thefreehunter

@thefreehunter@infosec.exchange

Michigan based. SIEM, red team, musician, collector of hobbies

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thefreehunter, to random

Switching from weight loss mode (1200 calories a day) to training for a half marathon is such a whiplash for my body. It’s been two weeks of increasing my intake and I’m still not eating enough calories to properly fuel my longer runs. Getting closer though.

I’m glad I’m giving myself several months before race day to really experiment and dial in my nutrition.

thefreehunter, to random

I wish people understood that if you ask a runner “what’s chasing you”, you are not being clever or funny, and while the runner was likely not judging your insecurities before, they probably are now.

I AM running away from something. But you’re not my therapist and I don’t want to talk to you about it. Thanks for bringing that trauma up again though 🫤

thefreehunter,

@GuillaumeRossolini That’s fair, and my post wasn’t born in a vacuum. You’re right it’s likely just a joke but I just finished a substantial weight loss program where I had so many overweight people telling me how everything I’m doing is wrong. Then switched to running where now… so many non-runners telling me how everything I’m doing is wrong.

After a few years of hearing constant criticisms while succeeding at the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, it goes from merely being a morale killer to actively pissing me off.

But, for the reason you mentioned, I wouldn’t say this to someone’s face because they likely meant it as a lighthearted joke. Just blowing off some steam 🙂

thefreehunter, to running

Well I've officially started training for a in the spring. I don't know if I'm actually going to do it yet, but I'm going to spend the winter training like I will do it. And then I will make the go/no-go decision before the race deadline.

The last race I did was a in 2021, a week before my grandfather passed. I was already signed up for another one but didn't have the motivation to run it after that. So I've done a 5k, now I'm skipping 10k and half marathon and going straight to 25k for my second ever race 😆

thefreehunter, to random

In all the excitement of hitting my goal, I completely forgot to share it! 100lbs lost 🥳

When I hit -50 I ran a 5k to celebrate. Now that I’m at -100 I planned on running a 10k to celebrate but… I live in and the Amway River Bank Run 25k is a huge event in the spring. And I’ve got all winter to either train or talk myself out of it 😂

thefreehunter, to random

I have a heat pump through my home's central air system and it works well to heat the house, but... I still miss the heat from a real forced air furnace. Standing in front of the vent with the heat pump running won't warm you up like the same vent with propane or natural gas. It's more of a slow-and-steady kind of heat.

Can't argue with the cost savings and it definitely gets the job done, but it's not something you'll huddle around after coming in from the cold.

thefreehunter, to Starfield

It’s kind of telling how few people I hear talking about . I don’t hate it, but I’m not really loving it either. It’s… fine.

thefreehunter,

@soleblaze Yup. It feels like a conversion mod of Fallout 4, including all the worst parts of Fallout. Drowning in inconsistent menus, poor companion AI, time-wasting fetch quests, cheap deaths, inventory management…

It’s got enough good moments that I’m still playing, but enough bad moments that I’m not quite sure why I’m still playing.

thefreehunter, to forzamotorsport

I’m disappointed in . It’s a perfectly fine game, things work and it looks fantastic and feels right but… I’m just not digging it. There’s too many menus I just click through without needing to understand (so why are they there), forced practice before races (I’ve done this track with this car, let me skip it), and it just takes way too long to get into a race. I’ve also found the difficulty settings to vary dramatically race-to-race. I’m making huge adjustments to the difficulty before every single race. I also get very distracted by all the animated pop-ups during the race. Too much information but still lacking the one thing I want to know during a race: how many seconds ahead of me is the next car? Seriously, this is important information and I don’t see it listed anywhere?

So this will likely fall into the same category I put and in. Games I absolutely adore and am the exact target audience for, but I’ll never play them again because futzing with the settings and getting into the action takes entirely way too much time.

thefreehunter, to random

I ask this question regularly and I've never gotten a good answer but here goes again: Is there any good media created about the Dotcom Era?

I was alive between 1995-2001 but I was just a kid so I don't remember much. All I really remember is the Yahoo jingle on TV and my (late) uncle losing his job regularly as companies went out of business. But I'm curious as to the culture, the people, the technology, the mindset of the time. I know the ZIRP Era very well, but very little about Dotcom. Something like Cuckoo's Egg or Bad Blood? Something that presents a narrative of the era for people who didn't experience it themselves.

