Don’t forget IoT, where the S stands for security! Or “The Cloud”! Make sure to rebuy the junk we will deprecate in 2 years time because we love electronic waste and planned obsolescence ;)

After getting a NAS to replace my raspberry pi 4 as a home server, I literally just SCPd the bind mounts and docker compose folder, adjusted a few env variables (and found out of a few I needed to add for things like the uid/guid the NAS used as default for the media user I created) and it took maybe 30 minutes total to be back and running. Highly agree with you from experience.

They are also way too small in terms of storage given that they don’t support external cards (Apple is similar). Google/Apple definitely want buyers to also buy their subscription storage services or pay the high premium for the next storage level.

I’m on an XR right now and it feels older, but still very much usable. I wish companies offered options to only get security patches instead of having to buy new phones every few years, that’s the 1 thing I hope Google keeps around and doesn’t walk back in the future.

Sounds like Microsoft had better lawyers and more foresight written on the contract and now OpenAI (ClosedAI soon from the sounds of it) is butt hurt they can’t get the company notorious for profiting from profiting.

The city is literally sinking, global warming is not helping and billionaires disproportionately contribute to it.

So fraud. It would be nice to get another FTX verdict at the very least. It could make those shit CEOs thinking twice before lying to peoples faces if it means years in prison.

I suppose I agree with your statement, but was just trying to (poorly) mention how it is sometimes hard to separate the company or product from the executive/CEO decisions.

Great summary “a lot of common error checking has gone into it. It can be told what you want without specifics that would only potentially be applicable to 1 system type.”

Google is not particularly innocent of children trying to be kidnapped by ICE agents in LA:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-09/federal-agents-arrived-denied-entry-at-los-angeles-schools-officials-say

Edit: what I mean is, of forms of protest, this is mild compared to what the opposition is doing. This is just property, not lives torn appart.

While I read the title I was thinking “that sounds like Linux with extra steps” - maybe that’s good enough for some discussion.

Cs get degrees.

For cars specifically some of the old guys from Donut media covered it in their new channel “Speeed”. I think they also touched on how the “channels” automatically adjust the content type or “theme” to try to gather more views for the same low effort dung.

I’ve also encountered a lot of this garbage for highly specific searches like “what to do in XYZ Washington” the result is like 3 videos for small cities with 1 video being the original and the other 2 clearly copying the same list with AI slop and random stock footage over a boring narration. It’s really annoying and makes researching a road trip a big chore.

Out of curiosity as an owner of a QNAP NAS, how did it go out? Any signs it was in its last legs? Now that I’ve used one, the form factor is the only thing better than most options out there when I got it.

Nowadays all QNAP, Sinology and other NAS vendors supposedly offer a lot of extra value with their cloud options, but I find them a sure way to get hacked based on the average company’s investment in security (I work in IT, it is a sad affair sometimes) combined with all the ransomware specifically targeting them due to old packages they rely on = I’ll build my next system from the ground up, even if the initial cost is higher and the result is uglier.

You’d be surprised, Google voice commands have gotten so bad it can’t toggle a light. Things as simple as “define: word” are now a 50/50 of working or spitting out some random crap unrelated to what was attempted to be looked up. I’ve stopped using the little speakers for anything other than streaming music while cooking.

You are missing the point, the cyber truck will kill/maim/damage pedestrians (no biggie), cyclists (no biggie) and other cars (darn, gotta deal with insurance) most of the time! It’s a feature for the kind of people that buy them.

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There really needs to be regulation to have them disbarred if they try this shit for at least 5 years or more. In the case of California and the AI bullshit assisted test, the entire committee or whatever they call themselves approving such garbage should also face the same penalty (or harsher really, they should be held to a higher standard).

Such a stupid state of affairs even it becomes apparent the people in power of decisions are as dumb as rocks protected by family money, influence or legacy.

End of Line (EOL) sensitive software perhaps?

We had the opposite problem, things edited in notepad would fail miserably once deployed to the target Linux servers. Nowadays git checkout settings on the build servers tend to get rid of those, but I remember it was the one thing that would occasionally explode.

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Not to mention that some providers offer APIs to provide certificates without opening port(s) 80/443. This allows using nice host names on your personal domain with valid SSL over the internal network too. Want to migrate a server or service? Just change the IP associated with the domain on the internal DNS. Makes migrating and upgrading a lot easier.