Is that Dean Kamen in the last picture??? That might be the most upsetting thing I’ve seen in a long time…

It’s a shame we don’t have those banner ad schemes anymore. Cybersquatting could be a viable income stream if you could convince the cleaners to click banner ads for a faction of a penny each.

Sometimes I feel like I have to physically pull people away from things they aren’t going to like. Everyone wants to learn how to drive a semi with a b-train, but they should be starting on the good old reliable Camry.

It’s scary and disorienting, but imo it’s worth it.

I can now say anecdotally I have more friends that have tried Linux and are happier on it, than I have friends who went back to Windows.

Most of the people who went back went back for edge cases, weird hardware or that “one game” that has kernel level anticheat and doesn’t run on Proton.

I’ve been investing in my bluray collection again and I can’t believe how good 1080p blurays look compared to “UHD streaming” .

Well I spent entirely too much time thinking about this. I guess so? Though I’m more of an HE calendar person…

The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.

I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren’t actually sales they’re just the price a thing should be

Google commenting on the decline of open standards feels like a tobacco company commenting on cancer rates.

You have a choice. We can watch Ninja Turtles, read Ninja Turtles, or play Ninja Turtles.

That’s not a movie that you can make TV appropriate.

I’m just mad as hell at how many things seem to have topped out in the 1940’s. My car is basically the same. Five wheels and I chase an explosion around. Air travel is basically the same. Big aluminum tube that’s expensive size as hell. TV is basically the same. Tune in, sit on ass, watch.

You look at how life changed between 1900-1945, and how life changed since then, and we’ve really stagnated.

That’s not to say it’s all the same, phones are amazing, but they don’t change my life fundamentally, a day without my phone is very much the same as a day with my phone.

A cobbled together Ryzen 2400g with 16GB of ram. Open Media Vault/Docker: Plex Nextcloud stack with dns refresh/ssl/nginx Sonarr/transmission stack with VPN PiHole Octoprint

Occasionally I run a game server or two when the need comes up, mostly Valheim lately.