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oaththrowawayon US egg prices increased 22% in 2025 and 202% in 12 months

I've never seen one actually kill a chicken but I killed one a little bit ago that was in there eating a carcass. And that's what I've seen come sniffing around the traps I leave. I've trapped 2 skunks in the last year - only 1 raccoon, and he was able to make an escape. Smartest animals I've had to battle in the wild.

oaththrowawayon Eggs US – Price – Chart

Double yolkers are my favorite, always a pleasant surprise!

oaththrowawayon Eggs US – Price – Chart

I have lost 2 flocks of chickens to a combination of raccoons, foxes, and skunks. Interestingly enough none of those could kill my turkeys - they are big enough to fight them off I guess. They don't lay as many eggs though.

It is a lot of work, but after my last group was killed off 2 months I have not impressed by store eggs, so I'm planning on re-enforcing my coop so I can get another group of them soon.

oaththrowawayon Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

I have a Steam Deck for my main gaming machine (SteamOS), my laptop is a Framework 13 (AMD), and I have a gaming VM (connected to the TV in my living room) that's running an old GTX 1070 (both Fedora Silverblue).

oaththrowawayon Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

Most games "just work" at this point because of how well Proton works: https://www.protondb.com/

The biggest issue is certain DRMs aren't supported in Linux yet, but others are, so it's just game dependent. I mostly play single-player, but the multiplayer games I do play work fine.

I don't have Windows on any machines at this point. I've converted everything to Fedora Silverblue and it's fantastic.

oaththrowawayon OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

My favorite RTS game of all time. Love the port. Run my own server for my friends group and it works great

oaththrowawayon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

> At least with a pair coding session there's someone there setting the guard rails to keep you within 1h

And then you're still nervous and have to explain your thought process around everything you're doing as you're coding.

oaththrowawayon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

Ideally it shouldn't take more than 4 hours, but even then is it that different than traveling to a different city for an onsite day of whiteboard interviews?

oaththrowawayon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

I would think so, but we'll have 100 people come in and talk about the quality hires they get from LeetCode interviews.

oaththrowawayon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

I know some people hate take-home assessments, but for me it's a total life saver in interviews. I don't "think" out loud while I'm working, and there's no way in hell I'm doing it nervous while someone is looking over my shoulder.

Using Leetcode as a filter is great if you're looking for someone who interviews often, but in my experience it's not a great gauge if someone is a good engineer or not.

As a hiring manager we've tried implementing different strategies. On my team, we hired 4-5 engineers doing live coding exercises similar to leetcode, and none of them made it more than 6 months. We switched to a take-home project for the last 3 we've hired and they've all been with us for 2+ years and have been great.

Of course with the take home projects you're filtering for people who are willing to take a few hours of personal time to work on something, but over the interview process it seems like it washes out? Of course this is just anecdotal data on a fairly small team, but I hate LeetCode style interviews.

oaththrowawayon I made $100K from a dick joke

Just makes me more cynical about everything I see posted. Marketers ruin everything eventually

oaththrowawayon I made $100K from a dick joke

I sold a laptop on eBay once long, long ago. Someone did the "Buy it now" option but never paid. I'm trying to remember the exact situation (probably more than 10 years ago), but I had exchanged messages with him several times and he always had an excuse to not pay.

Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing so it wouldn't compete against his. I messaged ebay support to accuse him but they didn't do anything about it.

Since he had made the order, eBay did show me his shipping information so I ordered a "glitter bomb" which was basically glitter in a tube with a spring. I got a very nasty accusatory email from him, but it was very vague. He wouldn't specify what he received, but that he was smart enough to not open it. That's how I knew he got the full effect.

I just replied something to the effect of "You never paid me. Why would I send something to you?"

oaththrowawayon US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp

Except when the ATF does it, no big deal

oaththrowawayon Grayjay Desktop App

Can't wait!

oaththrowawayon Grayjay Desktop App

Exactly

oaththrowawayon Grayjay Desktop App

I have NewPipe on my kid's tablets which is pretty good too, but it breaks more often. But it's great to have no ads + sponsorblock.

Between that and pirated shows/movies my kids are absolutely puzzled by commercials when we stay at a hotel or with family.

oaththrowawayon Grayjay Desktop App

I don't have a FUTO, Grayjay, or Youtube account and use the app just fine

oaththrowawayon Grayjay Desktop App

Linux version seems to work good. Was able to sync with my phone with no issues. My only complaint with either of them is YT Shorts support. I'll have to stick with Freetube for that I guess since there is a couple of creators that I follow that only release shorts

oaththrowawayon The era of open voice assistants

For me the Alexa devices I own have gotten worse. Can't do simple things (setting a timer used to be instant, now it takes 10-15 seconds of thinking assuming it heard properly), playing music is a joke (will try to play through Deezer even though I disaled that integration months ago, and then will default to Amazon Music instead of Spotify which is set as the default).

And then even simple skills can't understand what I'm asking 60% of the time. The first maybe 2 years after launch it seemed like everything worked pretty good but since then it's been a frustrating decline.

Currently they are relagated to timers and music, and it can't even manage those half the time anymore.

oaththrowawayon What we know about CEO shooting suspect

You don't have to go through the courts to be guilty of something

oaththrowawayon The dogs of Chernobyl: Populations in the nuclear exclusion zone (2023)

My cat spends 99% of her time outside. She likes to come in and hang out with my kids when they get home from school and take a quick nap, but then she's asking to be let out by the time we're eating dinner.

She'd rather be exploring, hunting mice/chipmunks, and fighting off raccoons and skunks for her food and water supply.

oaththrowawayon AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

Why do I get the blame and shame for something my grandparents might have done wrong?

oaththrowawayon Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Yes, of course but it was still a cope because we never saw more than maybe 3M concurrent viewers at a time

oaththrowawayon Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.

oaththrowawayon Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo

Have they been sued by Nintendo yet?

oaththrowawayon Trump wins presidency for second time

If elections were decided by popular vote campaigns would run differently though

oaththrowawayon Trump wins presidency for second time

Project 2025 is basically QAnon for the Democrats

oaththrowawayon A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript

GNOME isn't a distro, it's a Desktop Environment. It comes as the default in Fedora and Ubuntu, among others.

oaththrowawayon The history of Monokai

No you are not

oaththrowawayon Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM4Lt5k24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPt6mvjr5Q

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