I was noodling around on the bass yesterday, and one of my kids asked me to play Master of Puppets. So I did what any guitarist would in that situation: I just played the guitar riff on the bass, as I don’t remember the actual bassline. But it sounded pretty good. Had to use a pick, though.

The first part of starting a ska band is having difficulties keeping a band together, so naturally I would have to say No.

Several. A Montana acoustic, an Ibanez electric, a Yamaha electric, and a Jackson electric.

Guitar. Been playing for close to 35 years now, and I’m half decent. I also play bass, but I consider myself a beginner.

And I was pretty good at trumpet when I was a kid, but I haven’t played since I was 16.

As someone in a programming adjacent job (which still involves a lot of coding and debugging, looking at my current career in comparison with other jobs I’ve had I think it’s not all jobs, but it’s about jobs that require specificity.

Some pick up the fundamentals on their own and end up getting good at it. Some pick up the fundamentals, either through education or hobby, but never really get a good grasp on it. And some fail to pick up the fundamentals. Programming is a job that requires a certain level to at least be useful, and failing that can lead to a lot of frustration.

I’m stealing your grandfather’s saying

I replay the original Command&Conquer every few years. I’ve been playing it since its release.

EA don’t deserve much praise in general, but I like to give credit where it’s due: The C&C remastered was very well done. 10/10.

Oh, and I play FTL from time to time. I bought it via humblebundle in 2012.

Gatas Parlament

Example: Sekstiårslaget. One of their older songs, critical of Israel and their occupation of Palestine.

That’s Autism, not anarchism

First of all: Welcome. There isn’t a rule regarding karma, but account age is taken into account when trying to gauge when a question is by a repost-bot.

Outside of that, there are some instances that you are better off blocking in an effort to stay sane. And in an half-assed effort to stay neutral, I will not mention which three instances this might be. You will probably notice yourself is you browse “All” for long enough.

And if you wanna fit in: Installing Linux will solve all the world’s problems. And no matter which distro, half the internet will shit on your choice.

The latter, no contest. I work to live, not the other way around. Back in the day when I was cash strapped, I’d happily take on as many hours, but now I’m at the stage where I earn “enough” so the monetary threshold for me to get off my ass gets exponentially higher for each extra ounce of effort.

I thought linux was American

Major universities in Norway:

• NTNU (Trondheim, my favorite Norwegian city)
• UiO (Oslo)
• UiB (Bergen)

In addition to that, you can probably Google city name + university and find some of the smaller ones.

NTNU or UiO is a common choice for anything tech.

If you’re interested in the job market, Finn.no and nav.no are the most popular public listing.

It’s when I went from a freelance perpetually broke dork to a full time and well paid dork with a career. That’s also the year I met my now GF and mother of my children.

She’s actually laying down in her field

Army and hospital towels are tiny, and after spending loads of time in both I’m sure I could get by with only one washcloth. Well, at least if I cut my hair again.

I may or may not be Old, depending on your definition, but I’m 43 and I remember my childhood very well.

I asked my mom (75) about something a while back related to the late 50’s and while her memory is getting a bit “senior”, she had no problem answering my question.

I’m not legally required to tell you, but I can say this anyway: I did correctly identify some traffic lights earlier today, and I got over 80% correct and very few maimed pedestrians.

Because they want the cash and not the responsibility of having as many tenants crammed together as possible.

If my kids are not allowed to do/choose something, I tell them why.

My career is a very niche part of IT, and I like it, but I often wonder how different my life would be if I was able to actually study music and music production from the age of 16 instead of dropping out of all other forms of education. Maybe my musical endeavors today would be more than noodling for my own amusement. My parents were very supportive with most things I did, except that one time I wasn’t allowed to go to the only school that interested me. I never learned why.

Over all of my SIMs combined, around 20Gigs. This means my phone, my car, my work laptop, and this one hobby project that involves an LTE modem.