I rock my Skechers, android phone, basic Casio watch, and drive my 2003 Suzuki.

I spend my money on stuff that works. Not stuff that’s marketed.

I sense marketing bullshit, and it’s such a strong turnoff for me.

Wait, you guys just wait until your saliva kicks in or something? You can’t just go in dry.

The stats are published. It’s close to 90%. The 5% linux is more like 0.5% overall.

I would absolutely not use Windows for pornhub. There’s a 99% chance Satya is watching you masturbate.

AI needs to be regulated with an energy cap. If you need more capacity, optimise your AI. Don’t just throw more electricity at it.

How much did the job search burn you out?

The last time I jumped jobs, I was absolutely exhausted from the old job. The new job was perfect, but took another year before I didn’t feel exhaused 24x7.

Shoji cat is watching you…

I started on 3.5" HDDs in the 90s. I am running 3.5" HDDs today. They are still the most cost efficient.

It makes me great at independent learning. It also makes me horrible at following orders. A “do this thing” without a “because” will get done quite differently to what you’d expect, if at all.

I like the phrase “flooding the zone with shit”. It even comes with a catchy song that attributes the phenomenon to Steve Bannon.

Luigi Sauber needs to happen.

Have you tried not doing that?

It’s really as easy as not doing that.

If your reverse proxy only acknowledges jellyfin exists if the hostname is correct, you won’t get discovered by an IP scanner.

Mine’s on jellyfin.[domain].com and you get a completely different page if you hit it by IP address.

If it does get found, there’s also a fail2ban to rate-limit someone brute-forcing a login.

I’ve always exposed my home IP to the internet. Haven’t had an issue in the last 15 years. I’m running about 10 public-facing services including NTP and SMTP.

I get all but the first one. When should I expect that?

“You’ve had too much stimulant. Or too little. I forget how it works with you.”

The top result is always some AI-gen, 2000-word essay response to a simple yes/no question like “Can a dog eat onions?”

I swear they do it to train us to just use the shitty AI summary of the shitty AI essay.

Firefox has a fingerprint resistance setting that sets the clock to UTC. It messes up a lot of sites. There’s 10 million people in my timezone so I just leave it.

The bill would jeopardize rideshare services in Colorado “to an untenable degree, and could very well lead to companies that Coloradans rely on exiting the market, raising prices, or reducing the number of drivers,"

What a bizarre statement. If they exit the market, everything will improve.

The multi-desktop thing has been a thing in most Linux desktops since the 90s. Just sayin’.

Hacks that work for me:

• Separate work and home devices. I can only stop thinking about work if I physically boot to another device
• Alarms for all the things. Time blindness is annoying and it means I don’t go into “waiting mode” if I know something will disrupt me at the right time.
• Don’t install social media apps on your phone. I have one for Lemmy, but I use facebook and all the others in a browser. This way they absolutely cannot interrupt me. It’s way better for privacy too.

Steam deck compatibility is close enough to the same thing.