VPN’s can further limit your bandwidth. Encryption and decryption require a lot of processing overhead. Something to be mindful of if you’re self hosting a VPN. I think my Mikrotik (dual core ARM) maxes out around 250 Mbps.

“I’m sorry, did you just say you wanted me to run for President? Fuck. That.” – William Tecumseh Sherman

Oof. That hits in the feels a little. I’ve told my wife that I hope she outlives me. Maybe it’s a little selfish in a way but I honestly think she could handle being alone better than I could. She’s like my center of gravity. The person who keeps me grounded. I’m not sure what I would do without her.

Hell, even the police state won’t want to use Oracle.

I’ve had it with this stuff,” Dimon said during the town hall, according to Barron’s. “I’ve been working seven days a goddamn week since COVID, and I come in, and—where is everybody else?

Let me make sure I understand this. You’re the chief executive of the world’s largest bank. You have vast resources and an army of other executives at your disposal. What exactly is so urgent that you have to work 7 days a week and why is that anyone else’s problem?

Wall Street treats Jamie Dimon like he’s some sort of guru but it sounds to me like he’s an fucking idiot whiney baby who doesn’t manage his time wisely or recognize that he got to where he is on the backs of his employees.

“How did he die?”

“Believe it or not, every single preventable illness you can imagine. It’s the damnedest thing.”

Hope the rest of Europe is preparing for WWIII because there’s no way Russia actually backs down without a decisive loss. On the upside, I think any direct military action by the US would be hugely unpopular domestically. Even with the brainwashed fucktards. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to make a huge mess indirectly. I am very sorry in advance.

For me it’s not fear. It’s having to power up my “extrovert persona”. I’m happy to do it. I enjoy talking to people but it’s also exhausting.

If that were to happen, I hope we continue our 50+ year tradition of losing wars.

Ah. So they do recognize the problem and are going with the worst possible strategy.

Trying to compete in the field of “digital landfills”, which is already completely saturated, seems like an incredibly stupid idea but what do I know.

Huffman and Co. are apparently oblivious to the fact that Reddit is and has always been a niche “social media” platform. They’re more closely related to forums than mainstream social media.

I’m just making wild assertions here but somehow I think that the thing I liked about Reddit is also the thing the average TikTok/Insta/Snapchat/Facebook user does not like. That being that Reddit is mostly text based and requires lots of reading and writing (if you want to interact on any meaningful way). The only other thing they offer is meme scrolling and that can be done pretty much anywhere.

Adding any substantial user growth would require basically abandoning their entire format and would have a minimal chance of success at best.

One Drive works fine 98% of the time. But the 2% of the time it doesn’t can make a huge mess. I’ve lost an entire days worth of work on an Excel workbook due to auto save issues and it’s happened more than once. The last time it happened was the last straw. That’s when I switched back to an SMB share.

Turns out unfettered greed turns everything it touches to shit.

Maytag are just shitty badge engineered Whirlpools. Nowadays it’s Speed Queen FTW.

When that part of your brain is basically just a 4 kg (9 lb.) toy poodle that is constantly yipping at its own shadow no matter how many times you’ve yelled at it to shut up.

Sodom. From the story of Sodom & Gommorah, but I would choose the name based on a passage from Ezekiel.

“This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.”

1. Build an “AI” platform (by stealing work from basically everyone).
2. Lie your ass off about its capabilities.
3. Stage an IPO.
4. Profit.

I let a classmate of mine borrow my car. She asked if she could use it to run a quick errand. I was just trying to be nice. I didn’t know her parents had grounded her from driving or that the school had a policy against letting other students use your vehicle. In hindsight it probably wasn’t a smart idea but I was 17 so I didn’t think about it that much.

A simple, “please don’t do that again” would have been more than sufficient but instead I got a two day suspension.

Don’t be too sure. The GOP started replacing their platform with just sheer obstructionism and scapegoating [minorities] in the 1990’s. They’ve spent the last 30 years showing the public that they have no intention of “leading” and yet they now control the US government.

Gordon Lightfoot plays softly in the background

🎶This old airport’s got me down. It’s no earthly good to me. And I’m stuck here on the ground, as cold and drunk as I can be🎶