Also, can you run common streaming services on Kodi without having to fight endlessly with their countermeasures?

I would love to dump all of this crap and just run a pc with a browser on the tv, but there is no clean interface that I could use with a remote.

We aren’t. When you humans are busy working, we go to the basement and eat the remants of your souls.

We also go to a lot of pointless meetings.

Am management. Still hate it. Costs a fucking fortune, sprawls beyond any reasonable control, fucking impossible to secure, every product has its own operating model and support, it changes every month, and the notion of leaving it is absurd. It is a disease that everyone is infected with and their sales people will never let you go. Also, it’s not like I can log into a central portal and see my employees on a map or something. I can’t see their searches, their teams chats, nothing really. Maybe HR could if they weren’t in the parking lot eating old cigarette butts or whatever it is they do.

Its like herpes.

Install local ai on your hardware. Feed your data to it. Ask it what metadata can be extracted to identify chain of custody. Strip it off, ask it the same. Keep iterating until it cannot pull any useful meta.

Then leak it from a fresh system using a connection that is not directly connected to you.

Easier said than done, but still possible. There are actual crimes committed that people get away with all the time, they just never end up in the news. Unsolvable crime is still a thing, so untraceable leaks can be too.

New rule: the data centers are allowed to use unprocessed water. Their output is now potable water that is tested by an independent source and certified to be of the required quality.

Optional: they can only use sea water and the output is the same: potable treated water. They can have all the water they want for free. Just desalinize it and give it to the people.

No you cannot just throw the resultant salt waste into the landfill. You gotta dispose of that shit on your dime, properly.

There is no requirement for telemetry by insurers.

There is also no sufficient ground to void a warranty lacking telemetry.

You can use the Chinese services, you’re just giving a foreign government money and data instead of your home government (unless you live in china).

I would encourage all to at least experiment with running their own locally.

You can install Lmstudio on your computer and get 75% of what you need from a model installed and run at home. It won’t be as fast nor will it have all of the features, but it will be private and under your control. Using lm studio is easy, even for a novice. As you get better, you can add your own features. If you persist, you can stop using lmstudio and go right to something like Ollama running on your hardware and tinker all you like.

It really isn’t too hard to start and you will learn a lot along the way.

I guess I will be forced into being a hermit as I get older. What a bunch of horseshit.

I don’t feel bad for people who whine about “well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing”. How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don’t be complacent or you’re part of the problem.

This might be THE most important thing right now.

Not to be a bummer, but the loudness of the horn will be limited by the max amperage of the relays. If the horn relay maxes out at 15 amps for 12 volts, you get about 180 watts of energy to the horn. Most horns are just a coil that vibrates at a set frequency to move the rubber or vinyl diaphragm inside the horn. That’s the noise.

Short version, you can put really any horn in there, but the total amount of watts will be the limiting factor. A more efficient horn (aka a new one) will make more sound for equal input wattage.

The other option is to make an array of junkyard horns and set them up with more relays to lift the limit. You’d need to have multiple fused connections unless you just want to be a hillbilly and run them right off the battery with a giant ass relay.

You might start a fire but it will be loud as shit for a few minutes before it burns down.

No, I’m the fucking chump that has to do the work while they’re out!!

Do any of you have jobs? You really think a big company is going to eat shit when this stuff happens?!

Here’s a fucking hint: they don’t. They just squeeze the remaining employees harder. Every company. You can go get a new job and it will happen there too.

When they do mass layoffs, did you think that the people who didn’t get cut just carry on like normal? The worst time to be at a company is after the cuts because there is the same amount of work and just fewer people to do it.

Wake the fuck up.

You really don’t think this will ever be a problem. Just can’t see that eh?

Well enjoy your particular version of the world. I’ve had shit like this happen at work MANY times. Someone is “sick” and takes FMLA. Abuses it. Comes back just long enough to reset the clock then gone again for another 12 weeks. There are a good number of people who do nothing but find ways to do shit like this. Now they have another round in the clip.

If you’ve never had to deal with this shit, consider yourself lucky.

Well now this whole thing is worse.

So now, employees can pick which software they have a religious exemption from? So I can say that I my religion does not permit me to use spreadsheets. Now I don’t have to use them?

I don’t care if people don’t want to use ai, but this precedent is not sustainable. One person on the team decides that their religion does not permit use of a computer. What the hell do you do? You can’t fire them for observing a religious practice (according to the ai thing) so what? They just sit there picking their nose while I have to cover all the work they aren’t doing? Work has to make accomodations? Give this person a typewriter and some carbon paper?

Maybe I have a religious exemption from thinking about anything but god.

All this does is makes work difficult for anyone else without an exemption. Now everyone gets one. Now companies just say, “fuck this, we will find new ways to fire people and bake them into law”.

None of this ends well.

This seems utterly silly. It’s like saying “I don’t believe we should use the internet it’s against my religion” and then trying to work a tech job without it.

Maybe I can go to work in a tech company and object to computers. I only use a typewriter. I also rode a horse to get here.

This only seems like it could backfire on the individual. Everyone else in the company is going to use it and come midyear review, they will have run laps around you and your pile of sticky notes and spreadsheets, using your inbox like a filing system.

My religion does not permit me to use Agile. I only track my work on a notepad I keep in my drawer. I won’t go to the daily stand, won’t participate in sprint planning nor PI planning. Hey, why is everyone getting more done than I am?

I mean, I haven’t worked at any company that doesn’t have a decade or more of tech debt all human-made.

Is this any worse such a regard?

I do not advocate for more bullshit, but I don’t really think that this will make a big difference either way.

Your location likely is helping the cause. Any car that has live life in a big city where it might snow will eat shit every day on rough roads.

Also, I don’t know a single soul who thinks they need to replace their shocks or struts. They wear out and the car is mostly fine as long as you’re driving peacefully. However, if you ever need to brake quickly or dodge something, those worn suspension components will greet you by not responding well and you could end up having a bad day.

Remember folks, your shocks and struts are a wear item. They usually wear out around 70k. Lower for hard city life, higher for glassy roads. No matter what, they do wear out, even if you’re not aware of it.

It would be if so many companies hadn’t bought into the microsoft ecosystem so hard. My company did the usual BS of “well we have an e5 license so it’s free”. Now we are married to all their stupid shit and have no relationships with other providers. End of the month gonna be expensive. Now expect a scramble to cut master service agreements and contracts with others in a panic.

An old laptop from about 13 years ago barely breaks a sweat running proxmox and a handful of containers and two vms.

Waste not want not. Plus it comes with a keyboard, touchpad and monitor. Plus, built in ups. You might need to add a USB Ethernet dongle but you don’t have to.

I bet just about anyone you know has their old laptop in a drawer somewhere. They’d probably give it to you.

I thought it was popular in Scotland as well as Australia also.