Is that a jab about all the forest fires CA keeps experiencing? If so, well done. I chuckled.

The new thing seems to be “clades”. I’m not sure if it’s a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.

Just stop dual booting. This is self-inflicted harm. Setup a VM or find a native workaround.

Nice, I’m part of that .05% Debian 12 crowd.

Nah, it’s just a heap of junk!

I stayed on Myspace long past when the majority jumped ship. It eventually lost what made it special when the boy band guy bought it to twist it into something more music focused. But I still preferred it to the sterile, uniformity of Facebook.

Ah, gotcha. Feel like I’m too old to keep up with it now.

Are these called “Wojack” memes? I’ve never understood why this art style became so popular.

Same. Threw what extra money I had into some reliable stocks. Did the same thing during Covid too, and it worked out pretty well for me. It feels a bit like I’m a crisis vampire, but I just don’t want to be working anymore when I hit 60.

It hides the problem or else it gets the hose again

Ah, interesting. Had no idea. Thanks.

Interesting. I see bicycle pedals and a chain. Seems it’d function a bit similar to modern e-bikes.

Come on, this isn’t Riyadh. They’re not gonna saw your hands off, all right? The worst they can do is put you for a couple of months into a white collar, minimum security resort!

I would say not much. If it’s your own personal LAN, and only your devices are on it, and you’re not hosting super sensitive data, then I wouldn’t personally be worried. Just depends on your risk acceptance.

Edit: But if you are hosting sensitive data on an untrusted network, then definitely require a user with a strong password. Also, SMB3 and higher supports encryption (both in Windows and Samba for Linux). Encryption isn’t enabled by default, though. So keep that in mind. Easy to setup on both Windows and Linux.

That’s a security quirk. Microsoft reeeeeally doesn’t want you to do anonymous SMB anymore, and with every version of Windows, Microsoft has made is more complicated to get it working like that. It’s probably still possible, but easier just to make a quick local user account and assign it read/write permissions to the share. Samba on Linux can still do it without as much fuss, but I’ve long since just accepted the extra step.

Interesting. Never heard of that. It’d just be a guess, but I’m doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.

I agree. One of my favorites. Feels like a Black Mirror episode. I watched another one recently called Companion that I’d recommend to anyone who likes Ex Machina.

Oui!

Yeah, that makes sense. I just hope I’m not one of those people that can’t find hobbies to fill the day.

I’ve known quite a few people that retired and ended up coming back because they were “bored”. That terrifies me. I always thought the deal was that if you made it to your 60s and didn’t die, that you’re finally free. Now I find myself dwelling on that scene from Shawshank where Red is talking about prisoners getting institutionalized and not wanting to leave.