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I couldn’t get anything Debian based to install correctly. I ended up using Garuda, dragonized edition. It took less setup than a fresh windows install.

Windows DevOps Engineering. It’s way easier on my body, and I never have to stalk a builder to get them to pay.

I was just one tiny company in a tiny city. I’d be willing to bet that there’s a 5-10 year gap in the ages of people in the trades. There are a lot of stories like mine. People that were early to mid skill when 2008 happened and had to reskill.

Frequently, student loans were the only way to survive. We went back to school because there was no work. In my area you had to work or volunteer to stay on food stamps. The places that were approved to volunteer at were only allowing people with kids to volunteer.

I took $38,000 in student loans. I’ve paid $52,000 back on those loans. I still owe $54,000 on those loans. Both in 2002 and 2008 the mantra from the financial aid offices was “take the loans, deffer, consolidate, then deffer again, by then you’ll be making enough money to pay them.” They didn’t explain how compounding all of that interest would mean that every $1 you signed for would actually be $3 in money you have to pay back.

That’s another part I don’t think people are talking about. Frequently, all that’s being forgiven is fees and interest. No actual money is being lost, just potential money. If they retroactively set a 10% cap of profit from student loans, a huge number of people’s balances would disappear.

So I personally think that a huge part of there not being anyone available for the trades was the 2008 recession.

I started college in 2002, while working full time in the trades. By 2004, I’d dropped out of school. In 2007 I had a construction company, and 15 full time employees, and another 15ish part timers working for me. By May of 2008, I had to lay everyone off, and I couldn’t find any work. Of those 30ish people I had working for me, 1 is still in construction.

We did historic remodeling. These were guys that did everything from custom plaster and woodwork, to electrical and plumbing. There was no work, and we all moved to other shit. By the time work came back, it wasn’t worth going back to it.

I’d use that number all the time and not take the rewards. Glad my stupid tech job was actually used for something good.

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Talk to anyone that runs a gun range, and they’ll tell you that cops have the worst aim. They have a tendency to point in the general direction of their target, then pull the trigger until it goes click.

I have over 200 hours in frostpunk. This is a great value if you want a puzzley Simcity. Designing everything in a ring adds a new take on the genre. I enjoyed the hell out of this until I solved endless mode.

I’m using the gl.Inet 1200 off Amazon.

There is a monthly fee for your VPN account. I use nordvpn, but there are a ton of options depending on how much you want to pay and what you need.

Absolutely. Most “travel routers” have openvpn installed on them. I have one router set up with my normal internet, and another with a full time vpn’d connection. The VPN router was like $60.

They’re also great to have when traveling. It connects to whatever random wifi, and all of your devices show up as a single device. You turn off the VPN to connect to your hotel’s capture portal, then turn it back on and all of your devices have secure internet.

He’s a moper.