This was my theory—in fact yesterday I told my wife I’d bet her $50 he walks back the tariffs so his family can cash out when stocks go back up.

Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions.

Oh noes! People trying to engage on a social network explicitly created to foster discussion!

Loving the “always be ready” badge. I don’t think he was ready.

Are both subnets public?

Yeah I’m experiencing the complete opposite here. I remember being able to discuss actual topics and not talking shit every time someone turns their back in the Midwest. I don’t remember the last time I felt I could actually be myself here (California).

Yes, initially I found Los Angeles much nicer but after time felt it was much more fake. You can’t really speak your mind here.

Coming from the Midwest I don’t think I ever felt uncomfortable expressing any emotions. I could kind of rattle off whatever I wanted to say without too much thinking.

But having lived in Los Angeles for roughly 10 years now I’m afraid to be open at all. When I first came here I was accused of hacking people’s credit cards twice because here knowing about computers means you’re a hacker. I learned to keep my mouth shut and become a robot; toxic/fake positivity is everywhere here and if you don’t play along then you’re quickly cast aside.

It just hit me that living in the same metro as Ontario, CA if I heard someone say it around here I’d assume they’re talking about that city but online it’s never occurred to me that someone wouldn’t be talking about Canada.

While I did have a Sony MiniDisc player I don’t think I experienced audio that bad, though I’ll say since a lot of my music was pirated MP3 at the time I can’t imagine converting it to ATRAC3 did it any favors.

God no

I would but at least my head wouldn’t be pounding from the “tin tunnel” sound of lofi.

For me it’s the generally underpowered, terrible speaker paired with the worst quality audio you could imagine (128 kbps MP3 in 2025?).

Having worked in logistics I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the driver had been being called every 20 fucking seconds for an updated ETA on a load that isn’t making any profit.

If you see a Docker solution that looks nice just look at how it’s built and replicate whatever software is packaged in its Dockerfile.

Orion on macOS and iOS also have built-in ad blockers, I don’t really understand your point. You could just as easily run a non-hostile browser that supports plug-ins cleanly.

My router is just a Protectli Vault mini PC with Alpine Linux. You can essentially pick your favorite Linux (or BSD) distro and make it a router.

I always found it interesting that using an adjective as a noun always sounds bad in English whereas in other languages (like Spanish) it’s not. Obviously “illegals” is a bad example because it would sound bad either way though.

I’m curious what the stats are for Teslas driven by people as well. Lately every time I walk by them (on a busy urban street) I see their occupants staring at their phones they can’t fucking connect to it or the over-the-top TV-style flatscreen in the fucking dash.

How do you even accidentally publish a list like this onto your website? As a web developer I’ve never accidentally copied some random documents to a directory that’s later built into a Docker image. Is this like some FTP server or some other obsolete, Windows-style bullshit? I get really big “open SMB port” vibes from this.

I want to feel the same but from a purely financial standpoint it makes sense.

Don’t want a locked down phone? Buy directly from the manufacturer.