Stringing more non-sequitors into this probably won’t make it make more sense

And the user experience I should expect depends on their stupid hierarchy for reasons I should care about, I’m sure, but still I find myself not. Choosing to enshittify is a choice. Choosing a business model that depends on coercion into an ecosystem that will become enshittified after accumulating a critical mass is another, even more evil choice. Doing it while those cheering loudest are the ones being fucked hardest (I mean, there’s still a “certain line” between how badly “certain groups” are discriminated against, but let’s keep things broad here because we all know the in-group is going to shrink… you know the poem, those that don’t speak up and all that) is yet another choice and one that I’m not willing to join. Doing it while playing monopolistic games arguably even more strongly than Microsoft did when it got hit with a Nynex-level antitrust suit is a step even further down the fuck-me-brick road. The list goes on. Have you met Android??? Google’s motto used to be Don’t Be Evil. Yeah, I’m at least that old. Fight me.

Edit: please don’t fight me. I’m in some back pain right now from some light physical engagement the other day. I’m also, at a minimum, that old…

No superb owls to be seen on those at all, really

I just ordered the bits for my future storage appliance, so I can share what I decided to roll with. I stumbled across the Fractal Design Node 804 case, which has room for 8 x 3.5" drives, and then I got 4 x 8TB WD Red Plus drives to start with, RAIDZ1, and then I can add another 4-disk pool later on down the road. The Red Plus drives run at 5400rpm instead of 7200, that’s fine for what I need and saved a few bucks while still keeping me in CMR-drive-land. I also grabbed 2 x 1TB NVMe drives to run as a mirrored pair for the OS. 64GB of RAM so I have some headroom for services I want to run. And I’m going to put TrueNAS Scale on it, which makes it really convenient to run those aforementioned services that I am wanting to run directly on the NAS, like NextCloud and my Linux ISO downloading tool.

Also now that my family has pretty much moved entirely away from using the big clouds as much as possible, I’m now reading some of the other comments here and looking into Backblaze to store my encrypted backups offsite. Not everything, mind you, there is a large percentage of my data footprint that is either easily recoverable or just simply would be non-catastrophic to lose. But the important stuff, that’s getting encrypted and put in someone else’s internet locker for safe keeping.

ABBAABBA. Skip level code for Aladdin on the Sega Genesis.

Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!

ChatGPT: E-mail them insecurely in plain text to the White House for safekeeping. After all, it’s the most secure location in the US.

Elon: Do it. Go.

Lol and these techno-fascists all think they can run the world, just trust them, bro. Move fast, break things, oops shit’s fucked BUY THE DIP!!! then see if Grok GPT can churn out a fix bro it’s good

Edit your DNS servers in the wireguard client config file

This is literally the most research I’ve ever done on this dryer. It is a GE GTD33EASK0WW

I took the buzzer off my dryer immediately once I heard it the first time. I don’t need that in my life. 10/10 would recommend to anyone that is even slightly annoyed with a laundry buzzer.

The stink may fade, but the stain will stain endure much longer, so to say

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Inheritees are probably going to feel disincentivized to hold on to anywhere close to a billion dollars for themselves, I’d imagine, so there’s that at least

A modern day Carrington Event would probably fuck us up pretty bad, so in a way, I’m right there with you

It was seriously bad!

And we’re seriously unprepared, despite knowing it’s a game of chance while we wait!

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As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school They hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool Till you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rules

A working class hero is something to be

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can’t really function, you’re so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you’re so clever and classless and free But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

A working class hero is something to be

There’s room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me

In my pocket I carry a library of Alexandria, an infinite Walk-man, a camera and a camcorder with effectively infinite film, a personal navigator… You get the idea, the list goes on. 80s me would have thought this was impossible, even if I am a bit disappointed about the flying car and hoverboard situation.

Oh sure, we pay a LOT compared to other places, but at least our telecom security is top notch… (Big ole /s, in case someone may not have heard about the SALT Typhoon stuff yet)

Oh. My. God. I am so disappointed in myself that I never realized these words were all related before. Thank you for this gift.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”

• John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

And unbeknownst to me until I went to check to see if I was right about the origination (I wasn’t), “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans”

• Allen Saunders, Readers Digest, January 1957