I haven’t used Windows in so long that I’m genuinely excited at the prospect at getting a new computer w Windows on it. Lol

Also, I’ve been buying Linux hardware so long that I was surprised how much bang you can get for your buck nowadays.

… That’s assuming that you don’t calculate in how much all the ads and mandated spyware will cost your sanity and future. Lol

Yet another thing we don’t have in the United States.

I used to think that was impossible because socialized medicine. Lol

there was a mural of this nearby where i lived in austin, but i could never find out who did it because my google searches just showed seemingly random results when i searched for “hi, how are you”

adding in “daniel johnston” into the search terms has finally made me aware of it’s background and the wikipedia article about it is bizarre considering that i first became of aware of it when i witnessed the austin police beat up and harass homeless and clearly mentally unwell people nearby an advertisement version saying “thai how are you” and the wiki article says this:

In 2018, the Mayor of Austin, Texas, declared January 22 (Johnston’s birthday) to be “Hi, How Are You Day”, a day dedicated to mental health awareness funded by the non-profit organisation of the same name.

now knowing that it gained widespread popularity due to kurt cobain makes it feel like a formerly niche cultural reference has been co-opted by the mainstream and now its original intention is so far gone that it has become an advertisement vehicle where basic civil rights can be seen abused by an authority that pretended to embraced it less than a decade ago.

it’s more fun for me over here. lol

something like this happened to be too circa 2005 and it made me switch to debian; which stayed rocked solid until 2016 when the motherboard died.

what’s ESO?

google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before

it’s impressive to me too since it’s free: i used to use the vpn feature heavily when showing up to work in the office was still a thing for me.

i still use the ssh server with sshfs as a cloud-like storage for uploading things from my phone and work computers like pics and for downloading media like music and videos; although i’ve been gradually weaning myself off that via social media content so that now i barely use it at all besides as an ssh tunnel.

the add blocking alone makes the effort worth while for me and i’ve gotten so used to it that i can no longer tolerate adds when i have to to use other people’s rigs; it’s makes me strangely angry somehow. lol

i created this post about how i have it setup; but this time around i’m going to replace the windows vm behind the pfsense vm with a physical AP since that’s the part of the stack that’s the most proned to breaking. i’m not to enthused about doing so because i have a high gain antennae attached the internal wifi nic that i was using as an AP, so i got GREAT signal for really long distances and even into the underground parking lot of my apartment building and the beach nearby, but i rarely ever us it as such so it’s hard justifying the headache to myself.

i used to answer honestly like because this and i never understood; and still don’t (i’m on the spectrum); why some people got angry/frustrated and it almost always eventually germinated into a full blown fire-this-asshole-already movement in the places i worked at until my therapist made me aware that people don’t really expect a true answer and will only accept certain responses.

i call it the social handshake now and i allot an extra 10 minutes every single time i schedule a work meeting an wait to hear certain key words/phrases before continuing on for the actual reason why i scheduled the meeting. lol

when i delete a post or comment, it’s usually because i realized that i responded to the wrong comment or that i posted in the wrong community; will it still show in such circumstances?

i’m also a pfsense user and didn’t notice this.

or atleast i was; i have to fix my pfsense router again so i’ve temporarily switch an ancient router for now.

is the point of this comic to express how a single point of failure can bring a system down and the dns here definitely feels like a single point.

then you’re in luck because it’s old news. (circa 2016 iirc).

tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.

it’s easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.

i wish he did that 25 years ago; this world would be a better state if he had.

At this point in history, it’s too late to implement identity protections. Your profile is already built, stored, and backed up. They even know your deleted edgelord MySpace account and that you unfriended Tom (you monster). I guess if you were born in a ditch without a SSN, and never signed up for anything, not even a house/apartment, you could go under the radar.

i was going to say something along these lines and also that the data they have on you has life long implications.

i used to work for a data broker and the tricks that their data scientists were able to cook up to track and predict people’s behavior was really unnerving to me.

the company’s clientele was mostly high end retail & real estate and geared towards predicting the likelihood of your next “lifetime milestone purchases” (that’s what they called it). i had access to the product; so i looked up its portfolio for me and it predicted that i was ever going to buy a house or car.

i chuckled at it back then because my salary as a software engineer at the time was a very comfortable 6 figures so it didn’t seem likely to me. 8 years later i’m scraping by working for a local non-profit, i’m still driving the same car and home ownership has never seemed further away.

how does it compare to using firefox in private mode set to delete all cookies/history before and after i start the session?

be sure hide your oil. lol

i was going to argue that there’s no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol

afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol

npr did a short segment a few years ago of people with smart homes that had problems like this, water stopped running; lights wouldn’t turn on; people forgot passwords to security systems and entry ways.

some things shouldn’t be connected like this.

yes and not the way you’re probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn’t that far apart in age-wise.

OMFG I wished I knew about this years ago! Thank you!