My semi-long-term goal is pocket Linux and just a cellular AP. There’s just nothing Linux-wise that’s not ancient and expensive AF.

If that happened to me i’d 1 star their asses so fast.

I didn’t see bezos or mush in that list.

In a baby steps scenario, I’d count that as a marginal win.

It’s marketing, my friend.

Just inconvenience yourself for this month for the greater good.

Ohh month’s already up… he that wasn’t that bad was it, maybe keep going?

I used to buy the screenable CD’s and had an epson that could print labels, and I had the largest netflix delivery sub.

I trashed all that media recently. All those books fit on a large thumb drive these days.

They changed tactics.

Pirating is work. You need a little technical expertise for debrid, or to set up a media server, or even to keep a bunch of USB storage organized. And while it’s not that hard, when they couple taking care of all that for you AND running your likes through an algo and introducing you to new content regularly, your average person sees enough benefit, if the price is right.

So they introduce a service, get the price down to 10-15 a month. Get you in, get your preferences, sell them to the highest bidder and slowly crank back content to make more profit.

For the music it’s worse, they’re fucking over the artists AND selling your data.

When the cost in price or morality gets too high, they’ll all pirate.

Some never stopped.

We’re the closest we’ve been since the cloud started, but sadly, people are still addicted to the almighty algorithm.

And specifically an Android or IOS phone, and bit by bit, a sanctioned, non-rooted OS.

oh shit, how the hell did I miss that.

Normal consumers can install jellyfin. At some point they’ll make downloading a crime, they wouldn’t hurt people to have a decent collection of stuff ready for that day.

At home, I have a shit ton of in-wall HD’s behind TVs, a Dream Machine SE Pro. A 16 port and an 8 port POE switch.

At work, I have a Pro Max, a 24 port enterprise switch, and a handful of access points. I also have one of their door controllers with its attached video doorbell.

Their cameras aren’t bad, but they’re overpriced. I went full reolink and haven’t regretted any of that. I use their protect nvr stuff at work, and while it works, it’s not great. If you just want something easy to set up and go, it’s good enough. If you want to do some really complicated, complex things, you’re better off with frigate or blue iris.

Their VPNs a little bit light duty. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but when I did my setups there was no local DNS option. But that’s easy enough to take care of.

Surely millions of people will protest on their behalf. It’s not like they’re going to get their fat asses out there.

When do i get the jack in the back of my head, I want to get inserted like now…

ohh not The Matrix… damn

The other upside is that Google Docs aren’t entirely compatible either. So people are already used to imperfect versions and needing to pass around PDF’s if output matters.

The biggest problem I see is Microsoft can only cleanly collaborate with Micrososft and Google with Google. The second you open that docx in Google, all bets are off.

The real downer is the libre’s lack of supported online collab, that’s pretty much a requirement for business these days.

God, reminds me of the late 90’s and early 00’s

PM: I don’t know what you’re complaining about with disk space on the public drive, you had duplicate files everywhere.

Me: No, we don’t, There are no duplicates, I run scripts to find that.

PM: BS, All the project stuff on the G drive is duplicated on P drive, don’t worry I deleted it off the G drive for you.

Me: … you what?

PM: I deleted it for you

me: O.O would you go look on the P drive? It’ll be empty now.

PM: nah, I just deleted it from G.

me: go look, those where just drive maps on P pointing back to the

PM: looking scared nuh uh… checks Why, why would be do that?

me: Lead PM asked for a mapping to P: because they disliked typing in G:\Projects. We don’t issue you individual drives because raids are really expensive. Let the PM’s know the files will be back in a couple of hours, I need to go beat up Backup Exec for a while.

That’s why I refused to give my kids consoles and limit access to their phones when reasonable. They’re both PC users. I gave them AutoIT and showed them how to make grinders and autoclickers for Roblox.

You’ll always feel needed, though.

innocent jews still exist.

Absolutely, and I’d say even the majority. Sadly, the non-innocent ones have just devalued the definition of antisemitism so harshly that it cannot be used anymore without the assumption of bad connotation. I would recommend coming up with a new, more specific term that can’t be used as a genocide shield.

Yup. Who’s in charge of determining if he gets bailed out? How much money does each of them need to say yes?

Oh, they won’t take money? What influence does he need to buy?

For the amount of money he’s set to get, there’s noone that’ll turn down a nice gift of some sort.

or Waze, proceed right on manaheim parkway… bing bong bong, now it wants me to go the other way, can i even make a u-turn here?