The Snark Urge

For once I’m #1 in something 🥳

That fourth one. Did you ever do a write-up? I’m fond of shaggy dog stories and other long walk anti jokes.

I have no tech background, and I am just getting into creating a media server. I started with an old secondhand Synology NAS, which developed a power issue within a month and no chance of returning it or getting it covered by warranty.

My current plan is to get another Synology NAS (new with extended warranty this time), along with a spare HDD enclosure so I can have an extra layer of redundancy, finally set up Jellyfin, and then I want to build a Pihole. At that point I won’t need much more self hosting or networking tricks until further notice.

Still have no idea what I’m doing.

What a heartwarming story

I got that dog in me

Oh that’s easy, they secretly hook you up with someone really perfect for you, you have a great kid, and then the love of your life has a stroke and their personality does a 180°, tearing your whole dream family apart as the fey returns and offers to let you keep just one family member, and then you fail to realize the deal includes yourself and you’ve unwittingly sacrificed all your cognitive abilities and memories while your daughter’s life gets ruined as she spends her best years taking care of her madman father with no hope for a better life.

It’s a lot of work, and at the end of the day you might just end up leaving a you-shaped hole in the data. Privacy is a great thing to be mindful of as part of a larger understanding of modern media literacy, but it’s not all you should be about. Preach it when contextually appropriate, find a level you’re able to live with, and keep growing

An A4 sized e-ink tablet with colour and an open source OS would be my dream gadget.

Beats my contribution, all I do nowadays is run things in ORE. Stolze turned me into a core mechanic snob.

Old StumbleUpon was everything to me

Crazy how becoming an expert on a creative subject and dedicating years to developing and discussing feedback on your unique perspective leads one to pursue creative endeavors

All corporate social media has my permission to die

That’s all we need, a way for morons to turn the web into even more of a Potemkin village of meaningless blather

Can be upcast to grant 2d6 temporary HP (conditional)

Three words: Gordito’s Healthy Mexican

Grab any two factions with competing interests, loosely define some scenario where they’re narrowly deadlocked, hook the group in via a scheming interloper who has mysterious (TBD) motives. Hash out all details by yes-anding. If ever there’s a lull, or I need a climax, the current underdog makes an unexpected power play.

I’m glad I came back to this thread. Would never have heard of this!

Every free tech service can be (notionally) graded on how much value it offers for how much of your data it sucks up and monetizes. Most of the time we see an initial high value that gradually decreases as the developer gets greedy.

Google maps has managed to become Google “best” service, but it’s important to be aware of the scale of problem we’ll see if they start squeezing it for increasing profits, since it sucks up so much of our data and manages to be so useful.

That’s the bulk of it, but there were other points being made about solving for edge cases that seem less central to the point.

I’m so relieved that this article doesn’t name the one I use.

It is!

Terrible moment to learn that YouTube is banning Reporting From Ukraine though. First thing in my grayjay feed when I checked. 😒

Fuck YouTube forever.