, interesting. We call the female lightning bugs here glow worms because they are wingless, but today I’m learning that is not the case for all species!

Also Glühwürmchen is a cute word.

I grew up calling them lightning bugs, and I’m so excited to see a thread full of people calling them the same!

I am apparently not very good at identifying pinnipeds, I’m from more of a dugong kind of area 😅 This lil guy is definitely a cutie, thank you for sharing!

Don’t know if it’s AI, but I think it’s a harbor seal? The angle is a little weird with its left hind flipper, and it almost looks like the right hind flipper is missing.

But who knows what is what in this crazy mixed up data world 😅

That’s definitely a frustrating situation you have, and I very much encourage you to take the path that feels most possible to you!

Before moving on, I would like to point to trying what u/mvirts suggested, disabling ACPI from the grub bootloader. It’s easy and great for getting an installer running and working, and sometimes the freshly installed and updated OS whisks the problem away.

But regardless of what you choose, I wish you much luck in your endeavours!

Agreed with others that this is likely a BIOS issue, and it would be good to check for a firmware update first.

In particular, this looks like it might be an issue with the USB port locations described by your BIOS ACPI. Maybe one of the embedded root hubs? You might be able to play with USB settings in the BIOS Config to see if that helps, especially loading default values. I also think it might be possible to blacklist ports from kernel parameters and that could be a good check… but I’m not very familiar with the parameters in recent years and didn’t find anything in a quick search.

As a last ditch, you can disable ACPI entirely, but it can/will cause very odd performance and configuration issues along with no power management. (This goes double for portable systems.)

All joking aside, I would like to point out that the main dish at Waffle House is hash browns. I just don’t want folks to be confused about such an important thing!

This feels like a Ryan Gosling reskin of a 3Blue1Brown video 😅 (which I guess really isn’t even a little surprising… But it’s a chance spread the good word of Mr. Sanderson!)

Agreed, it’s definitely coming from the top! I didn’t realize they had closed a ton of the other offices during the pandemic, but I suppose it’s not surprising either. It also seemed like a lot of remote hiring happened during the pandemic?

Most of the people I know personally affected are in that category (remotely hired or relocated), and most of those people are women. Small sample size with lots of bias, but I’ve been pretty upset the whole situation. It definitely feels/looks like a way to quietly push a bunch of folks out… whether overtly or as a “bonus” for upper management, it has the same unfortunate effect.

I guess it is what it is, but what it is ain’t good. It feels good to commiserate though, thank you stranger!

You are reminding me that I used to keep a copy of Nesticle (for DOS!) on an AOL floppy, along with a couple of ROMs. I saved the fancy Imation Disney disks for my data 😅

Thank you for the flashback!