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I have to ask but uh, does he REALLY look like that, or has someone photoshopped him. Because if you look up 'weird nerd nobody liked in highschool on a power trip because he runs a webstie now' on wikipedia, that's the image you'd get.

(And before I get lambasted about how I'm judging someone from their appearance: just no. I just find it hilarious the guy who acts like that also happens to look exactly like you'd expect. Some sort of uh, appearance determination thing, or whatever.)

Where else is there to go when I want to read content that's an unmarked advertisement?

Oh right, the NYT/WSJ/WaPo exists, nevermind.

That was a joke. And besides, only certain distributions count anyways. Keep an eye out for our Slackware brothers, they need our help and support in these times.

Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reeks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

That's because there are a lot of marginlized folks here - gay, trans, autistic, linux users - who have spent decades disucssing politely and negotiating.

Problem is the people throwing Nazi salutes and writing all these executive orders have, quite clearly, said they want us all either dead or in camps.

Now I wouldn't dream of speaking for everyone else, but I'm certainly not going to be attempting to politely debate myself out of a one-way train ride, if it comes to that.

So, yeah, while I don't encourage violence for the sake of violence, the neoliberal 'oh dear we must all be very polite at all times and let rationality solve all our issues!' is dead and worthless.

I've taken classes for and armed myself, and I have zero qualms with defending myself and friends and family by any means necessary if it comes down to a situation where it's us-or-them, regardless of who 'them' is.

If you told me even five years ago that I'd be carrying a gun and be fully prepared to use deadly force to defend myself I'd have called you goofy, and if you told me that I'd be willing to use it against agents of the state if they came after me, I'd think you have lost your damn mind.

But, well, it's been a long 5 years, and frankly, IMO, the rule of law and the trust in any governmental institutions have been eroded into nothing.

I mean, the american dream was always a lie.

Perhaps in the 1950s maybe you could have had it as it was sold to you... as long as you were white, straight, and otherwise toeing the perfectly-normal-nothing-to-see-here line.

But beyond a very, very short period of privilege, it's always been bullshit.

Well since they seem at least ambivilant on linux, perhaps not?

(Kidding, kidding.)

Maybe planet fitness can put it next to the free donuts?

Yeah, that lady is 100% going to show up at when you absolutely most expect it, and kill you in the most incredibly predictable way you can imagine.

Don't eat random plants.

Ugh, I got stuck in a Tholian web once at a Equinix datacenter.

Took four hours for the guys to figure out how to repolarize the emitters to get me out.

Really really annoying.

what does the cid come up as when calling a landline with name&number cid? just ‘wireless’ and number or somesuch like some cell phones, the billing name (like others–what we don’t want. we use a line as a business line), or can you customize the names that show up with the number?

I have no idea, tbh.

I went to try to test, but it turns out I don't know ANYONE with a landline phone anymore, so uh, I can't.

I'm still on the trusting-the-banks: I have a lot of money in the largest banks in the US, and if they fail, we're all fucked: if BoA and Chase and Citibank collapse, we're all going to back to growing our own food on family plots and you'll want a donkey and 10 acres more than anything else.

To that end, I'm spending a lot of money on what amounts to chickens, seeds, canned/preserved food, and bullets.

I mean, I may not need 5 years of seeds, and what's close to a year's worth of not-great-but-not-starving food stores, and enough ammo to clear out the 100 acre woods, buuuuut if you do need it, better you have it.

The problem is for people who have more than $500 to save somewhere: if I put half my assets in crypto, we're talking north of $600,000.

I do not trust a bunch of people who think computer-generated monkey pictures are neat with great big piles of money, and until they stop acting like a cross between the stupidest shit you've ever heard and a poverty-spec casino, it's not gonna fucking happen.

So yeah, I still trust the banking system more than I do putting it into even something like ETH or BTC, even if I'm doing self-custody, because I don't trust a single player that's involved will do anything other than immediately collapse if it reaches the point where crypto becomes more useful than real money and people start trying to pull usable money out of their portfolios.

If I can't pay my bills and buy food, then I might as well have just invested in shiny pebbles.

Bezos has stolen all the lightbulbs in order to slightly increase shareholder value.

If you're running HomeAssistant, you can integrate the printer into HA, and have camera streams and full controls.

If you're not running HA, well, this is not especially useful.

When I was a wee kid, I thought that scene from the Matrix where Morpehus explains that humans destroyed the whole damn planet just to maybe slow down the machines was stupid.

I mean if you block the sun, we're all going to fucking die, why would you do something that stupid?

Yeah, well, the last few years has shown that actually at least half the people on the planet would be pro-kill-everything, even if that includes themselves.

So really, this take isn't remotely shocking anymore.

Can you imagine if the first movie released in it's first iteration?

Stopping to remake that shit has probably been the best decision that anyone working on these movies has ever made in their life.

Hey Elon! Do it! You want to! You have the money!

Buy Reddit!

(It'd be the funniest damn thing.)

Yeah that's basically the same conclusion I reached: it's perfectly cromulent until you run into something you need that it won't do, and then there's absolutely no way to make it work, period.

A lot of the final decision was based primarily around the fact that I just was not invovled in what friends and family members were doing, because I had become a pain in the ass to contact and so people just.... didn't.

Oh I wasn't saying to not, I was just saying make sure you're aware of what recovery entails since a lot of raid controllers don't just write bytes to the disk and can, if you don't have spares, make recovery a pain in the ass.

I'm using MD raid for my boot SSDs and yeah, the install was a complete pain in the ass since the debian installer will let you, but it's very much in the linux sense of 'let you': you can do it, but you're figuring it out on your own.

Mostly becasuse, well, I don't like Android.

I've tried it repeatedly over quite a number of years, starting with the G1, and every time I've used it, my general opinion was 'this is fine I guess, but I'd rather have an iOS device instead'. Excepting the two OnePlus devices: those were utter shit. One I was pretty sure was going to catch fire, and one that actually did catch fire. No more crap from them, seriously.

Will say the Nexus 9 tablet rates in the S-tier of all the tablets I've ever owned, though.

And I'm deep in the Apple ecosystem otherwise: Mac, iPad, Watch, AirPods and so on.

And, of course, I don't think there's a wearable smartwatch for android that integrates cellular stuff quite like the iPhone/Watch does in that it'll share calls and messages on a single number. I know there's a lot of stand-alone stuff, and a lot of non-cellular stuff, but the last time I looked there wasn't really a seamless and cheap solution for leaving the phone at home and not losing any of the primary communication aspects of the phone.