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About Jtalk4456

  • Birthday Aug 07, 1990

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    Between the intentional chaos and the accidental insanity
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    IT, Music, Design, Anime, Home Construction, DIY, Writing
  • Biography
    I was born years ago on a brisk fall morning in a small town. The leaves were dancing in the air and I was busy making stuff up for a social media bio that few will read and fewer will care about.
  • Occupation
    Aspiring Network Technician
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    TechNinja

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    You're gonna have to give me a better pickup line

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  1. So I'm on the hunt for little phone power banks that come in a dock for quick and easy charging. take one with me when i leave the house, pop it back on the charger later. Nothing too fancy. I need one that has multiple banks and room to charge at once. I want this for me and my wife so just having a single bank I plug in isn't as convenient. I like the look of this These are more than I wanna spend though. 2 or 3 banks is ideal, 4 is more than I need and I was looking to spend maybe 40 or 50, not 80 plus tax. I've found another option that was perfect price, 3 banks, but it was apple only. I can't seem to find anything cheaper than this that has a dock to charge them on. I've spent a good while searching through amazon and google shopping, but everything I see either isn't what I need or is even more expensive than this. Does anyone know a good solution at or under 50 that has at least 2 power banks docked?
  2. honestly the way things have been going along with the insane last minute studying I now have to do over the next 2 weeks, I probably won't get back to looking at this for a while, if I remember to at all. I feel myself leaving the platform slowly. It's not that the community is bad or I'm just boycotting Linus's behavior by not being here. Despite his recent issues, I think this forum has been an amazing contribution to the tech community and personally it has helped me alot and given me lots of friends. The sad reality is my time has become even more limited than usual and I just don't have the bandwidth left to keep myself coming here consistently. I won't be deactivating, but I'm not gonna be on here unless there's a significant reason like today. That being said, I'm jtalk4456 on discord if anyone who hasn't already wants to come talk to me there. discord is an everyday every hour type of thing and I'd love to have more people to talk to.

    But on to the reason my mind has been occupied lately. I can't remember how much I've talked about the general situation here, so for anyone not aware, my father in law is emotionally abusive. I suspect there's more than emotional through her childhood, but that's speculation. Everytime we visit, it's a nightmare and she leaves in tears. Before anyone says, I've been all for cutting her parents out entirely, but she's too nice of a soul to do that, or that's how it's been up until now. She's non confrontational, so it's been easier on her to play a support role than stir up unneeded family drama. But as of a few months ago, there have been some... red flags. I won't go into detail, but things have been extremely on edge. He also has cancer and has used that to guilt trip her into visiting many times. Things were said during a previous visit that were less subtle manipulation and more blatant a**hole behavior, and right in front of the kids. So I told her from now on, I won't be silent because it's no longer worth staying silent to keep peace if he's gonna make it so blatant that I have to debrief the kids cuz even they can see what's happening. Cue the most recent and final visit. Several close bdays in the family, brother she hasn't seen in years is coming, he's got some bad cancer news. Basically she was mentally preparing this as a final major visit in case he dies soon, plus an opportunity to connect with family. I know it's gonna be bad after the last visit, so I give her a list of possible 'he says/does this' and possible consequences. I even included certain red flags and physical assault just to cover all bases.

    We get there, no long missed brother. He's a bit flaky with these things, so while disappointing that was a big shock. But about an hour in and we've got a bday cake in front of us, we start singing. my son who is Autistic talks a bit, and her dad decides he is gonna yell at him, cuz how dare my son talk, jeez. She gives him a look that I wish had killed him, but sadly not. song's over and she tells him not to yell at our son anymore. He says he can yell if he wants. At this point, I'm in the chart in my head and we are set to leave for the day, maybe cool and return later. But we were ready and had planned for this. In her anger, she not only gets up to leave but overturns the cake plate. a bit more escalation than I'd like, but whatever lets get out of here... or so I thought

