Pumpkin Escobar

There are now four kinds of people

Pretending to have a spine for a few weeks must have been exhausting. Cowardly idiot.

I haven’t switched to it full time, still happy with KDE… but niri is really nice too

Finally, some good news!

Speed run getting elected as a Democrat this cycle, get arrested or indicted by the Trump regime.

It’s the Michael Scott meme, “I’m going to vote for her even harder”

Make 1984 Fiction Again

It’s used in The West Wing. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Auguste_Ledru-Rollin suggests it’s not really something he said

I stumbled across this sort of fascinating area of doomsday prepping a few weeks back.

https://prepperpress.com/usb/

A nice addition to that, don’t just make it a USB, but a raspberry pi. So you’d have a reasonably low-powered computer you could easily take with you.

Not suggesting this one as it seems a bit expensive to me, but https://www.prepperdisk.com/products/prepper-disk-premium-over-512gb-of-survival-content?view=sl-8978CA41

well done. for anyone who hasn’t seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc

Also, community. Just a couple episodes but he had a really funny/interesting straight-man energy that he did well

South Park nailed this with ChatGPT encouraging Randy to turn Tegridy into Techridy, “An AI powered marijuana platform for global solutions”.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjc5DqMsWkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDf_TgzrAv8

Thanks for that suggestion, I had a passing thought a while back I should look into something like this.

Any problems in your experience? I imagine apps will fail if you’re slow to approve the outbound connection and something times out, so I get all of that, looking more for broader issues this might cause? Specifically wondering about the docker containers I run, all the development nonsense.

I’ve used ceph (very little) and longhorn for Kubernetes storage. I’ve never really looked into distributed filesystems but could see something with a longhorn or lower level of administrative complexity as something I would use. The replication and fault tolerance would be my primary interest. Some sort of network share on top of the distributed filesystem too, like windows DFS sort of?

Also, again, never looked into distributed filesystems much but if there was a mode where a distributed filesystem could replace syncthing for ensuring a copy of the data was replicated to specific/all machines, that would be interesting. Specifically I’d like to replicate my media share to my laptop so I have it when offline / traveling. I’m all on Linux these days but something like what windows has where you can make a network share available offline and it just caches it to a local directory…. Feels like a distributed FS could do something similar.

Sounds like Eco may be for you. It’s definitely not the same management and production chain thing but some of that, and I ended up liking it more than I expected

I liked googles response statement that they disagree with the ruling and are considering their next steps. You could hear the champagne bottles popping open in the background… and it was a written statement.

Nice. I’m definitely keeping an eye out for new tour date announcements

Manchester Orchestra - https://youtu.be/dMkCpGDrehU

M83 - https://youtu.be/UHNVQ2PHTr4

I just bought some UniFi gear for the first time. Cloud gateway fiber, u7 pro xgs and u7 long range.

Really like the dashboard, configuration, vlan.

Really dislike the WiFi APs, they’re AWFUL on range/speed. Updated, tweaked settings, Ethernet backhaul… I had better and more reliable coverage with a single ASUS router (but the asus firmware was terrible). A synology mesh worked pretty reliably too but no >2.5gbps wan port.

I also wish their DNS was more full featured. I haven’t dug into this much, maybe it is something I can do by SSHing into router, been too busy trying to get the WiFi improved.

Not annoyed enough to return the gear but really disappointed with WiFi performance.

There are some good videos by Vegas locals talking about how ridiculous the resort fees and restaurant fees on the strip have become.

I’ve been to Vegas a bunch of times. It’s a fun place to lose some money, but it’s all slot machines with worse payouts and tons of resort fees now.

The first episode was great, but the PSA was really something. 49 more PSAs and I’m definitely tuning in to see them.