Orange Pi?

IBM helped automate the holocaust with punch cards and tabulating machines.

Expect that all large companies are actively pursuing business with the US Gov and DHS until such time that the US gov or specific departments are declared as sanctioned entities, otherwise it is difficult for a public corporation to not do business with it. They are here to make money, and these are the rules they govern themselves with. Further, the Democrats consistently support funding bills that are diverting massive amounts of money to DHS/ICE, so it has become one of the few departments awarding business, not to mention very large lucrative projects.

Now consider sales reps, business units that are basically going to lose their job if the don’t make their number and their only client is the US Gov, then consider these are white collar Americans, the last people in the world that would stick their neck out for anyone, so they are all obedient & complicit. Privately, they may say they are conflicted, but that is nonsense, there is nothing to be conflicted about, and then slither back into something about professionalism.

The contacts are massive to build detainment camps, the AI powered databases of people to fill them, the private cloud to do the processing, 5G network to connect it, the coordination systems, it is all being built as I write this. Let alone the transport services to haul the captives around. Check out the opportunity to profit, the procurement site is public:

https://sam.gov/search/?index=opp&page=1&pageSize=25&sort=-modifiedDate&sfm[status][is_active]=true&sfm[status][is_inactive]=true&sfm[simpleSearch][keywordRadio]=ALL&sfm[simpleSearch][keywordTags][0][value]=Dhs

Never going to happen. Just some stupid people that avoid facts and only watch conspiracy videos.
In the spirit of Ralph Klein, I think we out to buy these folks one way tickets to the American state of their preference. Let ICE sort them out.

“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV” -Ani DiFranco, Musician

Which is also a complete lie. The ‘surplus’ is Canadian crude oil being imported by American oil companies, refined and then exported at high profit. Canada is actually getting screwed. It would be a trade deficit if the taps stopped, and is another example of how a US benefit of Free Trade is being misrepresented to the MAGA cult by the US regime. Once the investments are in place to repatriate oil processing, I expect Carnie will be discussing the need to turn off the taps. I am not sure if retrofitting old refineries would accelerate the process as it would take at least a decade to build from new. In any case, it would freak out the Koch family (one of the families that actually run the US), so I expect there is a full strategy being developed and played out.

The Monroe Doctrine, everyone in South America knows about it. It’s the excuse to fuck around in everyone’s business in the western hemisphere since 1823.

It’s a burning platform, and the future isn’t bright. IT and security would love to get rid of Windows desktops, they are nightmare to manage and secure. Problem is legacy.

But who still uses native Windows Apps other than Office? Legacy apps are out there, but also being migrated to low code browser apps. Even Office is an web app and Microsoft has been converting their ‘native’ apps into browser containers. Point is that Almost everything runs on a web browser and that is what kids have been using in schools for nearly 10 years. To date, ChromeOS is widely used in some roles (contact center, some back office). Developers, graphics, video, marketing, executives, along with most sales often use Mac, and nearly every enterprise uses both Android and IPhone /iPad OS.

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Fight Club was Chuck saying fuck you to publishers for rejecting his work was too edgy etc. So he went all out, and not only becomes a published book, but a movie.

“Under Spanbauer’s influence, Palahniuk produced an early draft of what would later become his novel Invisible Monsters (1999), but it was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to. Palahniuk then wrote a second novel, expanding on his short story, “Fight Club”.[9] Initially, Fight Club was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness (1995),[10] but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the original short story became chapter six); Fight Club: A Novel was published in 1996.[11]”

Linux for desktop. MacBook Air for my laptop, only because of Microsoft Office. Bought a cheap Office for Mac 2021 licence. Mac is also much better than Windows 11 too: responsive, Fast wake/sleep, no 20 minute reboots with mystery updates, no registry, no Powershell. If you can avoid Office documents and run an AMD GPU, anyone should be golden on Linux. NVidia is fine if you are comfortable with command line. Not really sure what Windows has going for it except inertia, but if your coasting, you are going downhill…

Poor XMPP, no one will just let it die.

Obviously to upset fragile beings in the future that believe biology is defined by electrical connectors.

I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!

True, I think I’ve played more Mass effect on my PS5 than PS5 games. I assume it is leading faster at least… not a good investment. I should have stuck with my PS4 Pro.

Not knowing about Incus (LXD). It’s a life changer. Would never run any service on bare metal again.

Using GenAI to develop my Terraform and Ansible playbooks is magical. Also, use it to document everything in beautiful HTML docs from the outputs. Amazing.

The article is clear, the market is reacting to Argentinians voting against Milei in mid-term elections, which also wasn’t in line with expectations. His policies are very popular with the market.

Argentina is a financial basket case from years of corruption and government overspending and printing money. I’m not surprised that the enthusiasm for his drastic fiscal restraint has waned quickly. There is no easy way out of these messes.

Would you believe Oracle OCI? They have an always free tier, as in you never pay. You need a valid regular credit card. At first I thought it was for a slow x86 instance, but it includes Arm hours equivalent to 4 cores, 24 GB RAM, 10TB of transfer a month, I think 200GB storage. Divide it up for an nginx reverse proxy in front of it, or HA Proxy if you are feeling ambitious.

Consistency between devices. Android isn’t android, everyone mucks with it, especially Samsung.

TBF, Motorola is a bit misleading. Nothing against the product, (I love my RAZR), but they were basically diminished to a brand-name that is now owned by Lenovo.

Trump definitely has visions, but TACO!

My work PC has W11. Microsoft ruined the start menu. I removed all the icons off the Start menu as it is simply useless and has zero practical functional except to shutdown the PC because Shutdown can’t be found with search.