Amazing how they lament about (unfounded) low birthrates, when then they turn around and do stuff like recommending against vaccines. As a childless person, why would I want to have one right now?

No child care, pure blindness to science, abortion rights eroding (which if something goes wrong, yes that matters and makes me less likely to have a child), school shootings, defunding education.

As George Carlin said:

They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

I never understood how they were so deluded into thinking it was permanent. Sure we didn’t know how long it would last but we knew it wasn’t permanent.

CEO of zoom was legit shocked when their stock normalized.

Got frigate set up, more mature than I expected!

I feel you, I had a similar case. At the end of the day you’re a line in a spreadsheet. Taught myself early that no matter how connected you are with a company, it doesn’t matter at all. Family, friends, they matter. Work to live, because work will throw you away tomorrow if they want to. Your family will always be there.

I’ve learned it really depends on the device. It’s completely a mixed bag, and that’s why I can’t trust it. Half the time it lasts over a decade, the other half less than a year.

For example, I got their “Enterprise” Switch 8 PoE with 2 SFP+ ports. I plugged it in in my garage, where it was 50 degrees (F) at the time, and it overheated. I googled it, apparently the SFP ports simply overheat. Turns out while it has a fan, it doesn’t turn on and simply overheats because they “Didn’t want a noisy fan on someone’s desk”. Which… uh, doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. Their enterprise term means nothing.

That being said, my rackmount switches have been solid, oldest one is 10 years old. However that unknown makes it hard to justify purchasing new equipment.

I never even thought about Aqara, I have a lot of their things already. Do I need an NVR or something with that?

Really?? Is that all? Best I can think is that the transformer doesn’t really protect the device at all, I’m guessing there was a surge at some point

How do you use Reolink? I’ve heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

Always remember when there is a massive leadership shakeup - you are not safe. They have their own people, they are there because the last person fucked up (in their eyes). Never believe anything they say, you are not safe in your position.

They won’t do it immediately. The first 90 days is them only observing, then at 6 months they have a plan. 6-12 months they’ll be implementing their new plans. Never feel safe because “they’ve been here a couple of months and it’s fine”.

I worked on ad stuff for a very short time where they could tell if they showed you an ad a year ago, and another one, and then if you went to a store, that it was all connected. They would know if you went into a store with presence detection that their ad was working.

Yeah, and everyone’s opinion of low effort is different. Idk, if all we see is pictures of a homelab or dashboard that’s boring, but at the same time I love seeing things people have worked super hard on and are proud of! Previous mods were pretty eager with that trmove button for that.

Yes. I’ll allow mistakes to happen, one mistake does not erase all of the good they’ve done. They keep doing it, that changes things, but they admitted it and apologized.

Welcome friend, even midlevel will open you to a world of gaming.

Remember the order of purchases should be GOG (DRM free games), then Steam, then shittier platforms.

Older games especially, things like the older fallout games you’ll be able to pick up for <$5 and play for 60+ hours

The average internet dweller doesn’t even know they’ve lost privacy.

after all, their post has a delete button next to it and their messages say private! They wouldn’t just lie

I worked in ads only a few months and learned how fucked that industry was. They’re basically given license to just run scripts in your browser, sucking as much info as they can. The fact that it hasn’t been regulated to hell is shocking, and truly a failure of all leaders.

Yes I was agreeing with you

Few meters of space for basketball? No way, too urban.

Square miles of parking and walking across hot asphalt for big box retail that killed small downtowns? Excellent!

destroyed

Ah I get the trope now.

Haw haw haw these young-uns not understanding how PHONES work Lololol this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in 60 years since we had separated drinking fountains

Louis Rossman did a video on this, worth a watch too