Never forget, there was only a single key for DVD decryption, once found, DVDs could be copied. There were lawsuits trying to suppress the knowledge, but people started printing the key on tshirts… It was out there and DVD copy applications became common

I use it on reclaimed hardware … Works great for me. Has all the features you’d want for a home lab, and I run a few production hosts there as well

Didn’t they at one point use a bank of PS3s when they still allowed for Linux boot options?

Pull a Mr Spock and ask it to calculate the exact value of pi

Reddit is full of bots posting whatever the payer wants to promote. This sudden hatred of Firefox by all these reddit accounts sure does line up with Chrome manifest V3 coming out … Coincidence? I think not

I maxed out the buzz lighter shooter ride in Disney… 9s all across. I have a picture of it somewhere

Yes. I had the action figure even through it got all of 4 seconds of screen time.

Bash, zshell, BusyBox…you don’t really need anything else

I have a rack in my garage.

My advice, keep it simple, keep it virtual.

I dumpster dove for hardware and run proxmox on hosts. Not even clustered, just simple stand alone proxmox hosts. Connect to my Synology storage device and done.

I run next cloud for webDav contacts and calendar (fuck Google), it does photo and do. Storage. The next client is free from F-Droid for Android and works on debian desktops like a charm.

I run Minecraft server

I run home automation server

I run a media server.

Proxmox backs everything up on schedule

All I need to do is get off-site backup setup for Synology important data and I’m all set.

It’s really not as hard as you think if you keep it simple

Seeing the windows 3.1 interface took me back to a much happier time.

They make you buy the machine… The data is collected for doctor review, but instead of letting me use the open FOSS reporting, it’s encrypted so that I can’t see my own data.

After that experience I’m certain sleep apnea machines are a huge insurance racket. 45 dollars for a replacement plastic tube…lol

For example, my sleep apnea machine had a wifi for home and a LTE modem. Data gathered by the machine was sent off-site…no reports available on the host. Privacy policy read it would gather info, run diagnostics on itself and the local network without explanation of what it was doing.

My sleep data could not be viewed by me, only through the 3rd party, so I ripped out the wifi board and LTE chip. I haul the machine into my doctor office so he can cycle through data on the tiny display.

He hates it, but I remind him he picked the machine without asking me if I agreed to to the data collection.

Buy good shoes, a good mattress, and a good chair. You’ll spend 95% of your life in them, be comfortable

So many devices come with those now… I open up my products and remove the card, the antenna, or the whole board if possible.

No, he lives on a host in your data center.
He tried to get to the cloud but githubs actions threw him down to the ground.

We dont need open borders, we need a immigration system that can deal with the number of people seeking asylum.

You want a steady stream not a flood.

But I get why people risk it to come here. You can walk down the street without worrying about getting killed, kidnapped, tortured, raped… How about we send some of that 895 billion of pentagon dollars to Mexico for law enforcement instead. Like 10 billion, 1 jet fighter. Make Mexico safe for civilians, create job opportunities, and illegal immigration will slow.

So, food stamps so that people don’t starve…
Oh and just an FYI, immigrants can’t vote. Just so you know.

I’ve been to Disney in Orlando dozens of times growing up. Haven’t been there for 10 years or so…so took a few days and went to the park.

Wow, sooooo many people, like sooooo many people you can’t walk down the paths without doing the New York shoulder to get through. I didn’t know about the phone thing… It’s a new smartphone system where you reserve spots in rides at certain times, but all reservations are gone 5 min after opening time for the app. The entire park was filled with people staring at their phones trying to get in on a canceled reservation. Well I didn’t know about this…so I was in the stand by lines. 1 to 2 hours per ride and a non stop stream of fast pass people kept walking right in. The New Tron ride was fast pass only.

All day there and I think we got on 4 rides. Peter Pan standby was 3 hours long.

For all the money paid to get in, the crowds, the stupid new smartphone thing… I will never go back to Disney. Let the stupid international tourists have it.

Cape Canaveral visitor center was sooo much better.

And don’t forget about separating parents from children, holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded cells made from chain link fences inside buildings… They are America’s version of the Show me your papers patrol.

I see the difference as Would is indicative of intent. E.g. would you drink coffee Could us indicative of ability. E.g. could you drink coffee

And this we get the best ending lyric from Alice in Chains…“if I would, could you ?”