I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

I have frequently complained that the cat doesn’t do anything useful except generate poo, and what can I do with that?

My demands to get a job are met with disdain.

I think a better question: Why are they reading YouTube comments?

The worst and best thing you can do when using vim is learn the movement keys (h, j, k, and l) because they’re so powerful and work no where else.

The enshitification of Assistant is what prompted me, a few months ago, to embark on a quest to remove Google (and other cloud-based services) from my home automation setup. I’ve since swapped over to Home Assistant using Zigbee for almost everything.

I had to keep the Alexa integration going, or the other half would lose their god damned mind because apparently, that’s the only way on the entire planet to turn the light by the couch on and off.

But yeah, next up is just replacing all the light switches with zigbee-enabled ones so I can go full scary motion detection in a room thing. It’s going to be super futuristic in here, like 1998!

TIL: I have a perpetually disappointed cat.

Also, hey hello, now look at my butthole.

Oh no, this was back in the days when we loaded our distros by way of a stack of floppy disks.

sudo rm -f /lib /usr/share/backup/blah blah.tar.gz

Note the space.

Yes.

It’s deprecating old phone OS versions.

It’s hardly new territory.

Obviously that was Obama.

You can, in Windows, boot into a no network safe mode and set various registry and group policies to stop Windows updates.

If you’re particularly frisky, there are alternatives to the WSUS, Windows Server Update Service you could deploy on your local network.

It’s a lot of work, though.

There was one years ago I had where all you needed was to type course.pass(true) into the console.

It’s a twofold scam.

One, because the person is buying new, it’s driving up sales to a bunch of “confirmed” addresses, which is an important metric for Amazon sales.

Two, the “random” destination is a second customer’s address, and the friend is being an unwitting proxy in a drop shipping scheme.

Tandem Diabetes, the people that make one of the few insulin pumps out there, quite vocally demand that, to keep your official apps working, you not update to the latest versions of Android or iOS.

Such bullshit.

Dude is like grandma with 30 toolbars in Internet Explorer and mad at Compaq for making the Internet hard to see.

Best run, there’s a very tiny darkhoundkitty on the loose.

The vertical tabs are why I keep it around.

Having worked in corporate America for some time now, I would guess it was 95% internal politics. Whoever ran the inbox team didn’t play the game right.

The mark of a great teacher.

Perhaps not great, but effective. This attitude is exactly how working in the corporate world works. Reality and being right are rarely, if ever, the important thing. Following the rules, doing what you’re told, and sitting the fuck down and shutting the fuck up? That’s what this teacher was teaching their students.