I’m a 26 year veteran systems / infrastructure engineer and often work on large scale data / server migration projects. My homelab is larger and more robust than 95% of the client sites I service; everything is enterprise class hardware and software. I self host my own RMM, VPN, and various data and entertainment services. Most of the things I run here are to make my life better or easier for myself and my family.

My formal education is in business administration; I did not go to school specifically for an IT Degree. It’s just something I love. I went to school to understand the business side of the thing I love, which has been very helpful. If you find a job doing what you love, work can feel like an accomplishment instead of a burden.

Never stop learning!

As someone who has worked a lifetime in IT, I cannot tell you how unbelievably common this is.

I operate on a simple rule

I see a purrito I upvote a purrito

Since when does the pentagon tell everyone their plans before doing them

oh right, never

“Revoked a scientific finding” is as smart as saying “water not wet anymore”.

On my most recent new install of gimp a few weeks back, it now has a reopen last documents feature, and I think it does now cache your last open files in the event of a crash.

I’ve been using GIMP since the mid 2000’s as a replacement for Photoshop4/5 and it has always been a great tool. I haven’t ever really had any major stability issues with it.

And to think I was actually considering hitting that “upgrade to w11” button.

There are a number of collectors and enthusiasts who enjoy alternative types of media. It was an experience listening to music on tape and hearing the hiss of the tape. It has a different sound to it, sort of like vinyl.

If there’s money to be made, they’ll find ways to get it. If that means selling tapes, they’ll sell tapes again. Records are still back in style and being mass produced again.

I remember when you could just adjust or swap the carb… I would never in a million years buy a soft-locked car.

If the feature is there, it better work without a monthly cost. I’d order it factory delete, otherwise. Probably not an option with the goofy computer systems they put in vehicles these days. I loathe touch-panel controls in cars. I want knobs and buttons, not controls buried 3 clicks deep into some awful UI behind a crappy low res resistive touch panel. Gross.

And in 5 or 10 years, whenever your car computer becomes obsolete and no longer connects to the control servers, what about your features then? I presume they’ll just stop working without a server to approve it.

There’s nothing good about this ecosystem. It’s meant to cost you indefinitely before premature and manufacturer-premeditated replacement.

WILL THERE BE MORE AT 11? I HAVE TO KNOW

“Look at them, not at us”

Shit, are consumer appliances really getting that bad? ew!

My house has manual windows, manual locks, and a dumb garage door controller… because I work in IT.

I do have a few smart appliances (environment reporting) but they are only allowed on the banishment VLAN so they don’t get to interact with any single appliance inside my network. All they see is internet and nothing else.

I’d rub that belly. That belly needs rubs!

Ok, so there are hosted instances? At face value this looks like you need to self host. Which I am more than capable of both in terms of equipment and experience. I just don’t want to go that far to watch youtube. Thanks for explaining.

Second. I want to make one of these.

This doesn’t seem very straightforward…

Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It’s an awful experience. But they’ll leave my browser before my adblocker does.

What better way to get you to pay them to steal and abuse your data?

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