“New reasearch”. We’ve lost so much knowledge. I think we as a whole are getting dumber.

I have a similar situation I’d like to get off my chest. We have a cat that started to come around regularly back in October. I assume it’s a she so I will go with that. We named her Alley. At the end of October I noticed she was limping and as the days went on it got worse. Soon it was really bad. Like not putting the front left paw down at all. I saw she had licked the hair off her paw trying to clean it. I grew concerned so I ordered some cheap collars off of Amazon that had capsules and paper in them to send a “message in a bottle” to anyone she interacted with. In the note I offered to take her to the Vet. A few days later with no response and we just took her. 3 visits later and she had antibiotics, a rabies shot, and a feline distemper shot. No chip found. As it got colder we allowed her inside. She’s litter box trained. The dog is cool with her, but our cat does not like her at all so they have to be separated. Fast forward to now and we’ve been trying to find her a home for a couple months. (She’s driving me insane waking me up at all hours of the night to go out or play) My wife found a rescue nonprofit that will take her as long as we pay for the initial vet care like additional vaccines, spay/neuter, and make a donation. We will have to foster her for a couple more weeks, but I am so relieved she’s leaving. I will not take in another stray.

What about international waters 3+ miles off the coast?

Bob Parr not ‘Paar’. Easily mistaken if you’re from Russia or not from a western country.

The two D’s are for a “double-dose of pimpin”.

I’ve seen that it tends to affect phones with a mechanical zoom camera. Like iPhones and Galaxy’s. My bike has apple car play built in, so I tend to just keep my phone in my pocket and use the cross bar controls on the left handle to navigate the menus, no need to take my hands off the bars to tap a damn screen while going over bumps.

How are your knees? I saw that episode as a kid. Mine make noises when I stand up.

The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.

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Yep. In the style of Trump

This cabinet is truly spectacular—one of the finest you’ll ever see. It’s got so many shelves, folks, you wouldn’t believe it. Absolutely tremendous. Each shelf is perfectly designed to showcase your prized possessions. Believe me, the craftsmanship is second to none. These shelves are not just shelves; they’re a statement. They’re big, they’re beautiful, and they hold everything perfectly. This cabinet is going to be a tremendous addition to any room—nobody does shelves like this, folks. It’s going to be huge!

Golf clap.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64206950

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/Samsung-races-to-guard-its-secrets-as-China-rivals-close-in

https://www.axios.com/2018/05/24/china-intellectual-property-ip-theft-trade-war

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-15/inside-the-chinese-boom-in-corporate-espionage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/22/germany-china-industrial-espionage

Ethernet speeds historically were measured in 10/100. In my past life I worked for an a small rural isp. And part of my learning I was taught that cat5 was 8 strands of wire, or 4 twisted pairs. I got very familiar with crimping patch cables. If one strand were cut a network card would negotiate down to its lowest speed and still work at 10mbps. Operating on 4 wire or two pairs. It’s possible with those numbers you had a bad connection, or a broken strand in the cable and it auto negotiated down to 10mbps. To this day I still crimp my own cables, and I own a cheap cable tester to make sure the crimps and cables are good.

I’ve had very bad luck with raspberry Pi’s and SDCards. They just don’t seem to last very long. I swapped to usb storage and things got somewhat better. I just had a usb drive die after 3 to 4 years of use. When I was still using SD it seemed like multiple times a year. Heat. Power loss, you can only punch holes in silicon so many times before it wears out. Whatever the reason.

My approach for this is configuration backup not the entire os. I think this approach is better for when it’s time to upgrade the os or migrate to a new system.

For my basic Pi running WireGuard and DNS, I keep an archive of documentation on steps to reconfigure the system after a total loss. Static configs are backed up once, and If there are critical configuration items that change then I back those up weekly. I’ve got two systems (media related servers, not Pi’s) that I keep ansible playbooks to configure 90% of the system from scratch so it’s as hands off as it can be.

Old I.T. Proverb: Documentation is like sex. Even bad documentation is better than no documentation at all.

Die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Kurt punched his card before it could happen to him too.

And then he yawned.

Synology Diskstation DS1522+ $699.00

Synology Diskstation DS1621+ $899.99

Some of those apps are available through the community package center. If not then you can run a docker environment or a virtual machine on the DS and run whatever you want. It’s got a lot more horsepower than a single board computer, but I still recommend separation of duties and let the NAS be a NAS. Put your services on a server or separate virtual environment.

This is my DS16xx+ and expansion bay