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Two fish in a tank.

One turned to the other and asked; “How do we drive this thing?”

How do blind skydivers know when to deploy their chute?

When the leash goes slack.

Here is a derivative of that one:

Two guys walk into a bar. The third one ducked.

What do you get when you pull the wings off of a fly?

A walk.

No and I’m already to that point.

It’s just my two older brothers that are left. One is a narcissist and not worth my time. The other is a rabid Gravy SEAL who would rather have Kyle Shittenhouse as his brother than me.

It’s not just politics that separates me from them, there is a lot of family history of disrespect and attempted abuse.

Sub Zero fridges are great, but keep the maintenance up on them.

I personally own a Wolf DF304 range and if you cook a LOT, they are well worth the money. Mine is 10 years old, is used VERY heavily and it is the best cooking stove I’ve ever cooked on.

I point to those two movies to illustrate a great director as opposed to an average one.

Pacific Rim is a brilliant film that pays homage to multiple films and genres.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is a terrible film that completely missed the point of the first movie.

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Honestly, my first washer/dryer, dishwasher, microwave, and refrigerator were all GE. We bought the house new and were 500 miles away. The house came with the dishwasher, and microwave. The builder put me in contact with his appliance supplier and I got to use their discount, which was only offered on GE products. I paid for the Dacor separately, as that is the range my wife wanted. At the time, she was the cook and my entry into the hobby of cooking was about 3 years away.

Here is how long each one of those GE appliances lasted: Washer: 6 Dryer: 10 Microwave (over the range type which I hate): 8 Dishwasher: 12

On top of the lack of longevity, the performance of each appliance was terrible compared to their contemporaries.

Each was replaced with: Washer: Speed Queen current age 10 and works like new. Dryer: Speed Queen: currently 6 years old. Microwave (ditched the over the range and bought a range hood and a counter top microwave) Panasonic current age 8 years. Dishwasher: Bosch 800 series. With that said, the old GE was still working, however the dish racks were all rusting.

Farscape, at least for Sci-fi shows.

Dramatized History: Earth to the Moon, with Band of Brothers being there right along side.

The first thing you need to know is Dacor only makes parts for its products for 2 years. If you need something replaced after that period, you are pretty much out of luck.

As to what broke, here goes:

Oven door handle (broke just after two years and the part was unavailable.)

Every igniter had to be replaced in the first two years.

The coil that powers the igniters. This died after the two year period, so I spent nearly 5 years lighting the burners using a lighter.
As an aside, there was only one coil powering all four igniters. If you didn’t clean the range top properly and dry off the igniters, then only one would work. The Wolf has coils for each burner, so you don’t have to worry about one igniter having less impedance than another.

The controller for the oven died twice. This, fortunately, was ONE part that was available past the two year period. I think they used the same board in the next model range. However, the nail in the coffin was at 6 years of age, it died again and the part was no longer available, permanently disabling the oven.

Various bits and bobs were either worn, or broken by the end.

Funny enough, the gas valves were the one thing that lasted the entire time it was in the house.

Just about everything I’ve saved up to buy, that had a reputation for longevity or built for commercial use:

Appliances: Speed Queen washer/dryer: Washer is 10 years old this year and is working just like the day I bought it. Unlike the GE frontloader it replaced, which died at 6 year of age. Speed Queen actually rates their equipment’s duty cycles. I’m about halfway through the washer’s rated life. The dryer is about 4 years younger.

Wolf DF304 range: Cooking is a hobby for me, so it gets used… A LOT. Far more than the average range gets used. Otherwise, this is an extravagant purchase for most households. I clapped out a Dacor range in 6 years, but suffered with it for an additional 2 to save up for the Wolf. Have had the Wolf for 8 and it still works like new with no issues, unlike its antecedent.

