Get a different bank. That is rookie shit.

iOS is fine. I fucking hate apple, but iOS is a baby gate that protects (metaphorically) undeveloped minds from getting into danger…

…he says while leashed to his android phone…

It was all Xerox if you go back far enough.

Never had to pay for a key anyway. I just hopped on eBay and looked for machines that were “for parts only” where the seller took a very nice picture of the bottom of the computer.

It was very nice of them to share that software with me once they were done using it.

More than 5000, yes. Marines? Not so sure.

I didn’t say owned.

And trust me, plenty of non-electric cars will be sold today and tomorrow, same for laptops without soldered RAM.

Wanna take bets that trump is getting kickbacks from Venezuela’s oil sales? Iran said they were going to make oil cost 200 dollars a barrel and I bet trump just heard a ka-ching sound and his eye turned into $$ like a fucking cartoon.

I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred… But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That’s going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it’s going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.

Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.

Pretty much every machine I’ve had open has upgradable ram. Unless the machine is the absolute thinnest of ultrabooks, the ram has been easily removed, replaced and upgraded.

(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)

What am I gonna do? Stop myself?

I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.

I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.

Best I can do is Google it and read it to you. I’m a little knowledgeable about how a pihole works since I have my Net+, and I’ve set up a few Pi-hole’s (or the same one a few times tbh), but I’m definitely not a networking expert.

Your Pi-hole can only block the things that query DNS. Try this, ping a website you don’t normally go to, and you should see that show up in Pihole log. Next, ping an IP, I usually pick on 8.8.8.8, and see if that shows up in your Pi-hole’s logs. I’m fairly confident it won’t.

Pi-hole blocks the name resolution. TV wants to go to Hisense.com, asks your Pi-hole where that site is. Your Pi-hole sees that Hisense is on a block list, so it says back to your TV “sorry, no idea how to get to that site, it must be offline.”

If the manufacturer wants to get around this, they program a public DNS in, like 8.8.8.8, or they hardcode the static IP for their website into the TV. Now when it wants to go to Hisense, it never has to ask your Pi-Hole where that site is, and it doesn’t get blocked. Heck, it probably won’t even show up on your Pi-hole’s logs.

If you black hole the site, then any traffic going out there gets dropped, and the hard-coded addresses on the TV don’t matter for shit.

Why wait? Streaming services are only getting worse, and we can only really fight back one way. Yo ho!

I bought my last TV about 7 years ago. I got a “small” 38" TV. As I was checking out, the cashier asked me if I’d rather upgrade to a larger model from the same brand with smart features for 10 dollars less. I flat out told him ‘no’ and that was probably the best decision I made that year.

AI is an assistant, not a replacement. It amazes me that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and all these “tech leader” companies are going to make the same tech fuckup multiple times.

Looks like a swing and a miss on condemning Putin and Xi to me. I didn’t think it was possible to flop a softball question worse than trump “condemning” the proudboys during the 2020 debate.

I wanted to believe it was someone else too… But I sure as fuck knew it was us when I read the news earlier this week.

Why the fuck is a bunch of religious nuts praying a “historic moment”.

Now, if I got to place hands on trump… That would be a historic moment.