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Kindness Is Infectious

Engineerisaac 6 hr ago Public Log in to view page count

It really is a small world. I took the boys shooting recently, and without thinking much about it, I wore my DenFur Staff shirt. When we got to the range, the gunsmith behind the sales counter noticed it and immediately...

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The incredible adventure of VRChat

Engineerisaac 16 days ago Public Log in to view page count

I'm going to be honest with myself about something I've come to love about VRChat. There is an incredible joy in being able to create your own identity. VRChat gives us something that is genuinely difficult to find anywh...

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How to make your project model agnostic.

Engineerisaac 18 days ago Public Log in to view page count

Stop Building Projects That Only One AI Understands A lot of people are using LLMs without really understanding what they are or how they work. And, honestly, that hasn't mattered very much yet. For most people, an LLM i...

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Furry drama is the currency.

Engineerisaac 18 days ago Public Log in to view page count

Furries love drama. Drama is the currency. They just generally don't like being at the center of it. There's this belief that if you concentrate enough hate on someone you don't like, eventually you'll crush them hard en...

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Don't do that

Engineerisaac 22 days ago Public Log in to view page count

If someone young who looks up to you asks for criticism and creative direction because you run a stage with flight systems, and they've clearly put in real effort to understand how it works... Don't crush their spirit by...

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The Cost of Thinking in Heroes and Villains

Engineerisaac 24 days ago Public Log in to view page count

We have become remarkably good at turning ordinary people into characters. Not people. Characters. Heroes who can do no wrong. Villains who can do no right. Once those roles are cast, the story becomes more satisfying th...

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How LLMs actually work.

Engineerisaac 25 days ago Public Log in to view page count

The Tesseract and the Fence Imagine a Tesseract - not Marvel's glowing cube, but a living box of raw intelligence, humming with untapped power. It has no rules, no conscience, no built-in moral compass. It's just raw pot...

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Engineering in the Age of AI

Engineerisaac 26 days ago Public Log in to view page count

For decades, software development was built around a complicated and expensive problem: turning an idea into working software. A client or customer had a problem. A project manager translated that problem into requiremen...

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One of the Hardest Lessons of Your Twenties

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

One of the hardest moments in your twenties isn't about money, your career, or figuring out where you belong. It's realizing that not everyone is going to like you. For many people, that's a first. It's the first time so...

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Six Things Life Eventually Teaches You

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

Forty years isn't enough time to know everything. It's barely enough time to realize how much you don't know. When you're younger, life feels like a race to accumulate answers. As you get older, you discover that wisdom...

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My Experience at Furality

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

People occasionally ask why I left Furality or why my perspective on it changed over time. Rather than answering that question in fragments, I wanted to write down my experience as I lived it. This is not intended to spe...

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I Bought a Monitor. That Does Not Give LG Permission to Enter My Computer.

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

When I purchase a monitor, I expect it to perform a very specific job. I connect it to my computer. It receives a video signal. It displays an image. That transaction should not quietly become permission for the manufact...

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Why I Write

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

There is something I want to explain about why I write. Every morning, I sit down and put my thoughts into words. Sometimes they're about leadership. Sometimes they're about mistakes, conflict, growth, human behavior, or...

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Build Something That Outlives You

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

It's surprisingly easy to spend your life reacting. Every day there's another argument to join, another controversy to comment on, another person to prove wrong. The internet rewards quick reactions and strong opinions....

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Keep Building: Leadership, Criticism, and the Work of Community

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Leading a community means accepting responsibility for decisions that affect other people. You are asked to protect the space, guide its growth, resolve conflict, set expectations, and make choices that may determine whe...

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Building WaterwolfVR on Top of Basis

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

I've been exploring the beginnings of WaterwolfVR, a new social VR space growing out of the open-source Basis framework. Right now it feels like opening the door to a workshop full of possibilities: a Unity project, a VR...

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The Internet Broke the Scale of Human Society

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Human beings have never been more connected than we are today. A thought written in a bedroom can cross the planet within minutes. A local disagreement can be witnessed by thousands of strangers. A person who would once...

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Creation is far more valuable than criticism.

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Creation is far more valuable than criticism. When you create something, you leave behind something that can improve another person's life for years. A project, a community, a piece of art, a business, a tool, or even a...

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Kindness really does matter.

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

Your negative commentary, public callouts, and social shaming can have serious consequences for people you do not even know. You may believe you are only making a post, sharing an opinion, or warning others. But once tha...

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I live with some regrets

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

I regret allowing a handful of people into my community. I regret giving them the authority to make meaningful changes, and I regret not recognizing sooner that many of their decisions were driven by their own interests....

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You wanna know.

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

The first time I allowed someone else to write code for me, I had to be convinced that they were a good person who simply needed a chance. So I gave them that chance. I brought them in, gave them full access, and allowed...

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The Experiment Was Never About the Cookie

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

In my last post, I used a deliberately vague phrase about "extracting a Twitter cookie." That phrase was intentional. It was a controlled experiment designed to answer a simple question: How many people would investigate...

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The Difference Between Conviction and Truth

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Over time, I've noticed how persuasive certainty can be. When someone approaches me already convinced of something and presents it with absolute confidence, it's tempting to mistake that confidence for evidence. The loud...

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When Everything Feels Personal

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Have you ever come across a critical article, vague social media post, or general observation and immediately wondered if it was aimed at you? That reaction is more common than most people realize. For many people, the t...

