Hail Satan!

Jelly is a VERY BAD KITTY. However, those are the most fun kittys.

Carry on Jelly.

Who still uses a tablet?

Too big for pocket, too small to replace a laptop.

The only people I see using them are little kids at school.

Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way.

I had a cat that hurt his tail and it had to be amputated. I believe the tail is the anntenna back to the mothership and since he didn’t have one anymore, he was no longer an agent. he did whatever he wanted. he was a WEIRD cat.

Also adopted a different cat that did not have a tail. Never had one when I got him. He was also a deeply weird cat.

Once they lose the connection, they seem to self-actualize and from what I’ve seen they all want to do strange things.

This seems underwhelming.

What I find to be more compelling is to use an old android as a Sendspin client. Pick an open source music server of choice like Music Assistant and now you have multiroom sync players akin to overpriced Sonos devices, you just supply the amp/speakers.

If you really like fancy audio, just connect the old phone via the USB to a nice DAC like a Fosi K11 and you have a very reasonably priced multipoint streaming solution.

Now we just pipe the data through tools that can summarize it and give it to a llm. No sane person is staring at logs. Even when we did, we would grep, sed and awk the fuck out of it so it wasn’t so miserable.

Those were the bad old days. Do not miss fighting with a command line because you didn’t get the syntax perfectly right and have to mess around only to find out it was a permission issue.

Fun fact: those “colors” actually hurt resale value.

Though there may not be a wide market for cars of interesting colors, the market that does exist continually pays more money for the privilege of a color. Especially in the used market and especially more still for “fun” cars.

I don’t know where the term millennial gray comes from, but it is very truthful.

It’s like a disease that infects homes they have passed though. They paint their depression all over the walls, in various shades of white, black, gray and on rare occasion, taupe.

What made these poor souls afraid of colors?

They’ve infected the cars too. Each parking lot a sea of black white and gray.

If you have the mobile app installed, it’s running GPS in the background anway. High accuracy mode just ups the frequency of checkin to your liking. Besides, you only need to have it on for a minute or so to determine vector. You probably already have it, but if there is any question, going high accuracy for a moment will answer it.

I don’t find that high accuracy does much to battery life as long as you’re smart with it. There are may ways to configure it so it won’t eat your battery.

You can just remotely enable high accuracy mode for a minute and it will trace their path on a map cleanly.

_action: notify.mobile_app_your_fone metadata: {} data: message: device_high_accuracy_mode data: silent: true high_accuracy_mode: turn_on channel: loc __

I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.

Fire also creates activity.

I want you to tell me more about your cats.

I mean, you could just switch to porn exclusively.

Hey, maybe that was the plan all along! I just wanted to understand how to fix my car or watch cat videos and now I’m watching a video where some lady is stuffing herself full of, well, everything.

Big porn wins again dammit!

An old laptop from about 13 years ago barely breaks a sweat running proxmox and a handful of containers and two vms.

Waste not want not. Plus it comes with a keyboard, touchpad and monitor. Plus, built in ups. You might need to add a USB Ethernet dongle but you don’t have to.

I bet just about anyone you know has their old laptop in a drawer somewhere. They’d probably give it to you.

This is a very orange thing to do.

Just what the world needs, more entitled assholes with more money than sense. Clearly, they’re making everything awesome already, let’s get more of them.

That is because it is security theater.

Running any LLM on truenas is not awesome. I’ve tried it with GPU passthrough and it’s just too much overhead. I may just burn all my stuff down and restart with Proxmox, run Truenas core inside just for NAS. The idea of a converged nas+virtualization is wonderful, but it’s just not there.

The host networking model alone is such a pain, then you get into performance stuff. I still like Truenas a lot, but I think that Proxmox is probably still the better platform.

Looks like you’ve been adopted.