Well obviously I’d download 100 GBs of more RAM.
But uh, for serious?
DL everything I’d need to build Debian from bare metal… probably some select material from the IA, basic survival stuff, info on how to set up a solar power system… and all the I2P software and source code i can find.
If the Net goes down, but the physical hardware still exists, cables, radios, wifi cards… build your own Net.
You sound like a gender/sex swapped version of me, 15 years ago.
I was a hopeless romantic as well, would have crushes on girls, do my best to be as respectful and cordial as possible while hanging out, asking out, or going out on dates with them… falling in love with a fantasy idea of them, huge emotional highs from any attention, massive lows from rejection, lack of contact, or them acting wildly unlike my wistful idea of them.
…
Sorry to tell you, but this guy likely just was/is not really that interested in you, or anyone, as a serious relationship partner.
If he was, he would have made time, would not have ghosted you.
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He said he’s never been in an ‘official relationship’ before, asks you if you are single.
He makes sexual jokes when its just you and a few other people.
He enjoys seeing you in person, reciprocates hugs when you meet… but is always asking what you’re doing that night, that weekend, tries to get you over to his place…
He’s most likely the kind of guy that is not interested in serious relationships, and is really just looking for convenient flings.
Doesn’t make him evil. Doesn’t make him a saint.
Unless theres more to this story where you’ve already told him directly how much he means to you, how you really feel, where you directly said ‘Hey do you want to go on a date / be my boyfriend’…
… he probably has no idea that you are basically in unrequited love with him.
He probably doesn’t hate you, he probably just likes you as a friend and finds you attractive, a potentially bangable friend.
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As for what to do next?
Well, first come to terms with the idea that he enjoys your company as a friend, and potential friend with benefits, but currently is not interested in a serious relationship with you, despite your efforts thus far.
Then, you could accept this, continue to be a more casual friend with him.
Or you could maybe write him an email that explains … hey you know I am actually pretty seriously enamored with you as a potential serious, long term relationship, and I’d like to know if you’d be interested in that.
It could be that it just did not occur to him that that’s what you’d like, and maybe he’d be willing to try!
Or… maybe not, and then hopefully you two can still be friends.
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A lot of guys (myself included) are pretty dense when it comes to determining ‘hints’ from women.
And I say ‘hints’ because you never described yourself asking him out on a date, asking him to go steady with you, telling him how interested in him you are, doing or saying anything that would specifically indicate you want a serious relationship with him.
You often have to be pretty direct with a lot of guys, with how you feel and what you want, otherwise, they’ll miss them entirely.
Not a fan of the NSYNC ones, but it makes sense given the playlist’s origin, haha.
I like all the other ones… and would add:
US.
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With the physical card, you can pop it in to a different carrier-unlocked phone, input the IMEI to an online activation and you’re good to go in 10 minutes.
No costs or restrictions with that, from RedPocket’s end.
Best mobile phone plan I can find if you don’t care about data caps because you’ve got home internet and don’t do hugely data intensive things away from wifi.
Proton VPN is no log…
But they have and will turn over your real IP address from your ProtonMail account if legally ordered to.
Similar stuff has happened to me.
Here’s a rough template of an input questionaire in MSFT Forms, its not actually ready yet as we haven’t set up the actual place the inputs will be recorded, nor set up a way to mirror it into our actual database that our entire intranet uses.
Come back after the weekend, dummy questionaire has replaced the front end of our old system, meaning we’ve just functionally not logged about 72 hours of requests for assistance from the homeless, during a blizzard, and COVID.
After this, our webmaster / marketing director, this woman who earns a quarter mil a year… straight up told me, in an email, she does not actually read anything I write in my emails to her that requires scrolling.
She’s very busy, you see.
When she asked me, unprompted, in an in person meeting, if I could ‘implement the blockchain’ in our (PostGres, not that she knows what that is) database, for ‘security benefits’, I wanted to strangle her to death, but settled on collapsing my head into my hands, then looking up and saying no, that would make everything extremely inefficient and make it much more insecure.
She says, oh really, are you sure about that?
Yes.
Ok then well I guess that wraps up this meeting (shit eating grin) keep up the good work!
… I no longer work in the tech industry.
If you want a Battlefield game that actually revolves around teamwork and communication, I suggest Squad.
The team largely started off modifying BF2 into Project Reality… eventually became their own studio and made their realism / teamwork version of BF2 in UE.
Its not as milsim as the Arma series, but its not as casual as Battlefield.
Yes, so the update could still be to a part of the kernel that those games’ Denuvo implementations need to not change.
Its not a ‘tangent’.
Its pointing out that the person I was replying to made a category error, resuting in the total nullification of their retort to who they were replying to.
???
The kernel is part of the operating system.
This is like saying “Think again! The car mechanic said the car’s engine suffered a failure,” as a retort to someone asking if a faulty spark plug is the cause of the car not working.
The problem I am aware of is moreso that the number of programmers that know COBOL is vanishingly small, it … COBOL does not seem to really be taught anymore…
…so if something goes wrong at that level, you may be SOL if you cannot find an increasingly rare programmer that knows COBOL well.
DARPA has unironically been funding a tool that purports to translate C / C++ into Rust…
… Are the Feds aware that the core systems that many, many older companies (and government agencies) use are still based on COBOL?
Is… is that not of any concern?
It is a scam.
I’ve recieved similar texts from Amaz0n.
Not kidding about the 0 instead of an o.
The also use the ‘Wishing you a bright and sunny day!’ line.
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The url is bullshit, and nobody, literally no legit mail or pacel service is going to use bit.ly.