The KKK / Neonazis / White Supremacists are in the past.

I don’t think my parents even taught me this, but it still felt like “history”. Realising how much is still active was a wake up…

Now that I think about it, this is surely almost always a lie? I doubt many people will keep loving someone once they find out they’re a serial killer, pedophile, or worse, a conservative.

I would be sad to lose my beloved self checkout :( I still want real people and full service lanes for bigger / more complicated purchases, but daily small purchases are much more relaxing self-serve.

Many likely believe self-checkout saves time compared to a cashier lane, but the opposite may be true.

Oh actual cashiers are faster no doubt, but they’re almost too fast. They’ll spin 15 items through in 3 seconds and I can’t check prices or bag fast enough. Once I’ve paid I still have a minute of bagging with next in line pushing me down and 2 minutes of reading the receipt prices left… in self check out I like being able to catch prices errors as they ring up and have less pressure bagging.

Thanks, those wire vs wireless numbers are impressively close to each other.

Logitech MX Master 3. … Input lag? … I’m not a FPS gamer, so I wouldn’t know, but I don’t notice any.

I imagine the latency is fine, but the 125hz polling rate would piss me off lol. I will happily admit to being picky because I bought an MX Vertical and returned it immediately after realising I could see the low polling rate on the desktop (144hz monitor, so 125 has visible skipping).

It is indeed gaming, but considering how many wireless gaming mice there are it’s gotta be decent I would hope lol.

That’s re-assuring. I’m tempted to take the plunge and see what I think.

It’s actually so I can make my desk messier lol. There’s about a square foot I can’t use because placing anything in it obstructs the cable and makes mouse movement difficult.

The Canadian Bread Settlement reached a whole $49.11!

or qualifying devices purchased today whose 10-year support lifecycle extends beyond 2034, Google is committed to supporting your transition to Googlebook OS, with many devices offering direct migration paths.

What a pleasant way for them to say “get tossed.”

I tried it first and swapped away. I know I didn’t like how Radicale required editing text files to add accounts, that’s for sure, but the main reason I swapped was that the Docker environment kept freezing and using up 200% CPU until I manually restarted it. Rinse repeat every few hours. This was on a new install with 1 user. No issues since I moved to Baikal and the web UI is much nicer.

Need is a strong word lol. I definitely don’t need as much as I’ve got as I only use 20-50GB on services (Docker and TrueNAS) with the rest being used as ZFS cache. I would not have bought this much normally but I got it as a package in a PC with an RTX 3080, Xeon Gold 6150, and the RAM for $1000 CAD (750 USD ish?). No way was I passing that up.

This survey definitely looks vibe-coded as heck lol but I hope the results will be good.

My results :)

Data Hoarder 💾

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · More than 50 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Customization & full control
• My MVPs: Immich, Baikal, Forgejo, qBitTorrent, Home Assistant

God knows I wasn’t going to put cost as a motivation… I am actively losing money running double the storage I am using and 100+ GB of RAM on a Xeon chip, but having the headroom is certainly nice and has allowed me to expand as much as I want. Getting a good deal a couple of years back before the price explosion was a huge stroke of luck. If this server ever failed I could figure out a smaller operation with more confidence.

A lot of it is doing what other people tell you to do. This may be encouraging or not, but I consider myself fairly versed in tech and there is still troubleshooting where it feels like trying things at random rather than any skilled insight to a solution. The take-away is it’s okay to skip an app that has terrible documentation and you can’t figure out. Start with something that has good tutorials and if that doesn’t work, try something else. If you can get that up and running those skills will carry over.

Meh. I started doing this with my iPod 10 ish years ago, continued it with an Android that had no IP rating, and still do it with an IP-rated flagship. Over daily showers all that time I have yet to drop or have one fail. I have also used them in the rain on occasion. If something happens I will consider a 1 in 3,000 occurence not bad.

This is the curse of being on the feature release of Windows compared to maintenance mode. Windows 10 also had awful bugs when it was the main squeeze. Remember One Drive causing file loss?

Don’t want to be surprised by bugs? Swap to Debian Stable or something.

I can’t think of any businesses in the USA that I contact by text

It’s probably slightly different as an individual to business. I’m speaking solely from my personal experience of b2b working in a service job. Contacts at other companies are numbers and internal employee contact is email or phone. I don’t really see this changing until there is a new standard installed on all phones by default.

If Signal could send an SMS, sure… otherwise it is not a replacement as I’m hardly going to ask a business “what is your signal username” instead of the universal (in Canada) “what number can I reach you at?”

Let me brush off my Gen Alpha… ahem

bro using “ahh” in the big 2 6 🥀🥀

For simple cuts and splices I use LosslessCut. Never used it on a movie but it should work, and it is fairly straight forwards as it only has one main function.