    The a**hole decided this offense is now worth FIGHTING his daughter, and he literally goes over with his hands up saying he's ready to fight her. He got a swing in that scraped past her a bit, nothing serious, but then I'm playing bouncer just shoving him back and trying to get her and the kids out. He didn't back off and we spent 5 minutes me stopping him from literally assaulting his own daughter. Finally we make it out, she's in tears, the kids are in tears, likely scarred for life. How tf do I explain pawpaw trying to duke mommy? Like I've already explained he's not always nice, but geez! I put it ion the list in case but even I didn't think he'd make me go down the list that far. Now they're about 4 hrs away from home so we've got a hotel reservation. Non refundable, gonna spend the night cuz we already paid, then head home in the morning. So we went thru hell, couldn't fully escape it even after leaving cuz the hotel. Then there's an issue with the hotel room that takes almost 2 hrs to sort. So stress on top the cake. Overall it sucked every step of the way. The only redeeming part of that trip is I know she actually won't give in anymore. She's done and she will never see or talk to him again. I'm not sure if she'll even bother with going to the funeral whenever that happens. It's over. Needless to say between that and school troubles, and job troubles we've dealt with, It's been heck. I'm doing better, she's doing better, all is slowly healing, no worry needed. If you wannt send us a million dollars to help I won't stop you, but other than that, we're doing ok now. Just dealing with the immediate pian and refreshing the bandages until it heals up.

    All to say why I have been and will continue to be a rare sight on the forum. Again if anyone wants to talk or send that million dollars, hmu on discord. I'm jtalk4456, same as here.

    Vent over, rambling over, mental energy gone, have a good rest of your day guys.

  3. image.png.097e23fd13e7f35d9c6c9c4ef853a69a.png

    OK I've only taken one html class, but I now know what's going on here. They messed up

    1. WereCat

      WereCat

      💪Contact Us💪

       

      the only correct way to do this

    2. TheCoder2019

      TheCoder2019

      I think they put tags in a string, or they forgot to close a string

    3. TVwazhere
  4. Hey buddy - haven't seen you around in a while.

     

    Hope you're doing good ❤️

    1.   Show previous replies  2 more
    2. sub68

      sub68

      14 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

      Profile said last visited March 24, so that's largely what I was going off of.

      I was talking on discord...

      I think they have been busy.

    3. Jtalk4456

      Jtalk4456

      "Boo!"
      *Ghost jtalk4456 suddenly appears and frightens you, then slowly starts vanishing into the darkness again, wailing
      "Diiiiiiscoooooord, woooooooo!"

    4. Jtalk4456

      Jtalk4456

      On 4/17/2023 at 9:50 PM, sub68 said:

      I was talking on discord...

      I think they have been busy.

      Me Busy? Never!
      *Quickly shoves my pile of to do lists under the rug

  5. That looks way better than mine, and I can grab it off walmart for 15 bucks, so great price! Thanks for the info!
  6. I'm looking for maybe getting a webcam in the next few months. Got a stand up camera from my online school for tests, but the quality sucks. I am doing work involving online training and sessions and I also want to start recording myself for youtube videos. I don't need anything crazy nice, but just clear enough for meetings and videos with just my face talking. Looking around a $50 budget, but less is better ofc as long as I don't get to blurry. I don't know the market for webcams, so trying to look on amazon is getting me more variety than I know how to sort through.
  7. What have I learned today in my intro to linux class?

    image.png.db64721c635a49c453823f9ff5e7da3c.png

    Unix is very NICE

    That is all

  8. I jokingly assume that there is a big board of evil people that specifically spend their time and resources making horrible naming practices, acronyms, and other infuriating and confusing things in daily life. Well I just learned what Captcha actually stands for and I'm not so sure it's a joke anymore...

    1. FloRolf

      FloRolf

      I didn't know that either and from now on I will accurately call it CAPTtttCaHA

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    2. soldier_ph

      soldier_ph

      I mean if you bath in (Lemon and Lime) Acid then that's also a way how to kill of fat.

  9. With 4 months feeling as an eternity to a mere human, he arose from his slumber. It was a new month, a new year even, but his sins haunted him. The shadows of past troubles still haunted him, self made expectations still weighed his soul. It was time to awaken and begin changing. Shadows would be singed with new light, his soul would be unchained and he would make himself anew. But he would always remain cheesy when making beginnings to long posts on the forum. Some things would never change.

     

    Welp 4 months. Things were going positive last time I did a catch up post. Sadly that didn't last long. Issues with FMLA paperwork led to me losing my great job with the ISP. Not their fault (3rd party management of FMLA), and the leave was on good terms. I'd still go back and they didn't want to lose me, but so the pieces fell. I started a job doing tech support remote at home for a cell phone provider. Out of respect, I won't name names, but I can say my distaste of the color pink has grown drastically. Both the provider I was providing support for and the call center company managing the project were thoroughly unprepared in every aspect. Tools frequently did not work. Sometimes I spent hours just trying to log in, restarting over and over until it finally decided to be happy. Audio issues were prevalent at all times, my support from the company for what to do when encountering a strange call was non existent. Knowledge management software was completely disorganized and not searchable. Coaches would barely if ever respond. Every call was a drag on the little soul I have left.

