🎲 Role player, Game master.

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Cake day: March 4th, 2025

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  • What you did was a mistake.

    • You are not stupid. You are not crazy. You did something you wish you could change and are blaming yourself.

    • You have not ruined your life, but if you let this hang over your head, it will ruin things until you forgive yourself and move on.

    • If you can make things right (apologizing, asking for a second chance, etc.), do it. If you can’t get things right, then accept that you can’t fix the past, but you can fix today and the future by learning from your mistakes.

    • You’re not going to find another person like him. Just like YOU, he’s one of a kind. That does NOT mean there aren’t others you can have a happy relationship with. That also doesn’t mean there could be someone better out there who could make you happier. But if you wallow in self-pity, you might miss out on finding that person.


































  • I didn’t get a popup, but I have a popup blocker. Here’s his six without his detailed reasoning.

    1. KDE neon – The Official KDE Experience
    1. Kubuntu – Ubuntu Stability with Plasma Polish
    1. Fedora KDE Spin – Cutting-Edge Innovation
    1. EndeavourOS KDE – Arch Linux Made Accessible
    1. Garuda Linux – Gaming and Performance Focus
    1. openSUSE Tumbleweed – Stability Meets Rolling Release

    While not on the flashier side, I just learned about https://www.tromjaro.com/

    “A Trade-Free operating system based on Manjaro Linux​ Designed for your brain, but you can install it on a computer. No more ads and trackers consuming you, no ‘free’ trials, no bullshit.”

    They even de-crapified Firefox.



  • Your question isn’t specific, so I can’t be more specific than this general answer.

    Most labs and corporations have employees. Go to your bank and see what size loan you can afford. Additionally, explore grant opportunities local to you such as those listed by Matthew Lesko (https://leskolocalgrants.com/)

    You’ll need employees and infrastructure. Since you haven’t defined what sort of laboratory or corporation you are, hire an HR representative to explore the employees you’ll need.

    Next, hire an attorney as a retainer, in case legal issues arise, but you do need to incorporate to be a corporation, so that should be the top of your to do list.

    Most labs and corps make money. Hire an accountant.

    Now you need to hire a CEO. It can’t be you, as you are still learning how to be a corporation or laboratory. Now you need money to pay for all these people. Ask the CEO what are your values, your mission statement, your long term vision, 5-10 Key Performance Indicators, and your 3 to 5 year plan to pay these people.

    Hire a Chief Information Officer. Your HR person and CIO should be working with you to identify your Standard Operating Procedures for the plan the CEO has. Your CIO needs to analyze your facilities for a data center and workstations, and wireless access points. You need to keep data because as Adam Savage once said on Mythbusters, “Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down” And you should store the data on your server.

    Now remind yourself you have only so many days before all these people want to be paid. Make sure you are either making enough cash or have cash on hand to pay them. If you do, bask in the success, learning from your successful team. If you can’t afford to pay them, it’s time to downsize, so tell the CEO to fire everyone, even you, and leave that sucker hanging on the line, because he’s the CEO of your company that’s insolvent.