…if Republicans ever actually read…

How far they’ve fallen, all due to a single acquisition.

For those unaware, the saying used to be “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going”. The reason for this was because Boeing had a well deserved reputation for quality, reliability, and overengineering. It was a company run by engineers. Another company named McDonnell Douglas, with the polar opposite reputation, went or was about to go bankrupt. It was a company run by salesmen. Boeing decided to buy McDonnell Douglas but instead of firing the entirety of MD’s executive branch, they decided to absorb them. In short order the MD virus that was their sales first executive team spread and eventually took over Boeing.

This is as I remember it so if I got something wrong, please correct me.

I moved out of Texas you dummy. Why would I keep a house somewhere I don’t live in. I guess I could have kept it and become a scumbag landlord instead of making it available to homebuyers. Eternal wealth through hoarding!

Former Austin resident here (1999-2022). The last house I owned there I bought in 2016 for $225k. In 2021 I was getting unsolicited offers for $750k (Zillow estimate in January 2020 was $450k). Finally sold it two weeks ago (didn’t know if I’d need to move back for work) for $515k.

A: Double the price in a decade is insane. Triple had I sold in 2021 is beyond words.

B: Someone in 2021 paid $300k over the market value a year prior and is now severely upsidedown on their mortgage.

Austin was great, but that was obviously a bubble to anyone with any common sense.

Well damn…time to order another t-shirt.

Zuck: We are going to train our AI using data from our employees’ computers.

AI: * generates child porn

Zuck: Oh…no…

I have never and I will never see someone cutting down a Flock camera.

I dunno. I have mixture of Windows, Linux and Mac, and the M chip macs are a fucking beast. Stable, stupid fast, silent, and cool (as in temperature).

I am transitioning all remaining Windows workstations to Proxmox VE based VDIs, but for the people that need a total solution on the road and offline, the mac is hard to beat. Win11 ARM as a VM on Apple silicone runs faster, with less power draw and with significantly less heat than the original installnon raw metal. I’m not sure what dev tools your shop is using for the Macs, but we have had no issues.

Old PCs with Linux, Openclaw, and a handful of LLM models installed, configured by ChatGPT, can be up and running in less than an hour. Once running, people can have them do all sorts of tasks.

Leopardos comiendo caras

I opted to watch the 70mm version because it is the one experience you cannot get at home. I recommend doing so.

PS: Literally nobody is talking about it but John Leguizamo deserves praise. He had a major role and I didn’t even know he was in the movie until he showed up.

…too many bad things happening to dogs for no good reason.

The movie is full of dramatic and moving scenes, but that final little tail wag was the only bit that got the waterworks from me.

What, they finally went outside?

'Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,’

…why do they need a two seater.

Perfect to lay about and watch TV.

I am pretty sure I started with either Halloween or Mother’s Day because Red Hat Linux for Dummies came with Red Hat 2.1 which I am pretty sure came out in 96 or 97. I know Red Hat 6 was released in 1999, because I was neck deep in Y2K work at the time I installed it on my Compaq laptop.

That is strange.

I have been on this Linux jam since 1996 with a CD copy of Red Hat that came with a magazine (Byte, maybe?). In 2018 I made the jump to Debian based distros specifically because I got tired of the surprises. Now my lab runs LMDE. The only thing more stable and boring is Debian Stable itself.

Like you said, I want to focus on my projects, not have the OS be my project.