Buy the game after a few years of bug fixes on sale with all the DLC for basically the same price as a sandwich… or pay $80 for a buggy broken incomplete experience with no real guarantee any promised content will ever materialize.

Although I guess I need SOME people to keep buying them at launch to subsidize my frugality.

People forget that social media is escapable and you can just leave.

Crimes only count for poors.

I back up to local storage and then replicate offsite to S3 nightly.

On-prem backups are great and cheap and fast and definitely plan A but a robust backup solution is going to require offsite storage of some sort. Object storage is one of the cheapest ways to do that for most situations, particularly for things that can’t be replaced like photos.

Backblaze B2 is about $7 a month per TB.

Almost every major backup solution natively supports S3 compatible storage.

We invented a machine that tells you what you want to hear. Should be fine.

Winget is still playing catch-up in my experience. Microsoft’s own office365 winget package is broken constantly.

The fact that industrial and commercial use pays lower rates than people trying to live their lives and heat their home is such bullshit.

Seeing how much they’ve advanced over recent years I can’t imagine whatever that guy was working on would actually impress anyone today.

I just set up a rule on my firewall to disallow outgoing web traffic from my TV so I can still control it over the wifi. Then if I want to sell it I haven’t broken any functionality.

You can do anything…

This used to work for me but unfortunately at least two places I haven’t been able to figure out any button combination that mutes them which has been infuriating.

The gas pumps that blast ads at you are driving me insane. All of the places in between my house and my work have them now.

At least on Android, spoofing GPS location is trivial (not that workarounds like this should be necessary).

Maybe that’s where people are who need the information the most?

Businesses are happy to have their employees be more productive without having to pay for expensive new licenses… But eventually they’re going to find out that letting all your employees share swaths of private data with random websites is not a great idea.

Ah yes… Pre-crime… Just like all those utopian sci-fi novels.

People just going about their business living their lives as they have for many years…

Silicon Valley: Hey fuck you. Also I came up with a dumb nickname for you.

I want the Ubiquiti Doorbell Pro (wired Ethernet) but it’s always sold out. Plus I’ve been hesitant to spend ion a Cloud Gateway or Dream Machine. I just wish I could use my own storage.

I need to just bite the bullet though.

Won’t longer key lengths increase the overhead for everything?