That can’t be an efficient way to smuggle.

hm this name I heard before, this one I don’t know. I’ll just vote for the same person.

or not vote at all

Probably, but if you started with 500B vs 0 I’m guessing one will have a better result.

What was the figure? All it would take to end world hunger is 500 billion or something like that? Half one person’s weath?

What sort of person has that amount and decides not to end world hunger.

Hey now, I’ve been producing clean turds for years. Should mean you’re just about ready to eat them right?

A Monty burns style sunblocker seems about on par with what they would do next

Sure but how does that help the business world? Having happier healthier people that stay working age longer so they can take more wages? No! No wage! O ly work!

I’ve definitely noticed that. Deadlines are extreme now, there’s no research, it’s just ship it now. There’s no overhead. In 10 years the business side has taken complete control with no regard for the process, and AI only amplified that.

Seniors like me are being burned out, and the juniors don’t have enough experience to handle what business is throwing now. There will be a reckoning in the field I think as companies lose that experience.

I can hear my dad yelling

CLOSE THE GODDAMN DOOR IM NOT PAYING TO COOL THE OUTSIDE

Ah, childhood.

Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.

Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.

Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.

This video did a decent job summing up my thoughts

Amazing how they lament about (unfounded) low birthrates, when then they turn around and do stuff like recommending against vaccines. As a childless person, why would I want to have one right now?

No child care, pure blindness to science, abortion rights eroding (which if something goes wrong, yes that matters and makes me less likely to have a child), school shootings, defunding education.

As George Carlin said:

They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

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I never understood how they were so deluded into thinking it was permanent. Sure we didn’t know how long it would last but we knew it wasn’t permanent.

CEO of zoom was legit shocked when their stock normalized.

Got frigate set up, more mature than I expected!

I feel you, I had a similar case. At the end of the day you’re a line in a spreadsheet. Taught myself early that no matter how connected you are with a company, it doesn’t matter at all. Family, friends, they matter. Work to live, because work will throw you away tomorrow if they want to. Your family will always be there.

I’ve learned it really depends on the device. It’s completely a mixed bag, and that’s why I can’t trust it. Half the time it lasts over a decade, the other half less than a year.

For example, I got their “Enterprise” Switch 8 PoE with 2 SFP+ ports. I plugged it in in my garage, where it was 50 degrees (F) at the time, and it overheated. I googled it, apparently the SFP ports simply overheat. Turns out while it has a fan, it doesn’t turn on and simply overheats because they “Didn’t want a noisy fan on someone’s desk”. Which… uh, doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. Their enterprise term means nothing.

That being said, my rackmount switches have been solid, oldest one is 10 years old. However that unknown makes it hard to justify purchasing new equipment.

I never even thought about Aqara, I have a lot of their things already. Do I need an NVR or something with that?

Really?? Is that all? Best I can think is that the transformer doesn’t really protect the device at all, I’m guessing there was a surge at some point

How do you use Reolink? I’ve heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

Always remember when there is a massive leadership shakeup - you are not safe. They have their own people, they are there because the last person fucked up (in their eyes). Never believe anything they say, you are not safe in your position.

They won’t do it immediately. The first 90 days is them only observing, then at 6 months they have a plan. 6-12 months they’ll be implementing their new plans. Never feel safe because “they’ve been here a couple of months and it’s fine”.