Imagine the horrors of manchild…

Don’t. It’s evil. Even though you might like it, it’s not worth the risk.

Holy cow, I hate rhubarb. We always had it in the garden and my grandma used to bake cakes with it. Thos sweet cakes would be sooo good, but that pos plant always ruined them to non-edible garbage. At least for me, some people like that taste, though. (Europe)

That’s what we’re using now and where quite some problems come from. I don’t have anything against it, it’s awesome suite for personal use, but running it in company we constantly run into problems with compatibility. Every partner we’re dealing with is using MS Office and when they’re exchanging spreadsheets or documents with us it’s often pain in the a*s to make it work. And MS is not helping in this…

We recently had discussion on this too and 365 is also a possibility. Nobody wants to deal with MS and their licensing though :-D

It’s small grocery store chain in the middle of European nowhere, with about hundred of stores run mostly in small villages. Some of those ancient software was made in-house decades ago for internal ordering from wholesaler (also run by the company) to individual shops. Everything in wholesale warehouse runs on the same DOS thing too, with stock inventory, invoice, ordering, … There’s already plan to (finally!!) put it to sleep and replace with something newer and more flexible, but given how low on resources and manpower the company is, it’s not going to happen fast.

Thanks for deep reply. I’ll chew through it.

Documentation is non-existent now and that’s what bothers me the most. I, at least, started to put my agenda and acquired how-tos to plain txt files for future, because with so much shit going on I tend to forget stuff. I’d like to extend it and make it system-wide to cover all the IT related stuff in the company with some proper software to do it in (no idea which). But there’s virtually no way this lack of documentation will change dramatically anytime soon. There’s simply no will from higher ups and even if there was, there would be no manpower to do it :-( We’re barely holding things running.

Apart from usuals like spotify or bandcamp, I’d also like to introduce gnod here: https://www.gnod.com/

I do not use it very often, but it’s quite nice to browse the recommendations based on what you were recently listening once in a while.

Yep, that is the true mindfuck. Also the reason I rate these movies pretty high.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic movie. It’s just… it kind of fucked my mind when I saw it.

Same applies for Come and See. It’s amazingly done, but it’s brutal. Which is no surprise given the theme, but the difference is it’s so naturalistic and shows all the wartime horrors. Most films tend to avoid these and show only the heroic parts of war.

Speaking of which I’d sneak in Apocalypse Now and Casualties of War.

Came here to write this.

Another one would be Jacob’s ladder, but compared to Come and See it’s fairytale.

No idea about tablet input, but on regular PCs SumatraPDF is absolutely amazing.

Yay!

Of course it depends. I don’t really care how I look, because no matter what I wear I’m still no Brad Pitt. Quite the opposite tbh. So I strongly prefer casual and comfortable clothes whenever possible. And I don’t really care if one part fits the other. The only exception is I don’t wear red trousers when I already have red t-shirt… lol

Why bother with such a useless thing as stylish clothing when you have everything you want already? Wearing something you feel comfortable in makes much more sense in this scenario than wearing something you look good in.

I’m sorry to bother again, but would you know whether it can be powered and fed audio from regular USB-A port (with A to C cable)? Does it get enough juice that way? Because regular USB specs is 5V/500mA, which is lower than USB-Cs standards (5V and basically anything from 900mA to 3A). I don’t need it to shake walls, just want to listen sitting by the table it is placed on.

What the…?! It’s basically what I would pick.

I must admit that Dune was the one that came to my mind first. It’s just… so well thought out. Everything has a meaning there, the whole universe is well laid out with plenty of lore sprinkled here and there, characters are believable, etc. I have read a couple of following books and although they were good too, they simply can’t compare to the original one.

Catch 22 is another wonderful book. I highly recommend that one to everyone who likes absurd humor. If you like shows like Monty Python and Catch 22 somehow missed you, you just have to read it.

And finally Ender’s game. It’s been decades since I read it, but it’s still stuck somewhere inside. I think I finished everything Card wrote in that universe at one point, which means something, combined with my slow reading pace (like 10 books a year at max).

I’d also throw in some classics like Tolkien books, something from A.C.Clarke (at least Space odyssey or Rama if nothing else), The Witcher from A.Sapkowski (I recommend to start with his short stories before embracing whole pentalogy) and Riftwar saga by R.E.Feist.

For lovers of quite easy to read military sci-fi I can recommend books by Jerry Pournelle. And for other sci-fi fans sadly unfinished series The War Against the Chtorr by D.Gerrold. And The Stand by S.King. And plenty of others too.