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One of them is even named Gary!
1·1 year agoSame, except with raccoons.
2·1 year agoIt’s so hard for me to remember this was a commercial because I just keep remembering the meme version of it.
I always forget, is it Pizza, Ranch, Cheddar or is it Ranch, Cheddar, Pizza?
Right, and generally they are for all but the specialized or large scale software, but it’s still the typical “hurry up and wait” scenario. The manager that needs to approve the business use case could be in meetings all day, then legal may be buried in a case taking all their attention so they won’t be able to review the license for a day or two, maybe the IT ops team didn’t get the request until 4:55 on a Friday afternoon, but no step can be done in the process without completing all the prior steps, and even the smallest piece of software still goes through the process in some form. The main point I was trying to get across is that it’s not an assembly line, and even if only one person is needed to approve it you still have to wait for that person to have time to do it.
There’s usually an entire approval process every software request goes through. First it needs a legit business use case that one of our current approved pieces of software cannot do. For example, they may not let you install Chrome because they officially support Edge since it’s heavily tied into the Microsoft ecosystem, and therefore don’t want to deal with managing Chrome in the environment.
If it’s a new piece of software, then it goes through a security review through the security team. Verify there’s nothing in it that oversteps it’s bounds, has no known security vulnerabilities, comes from a respectfully company that hasn’t done things like tax evasion, things like that. After security approves it then legal has to review the EULA or any licensing agreements. Company lawyers don’t really like doing this because it can be time consuming and low on their priority list.
After it’s approved, including any potential costs that the responsible parties accept, the operations team has a go at it. They don’t want to have to manually install it and maintain it on your computer, so they package it up and test it in a testing environment. After verifying the package can be deployed, configured, and kept up to date, or even completely removed remotely, then it gets put in to the production deployment, and finally sent to install on your machine.
Keep in mind that these employees are also doing all their other daily tasks. They’re not sitting there churning out app deployment packages. Maybe they only meet once a week for 30 minutes to approve software, and maybe they ran out of time before your request made the agenda. Maybe the security team held up on it because they had to deal with an emergency.
This is why some big companies can take a lot longer to get software approvals compared to places with one or two techs in the IT department.
“What the frick, I thought it was an Xbox controller!”
I remember using jumpers to overclock my CPU in the 90’s. That and manually setting IRQ settings to avoid conflicts with installing new hardware. It was a bitch to get that 56k modem going to get 3.5k/s was absolutely worth it.
Might just be a South Park reference
I shower twice a day at about 5 minutes a piece. Once shortly after waking up and again in the evening either shortly before bed or immediately after working out. First up is shampoo my hair. Then I wash my face with a bar of soap by lathering my hands and then scrubbing my face. Then I use conditioner in my hair. Then I use the bar of soap directly on everything except the nether regions and feet. Those are washed like my face by just heavily lathering then vigorous scrubbing.
PineTime with GadgetBridge. Super cheap and does the two things I want it to - tell time and track my steps.
What’s wrong with PopOS?
Oh! No, please don’t stop!
Not quite. It appears to be self inflicted.
Not only was it popular, but it outsold the PS3 and XBox 360. On top of that, Nintendo was making a profit for every Wii sold. Sony and Microsoft were losing money for each console sold, but they made up for it with software sales.
Soon as in Winds of Winter will be released soon.
I didn’t realize how much I, or my family, drank before we left Wisconsin 20 years ago. We always had alcohol, and in hindsight, were often pretty drunk. I thought having 3-5 beers at dinner at a restaurant was normal. I thought having a 6 pack while driving from Green Bay to the cabin was normal. I thought a bottle lasting through a weekend was “taking it easy.”
I thought all that because that’s how my family, friends, and coworkers were. It’s how I grew up. How I saw my wife’s family do it. How work functions went.
Best thing I ever did for my liver was leave that state. It opened my eyes to how normalized it all was.
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