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So did she float or sink?

This whole thing really smells like one big Ponzi scheme.

The hidden blocklist was a shitty thing to do. But the final DDOS was just fucking immature and petty. Any high ground he could have possibly claimed was just completely nullified with that move.

I understood the sentiment of wanting to remove drama. But you idea of drama is not everyone’s idea of drama. Had he made it a feature, documented what it was, who was on it, and why he thought that, it might have been a blip. But the whole way it was handled just screamed fascist to me. Oh well… bye Felicia.

You’re not wrong. And we have several people in my group especially since most of us are geeks and technical, that are running Linux as a desktop.

I know. Just don’t tell central IT. Plus the few number of Linux desktops is also reasonable n to not bother. And anybody running Linux as a desktop has way more of a clue than some admin running windows 11.

It’s not the GRBL that’s the issue. It’s the turning things into GRBL that’s the issue. Like I said they probably exist. It’s just a matter of being lazy and not fixing something that already works. If it was windows only, I’d be more inclined.

I love Linux. I really do. I would say 99.9% of all services I self-host are things I run on Linux. And the other 0.1% I’m actively looking for a way to run on Linux or just don’t run at all. But as a desktop, there are things that I just can do as well or at all on Linux. And most of that are drivers or utilities that just either ignore Linux or half-ass it. Which is not Linux’s fault, but it is what it is.

An example: I have a laser cutter in my shop. I use Lightburn. They essentially have stopped all development on the Linux version years ago. So I have an old Macmini running the Mac version (I despise windows with the passion of 1000 suns). So no Linux there. I haven’t looked for a decent Linux version so something might exist. But what I have works and I have other more fun things to try.

But Linux on the desktop can have advantages. At work, the desktop management shit is really getting annoying and increasingly affects my Mac desktop. I don’t need some central office making choices on my desktop/laptop when I know more than most of them. Not to mention I do weird things with networking for my lab that is so outside of normal, I guarantee they have never even considered. Case in point, they were forcing reboots to upgrade the day of any OS update. Even dot 0 releases. I’m like WTAF. I got them to allow a week which is better I guess. They haven’t figured at how to force that on Linux yet so there is a reason to move to Linux for sure. But this advantage for Linux is basically due to the same thing. Linux is ignored on the desktop.

LOL!! I like it.

Shit is supposed to be hard. That’s called learning.

Now here is the thing. I’m terrible at writing. Plus I have ADHD. English has never been my strong suit. I’ll start a thought, get sidetracked, start another thought, leave out words, etc. I’m an engineering, math, science kinda guy. Case in point, back in the day (like 40 years ago) my SATs were very skewed. My math score was like 780 but the verbal was 200 points lower. If AI had existed back then, I would have written the paper or whatever outline of my own ideas, and then had the tool make it coherent. LLMs are good at language. That’s what they really are. They are not smart, they don’t have original ideas. They are word guessers. I’d treat it like a spell/grammar checker on acid. Having the LLM ( I really don’t like calling it AI because it really isn’t AGI… at least not yet) do the entire assignment is just short cutting the entire process of what the university is there for.

Just my 2¢

Apparently irony is lost on certain people.

This is anecdotal and with a few caveats: In my area, and people I work with (which are generally good jobs) I’d say of those 40 and up it’s something like 75%. Of the other 25% that are living in apts or rental houses, I’d say 10% is due to choice. So maybe 15% want to own an home but can’t. One other thing to note is in this area, Raleigh area and suburbs, home prices are reasonable, especially when you get out a little. Now the home I just purchased almost 4 years ago has almost doubled in price in the last 10-15 years or so. So if I had purchased the same house I’m in, in 2010 or so, I would have spent almost half as much money. No my salary hasn’t doubled in 16 years so there’s that.

Under 40, the story is way different. Probably more like 25% own homes. Shit is just way too expensive. And again my experience is with people making decent salaries in IT and academia. There is no way in hell someone 25 work two retail jobs could even touch the down payment, let alone the mortgage without 6 other roommates. Case in point, my son’s rent on a 1 bedroom apt is 2x what my first mortgage was on a 4 bedroom in 2001.

We don’t need no stinkin’ repercussions…

Vista 2: Electric Boogaloo

I’m calling him Ghost Rider Ken from now on

I wanna find out if I’m on the list!!! I mean I doubt it but maybe…

Maybe the dog is just blurry … like Bigfoot.

Just looking at that robot I knew somebody was gonna fuck it.

This is an excellent idea honestly.

Ditto.

That’s it. I’m getting a burner phone if I leave the country.

Edit: Serious question… what if you just wiped your phone and then restored it when you got wherever you were going?