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The game I've been working on sets up characters at run time using settings stored in a file. The characters can get relatively complex and can have multiple heads and several limbs. And to help me with setting up these characters and previewing changes without running the actual game, I made this tool.

I just had a meeting with HR. So for context, the past year or so has been kinda rough at work with anxiety, depression, and ADHD meds that no longer seem to work quite as well as they had been for the previous 20 years. So when stress got the better of me, I made some stupid mistakes, and made a snarky comment or two on Teams. I've actually been feeling burned out off and on for several years, but I do still get some satisfaction from coding, even after 13 years at the same company with glowing performance reviews.

Anyway, today I was given a choice: Take a severance package and leave, or stay with a performance improvement plan. Honestly not sure what I want. I feel like all I needed was was some time to recover from a particularly stressful project. I could've been fine. But instead I get an ultimatum and two fucking days to decide.

I've saved a decent amount of money over the years, so it might not be the worst thing for me to cash out and let someone else deal with the bullshit I'd be leaving behind. I would love to work part time and focus on my game dev project(s). On the other hand, health insurance is fucking expensive, and I'm going to miss being able to donate "a few thousand dollars" to my church's food pantry without needing to worry about myself at all.

I saw my doctor recently and while talking about what a lazy fat-ass I am, he mentioned something about replacing the crap I usually snack on with healthier snacks like seasoned air-fried cauliflower or something like that. So what are your favorite healthy-ish snacks that can be made relatively quickly when I feel like shoving food in my face for no reason other than boredom and force of habit?

I'm trying to figure out how to set up Pi-hole for the first time and I think I'm doing something wrong, or missing some important step(s).

I figured that using Docker would be the easiest way to get it running so I started with the sample yaml I found on the pi-hole/docker-pi-hole github page. Then I went to my router's DHCP settings and set the primary DNS to the host's IP (I'm not sure if that's the correct one to use though*).

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Eventually I was able to confirm that a site I blocked was blocked when visiting it from the host PC, but my phone and other devices on my network could still visit the site.

Then I tried copying the same IP to the secondary DNS, but then I could no longer access the internet on other devices.

I also tried disabling the router's DHCP server to use Pi-hole instead. I used the same default gateway IP I found in the router's settings, but I lost internet on the other devices with that as well.

I know very little about configuring network stuff so I'm not sure what I might've done wrong.

*I also tried using the IP address I found in the Pi-hole's system information section as the primary DNS, but then the site I blacklisted was no longer getting blocked on the host machine.

I left my computer alone for 5 minutes and Cursor goes all The Shining on me.

I think I'd like to go bigger with it next year.

I'm wondering if anyone here has gone through this process, and what the experience was like. (I'm not asking for help with any particular error or anything like that. At least not yet).

I got put in charge of maintaining an old codebase that includes Xamarin projects for android and ios and we seem to have run into a situation where we need to update the framework not just for security, but to keep the mobile app fully functional as Apple and Google update their APIs.

I did see that there was a button in Visual Studio to automatically upgrade the project, but apparently "upgrade" means "break fuckin' everything" so I'm guessing I'll need to take a more manual approcach and also blow a bunch of hours on finding replacements for all the dependencies that required Xamarin and are no longer maintained.

My biggest problem is that I haven't even heard of Xamarin before this thing got dropped in my lap so I have some confusion about how it's supposed to work on top of my normal baseline amount of confusion.

Rescued her from a water bowl.