I started with Plex because it was an installable app on my NAS. It worked great with a Roku stick that was given to me. Same for a TV that had the Plex client. It works well for the others in the house. I got a Plex pass on sale a few years ago.

I’d like to switch to Jellyfin, but would need to find the client for 2 TVs and deal with the complaints if it doesn’t work exactly like Plex.

I heard that some countries charge a vehicle tax based on the weight of the vehicle. Some based on the number of cylinders.

One of the problems with removing the fuel tax is that affluent people will be able to avoid the additional registration tax by registering their vehicle in another state, such as where their summer home is. Having a gas tax allows taxes to go where the fuel is purchased and indirectly where the vehicle is using the roads. This doesn’t work for electric vehicles.

I’m surprised no politician suggested toll booths all over.

If you have the view that everyone is replaceable, it all comes into focus. How much would it cost to interview everyone in a department for value, then lay off 10%? How much would it cost to lay off the 10% most expensive employees? Executives will pick the 2nd because in this economy, you can just open the front door and dozens of candidates will flock in, competing with each other for the lowest salary. Win-win (not for you).

In an employee’s economy, firing a person then hiring them back is more expensive than in an employer’s economy.

These cameras are popping up all over my city, neighboring cities and even some local businesses. I don’t have the charisma to start a movement but would join one if it were available.

It’s already a thing: rentahuman.ai

I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?

This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i’ll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I’d love to join with a group.

The minnesota attorney(ies) isn’t pressing charges because they are derelict in their duty

This then becomes a voter issue to install someone who will represent the people. Alternatively, protests to hold elected officials accountable to their duties or promises.

democrats do that with every issue opposed by powerful interests they promised to do something about, they make a performative gesture, get stopped, then say well I tried

I’ve seen this far too many times. Again, holding elected officials accountable may be the only way.

I remember the “have fun with that” quote. It was oddly smug and childish, which is why it stuck out.

Perhaps it’s naive of me to think so, but I read that the Minnesota District Attorney is deliberately not pressing charges (at least for the 2 murders) until the chance of a presidental pardon is nil.

I read a speculation somewhere that DHS want to declare all opposition to their activities as domestic terrorists and then remove their right to vote. There have been multiple articles detailing how the people who follow agents around and report their location are served papers later declaring them to be domestic terrorists and then they are placed on a no fly list. I’m sure more is to come. Reportedly, all the agents use facial recognition cameras to sweep the crowds for logging in a database, but another report suggests that the recognition part isn’t working so well.

You could be right, but I read an opinion piece a while back that suggested that removal of 230 would allow the government to indirectly censor speech online by selectively punishing the platforms that don’t moderate in the way that the administration would like. This may not be a problem under the current administration, but what if a wanabe dictator were to somehow become president?

I have something similar to host paths with node selectors: an NFS provisioner for PVs. The provisioner is tied to the node with the large disk. It’s not resilient to node outages, but allows me to spread pods across the nodes. For my deployments, I’m preferring to use S3 storage wherever possible.

Excellent write-up. I had Nextcloud running on K3s with its files on a NAS which were shared with Minio and it worked well. I’m looking into Longhorn, but only have 2 nodes and it wants at least 3. I’m reevaluating my resiliency needs in favour of simplification.

I’ve been looking to do this, but haven’t found a good, easy to use pull thru proxy for docker, ghcr.io and some other registries. Most support docker only.

This one looks promising but overly complicated to set up.

A few times now, I’ve gone to restart a container and the repo’s been moved, archived or paywalled. Other times, I’m running a few versions behind and the maintainer decided to not support it, but upgrading would mean a complete overhaul of my Helm values file. Ugh!

I was considering a docker registry on separate ports for each upstream registry I’d like to proxy/cache.

I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.

Edit: I found the article.

I think they prefer to be called Native United States of Americans.

(This is a bad joke, playing on the original topic, don’t hate me)

Generally speaking, I’ve found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.

I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren’t cheap.

Oh, and I’m cursed for batteries. I’ve had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.

I’d love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.

I’m self hosting to learn. I’ve been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is “mission critical”, so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it’s helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).

Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).

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