Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.

I moved to Germany. It’s been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don’t miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.

Having a spending based service economy that relies heavily upon the top wealth to survive sounds like a truly horrible situation to be in. All it takes is a handful of people to sway whether there’s even an economy at all.

The Linux Mint GUI updater is an interesting bit of code, or at least it was about 5 years ago. I looked at updating it a bit with a status bar for a stage I thought could use it.

I opened up the code…Python that just uses a shell call to apt. No muss, no library calls. Okay, that’ll do.

It was a functional wrapper on the command line calls, exactly as you’d hope for a tool.

It was just about a asinine as you would assume.

The Democrats are nearly ready to follow that letter up with a serious committee to appoint a subcommittee to decide what kind of paper to use in the next angry letter.

You’re suggesting a system of anything less than fascism and that’s not going to work for this administration. Please report to the nearest ICE center for deportation.

Multiple government leaders found out they’d been fired via Twitter in the first round of this administration. TACO is a coward and really doesn’t give a fuck about people so he just does whatever is easiest, including destroying careers/lives by randomly shitting things out on the Web.

My salary was not covering the cost of living and raising a family. Bailed on the US ed system for greener pastures.

I’ve been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don’t be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.

Germany’s government is also pointing out that the nation needs 100’s of thousands of skilled workers to fill jobs. The local training services aren’t seeking the enrollments needed to fill the jobs, so where do they come from?

The usual suspects are in huge demand (MSTEM fields), but also anyone skilled in the trades is in high demand.

That’s not the same as asylum seekers in general, but with falling birthrates, the EU must import people or the current models must change away from oligarchy-oriented capitalism. Given how the rich people move the decision making, but those same people push right wing populism to oppress populations, they end up in a cleft fork: not enough local workers to feed the baby crushing machine, while requiring xenophobia to maintain their power base. Once the situation becomes untenable, they turn to fascism to maintain their power.

Tough times ahead, just like usual.

I’m pretty cool with being forgotten most of the time, especially in general “stir the pot to make people fight over stupid shit instead of building guillotines for the real problem” kinds of stuff.

But yes, I drank (and do sometimes drink) from garden hoses. It’s just tap water delivered with more volume and outdoors.

“Welcome to the Hotel California” is now “Welcome to the Hotel El Salvador torture jail”

Can we fast forward to Nero and just put the empire out of its misery? Let the Eastern Empire be founded and grow.

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I basically built an electronics lab from cheap AliExpress goods. Mostly the parts for projects. Boards, chips, nuts, bolts, boxes. All the bits needed to build embedded systems.

The big stuff (tools, power sources, lights) we’re US sources for quality. Most everything else was Chinese junk. I could get five copies of a board from China for the same price as one from the US. I made it to platinum level with over 1000 total orders. When I could order a tiny thing cheap, have it arrive eventually (back then it was often 6-8 weeks), but essentially free shipping I was happy to build up my supplies over time.

Now? No idea who could afford to do the same thing. I’m not rich, but I managed to run whole IoT classes out of my garage with 20+ projects underway. Tinkering gets yet more expensive.

Or just forget in a few days.

She was literally climbing through broken window of a door leading to the safe room members of the House of Representatives were sheltering in. The HEAD of the country was being pursued by a mob that had erected a scaffold and noose in front of the building.

Somehow it was the officer’s job to deescalate the situation outnumbered 100:1 with a yelling riotous mob bashing in the doors? Yup, it’s all about the officer there.

Conservatives, in the end, only care about owning others and power over others. Always realize they don’t like or care about your well being. They only play nice with society and a republic when forced to.

So the Air Force is actively promotion insurrection and violent coups against the US. So noted.

It was a salami sandwich, so it’s a case of misidentification.

Don’t know their ability to wave signs and form committees while the Brownshirts drag people from their homes in the night! The Dems are stellar at committees.