Weighing this decision right now, certainly is tough.

I get that, but I don’t even mean it in that sense. A corporation should not have any control over what I do whatsoever unless I’m their employee.

Even if you’re morally opposed to the various things this addresses, it is so immensely concerning and unwise to want a corporation to have this much control over your actions, daily life, and liberty.

I don’t think enough people talk about that.

Ah yeah that could be it too. I saw all the community scripts and decided that was too much tinkering til I’m back in the Linux world lol

I’m a rookie back in the Linux world after 15 years in windows hell, but Proxmox is hard if you’re new to Linux. I didn’t have the patience. I’d install mint on the nvme itself, let it get going, see if anything persists. Best of luck!

Almost 38, I spend all my free time with my wife. Started off more balanced before we moved for my work, and the more I focused on time with her, the happier we were. I hang out with work friends occasionally.

My pre marriage friends became vile, Trump-worshipping, incel assholes, so I am very content with my decisions.

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What a great comment from an infrequent commenter. Thank you! This was a lovely read, good points, and I shared with my wife.

To anyone who ventures this far, enjoy this relevant Simpsons reference

I’ve seen rebuttals that this was an advertising firm embellishing capabilities to sell themselves, which…maybe. But I have too many anecdotal experiences to believe that.

Last month, my wife and I talked about how we hate Morgan Wallen. Never even typed his name until this post. And yet, after the discussion, she had IG sponsored posts for his out of state concert and Alexa had ads for him on Amazon music. Both within 2 days of the conversation.

I threw out the Alexa, increased Pinhole block lists, and we just leave our phones in another room in airplane mode for some topics.

Indeed, you’re surely right. Pour one out for the big boys.

Fully agree! It’s so much work and so incredible to look at and admire. Art deco too for the same reasons.

Steam locomotives!!! Maybe not the full intent of this thread, but they’re terrible for the environment, inefficient, complicated as hell, and SO COOL!

I also think it’s pent up rage because a black man was president. These racists will literally never let that go or accept it.

Thank you for unlocking this horrifying memory for me. Great albeit disturbing movie and scene.

Yup, this was it for my wife and me too. We don’t use enough to make it worthwhile and I held out for next generation tech.

Well, with the tax rebates expiring, we’re getting them installed by end of year. It should take 9 years to break even, so not awful, and really it’s always sat just about there with our usage. But it’s insane that we aren’t funding this or chasing it harder. Having that much decentralized capacity, while surely difficult to plan for, adds priceless resilience.

Edited to add: added bonus, we’ll be less stingy with the AC in the summer! Only 108 today… this is fine.

Different earplug guy here: smart watches and some other devices vibrate or tap on your wrist.

That’s how I wake up, plus I don’t disturb my wife!

Is that how the song should be taken?

I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.

Fml why.

I don’t, and I’m okay with it. I miss it, but I spend what free time I have with my wife.

My former friend group that still plays a lot of video games took a different path. Some have no career progress, others have horrible marriages, and a couple are cheating scumbags.

I like to think my wife and I made some good choices and we work to keep making them.

Yup, US; and yup our police are mostly worthless or worse. I’ve never seen consequences even for DUI offenders.