I’ll try spinning! That’s a good trick!

Sounds like your partner may be somewhat narcissistic, and definitely emotionally abusive if they redirect and gaslight you that regularly

I mean, you say that, but I’ve driven a modern Porsche with all of those thing electric, and it’s absolutely still fun as hell. Sure, the steering isn’t quite as communicative as older models, but it’s still VERY good. They’ve done an incredible job with the feedback dynamics.

There’s some of that, but you really do get a feel for the car, where it likes to be, how it likes to be treated/driven, where its limits are, and so on. As others have said: it absolutely does help you forge a more detailed perception of what your car is doing, and where the limits really are.

Overall (and this is from a lifelong manual driver), I go much more by feel than I do any particular number on the tach, under normal driving circumstances.

Uh, no they won’t?

The entire business model of insurance is to understand risk and assign a cash-value to it. Ignoring risk means their business model falls apart. They’re not going to ignore risk, in any dimension. And if they’re MADE to “ignore” risk in a particular dimension… they’re still going to analyze it and have actuarial tables around it, and will instead just factor it in by raising prices across the board.

That dash looks an awful lot like an em-dash

Normal: -

Em: –

Hahahaha Kessler Syndrome goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Sometimes you lose the forest for the trees

Nicely done! That’s pretty awesome :)

Though I should point out that it’s also not hard to lock down a windows install a bit more if you don’t make the default account an admin one. But moving to Linux is better imo for a whole host of reasons.

It’s a thing that already exists.

This is specifically why I’m convinced that the insurrection act is going to be invoked at some point, and then a bunch of the conservative militias will “pop up out of nowhere” and get deputized. And just like that, you’ve got your home-grown all-American neo-Sturmabteilung.

Self hosting isn’t likely to ever get to the point of “plug and play”. It’s inherently incredibly flexible and different people will do different things with it. Some people just want NAS. Some people want to build a router. Some people want to have a modest compute farm that they physically own. Some people want a virtualization playground. Or pretty much anything else you can think of, or some combination thereof.

For instance, I custom built a 2-tier + optane cached NAS running proxmox, and I have a handful of old thin clients I can spin up for doing Beowulf things when I feel like it, and I also have another repurposed thin client with an old enterprise-grade SFP+ NIC running pfSense as my router that can support up to 10g (futureproofing).

Holy resurrected post, Batman!

text you can hear

Hahaha weaponized autism is fun :D

American here: there’s a LOT of racism in America. And in certain regions, it’s a lot worse. Even in some neighborhoods of “good” places, it’s worse. Be careful if you’re not white. Be especially careful if you’re in any of the southern border states and you look even remotely Hispanic.

Also, old people run everything these days

As a software engineer who was introduced to the field in high school, over two decades ago: it’s real. People are doing it. I’ve met people doing this at my job, and directed focused scorn at them. You know the idiom of “knowing just enough to be dangerous”? Like, you’re learning C and you’re just playing around and you discover pointers, and you’re like “oh this is interesting”, but you haven’t learned or internalized that it is real easy to Fuck Things Up if you don’t use them very carefully (there’s a ton of stuff like this)? LLM codegen being used by novices is an absolute shitshow because the codegen will often create nonsense, broken, logically flawed, or deprecated code, and the novice user is just going to accept it at face value instead of understanding that it’s subtly wrong.

If my grandfather were still alive and tried to tell me literally anything about network maintenance, I’d say “ok sure grandpa, don’t worry about it”, and then do it anyways after he goes to bed, because I know how networking works as a component of having over a decade of devops and homelab experience, and he would never notice.