So, are there any good books or documentaries or movies or TV shows about the Dotcom Era?

thefreehunter,

@_dm I keep hoping for a retrospective done sometime after 2001 but I’ll definitely check out The New New Thing! Thanks 👍

thefreehunter, to random

I often hear people saying that older cars are better because there is less to break and they’re easier to fix. But every older vehicle I’ve owned has broken down and left me stranded at some point, even with stellar maintenance records. And in today’s fun, my 25 year old pickup started right up the minute the tow truck dropped it off at the mechanic. I’ve never had a newer car just die for no reason.

New cars might break down in ways that are more difficult/expensive to fix, but older cars break down in ways that are more difficult to diagnose 😕

I’ve never gone to the store in my 5 year old vehicle wondering if I will be able to get back home. But now every time I get in my 25 year old pickup I’ll be thinking of that time it died, I had it towed, and the mechanic found nothing wrong with it.

thefreehunter,

Yep sitting at the store waiting to get towed back to the mechanic…

thefreehunter, to Starfield

Just had my first “quick save then murder everyone” moment in . Rite of passage for any Bethesda game IMO. On this mission I negotiated diplomacy between a ship and a city on the planet, then I paid 40,000 of my own credits to resolve THEIR problem with absolutely no benefit to myself. And on the way out, one of their NPCs muttered “you’re lucky I don’t just throw you off this ship”.

Yup that’s a quicksave-murder moment.

thefreehunter,

@st3ph3n I was very disappointed by the dialogue options they force you into. I wanted my character to scream “you have a whole friggen PLANET!” But alas that was not an option 😒

thefreehunter, to climate

My favorite effect of here in is drought in the spring when I have seeds in the ground, and non-stop rain in the fall after everything has already died off.

thefreehunter, to random

I just realized I've gone the entire summer without being attacked by a sandhill crane or goose. Pretty sure that's a first.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Why is there not a giant-ass stadium rock band called SR-71?

thefreehunter,

@cstross They'd have to be careful about what times they play. They might get sued by McCartney if he found out there were Blackbirds singing in the dead of night.

thefreehunter, to Fitness

🎉100lbs lost!🎉 No big deal but I've been hangry for like three years now 😆

For anyone wondering, I used the good old fashioned "eat less and move more" technique. Nothing fancy, no secret, just hard work over a long time 💪

Oh and alcohol has a LOT of calories, especially craft beer. Going was probably the single biggest reason for success.

waldoj, to random
@waldoj@mastodon.social avatar

Rivian’s distinctive headlight style reminds me of the original iPod shipping with then-unheard-of white headphones with a white cord. Both are small design touches that serve branding beacons, signaling to others “you are seeing something new and unusual.”

thefreehunter,

@waldoj I felt similarly about the design of the original Prius. It didn't look like other cars so when you saw it on the street you KNEW it was different. Although Apple and Rivian do it with a little more style and class than Toyota did 😄

dancingdragon, to random

Continued
To me, AI art is pretty easy to learn. It took me two months to learn the basics, and over time I will master it. It's kind of discouraging how drawing a picture by hand takes days, and you only get a mediocre result. Meanwhile, an AI picture only takes seconds to generate an incredibly detailed picture. I have practiced drawing for two years, but I'm still terrible with it, but with AI it only took me two months to learn and get good results.

Another flaw with AI is you cant get exactly what you want. I have been trying to get a good Crystal Chimata picture for weeks, yet there is always something missing or messed up. Maybe this will improve over time though... hopefully

thefreehunter,

@dancingdragon I see these AIs like interns. You’ll get something, it might not be what you want, and you will definitely need to correct their many many mistakes. But it’s easier than starting from a blank white canvas 🤷‍♂️

thefreehunter, to random

Oh my god Starfield lost my saves. I have one save from yesterday where I dropped out of warp already with shields at 0 and no way to escape. Every save since SEPTEMBER 8TH is at this same point somehow. My only option is to completely redo the last SEVEN HOURS OF GAMEPLAY.

I might just never pick this game up again. This is bullshit.

thefreehunter,

Scratch that… it lost all my saves since September 8th. If I pause just before I’m blown out of the sky I see a ton of missions I’ve absolutely completed but aren’t represented in the latest save game. It just straight up fucking deleted every save I’ve had over the last 7 hours of gameplay.

thefreehunter,

@bakrav doesn’t exist on Xbox unfortunately

thefreehunter,

I had just hit level 27 and now I’m restarting from level 12 😭😭 and the worst part is I have to listen to Mathis through the whole The Lock mission again 🤬

thefreehunter,

@lapt0r cowards at Bethesda won’t even let me kill him

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