@anatman A safer and more practical specialization imo.

root\.workspace\.garbage.

@anatman Ooooof! Did you ever make it into the field? It strikes me as an increasingly competitive market.

@Beanc On the plus side, they've used those and Ancestry dot com tests to link DNA from cold cases to relatives of the killers and found them that way, which is pretty cool.

@th3j35t3r But really, it's such an amazing feat. IMO the biggest aspect of it is the tight moderation. Trolls and bots get splopped before I even know they're here. It's an incredibly safe place to be.

@th3j35t3r Not if your watermarks aren't working lol

@mcfate @th3j35t3r Fuck yeah we are.

@th3j35t3r A few friends and I actually embarked on a venture to make basically a niche kind of Facebook probably about 13 years or so ago, never got anywhere. There were 6 of us and we couldn't do it.

@Idrake Oh I know, it's crazy what kinds of stuff you can hide in firmware. If I had anything worth stealing I'd be more cautious, but eh. If they wanted anything from me they'd likely already have it.

@Idrake oh yeah, lol. The first thing I did when I got the thing was brilliantly lock myself out of the BIOS. I've done everything down to removing the CMOS battery and power cycling it and still nothing.🤔 As far as the LEDs go, I'm wondering if I shorted something. It's the O [ ] Backspace and F7 keys. Weird.

Honestly this is my first MSI product as I've found most of their components lacking, but I've been using this thing for years and it still shreds. I'd get another MSI laptop for sure.

@Idrake That's all the fun stuff! I'm definitely better suited to the hardware aspect than the software part but being adept at Google-Fu is the key skill to have. Knowing how to troubleshoot.

You can plop me down with basically any task and it'll get done, but if you asked me how I did it I wouldn't be able to tell you.

@Idrake MSI GS65 Stealth Thin

@Idrake MSI laptop, I believe the keyboard is SteelSeries. I used to use Razer peripherals but I found a better keyboard than any of theirs for $50 from some no-name company. Yeah it's probably got some malicious Chinese firmware imbedded in it, idc.

@Idrake Will say though that after upgrading, 5 LEDs on my keyboard "died" somehow, and that for whatever reason is one of the most annoying things I've ever experienced. It's driving me nuts.

@Idrake lol! I'm just on a laptop right now. Building rigs with custom cooling loops is my favorite hobby but it's so expensive. My last build was back with two 980Ti's so it's been a while.

I was studying for my CCNA until my lab got demolished and that really took the wind out of my sails. Technology is so damn hard to keep up with.

@Idrake I actually really love the work, even when, and perhaps especially, when it's a pain in the ass.

@Idrake Yeah, I've got two M.2 slots so I went to upgrade but turns out only one of the slots supports NVME, ended up taking out the OEM and putting it in an enclosure for backups and such. J hooked me up and it mostly worked perfectly. Couldn't convert it from a dynamic layout to a simple one but I'm not sure how much that matters?

@Idrake lmao, I DID IT. Or at least, that was how the OEM drive was partitioned when I got it.

@Idrake 😂

@WhoopassGirl Don't give up! Whatever you do just keep on going!