What are you guys working on?

Literally, absolutely nothing. For the first time in weeks. Just enjoying the evening.

Black Mirror didn’t do that one, but American Horror Stories did:

https://screenrant.com/american-horror-stories-season-3-episode-2-daphne-ending-explained/

Which is surprising because that show normally kinda sucks. Got roped into watching it last year, and I forgot I was watching AHS halfway through and almost thought it was a new Black Mirror.

It’s like we’re on a speed run toward the near-future Charlie Brooker warned us about.

But TBF, “Hang the DJ” was one of the few Black Mirror episodes that wasn’t a total downer.

More like:

1. Burn it all down
2. Declare himself king of the ashes

A department led by anthropomorphized ketamine and cocaine. What could go wrong?

(No idea if Ramaswamy is on coke, but he sure gives off coked-up, business school frat boy vibes)

(Referencing what appears to be a Captain America shirt he’s wearing in the booking photo)

Yes, that’s exactly what Steve Rogers would have done. /s

I was thinking it but didn’t want to say it.

With a 218 majority, that means 100% of the Republicans have to toe the line.

They’re already working on that. Seems they want to go after anyone who doesn’t toe the line.

Tommy Tuberville threatens to end career of any GOP senator who blocks Matt Gaetz

Maybe I’m remembering early/beta Teams with rose tinted spectacles, but at the very least the silver lining was that I no longer needed to keep a separate Windows machine running just for work IM.

I even tried adding it to Citrix, but it refused to install on a server version of Windows.

We used to use it before switching to Google Workspace (don’t get me started on how much I hate that), and Teams wasn’t too bad. But it had two things going for it then:

• It was replacing Skype for Business which never should existed because it was so awful. Compared to SfB, literally anything was an improvement.
• At the time, it was basically a Slack clone that didn’t have everything and the kitchen sink bolted on yet and was decently lightweight if you used the browser version.

That’s why I’m trying to block out all this and enjoy this last month and a half as best I can.

If you’re a rich asshole, everywhere is your Utah.

I’ve said before (and will say again) that US elections are like our national-scale county fairs: idiots that your normally never see come out of the woodwork.

Update: Found the banner. Thanks, Wayback Machine!

Reddit is dead to me and blocked in my router, so I’m good sharing knowledge and cool stuff here.

Going to?

Already has.

Be that as it may, apps must work for me and never the other way around.

If my bank’s app ever forces me to choose between my keyboard of preference and their app, it’s their app that’s getting uninstalled.

Matrix also is close to checking all the boxes, but it wasnt clear how it works on mobile (Element seemed like the mobile app that was recommended).

I run Matrix, and it’s pretty great. Though I would recommend Schildichat over Element for the mobile app. I had all kinds of issues with Element Mobile somehow screwing up the E2EE keys for my other sessions. Nothing seemed to fix it except removing my account from it completely. Switched to Schildichat and haven’t had that issue since.

I still believe the sane people are the majority. However, they have clearly failed in their civic duties to show up to vote.