I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. President Camacho was not smart, but he was well meaning. As soon as he knew there was someone smart enough to fix their problems he put them on task and worked to improve people’s lives.

There’s nothing well meaning from the current administration and anything good that possibly comes of it is happenstance. The current administration is not idiocracy, it’s a kleptocratic authoritarian nightmare.

I use an AMD mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.

I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).

This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue smart lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.

Linux install: maybe 10 or 15 minutes tops from booting USB to desktop access, login is local, network connection is optional.

New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:

1. Supporting an authoritarian regime is not punk. It’s like… 100% the opposite of punk.

2. Really glad to know there’s not a single band I listen to on that schedule.

I cancelled Netflix years ago and never looked back when they released Cuties, because I don’t want to see (or support) 11 year olds shaking their asses.

Some of these fuckers would probably sign up just for that content.

that sounds very sensible, but really tough for you that not even the vaccine helps.

It’s not so bad. I’m pretty antisocial (or maybe asocial?) and the only person I associate with and spend time with IRL is my wife, and we’re in the same boat. So it hasn’t been hard to stay safe over the years.

I continue to wear masks when out to this day, and see no future point of stopping for now.

I have existing conditions that Covid would wreak havoc with, and long covid still isn’t well understood. Even the vaccine (Pfizer) totally fucked me up, to the point getting the booster was a no-go.

Rsync is great. I’ve been using it to back up my book library from my local Calibre collection to my NAS for years, it’s absurdly simple and convenient. Plus, -ruv lets me ignore unchanged files and backup recursively, and if I clean up locally and need that replicated, just need to add —delete.

designed to save coffee enthusiasts more than $1,000 annually

Trust, coffee enthusiasts were already not drinking this swill, and a tone deaf advertising campaign isn’t going to change that status quo.

In that case check out Tokyo Jihen too. Shiina Ringo’s great, but I particularly like her rock music with Jihen.

If you have any recommendations let me know. Always on the lookout for good music.

I listen to Japanese rock in my car on the way home. So is the real me an eccentric, or someone who’s accommodating of others?

No clue, but Tricot and Man With A Misson are perfectly good rock out tunes.

in the Bible it’s very clear that all that stuff will happen… and that these things are necessary for Christ’s ultimate victory over Death and Evil. So why would you try to prevent the rise of the Antichrist? In the “best case” you’re just kicking the can down the road and delaying the Return of Jesus a little.

You’ve put a lot more thought and consideration into it than these folks. That’s why they’re all “this bad, that bad, oh no Anti-Christ!”

To be fair, the end times isn’t likely to be good for most. God’s people for salvation number only a few:

Revelation 7:4 - Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

That ain’t much. There are billions of people on the planet. At the end, the Christian God will only protect a small number from the events of the end times. The rest of us will have to just suck it up and live and suffer through the apocalypse, as it were.

I’m not a believer so I can only guess. But my guess is, despite being “Christian” (in really big finger quotes), I think deep down, a lot of these folks know they are Hell-bound (according to their own system of belief), or at the very least, hell-on-Earth-bound. They’re far from Christ-like in their behavior and existence, and I can’t see why they’d be among the chosen few of God’s protection in the end days. Especially since many of them aren’t Jewish, and actively despise Jews (despite also supporting Israel? I dunno, these people confuse the hell out of me). So postponing the end serves to postpone their own damnation.

Eww gross.

That explains the guy in the hat, but who’s the one on the left?

Who the hell is that supposed to be?

Goddammit, I thought this was going to be an Onion type article. It wasn’t.

I already hate how much tech is in my 2020 model. I’m going to drive the thing into the ground.