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So now we have to assume that anything being blogged about on Substack means that the blogger has a stake in whatever topic they’re blogging about.

I use nzb360 for remote management, but handle the tunnel/VPN component myself

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360

I drink ground chicory coffee (but not like New Orleans, mine has zero real coffee in it). It’s dark and bitter, just like the way I like my coffee. And it has no caffeine! Which is good because caffeine gives me tremors and panic attacks.

My fam and I are all O. Like you, they don’t like me. They’ll go for anyone else. I also find that they will land on me and not try to bite - or if they do, they don’t put in a lot of effort and don’t pierce the skin. Even if they do bite, my skin doesn’t appear to react and they seem to quit quickly.

Meanwhile, my poor spouse and kid are delicious. And they have soft, sensitive skin. It’s ok, I always remember the repellent just for them.

His loyal paramilitary goon squad

And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.

Contrary to fact hypothesizing.

I keep a small Win11 partition on my 2022 gaming laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users

Two things are always true about Rand Paul:

• He clutches his pearls about the unethical behavior of his party and how it has morally lost its way

• He will only actually take measures or vote to oppose its actions when his protest is symbolic and won’t interfere with the party’s agenda

He’s basically the male Susan Collins.

For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.

From his Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/flukejones

I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.

Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.

Same on his Patreon

Toyota is behind everyone else on electric vehicles, so any politician that slows or stops EVs is a friend to Toyota.

Also, green policies favor the adoption of mass transit and other viable alternatives to driving, which is again a danger to Toyota’s bottom line.

For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?

At the same time, the government here in the Netherlands has ruled that being a trans person in the US is not enough persecution to qualify for asylum or refugee status.

Double whammy.

I’m in the last chapter of Sea of Stars. It’s been decent. I like the pixel art, and the combat loops were challenging enough without being a grind. The plot for the first 2/3 of the game was fairly cutesy but bland. I’m basically grabbing the last few unlockable skills and items before going to the final boss, and I doubt I will try the post-finish addon content.

I think next I’m going to try… The Witcher 3. I’ve tried to start this game multiple times on PC, modding it and everything. I like the books, played the first two games, but these days I have no interest in sitting at my desk (where I work) in my off hours - I like laying on the couch playing my Switch Lite.

There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.

They aren’t sending their best.

My Mastodon instance is working just fine.

Unfortunately, this strategy didn’t work to prevent my kid from having the same milk allergy that I do. In fact, it’s worse.

Not fatal or anything. His lips become bright red, swelling slightly and peel later, he obviously gets days of the shits, and if it’s repeated exposure he will get rashes all over. And we’re talking some small amount of milk powder or unexpected butter deep in the ingredients of a baked good - if he actually consumed something like real milk, butter, or cheese, it would be much worse.

Goat cheese seems fine. It’s something about the cow milk proteins.

For me, it’s just a serious case of the shits when it’s the real deal. I guess my millennial upbringing of a glass of milk daily conditioned some small amount of tolerance.

“Don’t discourage our highly addictive product”