Dude, they can swallow flaming swords and shit. That’s gotta count for something, right?

Yeah even a drop of twelve inches (~30cm) can kill them. Poor guy/gal.

This story is still super vivid in my mind after over a decade and I’m super glad I read it through completely. It’s crazy but really fascinating.

It’s actually a hallmark / strategy of his family. “The only thing we are on this Earth for is to reproduce”

My company doesn’t work weekends unless you’re on call or something. I could see it happen with incident response or security operations, but other things aren’t so critical that we need to have our staff working outside of normal business hours.

I may be lucky as well because I work within GRC, and we have a huge focus on work-life balance.

This 70% number seems high. I’m in leadership.

There’s always money in the banana stand

So you’re hearing your mic play back through your speakers?

I’ve actually done this before and if this is the same scenario as I understand your explanation, I know how to possibly fix it.

What I believe is going on here is that deep within your audio settings in a galaxy far far away from where most people understand audio settings are, there’s a feature that plays back a device on another device. I believe your microphone has a setting enabled to loop itself back through your speakers.

Here’s how to check on whether this is your issue -

These directions are for Windows 10, I don’t know if this exists on Win 11 but assuming it does.

1. in your system tray by the clock, find the speaker icon, right click on it, and choose “Sounds”

2. you should see a “Sound” window open with four tabs - Playback, Recording, Sounds, and Communications. Click on the Recording tab

3. find your headset microphone, and notice that it likely has a green circle with a white checkmark inside it indicating that it’s the default recording device. Right click on it and choose “Properties” at the bottom

4. a new window should open titled “Microphone Properties” and it should have four tabs - General, Listen, Levels, and Advanced. Click the “Listen” tab.

5. Ensure that the checkbox that says “Listen to this device” is NOT checked. Hit apply, and hopefully your issue is resolved!

As a side note, the levels tab in step four is also where you can adjust your microphone volume, I usually try to set this around 90-95 percent, and for some reason from time to time it can be set back to default 50 percent, so you might check that too. As always, try to adjust to your own setup as everyone’s audio devices and software configuration can differ.

Hope this is it!

If you’re still hearing your mic through your IEMs, you might check the other present recording devices present to ensure this setting I noted in step 5 is not checked there either.

No matter what the outcome, it’s probably a poor choice to do this before your sentencing, which the judge you’re slandering has full control over.

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I was thinking more on the news side. You’re right, we can’t do that on Lemmy. I do enjoy the editable titles and the ability to tag and block users. Have a good day Feathercrown!

Ninja edit

I was going to say this as well. A multimeter is good to have in the house for certain situations and since they’re pretty cheap (~$20) it’s a good investment if you ever need to test fuses or voltage, continuity, etc.

Death by a thousand cuts

I don’t disagree with you at all, I’m just reminded of the old adage “The grass is always greener on the other side”

How long until we see Russia abducting troops from Niger for their war in Ukraine? They’re doing it with the Cubans as well.

Wow that’s super cool, it doesn’t look like wood. I’ve never even heard of wood PLA. Thanks for sharing! TIL

SMS 2fa has been recommended NOT to use since 2016.

Yep SMS two factor authentication usage was officially suggested to no longer utilize by NIST in 2016, and in practice before that, to your point.

This shit is old, people! It’s trivial to compromise. Start transitioning where you can to passkeys and start using an app based MFA, like Duo or Authy, both free.

I’ve waited for over an hour to even get to the main menu and still haven’t gotten past the server capacity error or any menu I can even dick around in. I’m not shitting on it, but am just disappointed. As a dad with young kids who works his butt off all week, it would have been nice to enjoy over the long holiday weekend. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

I’ve been in your shoes. I nearly married my ex that cheated on me. You know what happened? Like you I tried to move on and ended up meeting my wife while my ex was trying to reconcile. She admitted that she screwed up and that we should start over. I ended up snubbing her in favor of giving my now-wife a shot. Almost 16 years later and it was the best decision I ever made relationship-wise. My mistake was thinking my ex was the only one for me.

It’s okay to not have the answers. It’s okay to take time to figure this out for you. But you need to understand that if your ex hurt you when you really needed them, that’s not the person that is going to be by your side at all times - they failed that check already. Life is short and fleeting - don’t waste your good years hoping something will manifest itself through all of the past drama. You’re fantastic and someone is DEFINITELY out there that will appreciate you for exactly who you are.

There’s lots of fish in the sea, and potentially there might be several people out there that might be the one - give this one a chance!