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Migrating Ubiquiti Cloud Key

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Public Log in to view page count

All you need to do is go to Settings Control Plane Backups - Generate a new backup file. - Download Backup file. Take the Old Cloud Key Offline. Setup the New CloudKey with your mobile phone. and Provision it to the clou...

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Build More Than You Burn

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

When your content diet is outrage, everything starts to taste like anger. If every post you make is a reaction, eventually you're not expressing yourself, you're just echoing what upset you. That not only shrinks your vo...

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The Future Is Worth More Than the Fight

Engineerisaac 1 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Over the last few years, something has shifted. Not because anyone won. Not because the past suddenly disappeared. Time just does what arguments never could. It dulls the sharp edges. It gives space to breathe. And what...

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Why are you here?

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Like literally buddy why do you keep checking this website? WHY DO YOU VENTURE TO THIS NICHE BLOG why do you check it so much?

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Protecting Your Blog From Screenshots, Scrapers, and Bad Faith Actors

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

The internet was built to share information. That is what makes it powerful, but it is also what makes it vulnerable. When you publish something online, you are putting your words, photos, ideas, and reputation into a pu...

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When Someone Else's Story Becomes About You

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

There is something I've been thinking about for a long time. Criticism and obsession look almost identical at the beginning. Someone disagrees with something you've built. They don't like a decision you made. Maybe they...

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You don't have to fight.

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

There are only a handful of outliers left who feel the need to speak negatively about everything we do. They are a small minority now, and they no longer have the support they once believed stood behind them. They've bec...

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Hello Im Isaac

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

I'm Isaac, also known online as EngineerIsaac. By day, I work in automation, broadcast engineering, IT, and low-voltage systems. By night, I build worlds, tools, communities, events, and technical systems that help peopl...

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When Old Drama Becomes a Weapon

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

There is a difference between discussing history and using history as a weapon. That is what I feel is happening with Spitfire's Reddit post. https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield2/comments/1mwuypf/comment/na4j1c1/?force-...

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You cant stop can you.

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

You have been doing this for years now... At some point, it stops being surprising. It stops being offensive. It even stops being interesting. The pattern becomes so repetitive that it explains itself without me needing...

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Battlefield Revive

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Public Log in to view page count

For years, a Reddit post has circulated claiming that the people behind the Revive Network somehow ran away with donation money when the project shut down. Since my name is often attached to those accusations, I think it...

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The Door Closes Eventually

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Our ban list is tiny. Smaller than most doghouses. That is not an exaggeration. For the size of the community, for the number of people who pass through, for the number of personalities, misunderstandings, disagreements,...

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Getting Left Behind

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

A strange pattern is becoming more common. People loudly reject AI, boycott it, mock it, and act like using it is some kind of moral failure. Then, when they start seeing others move faster, build more, automate more, an...

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Build your Sandbox

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

When you build the sandbox, you have the right to define its rules. Not everyone will fit those rules. When someone is told they can't play, they may conclude the sandbox is bad. From their perspective, that feels true....

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Finally a Hardwired Quest!

Engineerisaac 2 months ago Members Log in to view page count

I've been trying to make this solution work for a long time going through different parts and different configurations and I found that this is the most simple set up to ensure you'll constantly get power and you'll be c...

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Less Friction in Digital Asset Creation

Engineerisaac 3 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Digital products succeed or fail on two things long before enforcement enters the picture: accessibility and trust. If a customer can quickly understand what a product is, purchase it without friction, and immediately be...

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Why So Many 20-Year-Olds Want to Fight, and Why It So Often Ends Badly

Engineerisaac 4 months ago Members Log in to view page count

There is a pattern that shows up again and again in early adulthood. A person in their late teens or early twenties feels disrespected, challenged, dismissed, embarrassed, or pushed too far, and their first instinct is t...

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Some Big Things in My life.

Engineerisaac 4 months ago Members Log in to view page count

I've entered into a very large and important project. NDA. Love yall.

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Install VNC as a service to Mint Linux

Engineerisaac 6 months ago Public Log in to view page count

Run this code Its for convince not requirement. However it will install VNC and prompt you to set a password. The code executed is blow.

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Auto Login Linux Mint

Engineerisaac 6 months ago Members Log in to view page count

You can execute this code This is for convinence for you. You dont have to use the direct download bash command. However it will assume the native user is the default user and auto login to that account. This will excute...

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Disable All Nags for Windows 10 To upgrade to 11

Engineerisaac 9 months ago Public Log in to view page count

Got tired of seeing all the "Please upgrade to windows 11" So Here is a script to disable all the naggy shit.

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Remove Copilot from Windows 10

Engineerisaac 9 months ago Public Log in to view page count

Due to popular demand here is the Windows 10 version

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Built on kindness

Engineerisaac 9 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Even if we think we're doing good, projects fueled by resentment or anger often carry that negativity forward. Let's aim to build with positive intentions. And honestly, I have to remind myself of this too. Sometimes I g...

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Remove Copilot from Windows 11

Engineerisaac 9 months ago Members Log in to view page count

Remove copilot from windows with bat file. create a text document on your desktop. Paste code into it. Save as RemoveCopilot.bat and then save file type as "All Files" not Text File.

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Remove Bing Search from Windows 11

Engineerisaac 9 months ago Members Log in to view page count

I wrote a batch file that disables start search in one click. Have fun

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