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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • My plan is either soon the lotto or die before retirement. Now, I’ve been in a corporate job for nearly 2 decades, putting money in a 401k and Roth IRA. But given the rate that the value of the dollar is just tanking and the cost of everything is skyrocketing, I honestly figure everything I saved will be worthless. I’ve had my AC off for months at this point, turned it off towards the end of winter early spring. The electric company is telling me that I’m at best on par with some of my neighbors with other neighbors using less than half. Insurance for the car is going up. I love when I ask about why are my rates so high, they blame other drivers and somehow that’s my problem. In 2017 my bill was $335. 7 years later it’s up to $634. Same vehicle, no accidents. $100 for groceries does not go very far anymore. I’m pretty sure there was a picture on Lemmy just the other day showing someone with a receipt buying the same stuff and it was like three times more now than it was just a few years ago.

    Use one of those inflation calculators and between 2010 and 2024 we’re at 44%.

    I still have more than two decades to go before my supposed retirement date. And I have no faith in our economy.













  • I was building up some packer stuff. Vsphere-iso plug-in. Tests were going fine and then for reasons I didn’t understand it said it could no longer find the cd creation tool it has just been using.

    So I try a few things, nothing works. So I figure I have nothing to lose, I make a new folder to house all the tools in one place. Update Windows system environment path. Restart everything. VScode didn’t have my path statement, Google is of 0 fucking help, and now packer doesn’t work. I least it’s the weekend now.






  • Completely agree. I haven’t met a single person that has genuinely liked it. But they feel compelled to use it and speak highly of it because it’s what you do in the industry. And a lot of the people that do keep pushing for it keep acting like it’s going to be the single solution that fixes everything somehow magically…

    And I don’t know about you, but I know an excessive number of people it seem to think that if you want to idempotent then it has to be ansible… As if suggesting that it’s impossible to be idempotent by any other means.