To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.
If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.
I've had a NextCloud install running locally for like a couple years now. It's pretty badass. But the installation process wasn't great.
Some of the installation options are pretty well documented. Some of them, not so much. And unfortunately it seems that that installation I wanted to do was not well documented.
Thus, my upgrade to the latest version of NextCloud was an unmitigated disaster.
After a little fighting with it, I decided maybe I should try a different route. I'm already on Ubuntu, and there is a snap for the NextCloud server. Sssooooo... Yeah, I gave it a shot.
Team, that NextCloud snap was a damn life saver. It's not perfectly straight forward configuration, but once I found out where all the files were, it was a breeze.
I can get behind the hate for snaps, where Ubuntu is kinda doing their own thing again. But snaps are kinda nice to work with.
This poor doggo. Someone backed it into a filing cabinet and said, "it doesn't have object detection in the back. But in the front it does so it won't run into anything."
To which my brain immediately said, "Challenge accepted."
Me: Okay but what if we close this door-
Pilot: No, see, I'm running full speed at it, and it slows and stops.
Me: Ah yes, but jump is a function, not a normal control. Will it look before it leaps?
Team, it did not look before it leaped. Thunked right into that door. To its credit, it did bounce back and land on all fours.
Just another totally normal day at Nagios.
IT People: lol! Browsers take up so much memory.
Me on my work PC: 21 Firefox tabs, Outlook, slack, 4 terminal tabs, Obsidian, and screen presso. 15.7 gigs of memory used.
Me on my Linux PC: Innumerable Firefox tabs, typically 4ish Chromium tabs, Steam, Slack, Discord, System Monitor, Signal, Obsidian, VS Code, and a few terminal windows. About 7 gigs of memory used.
Maaaaybe the problem isn't web browsers. Just gonna throw that out there.
Very sad to see. John Lithgow's role in The World According to Garp was my first exposure to the trans world. It's been decades since I've seen the movie, and I'm sure the representation doesn't hold up well. But it was there and provided me a window into that world.
Now to see him working for someone who actively fights against trans rights. It's very sad to see. I hope he changes his mind.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/fans-actually-super-supportive-john-163705583.html
Windows is the new Lotus Notes.
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