Forget servicing the product. Hell, forget the product. Why can’t they just charge every person alive a subscription for existing? You can choose from monthly or annual, which is slightly cheaper, and either way you get nothing in return.

I think in some ways Generative AI is very emblematic of the current state of software development. Projects are approached from the outset with the driving question being, “how can we make money materialize out of thin air?” Not, “What kind of problems are we trying to solve?” Or, “Why would someone pay for this?”

The last several projects I’ve worked on have been solutions in search of a problem. Hyped up products that made executives see dollar signs but didn’t actually produce any because they failed to provide any tangible value.

My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.

Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.

I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.

Why try to reach an agreement with someone who is just going to rip it up and throw it in your face in a few years? Backstabbing and broken promises are a byproduct of empires and the US has a long trail of those behind it.

And you thought J. Edgar Hoover was paranoid.

THE PACK IS NOT AMUSED AND THE PACK DOES NOT ALLOW BIGOTRY OF ANY KIND.

EDIT: ALSO FUCK ICE.

Indeed has been steadily enshitifying for quite some time so this tracks.

Well they wouldn’t if not for that hefty bailout by the American taxpayers that they got back in 2008.

If you’re one of the largest and oldest car manufacturers in the world and the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick into a young family brand, then you probably need some good competition.

“Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.”

I remember reading that. It was pretty funny. Jihad is easy. Running a country is not. Who would have thought.

It is even dumber and more malicious than it sounds.

It’s like the Republican Party got taken over by incompetent James Bond villains. However, despite what’s portrayed in Live and Let Die, alligators don’t normally prey on humans.

The proposed cuts to Medicaid might actually push the US healthcare system to the point of collapse. I’m no gambler but I would be willing to bet money that it will put a dozen or more hospitals in my rural red state, many of which are already financially distressed, out of business.

The “big beautiful bill” is a smoldering pile of shit that benefits only rich people and leaves everyone else holding the bag.

I have a rule that “Nothing will be automated that cannot be manually overridden.”

Well, actually it’s my wife’s rule but it’s a good rule nonetheless. As a result, there’s a big panel full of relays in the basement that is the “last mile” for anything climate control or security related.

There have been a few times when it’s been handy. Like when the exhaust fan isn’t working and I don’t want to debug the ESP32 controller today so I just flip it over to “Manual”.

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Teenagers sometimes have to get blisters a few times before learning that it’s wiser to do the smart thing even if it wasn’t your idea.

Then again, I know a few adults like that too.

Highly location dependent. We have useable cell service in our house but Internet over 5G is slow.

Corporate America over here committing piracy en masse.

In my neighborhood you get a choice between coax or nothing.