Funny enough, the money never seems to be spent on stuff for me.

If I could retire now I would. But living in the US is expensive and gets more expensive every year. From real estate taxes or rent, from insurance, from cost of food, from basic utilities like electric, heat, gas… Neverind if you want a hobby, or a vacation, or Any leisure activities…

Every time I leave my house it costs me $100 no matter what I am doing.

There’s no way I would have enough money to retire comfortably.

I knew someone who threw away a laptop because the screen broke.

They see junk

I see a new home server with built in ups, just rip off the screen.

Welcome to the fold.

Been running nextcloud for 8+ years. Love the auto upload and bookmark sharing apps.

The contacts and calendar apps support DAV…I use DAVx on android to sync contacts and calendar to nextcloud …haven’t sync’d to Google. Grab it from FDroid. I have an article on my web blob explaining how to do it.

Remember to backup your cloud data and secure your web portal or run over private vpn.

Oh and go find the php updater script…it’s a life saver.

It would be assault of a police officer and resisting arrest. Looks like that guy in pink was running in slow motion vs the special forces wanna be’s wearing 50 lbs of armor and equipment.

Throwing sandwiches should become the new protest en masse.

Instrumentals.

Mint is a great choice for windows converts. The UI closely matches what you are used to.

Mint and Ubuntu are both fine and have a huge support base so you’ll always find help.

So a school shooter can defeat the drones with an army surplus gasmask …got it.

I love having a lot of desktop real estate. Instead of flipping through multiple desktops, I can keep everything in eve view all day long.

Nirvana was ok. They are the ones credited with killing the hair metal genre.

But honestly Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots…they are all 10 times better than Nirvana ever was.

Can’t wait until a teams update ends up bricking the car’s OS

My company required everyone come back to the office. My team works in a terminal, we can do our work from anywhere. Everyone of my department went back in. I said no.

They said I could be terminated

I said go ahead and fire me, I’m the lead tech, 40 experience, I built and maintain more then half of the automation, I’m the only one who understands networking onprem and I cloud and has a security background.

I dare you.

They said they would make a special exemption for me.

The moral of the story… You can demand stuff from your company if your company can’t function without you.

Went to Disney last year. Never again. Lines are too long, you must use a phone app to get 'fast access’s to rides, but fast access is now just normal access. Standby waits are over an hour for all rides. Some rides had no standby, so no phone app, no going on that one. Oh and the phone app has limited space that I found out is usually gone 5 min after opening at 6 am or some shit.

I had to wait 2 hours for jungle cruise while watching a non stop line of fast pass people just constantly walking on.

It’s too crowded, elbow to elbow people.

Still 20.00 for a crap hamburger.

Tickets were like 380 for 2 of us.

Save your money and leave Disney for the foreign stupid tourists

I thought In New Zealand you are allowed to walk into an airport with a spear for ceremonial welcomes.

Mosquitos.

Fuck them. But without them most ecosystems would fail

It’s good to be da king.

That’s the great thing about science.

Things that are considered facts in today’s world can be disproven by new experiments and observations (recreated through experimentation and after adequate peer review).

So for me, it depends on what is being evaluated. 2+2 is a fact. Exact age of the moon might be up for more debate.

I use this.

I have Ms VoIP as my provider. $1 month per line and 1 cent per min.

I have a grand stream sip adapter… Configured with my providers info and my creds. Phone can plug into it. Works just fine. Plus you can use any sip client to connect to the same line from mobile or PC.

Also, my old house had pots lines in every room. I took my grand stream and wired it into the house, not a phone. So I can plug regular phones into any of the original outlets and it works as it directly connected to the grand stream. I have 4 regular phones all running over original wires into the grandstream using sip

I did it for ya…good luck with your phd

It’s all about privacy.

I am amazed at services offered that run rampant in the home.

My ISP offers fiber. But only if you also sign up for managed wifi where they manage your internal net…no way

I got a quote for solar power…but they must use a 3rd party cloud to manage your power and it uses eth over electrical … If you use eth over electrical already, then it does whatever it wants in your home network …no way.

Cell phones? They all go into a guest wifi…not on my home network.