    Let me be clear I've worked a lot of shit jobs, excuse the french. I've done lots of IT call center and I know that even in the best situations, there will be frustrating calls due to a tool or the customer or equipment. This was not an occasional issue though. Every call left me worn down and wanting to get up and quit. Management was disrespectful in ways I'm not even gonna describe, pay was crap for the untold piles of info we were expected to know. The job definition was fluid at best. I had no clue at any given time what team I was a part of, and sometimes I took certain call types and other times I did not. I still got no explanation why.  This took the cake for shit jobs, from pay to management, to bloody 10 min breaks instead of 15, to lack of resources. There wasn't a single good part of this job no matter how I looked at it. I stopped caring if I even did a good job and that's when I knew I had to leave.

    Luckily tax return season right now, so I quit while I had a temporary boost in money. I'm finishing up this semester of online schooling which ends in two days. It did not go well, but I'm starting a new semester without the expectation of work and plan to have a real kick start from that. I want to say I'll make sure to come here more often, but I'm not sure. There's been some issues with the forum over the last year, but overall the people I've talked to here have been more than worth sticking around. While that's still the case, all the stress I'm processing has left me burnt out on basic things, let alone extra pleasures like jumping on the forum for an hour here and there. I'm not gonna delete this account, but I hope some people I've talked with want to meet me over on discord. I'm jtalk4456#9877 and with discord on my phone, I'm more active there than here. I'm trying to start a sort of digital detox by cutting down how much I spread my attention, especially with social media. If there's something you've tagged or mentioned me in over the last few months, I'm sorry but I'm no longer gonna sift through hundreds of notifications. My brain just doesn't have the energy for that right now. I'll check this specific post for responses over the next week or so though.

    1. Cyberspirit

      Cyberspirit

      I hope you'll find something better soon! I personally couldn't handle anything customer service related.

  10. Been a while since I really made a post here. Things have been busy lately, but finally in a good way. Wifey has started her job at the daycare, doing her dream job. She hasn't missed a day of work for mental issues, she's present (mostly) at home with the kids. She's super tired, nature of the new job, but she's mentally there and having fun with the kids again. I'm finally getting over this sickness and starting to feel normal again. I can think somewhat finally, and I used the opportunity for this catch up.

    I've got a few things going on I have to force myself to focus and prioritize. 

    1. Still doing online schooling. I lost about 3 weeks due to this respiratory crap I've been going thru. Could barely think enough to keep the house from falling apart, let alone learning web development. But now I've gotta shove thru and catch up real quick. I'm not super behind, but I'm not ahead and have no leeway. If I don't get a move on, it's gonna be a tough semester. 

    2. We have to really work on a budget and getting caught up and ahead and planning our money out better. We've got several small tasks related to finances that I've been pushing off as well, but I've gotta get this started and get us to a point of stability so we can breathe and move on with other things.

    3. While I'm working super hard to focus on career and work and school, I still am the person with a million ideas running thru my head at any given moment. What I've done lately to curb the distraction is picking one or two and devote some small fraction of time to think on them daily. This way I'm letting myself have ideas and be my creative self, but I'm staying in control of it. I'm deciding my focus better. At the moment I have 2 main projects I want to do.

    1. Children's Book Series - The Adventures of Kell and Eulah - I want to create a set of children's books with adventures and lessons learnt by 2 siblings, Kell and Eulah. I want to take inspiration from a lot of Celtic culture including storytelling. I also want to incorporate these older stories and lesson styles into the modern world that kids are now facing. I want to bridge a gap between what parent grew up learning and what kids are seeing out in the world. Things that I learned from my environment and upbringing but never really had explained or told. It was just something you learned without anyone willing to teach. And those things that we expect our kids to also just know, but they don't. The environment they are growing up in is so vastly different that expecting the same inherent lessons just leads to untold expectations and disappointments
    2. Along the same lines as far as subject, I want to create a youtube channel talking directly about problems parents face with kids in the new world we are in. within this I want to create a brand new guide for technology for kids. It will go over the basics of using a computer, but also will explain using it safely and what the dangers are. I want this set of videos to also be something the parent can watch with the kid. I want to explain things in a way kids can learn, but parents can repeat. I think like before a lot of our generation grew up with this untold knowledge of internet usage and safety, but kids now are being thrown into a world of scams and predators and we as parents don't really have the tools to explain how to be safe online. We just intuitively do it, because we have been for years. But we don't know how to teach that intuition to our kids, and they aren't learning. I want to bridge that knowledge gap by finding a way that's easy for the parents to understand and apply and easy for the kids to learn and use.

