TimeSquirrel

joined 2 years ago
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 8 months ago

I usually do it when we take over a customer's access control system and we have half their doors on the new system and half in the old still and are migrating them over. I'm an electronic security tech, this is what I do for a living.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 41 points 8 months ago (14 children)

I use it at work to clone a customer's proximity card when I work in their building so they don't have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 8 months ago

I know exactly what would make me happy, the problem is the people who would make it their mission to make me as unhappy as possible in life for daring to try to be happy.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is the dilemma I'm facing. Continue to masquerade as a man and have a somewhat "normal" life, or live as my authentic self and suddenly make life 100x harder having to live with transphobic shitheads out there because I know damn well I ain't gonna pass.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Please tell me there's a Shermanposting community on the fediverse.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Texting this to my roommate who's house I live in...

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe I'm older than this thing.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The zoomers and gen-alpha aren't doing much better. Just ask the average teen what a filesystem is and how to find a file without it being organized in some sort of media gallery app.

As a millennial, I often feel like I'm surrounded by tech illiterates on both the upper AND lower sides of my age bracket.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 9 months ago

You gotta put the sticker on lest you forget it's even there, just being an OS and getting out of your way.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This analogy doesn't really work because there are thousands of different wheels that all spin on an axis but are used for many different things. If the wheel was never reinvented or improved upon we wouldn't have automatic transmissions, rocket engine turbo pumps, gyroscopes, etc.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 9 months ago

Don't put money in your mouth, it's dirty.

 

Bye bye stack was nice knowing you.

 
 

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