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It is as bad as it has ever been………

But border patrol has always been a bunch of small dick assholes, all the way back to Obama.

My wife and I adopted a child from another country. He was 18 months of age at the time.

We flew into LAX. We were exhausted from a long flight. We got to customs. Agents approached us and said that they had a few questions and said that I (the father) needed to collect our bags and they would escort my wife(us citizen), my oldest son (us citizen), and my youngest son(adopted foreign national) to the waiting area.

I got our bags and tried to rejoin my family. They denied me entry. Said they had questions for “them”. After an hour I started to have to raise hell because I had all the supplies for my family. Diapers. Food, etc. I was told it obviously took us a while to adopt this kid so we can wait longer.

I eventually stated that they were illegally holding two us citizens and I was going to call 911 for them to take me serious.

They acted like they didn’t know my wife and oldest wee US citizens. Bunch of bullshit. Fuck those assholes and every one of them that continues to violate our constitutional rights.

Signed

12 year US Navy Civilian.

I am an older guy that was building kubernetes clusters before eks, aks, gke. So I used terraform to build shit out to make it happen. Azure was 5x the code just to be different. You can try to blame terraform but if you used MS custom tooling it was no different.

I have used all the platforms personally and professionally. GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud.

I will just say that Azure seems to want to do shit different for the sake of being different.

It is really annoying to write infrastructure as code for aws/gcp then go to do the same for azure and realize how dumb some of their stuff is.

Just my personal experience.

Are there issues in Windows? Sure but if you give me 100 laptops, 80% will do this right without any issue. Maybe 30% of those laptops will work right on any Linux distro without major fucking around with bullshit trying to make it work. Yes those numbers are made up but I have been running versions of Linux since Slackware in the 90s. I still have a desktop with an amd cpu and nvidia gpu that I can’t get to sleep/suspend right. Works fine when dual boated in windows. I just gave up and manually do shit now when using Linux

I haven't researched how all these came to exist but I assume it is the typical conservative talking point about the free market being more efficient so why wouldn't we want this. It will save us all money. And no, I don't believe any of that BS.

I will freely admit, I didn't know shit about medicare advantage plans prior to this shit show happening. Most people don't have a clue. But if you talk to a social worker at a hospital, they see it every single day. They are beat down trying to fight for their patients while watching them get fucked by insurance.

The solution is disallow private insurance being the middle man between medicare and the patient.

What possible benefit to the patient is having a whole bureaucracy sit between the gov't insurance and the person in need of medical care? It only exists to make money off the backs of the people they are harming.

Now, if you don't know why people sign up for them, you don't understand what they are doing. My mom, like many others, was on a fixed income. If you sign up for a medicare advantage plan, they will do things like give you an extra $100 a month to you directly. Why would insurance be willing to PAY you? Because they make all their money billing medicare and denying you coverage.

18 billion in profits last year running a middle man between patients and medicare

Yep, and it is preventable. The one thing I can say is NEVER let your parents sign up for a "medicare" advantage plan. There is no advantage. The company my mom was with is one of the largest and profited something like 18 BILLION off medicare last year. How do you think that is possible? Because they overcharge medicare and deny coverage.

I can explain my perspective which echos kinda what you say.

I am in my 40s, I make pretty good money. My life is good.

My mom died last year. The medical system and her medicare "advantage" plan killed her. She had a stroke. However, within a day, she was up and walking around with assistance.

However, the hospital was understaffed so two things happened. She fell going to the bathroom AND after that happened, they did not get her moving enough and she got a huge bed sore.

The huge bed sore would not have happened if her medicare advantage plan hadn't denied denied denied having her moved to get physical, occupation, and speech theray. If she had just good ole medicare, they would have approved it the day of request (it was requested the day after the stroke, I was warned that her plan was going to deny because they always do where medicare always approves). Instead, she rotted in an understaffed wing of the hospital for a week while I fought to get shit approved.

After getting approval to be moved, she was making slow slow progress due to the bed sore. It is hard when your body needs to recover and you have a huge wound on your back.

Once again her medicare "advantage" plan denied giving her more time in therapy. Guess what? Medicare would have just approved. Her advantage plan said the "community" could care for her and she could just get better over time. Do you know what that means? They wanted me to quit working and care for my mom 24/7. That is what they meant by community care. I am an only child with no other family except my wife and kids.

The hospital social worker was great and refused to discharge my mom because she knew I couldn't physically move my mom around or give her the care she required. That started a month battle where her insurance was refusing to pay anymore hospital bills, refused to get her more therapy, and essentially killed my mom. If the social worker had allowed my mom to be discharged, I would have been fucked.

She slowly got worse and died. The american medical system with its private "advantage" plans took what would have been a recoverable bad health incident and allowed it to kill my mom for greed.

BTW, after a month of fighting, emails to the insurance board of directors and CEO, I got more therapy approved for my mom but it was too late by then. She died a few days later.

You can probably guess how I feel about the CEO's murder........

Only complaint is that my home network assigns IPv6 addresses and that fucks up external dns lookups for pods in Orbstack.

I would look at Orbstack. Yes it costs money but it is pretty great.

Your situation sounds very similar to the company I work for. Orbstack has been a drop in replacement except one issue. Any dev using IPv6 assignment on their home network has issues where pods try to hit external dns because it tries to use IPv6 and I don’t think the Orbstack k8s instance is dual stack.

There are hacks to get around it but if I could get Orbstack to address this issue, I couldn’t find one other issue.

Orbstack is crazy fast and way better than docker desktop overall

My main dev machine is Linux so I use Rancher Desktop but I also have a MacBook Pro m1 machine. Orbstack is so much better than rancher and docker desktop. I know they are a small company but hell if their product isn’t significantly more efficient and better.

Yep, my 15 year old son is going to inherit my iPhone 13 Pro after I replace the battery. Way better than getting $300 for trade in that I would get.

This reply seems eerily similar to folks months/years before the wright brothers proved flight was indeed possible.

All the building evidence was there but people just refused to believe it was possible.

I am not buying that AI right now is going to displace every job or change the world in the next 5 years but I would t bet against world impacts in that timefram. The writing is in the wall. I am old enough to remember AI efforts in the late 80s and early 90s. We saw how very little progress was made.

The progress made in the past 10 years is pretty insane.

For anyone reading this site, sure. Generally public, hell no.

I am not the person you are replying to but it is blantantly obvious that IF you have google play services on your phone, they have full access to your device.

They have accidentally shown their hand previously by turning on battery saver mode on everyone's phone on accident.

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/google-can-remotel....

They can try to say it is limited to whatever, but I think all the smoke means there is fire. I used to exclusively use Android devices until this incident happened.

At the end of the day, I realize that even if I buy a google phone, I am still the product. I do not believe it is the same with Apple. Do I trust apple? No way, but I feel they have more incentive to not treat my data as a product to be sold and my device to be used to spy on me.

Congrats, it looks great, love that you have Linux app support.

Question, have you done the business analysis to know how long you can afford to run the system when giving away 500MB? Even your paid model seems really inexpensive. Do you have enough margin to immediately not go broke?

I am not trying to throw shade, I am just curious because it almost seems too good to be true since you aren’t running any ads and your price is free and/or cheap

What? Wikileaks had a huge drop of shit about Russia they were going to publish.

Assange was told he would be falling out a window if he published it. Then he buried it.

He is only about publishing leaks about western countries that don’t directly tell him they will murder him.

That isn’t a free society.

My issue is that he was influenced by Russia. Aka they threatened his life and he then proceeded to leak information about the US but keep Russian secrets.

I mean I don’t blame him for not wanting to be murdered by Russia but he isn’t a freedom fighter when he only leaks things for countries that don’t directly threaten his life.

Yep, on my boat, I converted the original square dish to run off my 12v lithium batteries.

I have plenty of solar and batteries to run starlink 24/7.

Even if you don’t have a lot of amp hours, starlink allows you to set a sleep schedule where it would use way less power.

But ditching the starlink router and converting to run off 12v isn’t that hard

You can actually create an account, pay for one month, then pause it.

Then just unpause in the starlink app to instantly have access and resume billing

I used their free tier. Didn’t meet my needs. Tried to delete my account. It fails to delete my tenent, can’t talk to support because it is free tier. Email support refused to help. Told me to pay to talk to support. So they want me to pay so I can have them delete my account.

Yes, basically if you opted out of Apple scraping, your data isn’t used

Again, you are way more likely to get myocarditis from Covid than the vaccine.

If they had agreed to the enterprise plan and move to BYOIP, pretty sure CF would have given them months to make BYOIP happen

They weren’t protecting you or any of their customers. This is a mafia style shakedown

Umm I don’t know where this impression comes from outside of the first two weeks of release. You can’t release a porn only app but……

Moon player can play any VR content including YouTube 360 and VR porn if that is your desire

I also think the roadtrip inconvenience is vastly overblown. Had an EV since 2018. It is our roadtrip car. It turns 12 hour roadtrips to 14 hour trips but if you plan around eating, it doesn’t extend any trip by much.

I still have a gas vehicle but I never want to use it for long trips.

At my company, I feel just the opposite. Our frontend JS projects are lacking in enough unit, integration, and e2e that most of those devs are scared to touch any dependencies.

Where on our backends, we have such high code coverage, quality integration tests, the backend devs are never nervous about updating dependencies.

EDIT: I will also say, we are purely microservices so that does help in this regard.

I hate helm. For us, it led to a PITA knowing where values came from. You had to debug logic in the helm charts to know why a value existed in the cluster with no good debugging tools.

We switched to kustomize with tooling around it. It is dead simple to know why a value landed in an environment this way at the expense of yaml proliferation but I would rather have tooling to help us manage that than trying to debug why a value got into production due to an bug in helm logic in the templates. I don’t want to debug service logic and helm templating logic.

I am probably sensitive because my mom passed away due to stroke prior to my wife being on Rinvoq but that was a bigger concern for me when my wife went on it. Learn to identify stroke symptoms.