I would recommend putting the pihole and any network management tools on dedicated hardware.

It’s not fun having a random update for Transmission take down your entire internet. Ask me how I know.

I guess it’s pretty American to add a bunch of sugar to something lol

But that ruins both the fun of discovery and the bliss of ignorance

Round here we call cornichons “sweet gherkins” and they’re pretty good

Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didn’t know it.

I prefer to keep up with news by seeing a meme I don’t understand

Astronomers have been telling us for a long time that humans can’t fathom the scale of the universe.

But somehow we can fathom numbers of the same orders of magnitude when we talk about earthly affairs.

If people can’t understand how far away Mars is, how can they understand human population numbers?

I’ve got two almost ready for college so I’m getting used to eating cat food and ramen.

I didn’t rake my leaves and now have two, but my neighbors all mow their lawns and get rid of leaves

Relevant Chats Song

Every time I read something he’s written or hear him speak I feel like I’m stupider

Of course, a nice short toot just to get their attention.

Because unlike literally everyone I encounter outside my home, I am aware that other people exist.

The person at the front of the queue at a light has a solemn duty to pay attention and move as soon as possible .

I take this very seriously, but as with everything humans let me down constantly.

Vietnam also halted the expansion of McDonald’s because local street food is cheaper and better.

And that mentality is what gets them elected so they can do things.

• Sasquatch - a senior developer, broken by society, wandering naked through the forest to feel true freedom just once before he dies of exposure

If I could live in no country I’d be so happy. But the only place to do that is a desert in Africa and my natural habitat is temperate forests.

So I guess Canada.

Unless you’re mediocre at it and have adhd and then it’s just easier to always tell the truth so you don’t have to forget about something.

That’s a Replicator

I used to believe that people, given the right information, would make a smart decision, and that humanity will eventually get things right.

Now I know we won’t and this has doomed millions of species including our own, and if we’re lucky in a million years we’ll be an oily radioactive smear in the fossil record and nothing of value will be lost.

I used to live out in the country near a nature preserve and can confirm it looks like this.

Now I’m forced to live in the burbs and get excited when I see a single firefly.