Thankfully I’m not paying it. Even before the AI boom I saw the overall upward trend in power costs. I went solar with battery backup when I had my house built and I bought enough to be at or above 100% offset with net metering. The only thing I pay is the grid-tie connection fee each month, and I get a small check from the power company each year for any overage I generate.

How are our public lands doing? Are they being sold to the highest bidder?

They’re literally on fire, if Colorado and much of the west are any indication.

I hope to be on that path. I’m in my 40s and tired of the grind. Nowhere close to retirement yet, but I am likely on track to pay off my house early in the next two years (maybe 7 years into a 30 year mortgage) which will go a long way.

I’m saving as much as I can and hoping I can retire lean in my mid or late 50s.

Right now though all I can think of is that I need a sabbatical after my current job ends (either layoffs or just quitting) because I really need a break.

Maybe consider some of us just want to play with friends and/or spouses or partners.

Reintroduce LAN play and locally hosted multiplayer servers. IDGAF about playing with randos, I just want to play with my wife, and I’d prefer it to not be something that can shut down because the company went broke or didn’t care anymore.

If he’s worried about fraud in government he outta check his pockets.

I’ve actually been in support for random selection for a long time. Treat the offices of the country like jury duty. Random selection every few years, and allow veto power via recall to remove them and do a new election if they do a poor job.

It can’t possibly be worse than what we have now.

the actual source for this framing is Iran, and the news site that is reporting this is controlled by China. Possibly propaganda by exaggeration.

As opposed to the American propaganda by straight up lying.

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Don’t forget about ollama.

Never thought I’d ask this but… how do I determine the gender of my toilet? And how do I confirm it’s cis-gendered?

Paying for plex pass gets you hardware transcoding (GPU), and access to Plexamp if you use it for music. Also the ability to use it remotely outside your network I think (dunno, I don’t use that feature) It’s good stuff, but nowhere near worth what they’re charging. I paid $80 for my lifetime Plex pass some years back.

Honestly, even without the $750 pricing, they’ve been consistently raising it for years now, presumably to encourage monthly subscriptions. I don’t trust them, and it’s falling into the category of “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” The other day I even read something about a user losing access to their Plex because Plex themselves didn’t renew their certificate and they had to reach out to support to sort it out. That’s… just completely fucked up. I hate that it requires an online account to access your local content. They did that years ago, and it’s led to me wanting to use it less and less.

I have a Jellyfin server as backup, and have already moved away from Plexamp to use Lyrion and Navidrome instead for music.

The only reason I still use Plex at all is because I watch a lot of foreign content and Swiftfin hasn’t yet updated to use Apple TV’s accessibility settings for captions (Plex lets you override subtitles with the Apple TV caption settings for readability and consistency). Though I saw the Jellyfin team merged the change the other day, so I expect a fix for that to come with the next major update. If that works out, I’ll be deleting Plex from my Proxmox server finally.

Somewhere in all that covid was a thing until it wasn’t.

Except it still totally is.

If you can run portmaster on it, check out Panzer Paladin.

Hot take: This is to stop the slop tsunami.

When any idiot can vibe code some slop app, things are going to get out of hand very fast.

But the play store is already completely filled with slop garbage, AI notwithstanding.

LOL, I buy an entire pound of green coffee beans for $9 or less, roast them, and then I’ve got coffee for like 2 weeks.

I dunno if you’d consider it ergonomic but I use a Mistel MD770 and it meets your requirements. It’s essentially like a Keychron K2 cut in half.

Bring on the bad ones, we’ll kick them all out not vote for them.

Come on, let’s at least try to be a bit proactive next time, eh? Nobody wants to go through this bullshit again.

https://retrosizer.com/?psp-2000:129,96~psp

Good place to compare device sizes.

I game often, and 100% on Linux. Unless you’re doing competitive multiplayer games with kernel level anti-cheat (read: rootkit malware), games run perfectly fine.

The iPhone’s auto-correct is the worst by far. And I don’t get it because it was actually good around iOS 16 or so. Since 17 it’s been utterly terrible and constantly corrects words that are already what I wanted, making them wrong.