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More likely they are regular cops participating in some joint task force. There are more state, county, and local police agencies in this country than there are FBI Special Agents.

It's neat that I can now put an OCP NIC in a bog-standard server from the major players but I'm not sure that makes up for how everything else OCP becomes e-waste much faster than regular EIA-310 gear.

> Apple pings me, yet again, about my three complimentary months of Apple Music.

This one drives me mad. I don't directly interact with the Music app on my phone very often so it feels like I have to dismiss that ad every damned time.

SCVMM may technically have the thing you're missing from vCenter... but it's no vCenter. It is a grotesque, MMC plug-in-looking application where nothing quite makes sense to someone accustomed to vCenter or Hyper-V / FCM. Maybe if you're into Azure and slap another layer on top w/ Arc you'll have something that... is less icky but still isn't vCenter.

But, hey, The Reg says that VMware is now claiming that vSphere Standard was never really cancelled.

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/09/02/vmware...

Hagibis makes one that isn't a bare PCB. B0GLFGTLW9 on Amazon.com, for me today it's showing $6.99 for a 2-pack.

Some time this year the McDonald's iOS app started demanding that I let it track my location at all times in order for it to keep me signed in.

No thanks.

> but my most common use is actually ADHD treatment

Glad it's working out for you. My partner's brother had been trying to do the same and it has completely changed him for the worse. Blown up his job, marriage, relationship with his young children, and he's damned fortunate that his siblings were raised better than me 'cause if it were my brother we'd be done already.

Adderall had always worked fine for him but we're living in a world where it's exceedingly difficult to keep a Schedule II drug prescription active and fulfilled.

> While I'm bitching, what is the deal with keyboards on new laptops needing special drivers?

The only laptops I've encountered with this are... Microsoft's. Somehow the Surface folks can't get enough of their critical drivers in-box with Windows to be able to re-install from stock media.

(IIRC it goes even deeper with USB drivers missing, but I gave up on Surface Laptops a few year ago)

My chicken tending has fallen to barely break-even on an EBIDTA basis.

I don't know any of the players but I'd bet they're licensed amateur radio operators.

I'm not buying another Kindle until there's a successor to the Voyage's "Limited Edition Premium Leather Origami Cover." If a competitor wants to lure me over, that is the way.

For a moment, a Matrox G400 DualHead was THE card to have for a multi-monitor setup.

Where's the A310 / A40 successor? Gimme some SR-IOV in a slot-powered, single-width, low-profile card.

> It's almost never about directly handing money to a politician. That's illegal

According to SCOTUS in Snyder v. United States, if the payment occurs after the official act, it's a perfectly legal "gratuity."

For Americans, QVC and Target regularly have the BLU Flex or TCL Flip 3 bundled with a year of Tracfone service for $50 or less.

The Revolutionary War.

Nonono, despite my outward white appearance, I follow the sage wisdom of Chris Rock[0]. It's so I have enough advance notice to blast "Fuck the Fire Department" so we can share a nice laugh at the historic rivalry between LE / FD.

[0] How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

It really doesn't, there are lawful reasons to not have a plate yet.

"Needed tens of dollars of rental compute" isn't much of a moat to get acquired instead of copied.

I loath Waze. Its idea of shortcuts are terrible, its search routinely suggests things hundreds of mile away ahead of the match that's nearby, and sometimes I go through an area of intermittent service where it just decides to stop routing without giving a heads-up.

But Waze is so much better at accurately alerting me to police than my Valentine 1 was that I never even bothered mounting it in my latest car. Google supposedly integrates that data for years now but every time I try it comes up short. Google and Apple Maps are better in every other way, but for me at least, that one feature of Waze is a massive moat.

They have a spicy ketchup product that I liked, tho it has disappeared from my local stores. At the time I first noticed it at the store it was the hottest one that also matched the thick consistency I expect from ketchup.

Not to diminish having names for everything but that just shifts the Bitwarden problem to "All of my services share the same base domain."

"IHOP Transgression" cracked me up. There's a restaurant in my town that does the same thing and I hate them for that reason. And like IHOP, what they call an omelette is actually a frittata.

The 5mph bumper impact standard was, as you've pointed out, not a safety regulation.

Automatic shoulder belts being annoying is irrelevant. The dozen-ish explosive, expanding gas sacks in my car are kinda frightening. Both originated with a regulation requiring passive restraint systems to reduce collision injury/death.

Every safety regulation is written in blood.

That particular blood was probably people stopped at night with the trunk open to access a spare tire or tools. And then there was more blood because sometimes those people forget to leave their lights on, or their lights don't function because the battery has died, so we got more regulation requiring ugly reflectors.

And so on.

> Using LE to apply SSL to services? Complicated.

https://github.com/JessThrysoee/synology-letsencrypt

> there is very little one can do with this thing.

It has a VMM and Docker. Entware / opkg exist for it. There's very little that can't be done, but expecting to use an appliance that happens to be Linux-based as a generic Linux server is going to lead to challenges. Be it Synology, TrueNAS, or anything else.

Sorry, I thought your contention was that nobody is forcing me to consume AI BS content.

> just turn it off if you don't like it.

How? Or do you mean, like, stop using the Internet entirely?

It's so much worse for poultry. My state and the bordering states represent more than half of US production and there's exactly one USDA facility available to independent producers. They're quite small and the cost approaches today's retail price for a whole Tyson chicken.

There are USDA exemptions for tiny producers (up to 20K/yr vs 150K+ for a single modern broiler house) to slaughter and package themselves for in-state sales but anyone operating under one of those exemptions won't be able to grow that business large enough to self-finance constructing their own USDA-monitored facility.

My favorite genre of post in r/homelab and r/selfhosted this past year has been "I used AI to set all this stuff up and something broke so I asked AI to fix it and now all my data is gone."

There are so many NAS + Curated App Catalog distros out there that make self-hosting trivial without needing to Vibe SysAdmin.

In my town some of the police cars have darkly tinted plate covers.