Yep. And a lot of the gas stations in my area have the auto-hold latches busted or removed, so you have to stand there and have a super loud ad screamed in your face. Which is why I now have a pack of reusable zip ties in my car that I will slap on the fill handle if I come across a pump like that. And no, that’s not dangerous - the stop mechanism in the pump handle operates such that the handle depresses further when the auto-shutoff engages, so it does not disrupt the safety of the filler mechanism.

This is the sort of American tourist that makes me feel deeply embarrassed when I visit other countries

I have a goddamn bulletproof T14 with 32gb ram and a 5850X. It’s a beast of a dev laptop.

I just got a M4 air, base spec +32g ram. I also do homelab things. It’s effectively a thin client, and it’s beautiful for that. I charge it once every couple of weeks. And as an ARM platform, the cpu is honestly very good, and the emulation layers you get with Rosetta 2 are kind of just… magic as a result of how good they work for almost everything. And yes there are gotchas. And places that doesn’t work. But honestly - and I know this makes me sound like an Apple fanboi - Apple absolutely perfected the form factor for a high-endurance, high efficiency ultraportable here, imo. The battery life is genuinely batshit crazy. And yes it is expensive.

Side note: they’re forcing you to BYO? Any chance you are able to get a dedicated work device?

borrows blu-ray instead of buying it

Haha no it doesn’t.

unplugs NIC

rips blu-ray with blu-ray drive running old firmware

Rogue One is far and away a better movie though

closes questionnaire

Nicely done! That’s pretty awesome :)

Though I should point out that it’s also not hard to lock down a windows install a bit more if you don’t make the default account an admin one. But moving to Linux is better imo for a whole host of reasons.

you have to start with “hello”

Indeed, I am. And thank you for noticing.

Yeah, an IP ban would not be out of order tbh

I’m staunchly anti fascist myself, but… there are definitely some complete fucking wingnuts who have attached themselves to the movement.

Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need

Self hosting isn’t likely to ever get to the point of “plug and play”. It’s inherently incredibly flexible and different people will do different things with it. Some people just want NAS. Some people want to build a router. Some people want to have a modest compute farm that they physically own. Some people want a virtualization playground. Or pretty much anything else you can think of, or some combination thereof.

For instance, I custom built a 2-tier + optane cached NAS running proxmox, and I have a handful of old thin clients I can spin up for doing Beowulf things when I feel like it, and I also have another repurposed thin client with an old enterprise-grade SFP+ NIC running pfSense as my router that can support up to 10g (futureproofing).

Mamma mia

Definitely not the macaroni pot

This meme is bad and you should feel bad

It do be like that

Gimme de stims bro

pick up that can, citizen.

It’s been around for Ians and Ians, you know.