Have used it, it works well

I just keep hearing how green day has “gone woke” (because they changed their lyric to "I’m not a part of the maga agenda). Like, where the fuck were they for the last 20 years?! Green Day has always been against authoritarianism

It’s not even hard to carry them anymore, it’s not like we even have to deal with wires. A 10 minute bus ride it’s still just easier to pull out my earbuds and pop them in

I think they might be thinking of something like thin clients, if I were to guess, and a server they would connect to. But yes good call out for the XY problem.

Connecting multiple users to Ubuntu is probably pretty difficult. Setting up a server for thin clients is pretty easy

They really think billionaires are like them, the only difference is that someone else goes to Walmart for them

Oh something I can help you with! I put in 5 years at geek squad so I know bby fairly well.

So, first off go in confidently. Not arrogant, but confident. This position is going to be at its heart, a sales position.

They see sweaty nerds a dozen times over who are just arrogant and want to talk about how this processor is only more expensive because it’s an Intel when they don’t even have super hyper threads or something. They want you to know the tech, but more importantly they’re going to be asking soft questions on if you can SELL the tech.

Your customers aren’t going to be people who want to know the processing speed of this processor, or even how much ram it has. They’re going to ask if they can run word, or if their niece can do the tiktoks with it. Your job will be to sell surfaces and Microsoft products, and to grit your teeth and say yes, it’s the perfect machine to do the tiktoks with.

Just truly be yourself, they’re looking for people who are relatable. I was so nervous when I started that I was afraid to go talk to people, but it ended up being great for me. I was able to learn how to strike up a conversation with randos and talk about tech in a simplified way. On top of that I was really good at it it turns out, because I didn’t bullshit my customers. Oh you want to just email your grandson? Take this 300 dollar computer. Maybe get the tech support so if you get a virus you don’t panic. Oh you’re a gamer? Well here’s an 800 bad boi that can play most games, maybe not top notch but it’s in your budget. Don’t need accidental coverage? Don’t worry about it then, enjoy!

I went from not being able to even say hello to a stranger to the best part time sales person they had, simply because I liked feeling out with people a bit. So that’s the job. They’re not going to ask you what certs you have, but they are going to see if your likable, if your someone people would want to talk to.

Go online (or hell even chatGpt honestly) and ask it to do a mock interview based around retail sales focusing on soft skills. It’s going to prep you pretty well. “Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker”, “tell me about when you had a boss who was mad at you”, that sort of thing.

Okay I know that’s a lot, but I hope you feel a bit better. Just be you, don’t try to be who you think they want. That’s a trap a lot of people who get turned down at best buy fall into. They don’t want a sysadmin or anything, they want a friendly face who customers will enjoy talking to

Good luck, we’re rooting for you!

If you’re into self hosting check out Owncast. There’s a very small group of us who are trying to get it off the ground. You host your own streaming platform that’s shared to the fediverse

I mean, they couldn’t build an ADA bench next to it? Seems like one of those cases a grandfather clause is useful. New York doesn’t rip out it’s history overnight, it adds to things to make them compliant while preserving the unique culture

Satisfactory has destroyed holidays and countless weekends, I’m well past 2000 hours now with how much it can eat away your time. There’s just always one. More. Thing. To do. I’ll just finish this bit over here. I’ll just set up this caterium node. And then it’s 11pm on Sunday and you realize you have to work again

Neat! I’ll check it out!

Yeah I haven’t seen any mods who are for it, granted OP is on discuss.online and I have defederated a lot of hate instances. People on beehaw, lemmy.world, and quite a few others have been if anything overly accepting than not. However, it’s why I discourage browsing all and instead curating a list of communities.

Anything better you know of? Most of my usage now with it is through its api

It was my 21st. I was new to my city and really only had one friend there at the time. He said he would take me out, we’d have a blast. He took me to a house party and ditched me almost immediately. Turns out he wanted to hook up at the party, left me for 2 hours, and then told me that it would just be a bit longer. They go upstairs, and they keep going until 2am. He was my ride home, and this was before uber.

I’m not 100% what you’re asking for, but I use text-generation-webui for all of my local generation needs.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Just tell him to sell his truck, sounds like that’s a retirement plan!

I still watch Solo with my annual star wars watchthrough. Is it a great film? No. But it’s fun, and it’s light, and if doing a timeline watchthrough it works well. Ep 3 just ends, you’re feeling down because of the empire, but Solo brings you back up - right before the very very sad Rogue One

That’s always been there though, every time I install Firefox I have to disable that and Pocket. Linux, Windows, Mobile, all of them.

Yes please, just get that through your head studios. Big budgets are nice, I like big budgets on shows I like. But the Writers, the characters, the directing, get back to the basics. Some of the best movies were low budgets. Some of the best shows were low budget. I don’t need a rings of power level budget to enjoy a show. It helps, but it’s worthless if you have bland writing.

They better mean again

We have a new multi-block set of apartments going up in the suburb near me that they’re doing the same about. It’s going to ruin the town! It’s going to lower property values! Won’t someone think of the children?!

It was parking lots. It was just parking lots before. It was a place for commuters to drop their car and go into the city. I can’t even with these people. The best part is that those apartments will probably bring in more tax revenue than their entire single-family subdivision!