u/ITrCool

I’ve got a Canon TR8550 all-in-one inkjet printer. It’s been a good little printer and I’ve had it since 2018.

The thing is…..I print maybe twice a year tops, at most, these days. I just do t have reason to print much anymore.

I’ve been thinking about getting rid of it to e-waste and just not messing with having a printer anymore. Do you guys think that’s worth it? Or is there a good “light duty” printer to recommend for sparse printing users like me?

Otherwise, I’d thought about just going to my local library to print the rare things I need.

You get several trips planned, but life gets in the way, weather gets in the way, problem after problem comes up, or priorities shift and before you know it, your camping year is over without ever getting a chance to get out there.

That happened to me this year.

It was no one's particular fault. Just fate telling me it's not in the cards this year. My last four trips all got cancelled either to extreme weather, shifting priorities (family always comes first), and one emergency. Just had to cancel my last trip in a couple weeks because of a family event that just came up. I don't really have much chance to get away to camp beyond that for work and other obligations.

At least I got to re-organize my gear room. (Below)

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I've always been a "book ahead" person for many things. Disney/Universal vacations, various resorts around the US, international travel, flights, concerts, ball games, etc.

But I'm taking my first-ever "maiden voyage" cruise next year. The ship I'm on apparently has a pretty good spa facility on it and I was thinking about booking a massage appointment. (I'm 41m for context)

Is it best to book spa appointments ahead of time as early as you can? Or potentially can you get better deals by booking on the ship?

I'm sailing on Celebrity on the Reflection next year to give some specific reference.

We agree. Adam made some bad choices regarding his health. It is a terrible loss for his family and friends, and a loss to the online community with the content and impact Adam made across the world. It's a good lesson in making responsible life choices regarding health and taking care of ourselves.

However, the constant posting about Adam's health and personal choices need to stop. They are becoming a regular occurrence at a time when what caused his death is already widely known and can easily be searched out, even in this subreddit.

This community is about discussing Adam's content, celebrating his life, and the impact he made for all of us. Discussing his health all the time does not fit the mission here.

Going forward, any posts about Adam's health and cause of death will be automatically blocked and subject to moderator approvals. Let's get back to celebrating what Adam did for all of us and enjoying discussing his content.

What I mean are cruises that appear to be designated for specialty events and such. Like music bands (varying genres) who advertise a cruise with a cruise line for <x> dates and invite their fans to come along and join them.

Or a dive shop invites everyone to book a cruise with them for <x> cruise line on <x> dates.

Or even a comedian or entertainer says "hey come along with us on this cruise with <x> cruise line to Alaska!"

Or even at a conference center where an event is going on, I'll see ads for cruises with specific groups of speakers and classes and such.

Are these "specialty" voyages actually independent of a cruise line's main schedule for a year, like a charter? Or is it merely just another cruise on the schedule, it's just the one that group happens to be signed up to be part of the entertainment for?

I was always curious about that when I would see those ads at a concert, show, or venue. Are the amenities and services pretty much the same as a "normally scheduled" cruise if they're truly independent?

In a what-if scenario, Scranton had indeed closed and Josh stayed with DM and Stamford absorbed Scranton, who do you think would move, and who would decide it was time to leave DM?

My thoughts:

Stay and transfer:

• Oscar (Josh needs another accountant)
• Pam (maybe, they may not let her due to not needing a receptionist there)
• Meredith (Her record in supplier relations amazes Josh, even though he has no idea about her eh...means)
• Creed (slyly, I might add. He just shows up one day)
• Ryan (had just become sales at that time)
• Kelly (because Ryan and Josh decides he could use a bigger customer service team)

Leave DM:

• Michael (can't stand the idea of working for Josh and no longer being manager)
• Dwight (has a beet farm to look after, can find another job elsewhere and "dominate" it)
• Angela (Dwight...)
• Kevin (Oscar fills the last accountant position at Stamford that Josh has budget for)
• Phyllis (Bob Vance)
• Toby (no need for another HR rep at Stamford, corporate maybe reassigns him elsewhere or lets him go)
• Stanley (time for early retirement, or finds another job elsewhere)
• Packer (just ends up arrested again)
• The warehouse crew obviously gets bought out by Bob Vance so they're all good anyway

As an IT professional, I can't help but be focused on computer systems in this show.

On Galactica, even as old as she is, I can see why her computers would be built to withstand a lot of punishment. She's a naval vessel. Her computers are hardened against radiation, jarring and vibrations (though real-life maritime systems are typically designed for shock absorption to a degree), and shock absorption for blows from enemy attacks against the hull. Even as a decommissioned museum ship, one can presume she might have some stores of spare computer parts somewhere on board for some critical systems that the crew assigned to maintain her would've had access to had the attacks not happened.

But imagine the IT systems on civilian ships? No more replacement parts. If a hard drive dies, you have to rob another one from another system to replace it. Hoping it lasts as long as you can make it. You've got systems well into and maybe beyond their expected lifetimes, or beyond their half-life point at least. No replacement parts. No servicing technicians. No upgrades. No patching. Nothing. They run as-is for several more years with no refits or maintenance from service technicians in a shipyard.

