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I’m in a multi-school district org handling public schooling, but I only handle 2 schools myself. I mostly help teachers and staff, but ever so often the kids have curiosities and questions too.

IT help desk (combined L1/L2 ish) in education. Pull in a smidge under $70k plus bennies/pension/etc. Live comfortably enough and have some leftover to treat myself reasonably.

Bit concerned what happens with the US DoE though…

Snake. Snake!? Snaaaaaake!!!

Ahhhhh!!! WHERE!?!?!

One, 2nd grade Roman Catholic school, telling a bully of mine that he’s going to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks, got detention for that.

Two, getting detention for skipping/running back in from a fire drill. I think that was 3rd grade.

Gah my school was fucking stupid.

You say you used to play PZ… I recommend checking out the Week One mod with the new unstable branch of B42. Breathes some life into the world prior to the apocalypse occurring.

Thirded on RK. I’ve night two of their boards, RK71& RK84, both black BT/RF. The 71 I derped on as it didn’t have a dedicated F key row and it impacted gameplay at times. Took that one to the office and daily drive both. I think both are brown switches.

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Yeah, and for me, 5G is a moot point. I have a decent wifi network at home (get 300-600mbps on 5G wifi), and my workplace has a reasonably okay wifi system too, albeit they firewall a lot of social stuff because work things. Outside of a random road trip for podcasts and maps use, I don’t see my needs changing anytime soon. As for the other person on the plan, they are WFH and almost purely utilize wifi anyway.

Yeah, I know recently, they’ve been trying to move peeps over from these GFed plans to their current Magenta, and that failed spectacularly as fuck (damn that was Oct '23?!). From what I can see, outside of 5G, it’s the same, just ~$20 more. Le sigh.

T-Mobile because we’re grandfathered into a $100 unlimited everything plan. We could go cheaper and such, but for now it’s okay.

When will they start getting the gene-seeds ready?

Mostly anything I play in VR. I have a basic sim rig I use for Euro Truck 2 and American Truck Simulators, and some DiRT Rally 2 ever so often. Outside of upgrading to a rig with hydraulics and a buttkicker, it’s pretty immersive. For non-vehicular VR, I’m running around in Skyrim with a hefty modlist (1100 mods), and just the baseline mods like HIGGS, PLANCK, and the Community Shaders set of mods adds a huge amount of immersion with the ability to directly interact in the world.

Flat screen gaming, otoh, I would say Project Zomboid. Despite its simple appearance, the amount of mods available really amp up “realism”, in that you can add so much living to the world. The lifestyle mod alone adds a bunch of Sims-like layers to the gameplay.

When this came out last March, it was such a mindblowing experience, compounded by the fact that this was Doom, a now 30-year-old game. Sure, GZDoom gave the aging engine some new tricks, but wow. So many intricacies and subtle nods to other mediums. Getting the final ending after all the trial and error approaches really felt like an accomplishment.

Happiness has to be fought for.

Had to cut out both my parents and sibling due to their homophobic remarks and my coming to terms with being gay. The politics just furthered the gap, and the last time I spoke with them in early 2023, “It’s all about that woke generation” came out of my dad’s mouth and that was the end. I don’t expect to hear about their passing, and I’m not sure I’ll care, despite them seemingly raising me to be a decent person. These are two humans who canvassed for Obama in '08 & '12, so it was sad to see them devolve.