I quit 2 jobs that had a RTO. One was Salesforce when they acquired Slack. The other was another software company that I still have an NDA with.

I’m never going back into the office. I rather make less money.

What’s interesting is that I’m actually making more money doing remote because I don’t need to commute or pay for lunches or happy hours anymore. Actual time spent at work calculated, I’m making 40% more $.

Is the fire department socialism? Everyone pays for a service/insurance that 99.9% people might never use, but want to have in case some shit went down. Why does nobody think this is socialism is beyond me.

I have it and 99.9% of the time I’m just listening to music. I only record video or take a photo of things I would have normally taken with a phone like candid photos of my kids out something interesting I want to research later.

Some of us use the glasses as intended.

Don’t make some it seem like all of us are creepy. The mass majority are not.

Been married for 24 years. Both of us watch porn and sometimes together. We have 2 awesome kids and are very happy. My wife’s libido Is lower than mine and she rather I get off than have her do something she doesn’t want to do. When is this divorce thing going to happen?

I’m not saying you should have kids. That’s a decision you don’t take lightly.

But as a father of 2, I want to tell you that you will never love anybody or anything in the world than you will with your kids. I was a selfish piece of shit and after having kids, man, I hate who I was before.

It’s not for the faint of hearts. Shit ain’t easy. But I can tell you it’s quite the experience and I don’t regret it.

This “study” is awful. Wtf is Unknown? I run multiple websites. It’s consistently at 75% Windows. My website is globally. The % is lower in the US.

Back in my day when you wanted to do anything, you walk into a branch and talk to a teller. Without a mobile device, you go back to living in the 90s.

In Taiwan, we can count to 10 on one hand.

The website uses the bank app 2FA. Without it you can’t login.

I have 7+ AI agentic agents doing work for over 30+ people. All of these workflows are designed by me. If I don’t show up to a meeting because I need a break, they can’t do anything. Because if I ever left, they are fucked.

Honestly I rather they let me hire some human employees so I can train some of them. This entire company infrastructure lives and dies by me.

I been using open models for 100% of my coding. 1/2 of the time I’m using local open models like qwen 3.6 or Dwarfstar if it’s sensitive code I don’t want the internet learning from.

I don’t miss using frontier models at all. GLM5.2 and Deepseek V4 pro are both equal or beats sonnet. I haven’t had to use Opus for awhile now.

Error, not like how the Chinese does it. It’s literally an integrated government+ industry. There is a worker pipeline and a parts pipeline that intergrates everything with the help of the government. In the us, you get a couple of bucks off a car. Not the same.

I live in Taiwan and we are actively shutting down our nuclear facilities. Now the majority of our electricity is from fossil fuels.

I much rather work towards clean energy but at the same time only use nuclear power.

May I ask why you export and de exify photos? Synology Photos does this work for you.

If its Steven Miller, they would have already called him out. I think they are saying “Unknown Political Consultant” because we don’t want Putin using this reason to drop bombs on us.

My money is “Unknown political consultant” is Putin.

Fantastic! Glad you fixed it :)

Dude was into porn before the internet. He was just a future dude living in the past.

I’m sorta in the same boat as you. I run Synology all my photos and manage 5 different family members photos.

So I have different use cases for them and myself.

**For them: **They only care about the ability to see where they took their photos and its uploading correctly. The built in face detection is average at best but its enough for them to find the photo they are looking for.

They will never use the full extent of all the metadata that is available to them if I had it.

The tradeoffs are the ease of deployment and account management. I only have 5 members and if I had to teach each one which website or page to go to so they can view their images, it would drive me nuts. I simply give them credentials and a link to download from Apple Store and Playstore and off they go. New phones? No problem. Add it to their AppleTV? Don’t need to bother me.
** For Me: ** I use Excire Foto and it scans each photo and helps me manage everything with a very powerful AI tool for tagging. I use it for the majority of my photo management. The downside, its not very remote friendly. So if you’re working remote, you will not be able to manage your NAS photos from afar.

This way I keep both Synology Photos and use Excire when I’m needing to do some real work.

Thanks for replying. Sorry it took so long to reply.

Most of my “linux” skills are youtube video based. I’m currently running a proxmox box that houses my OpenWRT, adguard, tailscale Home assistant and a Win11 VM for backing up to backblaze. I also have a Synology box.

Like I said, most of my ‘skills’ are following well documented youtube videos and guides.

I currently own lemmy.tw. I’m located in Taipei and was going to run it out of my proxmox or a spare Intel i3 serverI have laying around. My fear is that since my boxes are on the same network, I might be putting myself at risk. I could setup a VLAN to segment it out of my network. I just don’t want to lose all my data because of some lemmy bug and/or forgetting to update the kernals or something.

I don’t mind paying for a monthly subscription for hosting if that means its safer.

Thanks for the help.