Whose to say the dolphins didn’t mentally force themselves onto OP? I heard they’re pretty… Nonconsensual.

The challenge I had as a kid was that everything was taught either as abstracts, or in ways that wasn’t interesting to me.

Like I remember so much math class, the teacher was using sports metaphors. And I remember tuning out the moment football was discussed.

Ooof, yeah reading their comments, I agree.

OP, if you’re reading this, start even smaller. Not everything has to be right in your house.

I been deploying web apps since 2010, and I jumped right into self hosting during the pandemic and it was a massive headache or challenges I wasn’t prepared to face or maintain.

I gave up (for now) and just used open-source apps and AWS, because I needed availability. And every few months, I do a bit more to one day move everything to pure self hosting.

Thank you Elong Munks

Like you can use any of these characters from Tekken. Or any of the characters from Squid Game. I guess any Kdrama could work too, but it might be too random.

Gave $40 billion to Argentina.

Spends $800 billion on defense.

Unable to feed citizens.

Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.

And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.

Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.

That would be cool if a whole state was deemed gay friendly.

Ive been to some gay friendly parts of town. But then the ungay friendly parts of town are clearly not interested. Then the outskirts are all “Git outta here we don’t like your kind we just wanna make sweet love to our cousin”.

I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.

And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.

It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.

Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.

Download the toaster app so you can make toast from anywhere!

In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.

I treat it like, “Ah I see you shared an opinion in public that is the reason your family abandoned you. And here you are, alone in society - still holding on to your shitty thoughts, and you will die alone.”

Holy shit. I was today years old when I learned that it’s not called Tony’s Chocolate Bars.

I feel like I Mandela Effect myself.

absolutely. And Best part of coconut milk was the monkey slavery

We had to buy a new (used 2022) car after we ran out old car into the ground. The touch screen controls temperatures. There wasn’t a single variant of the car that didn’t have a giant ass touch screen. It makes me really uncomfortable when the screen no longer works.

There’s also some other things that piss me off.

But Some of the pros (and why we accepted that trade off):

• all wheel drive
• fancy sensors when someone is in my blindside
• it opens when it senses the key is nearby.
• heated seats with controls. (Used to bring hot packs because it gets cold here)
• cameras for the rear
• it does that cool thing where it breaks if it senses you might collide. I hated it at first but I’m old now and it saved me once from collision.

Either way, fuck cars and if public transportation was better here, id use that.

Controversial take:

If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.

Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.

Ball was the Democratic Party nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 1st congressional district in the 2010 election, losing to Republican incumbent Rob Wittman. In May 2017, she created the People’s House Project, a political action committee working on behalf of Democratic causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystal_Ball

Yeah she’s gonna Fetterman the moment she gets a seat in power.

It’s reaching a point where the US dollar isn’t as strong anymore.

Its the only thing holding me back from moving out of the US is that my pay would take a nosedive in another country. And I’m hoarding like a raccoon.

This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!

I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.

Then I met a swlf-hoster who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I’m too old for this shit. I just want working services.

Anyone who travels quickly discovers how backwards America is for so many things compared to other modernized cities.