Can’t read past the superfluous comma. Send help

I can get onboard with the first sentence only. Keep the pretty cows away from me. Otherwise, I’m canceling our plans. 🙃

Many of us started running Windows Server and endpoints with Cisco PIX firewall (am I showing my age here?) but in my case, the cost and substandard tools turned me away. I was running A DLNA server and using WDS (yes, very overkill for home, but fun to learn for work), but then I found TrueNAS (then called FreeNAS) running on BSD. I now run a simple share from there and Kodi on my (Linux and Android) user endpoints. I don’t bother with imaging anymore, and use dd for backups to my NAS. My Firewall runs OPNSense (BSD) and I run OpenWRT on two TrendNet WAPs.

I’ll never go back to MS. It’s just not a welcoming platform from my perspective. Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.

my distaste for MS grew

This is a natural progression. Inescapable.

Ugh. Finding a new doctor, even just for med management took me months. I called dozens, and so many were no longer practicing, or had been rolled into a local mega practice that has hoops to jump through and limited slots. I found a published solo doctor by chance, but he doesn’t accept insurance, and it’s $300 each 15 min visit. Thankfully, he doesn’t charge when we go over by 45 min.

It’s good that you have a supportive partner. Mine is propping me up big time lately. In grateful. Trust me: those cakes taste good, no matter how the glaze sets up! Whenever my wife and I watch baking competitions, we agree we’d east the ones that don’t win. Stodgy? Claggy? Gooey! 😋 Forget that Xfinity tech! My FTTH install was the same. You pay for installation. Might as well get some info! Now get some cool STL files (is 3D printing still done from STL files?) and get ready to print some cool stuff!

I love a good distraction!

❤️

I had a bad time driving the other night and realized I need to be more aware of his the meds are testing me before I drive next time. I curb rashed a perfectly good wheel. 😠AI is making everything dumb and more expensive, and nvidia’s CEO thinks we all should have a $10k “agentic computer” for our AI assistants who hand purchasing power and their own (not our) computer. My lifelong love of computer tech is being tested by this stupid AI craze.

But, all things considered, I am in a good place. Ish.

Today is my 🍰 day here on .world, and I go spend the day with my son to celebrate his HS graduation in a few hours. His graduation marked the last time I have to see his mother before his wedding or first child. That’s huge to me. My hypo is fading. The side effects of the meds are too (at least for now, at early titration levels), and maybe they’ll stay that way. My wife is mega-supportive, and even my emotionally-stunted mom seems to be sympathetic and understanding. My friends in Belize and I just reconnected yesterday and are planning a visit (me going there, as coming to the USA is too scary for even 🇺🇸 citizens, and they’re not that).

I was mindful before, but Bipolar is making me pause and think even more about how everything I do feels and affects others. That can only be good, I think.

Woah! Look at that; 3yrs since Spez ruined the internet for me. Glad to be here.

I’m sticking around, though I assume the novel part of my diagnosis will soon fade.

Truth

Can confirm: photo has a few suspect shadows, but surely not what I scanned for. Ah, so…

Futurama never gets old or loses applicability

Totally! Now let’s go make a soda bomb!

Is anyone other than me looking at each window for the couple getting it on against the glass?

Thx. I’m not scared, but I’ll drop it the second it starts to give me problems, if it ever does.

My pdoc is also a medical marijuana card… giver? I don’t know the term. I don’t go that route as recreational is legal in my state anyway, but it’s nice to have him onboard with my own version of ADHD treatment. He just advises against using it when we change treatment, but even then says that night-time use to help me sleep is fine with him.

I learned something new today!

I think Louis Rossmann said it right: https://youtu.be/WpPIW4aeeag?t=699

tl;dw: “Fuck you!” …“You have them for Sam Altman, just not for me.”

same

Smoked from 1995 to 2024, when I switched to dry herb vape because of consistent headaches. I’ve had a few bake-overs from puffing a lot right before bed, but otherwise, nothing like whiskey. I know people who get anxiety from it, but I never seem to. :fingerscrossed: