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Antivirus on my work Windows laptop has caused countless BSODs. VPN clients are often junk.

I had a KVM that could occasionally trigger one.

Windows itself seems to be pretty BSOD free. It is almost always something installed after or hardware.

That’s probably a decent starting point, but a little older. I am not sure if the situation has changed any in 2026.

Do you think we'll be longing for the nostalgia hit of LLM models from 2025 in 2050?

Maybe we will collectively miss being completely right and inappropriate em—dashes.

In Ontario we do allow gambling in every convenience store in the province.

There are scratch tickets right there on the counter. There's the OLG machine for printing and checking lottery tickets and sports betting.

It has been this way for as long as I can remember, but it's never been in your face like the last few years.

Maybe we'll start repurposing the washrooms and stock rooms for poker tournaments soon.

Sometimes I do miss owning the hardware to run a thing.

What I don't miss was having all of those appliances run a different base distro of Linux, each with varying levels of update support, while the security team keeps reading security scans to me.

This is pretty horrifying. Bonus points if you hit somebody on the way down?

Oops, sorry, didn’t notice you were in Canada eh?

Likely story. No way Google could tell Canada and the US apart.

Does a DB fall apart every time that happens? It does happen, but I might argue it shouldn’t happen, especially in simple configurations.

I do have an automatic daily dump in case of emergencies.

A possible restore only affects that app. Plus I can guarantee the files and DB were snapshotted at the same moment this way.

It may just be a way for me to avoid managing the DB.

He's pretty anxious about food in general, so it actually made a lot of sense.

My only Windows machine has a Core Ultra 7 in it, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM. It should be powerful enough to render a menu instantly, I thought.

Or better yet, who at Microsoft decided this performance was adequate? Does nobody care anymore? Or just not the right people?

Are narcotics normally required to handle that?

I also had my gallbladder out via laparoscopic surgery with the same as pain relief. It's possible we just don't feel pain the same.

Cooling is usually what kills you with server gear at home. I don't have a cold aisle, or a case that flows that much air. Can I water cool it enough?

No video outputs would probably be my biggest annoyance. It should be fine at headlessly rendering games for streaming though, as well as AI.

If there's a will, there's usually a way.

In my experience, new cars have new car problems, but old cars have old car problems.

There’s no clear winner in every metric, just trade offs.

For me it was sitting on a milk crate in the back of a van. I liked watching the road pass underneath us through the rust holes.

Car seat? No.

Seat belt? No.

Seat? No, not even one of those.

You didn't have an 11 seater back in the day. You just put people wherever they fit and hoped nobody noticed. It was "fine" at one point. You'd be raked over the coals for it now.

I've also had registered domains turn the box red with "Please enter a valid email address" as if it needed to end in .(com|org|edu|gov)

A lot of tech is basically a treadmill. You’re never finished. It is no wonder people burn out mentally.

Something like cybersecurity? Great, we made it through today, tomorrow will be worse. Repeat until something bad happens.

My knees and back might last longer though.

I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago and the bride’s dress had pockets. It may have been the least important time in her life to have them, but it had them.

I do wish the Matrix client situation was less messy.