If you stop supporting unnecessary animal suffering you cut out a lot of unethical businesses like this from the start. I haven’t eaten there in years and wouldn’t bother if it were free.

Not having had meat in ~8 years the idea of even just their French fries (with their beef flavoring) makes my stomach churn. I’ll never get over the fact people call fake meats disgusting while eating an actual (dead) body.

Where’s the love for apk -U upgrade?

on YouTube

I hadn’t used YouTube for like six years but recently got back into it a little bit in an Apple TV, and god damn is there a lot of slop in the thumbnails (videos too!).

Is that what corporate social media looks like in general these days? I’ve been running ad blockers for years too so maybe this is just everywhere and I haven’t noticed.

Define “server”:

If you mean any process that serves on the network well then of course you can.

If you mean multiple containerized stacks acting as a service then yes, you can do that too.

If you mean multiple operating systems, I’m not so sure but I can’t imagine that it’s impossible.

I’ve got two chihuahuas and it always surprises me how much room those little guys take up.

I’ve recently signed up for Ridwell and while I absolutely love it (they recycle electronics by the way, at least in Los Angeles) I hate that I have to pay a private company to recycle things.

Right, but simply staying away from their websites doesn’t really solve the problem. You can ditch Google all you want but you won’t get away from their tracking on just about every third party app and website — they even load scripts on (US) government websites.

Me too, just fuck it all to hell. It’s nice not to have mobile apps tracking me either.

…okay? So the conclusion is don’t buy anything that communicates over the internet?

What are you talking about? They obviously just begin malfunctioning whenever anything important is going on.

I use this at work (I’m a web developer) when I need to confirm something still works in Chrome but I’d never dream of using it as a daily driver.

Teams, Visual Studio, VS Code are trash, they leak memory like no other

WSL2 is hilarious, just run Linux/UNIX?

SQL Server and SSMS are trash

I run Docker quite a bit but if you’re actually writing the containers efficiently it shouldn’t be sucking down ~64GB of RAM. But I’ve also seen how people shovel things like Java, log rotation, etc. into those containers because they act like it’s a 1994 VPS.

Why do developers need 64GB+ RAM on their computers? Maybe I’m biased as a Ruby on Rails web application developer but I’m happily squeaking by on just 8GB RAM. Maybe they’re developing with the memory-hungry VS Code?

I thought it was the gamers who needed tons of RAM.

I have this website blocked to shit on my network 🤣

I don’t use it but I would recommend Kopia due to its content-defined chunking, deduplication, etc. I’m writing a fork of it that allows any Rclone adapter to work as the frontend or backend but it won’t be released for quite some time.

Otherwise I sync most my files to Backblaze by hand from time to time using Rclone and client-side encryption.

Frankly, what a bunch of fucking creeps. Does no one else find it weird that they’re hellbent on spying on people? If it weren’t for the government we’d probably lock up these fucking psychos.

I’m just glad I dodged that bullet. I had two friends on separate occasions say Best Buy was unable to fix their laptop and in both cases simply opening it and reseating the RAM was enough. I’m not sure what kind of morons they had working there.

They disqualified me from Geek Squad because I knew how to use Linux (as well as Windows at the time but it’s been ages). They told me “we only sell Windows machines here” despite (as far as I know) they themselves using Linux to repair Windows computers.

Be careful if there’s a public IP address. I think some operating systems even include IPv6 with 0.0.0.0 so that if there’s a public one assigned this might open it up to the world.