Oh no!

Anyway…

Death by a thousand papercuts

I was about to comment “walmart” because People Of Walmart exists, but then I saw Waffle House.

I think the choice is obvious.

That’s going to last all of 8 months, I bet.

Eweka is ~9 Euros a month:

Not sure where you got pricing for NZBGeek, it’s $12 a year:

According to my bank account:

Eweka runs about $16 USD a month (I also pay for the VPN), and NZBGeek runs about $12 USD a year.

Usenet is still very much a thing.

I use Eweka.nl (Usenet access) and NZBGeek (indexer). Works well.

Color me shocked.

Utah, now, is where Arizona was 20 years ago. We barely had any snow this last winter. I did not need to shovel my driveway at all.

I find this blurb on Pixels interesting:

OTAConfigNoZeroTouchPrebuilt is an app on Pixels that checks for a carrier lock. When a Pixel first connects to the internet, this system app will immediately check if the device is carrier locked. If it’s not or is locked to a carrier that doesn’t restrict unlocking, it will retrieve a token from Google’s servers which will allow bootloader unlocks. If the token cannot be received, then the bootloader cannot be unlocked. This means if Google’s servers ever go down, you will not be able to unlock your Pixel’s bootloader, as it won’t have the token.

Mostly because unlocking the bootloader and rooting my Pixel 9 Pro was the very first thing I did to it before installing my SIM card (yes, I still use a physical one). I also skipped the wifi setup.

Edit: in all seriousness, this is a handy list.

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Nice

Main services:

• Home Assistant
• Immich
• Pi-Hole (3x, to avoid killing internet if one goes down for whatever reason)
• Plex/JF/*arr stack
• Nextcloud
• Syncthing
• Planka (kanban for keeping track of all my various projects around the house)
• LubeLogger
• Joplin (OneNote replacement)
• Kasm (remote management)
• Mesh Central (local management)
• BeamMP (BeamNG.Drive multiplayer server)
• Crafty (Minecraft server)
• Traccar (location tracking)
• NPM

Infrastructure supporting the above:

• Mac Mini 2014 | some 4th gen i5 | 16GB RAM | 8TB RAID5+1 (OMV NAS)
• Lenovo M710q Tiny | i7-7700T | 8GB RAM (Home Assistant)
• Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF | i7-7700 | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• HP Elitedesk Mini G3 | i7-7700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• HP Elitedesk Mini G4 | i7-8700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
• 4x Docker VMs (managed by Dockge)
• 22x active Docker compose stacks
• 5x inactive Docker stacks (testing/tinkering shit)
• 3x not-Docker VMs
• 7x LXCs
• Unifi UDM (the OG trash can model)
• Unifi U7 AP Lite
• 3x Netgear GS308E switches (1x for house distribution, 1x for game consoles, 1x for servers)
• 1x Netgear GS305E switch (for my own PC + U7 AP)

Lmao there it is

Downvoters: You all know just as well as I do that this was no “accident”. Private equity always pulls this shit. Learn how to recognize patterns.

I fucking knew this was gonna happen. This massive push for AI data centers was never about anything else. Its a giant propaganda tool.

Honestly, did anyone really expect the crazy push for AI would lead to anything else?

He’s famous, he won’t be in the same building as the other felons.

screeching intensifies

“What was that?”

“Oh that’s just Poland daring Russia to push the button…”

Setting the path in place to blame whoever happens to be in power at that time.

If the fascists are still in power, they’ll just push it further back.

Sneakernet

There’s no way I or any other human can read 100 websites in a few seconds the way the computer can.

Nobody has ever been able to do that and somehow we managed just fine. Then this AI bullshit came along and now you old fucks are getting dumber by the minute.

You can fix that by simply not playing games with invasive DRM.