    4. Last but not least I need a digital detox. I have thought about it and thought about it for a year or two but I really need to do it. I'm realizing how much my ADHD is affected by notification fatigue. The piles and piles of emails with one important thing from school? Well I guess I've missed that school email. The calendar notification on my phone reminding me to do the thing? drowned under 49 twitter notifications (Side note: Why does it stop at 49? Why not 50?) I need to simplify my life greatly so I have more room to focus on the above things. And I need to be less attached to my phone and more present in the moment. I need to clean my email, reduce subscriptions, set up folders, sort my pc files, finally organize and use my nas, clean out my phone, lose unwanted apps, reduce how many things are sending me notifications daily. All in all I need to decide what is important to me and cut out the extra. My life is more important that what twitter wants me to see or that app that has notifications on when I don't hardly ever use it. I need to be in control of my world online as much as I need to take control of the world around me.

     

     

    1. Tog Driver

      Tog Driver

      Good luck on all your plans!

      2 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:

      Children's Book Series - The Adventures of Kell and Eulah

      For some reason this sounds interesting enough you have me wanting to read it.

    2. Jtalk4456

      Jtalk4456

      19 minutes ago, Tog Driver said:

      Good luck on all your plans!

      For some reason this sounds interesting enough you have me wanting to read it.

      Glad to hear it, I'll let you know when I get somewhere on it

  11. I like VR, but I somehow can't argue with an ounce of this...

    1. Murasaki

      Murasaki

      I forgot about these series its great stuff 😂

  12. So wifey has to decorate her 2 yr old room at the daycare and this month's theme is France. I plan to go much deeper into the culture, but of course there's gonna be a picture of the Eiffel Tower printed off. And I start looking for facts and things, and I've now spent the last 10 min in a combination of fascination and true confusion and a dash of horror.

    https://www.thesqua.re/blog/fun-facts-about-the-eiffel-tower

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    A woman married the tower in 2007. She changed her name to read as Erika La Tour Eiffel.

    I'm sorry, WHAT?!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Eiffel

    Quote

     

    Eiffel is founder of OS Internationale, an organization for those who develop significant relationships with inanimate objects.[13] She claims that her object relationship with Lance, her competition bow, helped her to become a world-class archer.[14]

    She first encountered the Eiffel Tower in 2004, and said that she felt an immediate attraction.[1] She told ABC News that she and others "[...] feel an innate connection to objects. It comes perfectly normal to us to connect on various levels, emotional, spiritual and also physical for some."[15] In April 2009, on the second anniversary of her marriage to the Eiffel Tower, she appeared on Good Morning America and explained how her object love empowered her. Her 20 year relationship with the Berlin Wall inspired the musical theater production Erika's Wall.[16]

     

    I just don't... i don't know how to react. On the one hand I always believe as long as it's not harming anyone, go for it. But at some level that doesn't mean I understand it, and I definitely don't understand this one

    https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/us-woman-married-to-eiffel-tower-for-15-years-is-now-attracted-to-a-fence-5467885.html
    image.png.21d712fd68702bb051da7cde966e2571.png

    OK now she's riding a fence, and I'm just again mystified.

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    LaBrie, an advocate for object sexuality and a competitive archer, was recently seen in a now-viral TikTok video straddling a red fence as she revealed her feelings for the chiselled structure. “Fences are such dangerous objects for me because they are so perfect in their geometry,” says LaBrie. “I’m definitely physically attracted to this fence and I would like to get to know this fence better,” she adds. The viral TikTok video captures her discussing what draws her to the fence as she gets a feel. It is an excerpt from a TLC program about objectophilia.

    Is this her fence? Is she sexually harassing someone else's property boundary? Why is this a question I have to ask????

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    There have been a lot many reports of people being drawn romantically or sexually to inanimate items during the past month. A German woman, Sarah Rodo, has talked about her romance with a Boeing 737 that she lovingly refers to as Dicki.

    OK that's enough internet for me today, you guys have fun reading whatever this is...

  13. I really hope the /s wouldn't be necessary there XD
  14. Question for those peeps with far more experience than me:

    I often have business customers calling in to say their VOIP phones using our internet are intermittent

    Usually SIP/ALG is to blame, we turn it off, good to go. 

    But no one has ever explained to me what SIP/ALG is, so i decided to google it,

    Quote

    SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) ALG (Application Layer Gateway) is an application within many routers. It inspects any VoIP traffic to prevent problems caused by firewalls and if necessary modifies the VoIP packets. Routers will often have SIP ALG activated by default.

    So now I'm confused because it sounds like you would want that enabled if you're using VOIP. Am I missing something?

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