Electronics: McIntosh: MC7100 it’s 30 years old and I’ve owned it for 20 of those. I also have an MC7108 that had issues that I corrected. My grand kids will be fighting over those two pieces. Before, I had to dig into box store branded stuff at about 8 to 10 years to replace capacitors, or other things that happened to them or they were just junk. The MC7108 had a bad capacitor in the on/off circuit. It still worked, with that bypassed. It’s fixed now as it was worth fixing.

Cars: Toyota: 85 Corolla GT-S (raced it in Autocross for many years and it never had a problem). I currently own a 14 Camry LE that has been reasonable over its 147,000 miles, but not as good as I was hoping. I detest fancy cars and anything that guzzles gas. Simplicity is where it is at, if you want a car to last a long time and not be a garage queen. People that buy the fancy German cars are just bewildering to me. Sure, they are nice, drive great, and might even get you laid… But that’s a LOT of money to put into something that will uneconomical to fix by 150,000miles (241401km for my more civilized friends).

On my list of things I want to buy that I’m fiarly certain will be worth it:

Dash Cam

The past several years I have been working more as a process engineer than a technical one. I’ve worked in Problem Management, Change Management, and currently in Incident for a major defense contractor (yes, you’ve heard of it). So I’ve been on both sides. Documenting an incident is a PITA. File a Change record to restart a server that is in an otherwise healthy cluster? You’re kidding, right? What the hell is a “Problem” record and why do I need to mess with it?

All things I’ve heard and even thought over the years. What it comes down to, the difference between a Mom and Pop operation, that has limited scalability and a full Enterprise Environment that can support a multi-billion dollar business… Is documentation. That’s what those numb nuts in that Insurance Company were too stupid to understand.

Over 150 Major Incidents in a single month.

Formerly, I was on the Major Incident Response team for a national insurance company. IT Security has always been in their own ivory tower in every company I’ve worked for. But this company IT Security department was about the worst case I’ve ever seen up until that time and since.

They refused to file changes, or discuss any type of change control with the rest of IT. I get that Change Management is a bitch for the most of IT, but if you want to avoid major outages, file a fucking Change record and follow the approval process. The security directors would get some hair brained idea in a meeting in the morning and assign one of their barely competent techs to implement it that afternoon. They’d bring down what ever system they were fucking with. Then my team had to spend hours, usually after business hours, figuring out why a system, which had not seen a change control in two weeks, suddenly stopped working. Would security send someone to the MI meeting? Of course not. What would happen is, we would call the IT Security response team and ask if anything changed on their end. Suddenly 20 minutes later everything was back up and running. With the MI team not doing anything. We would try to talk to security and ask what they changed. They answered “nothing” every god damn time.

They got their asses handed to them when they brought down a billing system which brought in over $10 Billion (yes with a “B”) a year and people could not pay their bills. That outage went straight to the CIO and even the CEO sat in on that call. All of the sudden there was a hard change freeze for a month and security was required to file changes in the common IT record system, which was ServiceNow at the time.

We went from 150 major outages (defined as having financial, or reputation impact to the company) in a single month to 4 or 5.

Fuck IT Security. It’s a very important part of of every IT Department, but it is almost always filled with the most narcissistic incompetent asshats of the entire industry.

My family watches several Youtube channels on the main HTPC. It had Chrome for them to use, as that is what the kids and my wife are familiar with from school/ work. Then this BS started. I use Firefox on my personal PC and have yet to have a problem.

So I dumped Chrome off of the HTPC.

It would be amusing if Chrome lost a ton of market share to Firefox and other browsers.

I’ve always wanted to pick up the guitar.

I have played, in the distant past, at various levels of ability: trumpet, baritone, French Horn, trombone, piano

Gen X here and an older one at that.

I don’t think I’ll get SS and I will be of retirement age in the next 12 years.

My funeral will also be my retirement party.

I do the same as averyfalken, just run everything in the browser.

No you won’t get 4k, but it does work for 1080P. You can run the Plex client on PC for 4k media.

If you need 4k, then I can see your point. My TV is 1080P, so the browser works just fine.