Display screens are in short supply. Power supplies, wiring, patch cables, network routers/switches, etc. All of it won't last forever without refits.

To me, that's the most dangerous part of the fleet's condition. Computers likely run most of the critical systems on the ships, especially the newer civilian ships. Galactica is mostly manually-run, but let's face it, even many of her systems are manually run through computers built-in to consoles and cabinets. They're not using pullies and levers and valves. Heck even the launch tubes are computer-driven with a human controller behind the console/screen, pressing the buttons to seal the bulkhead, engage the hydraulics, and launch the Viper down the tube.

Someone on the flight deck or in the CIC is issuing a command on their console through a computer, to instruct the assembly language to engage the massive hydraulics to retract the flight pods before a jump and extend them after.

In the far more fragile civilian ships, one could imagine systems slowly breaking down over time with computer failures happening due to wear and tear from years of no refits or servicing. Especially if they hadn't had one before the attacks happened. That's not even to point out the radiation damage potential from the corridor they took through the nebula to get to the algae planet. Those ships were not built for radiation endurance like that.

Servers in a typical server room in real life can run for years, but they will always need to be checked, monitored, parts replaced here and there as necessary to keep them running. Even if they're a hardy, well-built system. A hard drive dies, a fan fails, a few sticks of RAM fail, a capacitor on the main board leaks, etc. Storage arrays will always need drives replaced.

I've noticed in many police impersonator cases I've read about or seen on bodycam footage that the same two excuses/stories are made:

• Bounty hunter/bondsman for court
• Federal "marshal" or "contracted task force agent"
• Funeral escort service/traffic enforcement company (yes...Dewitte is who I'm thinking of here, but I'm sure he's not the only one)

Why do most impersonators run to these as their alibi/story? Is it because they see that it can be partially true to an extent but NOT anything like they try to make it out to be, so they latch on to that as their story to try and claim they're ok to do what they're doing? Or is it that they're just pathetic at making up a story and those two things seem to be the easiest to come up with?

They seem to be the three most common stories I've seen people like this come up with in cases of impersonation. From simply saying they're an officer and flashing a fake badge to having the full-out equipped vehicle with lights and sirens with weapons, tac gear, and everything.

Curious question from a non-pilot:

I've been on many flights over the years with various airlines. It feels like some taxi faster than others, but I've also flown on various planes of various sizes, so part of me presumed this was just a trick of the senses based on the size of the plane (smaller plane feels "faster" taxiing than larger plane).

Do airports set the maximum taxiway speed? Or do airlines control that? Or is it an FAA/NTSB standard nationwide?

If a pilot goes too fast down the taxiway, is that something that gets called out by ATC? Or is it more just a "bad practice" situation a pilot may have picked up and should learn to correct and slow it down a little?

Sorry if asking too much. I'm just randomly curious about this stuff.

I forgot at one point, Adam had experimented with using a corded mic, connected to his camera when filming with a friend. It didn't sound the best compared to when he just held the camera, IMO.

IIRC he didn't use it much and eventually abandoned it after just a few videos. I don't think he ever used it in the DailyWoo channel.

A small group of "ICE protestors" is in my locality today. They think they're making a difference by protesting ICE arrests and illegal migrant deportations.

As I drove by, they had all these "HONK FOR JUSTICE!!" signs out.......literally no one was honking.

Instead of shouting and waving their signs around, what were 95% of them doing? Standing around chatting, shooting the breeze, milling about, some even just had their signs on the ground. A couple of them were younger teens who were likely dragged there by their parents and were just messing around, obviously bored.

This is the local "ICE protest" in my area lol. My state is deep-red so not a lot of change is being made by these people. It was comedy gold.

I’m just curious if Gotti is largely considered the last “major” mob boss in the NYC Italian mob families before they went “quiet” and started focusing on going legit and shifting to how they are today, not as publicly prominent nor as dominant as they once were.

Had there been any other “major” mob bosses since Gotti or was he considered the last of that “prominent” era?

My employer is starting to try and hand me “leadership” responsibilities but is saying I’m not “officially” a team lead or anything. So I’m to be a “leader but not really”.

I’ve been noting all of these down, keeping emails, and keeping tabs on calls and things I’m being pulled into. It’s just slowly being assumed on me without any formal discussion wherein I’m told officially “hey, you’re being offered a lead position.” Instead I’m expected to hold down my current role on top of this….for free.

So far, no discussion about role change, compensation change, or anything has come up and I’m about to broach the subject in my next 1-1 with my manager.

I see clear as day what this place is trying to do. They want someone to perform two jobs for the cost of one, without making it an official promotion so they can claim “extra duties as assigned, your salary covers this” as their (often-abused) reason for not having to pay for the extra work.

If this keeps up, I’m ramping up the job search to fever levels and giving these folks my resignation notice.

Has anyone been in this position? How did you handle it?