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I had an Ubuntu system eat itself Christmas Eve at 1am. I think an update pooched some folder permissions and wiped the firewall settings.

It started with “Huh, the network drives won’t mount”, progressed to containers failing to start with “hardware not found” GPU-related errors -oh yeah, I still have to check that and make sure it is working- and yadda yadda… 13 hours later I got services back up and running.

Oof, today I slept in until 10. Ahhhhh…

Man, I wanted my Zoraxy migration to go smoothly, but it’s been stubborn as hell for me. 80% of my services transfered well, but a couple docker containers don’t like it and never got letsencrypt wildcard dns up and running; always an error. Still working on that in my spare time.

Mine was a live CD of Ubuntu about 3 years ago. It was an older computer and the front USB ports weren’t plugged in so no USB drive.

… but they all turned out like shit

Well punned good sir

Oh no! A struggling utility! I wonder where excess money is flowing? What could possibly fund these upgrades? -[insert generalized doom & gloom] -

https://energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-struggled-utility-ceos-pay-spiked-last-year/

We burned a lot of midnight oil on that company. It was a early data analytics type venture that was fun, but had a lot of long nights. We had an ethical spin from the ground up which, in hindsight, is not really the direction the Internet wanted to take.

It was a great bunch of folks though. We keep in touch now and then.

We had no intention of making/hosting a website with the trademark. The company was in agreement.

After we got it, the bossman comes to me and says “so we can make this email addresses now, right?”

Like, duuude… It’s not his expertise, I know, but he thought web pages and email was totally separate systems.

Anyway, that was almost 25 years ago. All water under the bridge.

That’s kinda how cybersquatting laws work.

Someone registered an available domain hours after I searched for it when I received our trademark. The domain was immediately put up for sale. I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain (I even had screenshots of the availability. The scammer was watching registration queries) but they let the domain expire for lack of interest. I scooped it up after that.

I don’t think Target is either complying with the law nor violating it; I don’t think it applies whatsoever and they just added the disclosure anyway. I no longer know who to believe so I’ll just assume they are all a bunch of lying arseholes at our expense.

Different stores have different prices based on geolocation. There’s nothing new with that. But if that reflects on the website, an algorithm didn’t use personal data to determine anything.

What I do think, besides incompetence, may be a desensitizing campaign numbing customers to the practice possibly for a future rollout or drum up opposition.

EDIT: Instarget is fucking about. “At a Target in North Canton, Ohio, Skippy peanut butter was $2.99 for some shoppers and $3.59 for others. The full 20-item basket varied by about 7% within each store.” “An Instacart spokeswoman said retailers on its platform set their own prices… A Target spokesman said the company is not affiliated with Instacart and bears no responsibility for prices on the platform.” https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/instacart/

Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren’t prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.

My SO’s car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those… come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.

Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it’s a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!

Some people don’t like the update because it removed game modes among other features. Yeah, I could get them back by self hosting a server and modifying parameters, but it’s a hassle.

It would have been nice if they simply released a new app instead of overwriting an existing version.

On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.

I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.

“Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.

I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.

I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.

“What if?” Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn’t visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.

There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it’s an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can’t grasp danger the same as humans.

I trust others math more. Comment removed.

Normally I would agree, but this administrations actions over the year entrenched police/military protections from citizens from the get-go and strategically targeted cities to incite retaliation. It is clear conflict with American citizens in some form is a desirable outcome.

Attacking SNAP was a calculated move, but outcome turned unfavorable so they are backtracking. Polish the turd with spin, and try something else.

If blaming Democrats actually stuck, they wouldn’t do shit. This is nothing more than a move to cover their own ass and broadcast their PR spin.

As much as I hate the man touching our landmarks and his horrendous “aesthetics”…

… are we jumping on the green tile bandwagon?!?

That’s a rough one to defend; right up there with carpeted bathrooms. Oof.

Edit 1 day later: Just saw a picture of the marble version. The images didn’t load when I read the article yesterday. Yikes. Green tile FTW.

Hunker down and protect themselves from… Oh boy! Can’t wait for Republicans next attempt to kick off riots. It’s always a good sign when a government starts protecting itself from their people. /s

Maybe the latest projections to incite Americans by screwing over SNAP benefits recipients is bigger than planned.

Didn’t he bury a wife in a golf course for tax purposes?

Yeah, shady shit. Some Mobsters let you sleep with the fishes, some pour a lot of cement foundations. Trump has golf courses…