I’ve got 64GB DDR5 desktop RAM, Windows 11 still makes me worry! Some days at work I’m running mostly browser windows and still during at 30GB used with another 20GB+ cached. It blows my mind.

Used to be, you’re right. Maybe 25 years ago lol

I think it’s high time I join you on that

Wrong, in 2000 it was thongs with low-rise jeans.

cries in premium

And the Midwest likes to fuck people with $1-$1.10 jump for premium.

This, kids, is a hermaphrolite.

You will own nothing–because you can’t afford it, and be happy

This is a “trust me bro” vibe from Google. Guess sites will just have to deal with a drop in traffic. Cuz they’re not getting any more data from me if I can help it

My recommendation to many newcomers:

Setup Yunohost, which gives you a custom Debian-based OS that’s easy to deploy tested builds, like Rustdesk. You can configure your Domain info, DNS, etc pretty easily, and if you decide, a dynamic domain or Porkbun (cuz is cheap plus free private WHOIS and SSL certs).

Yes, a small learning curve, but easier than building from Docker when you know nothing about Docker nor have the time to learn. I can fumble through a UI, I can’t fumble with commands or code that I don’t instinctively know. Others who day “just take the time to learn Docker”… But I’ve got 2 jobs, kids and their activities, pets, and other hobbies, so not much time for other stuff.

I miss the days of windows 8 and Cortana. Sure, she wasn’t perfect, but Jesus was it better than Copilot!!!

My Windows phone back in the day would link to my Pioneer aftermarket radio in my car and Cortana did text to speech for my incoming texts, and could do speech to text for replies. All through voice commands and hands free. My friends were blown away in 2012-2013.

What?? You don’t replaced your brakes at 5-6 years? If you drive under the US national average of 12k/year it should be around every 50-60k miles, so 5-6 years. Normally you hear the brake wear indicator squealing sound. Do you wait for the grinding noise to start and a funny smell? Yes, most people ARE in fact replacing at about 5 years. More often the cheaper you go as they wear out faster.

Surprised Copilot ISN’T coming to Xbox like initially planned. Thank god someone made that call to drop out, Copilot would eat up any remaining resources and butcher gameplay.

“AI” is stupid. All of it.

Haha, yeah don’t call someone a slut!! But a cunt is totally called for 🤣

Thanks to whomever mentioned airgradient the other day, I’ve got indoor and outdoor sensors coming soon! It will be so nice to have visibility into the surrounding air.

Hah, the data centers that’re controlled by AI fire suppression systems will fail because of… The fire. Like a catch 22. So ironic!

Just like Musk with the charade of “it’s coming” and as long as you keep excitement and act like it’s a game changer, the idiot investors will keep throwing money at it, propping it up. They’ve gotta believe by now it’s both unsustainable and a shitty product, but are just milking it dry for the sake of profits.

Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS

https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you’re all welcome that I showed you a new thing)

Edit May 7: eBlockerOS seems geared towards better packet* inspection, hidden trackers protection, and fingerprinting. You can install a HTTPS cert* on your current machine so it does MITM packet inspection where it can scan*, inspect, and reencrypt from the looks of it.

Im probably going to run this at work on my test environment to see how well it does overall. Maybe less granular control, but I like is more* than just an adblocker like pihole.

Very good post, this guy gets it!

Holy… Are you me? Haha

Solo IT, very outdated, uh, everything. Spent the last few years updating, upgrading, modernizing, etc. We’ve come a long way! I can conformably take a vacation without sweating out having my stuff at arm’s length.

Message me if you want to share more, bc my list is far too long.

No usually teacher’s salaries are from local city taxes whereas ICE is federal.