Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics… Minor bright side, I guess.

That’s the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I’ve got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off… There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They’ve only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn’t work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that’s true, never tried it, never will, but they didn’t pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the “if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won’t be able to login… That’s up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware”. Unfortunately they haven’t forced it yet.

No, silly, 25 years ago was nineteen seventy… Wait.

26 years later and my brain still default counts back from 2000. Stupid brain.

I do use Valentina quite a bit at home because my local store has 1L bottles of the regular and black label / extra “hot”.

One of those lasts at least a year so I keep it in the cabinet and continually refill a smaller bottle. They’ve also got 4L jugs but I haven’t been brave enough to go that far … Yet.

I think I’ve only had the original Cholula. Now I know to avoid the others :)

Have you had the El Yucateco “El Caribe”? I can’t find it very often in local stores but it’s damn awesome - by far my favorite. … Assuming they still make it and haven’t changed it. It’s probably been 4 years since I bought one because I tend to stock up when I find it.

Damn : /

Personally I prefer Cholula over Tapatio for my “generic flavorful hot sauce that isn’t actually hot at all so I can slather it on everything” but Tapatio was pretty decent too.

Same. I quit whatsapp the day after facebook bought it. Switched to signal and never looked back. The few people I talked with on whatsapp moved too.

I’ve been dreading the new computer as well. I built the original incarnation of my current one in … holy shit, late 2013. I was thinking 2016 but I just looked up the order and it was 2013. I did it pretty damn “top of the line” because I wanted it to last ages. I have occasionally upgraded or replaced drives, GPU, RAM, power supply, but I’m still on the original board+CPU.

It’s still great… running Linux and occasionally gaming.

A lot of people seem to think I’m we’re crazy for not getting a new phone every year or two. Previous one lasted 7 years, this one is at a bit over 5 years… It’s fine.

Yeah, I did western Tennessee to northwest Washington in 2 days.

… I regretted it, but I did it.

That’s where you draw the line?

(Also, say hi to your chickens for me)

Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development…

I was positive this was going to be the onion.

… I really wish this was the onion.

Aha, the separate breaker box is the part I wasn’t thinking about. I’ll need to do some thinking on how I could make that work for me. Thank you for the info.

Out of curiosity, how do you have that setup (at a high level)?

I’ve got a bluetti system for emergency power (12kWh, 6kW AC output) but I need to plug things directly into it. It’d be nice to feed it directly to my house wiring but … selectively. That is, I wouldn’t want to power the HVAC but it would be nice to not have to shuffle the fridge/freezer plugs from the wall to the inverter.

Dedicated circuit(s) with a manual switch from mains to inverter, I’m guessing? But then we get into all the extras required to do that safely and avoid back feeding the grid.

Granted, they have systems/setups specifically for whole house power but I don’t want to feed the whole house, just the important circuits/appliances.

It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.

There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes enough money to cover the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.

Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”

“the 1900s”

: /

I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.

It’s… fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery… I should check that.

I learn something new every day, thanks bud.