This is one of those things that will vary wildly by person. Some people are absolutely wicked smart in their 70s having had 7 decades to read, write and digest and reinterpret and reread information and some people are entirely mentally gone by that point.

It’s just like physical health, some people don’t do anything to maintain it and start decaying in their 30s and some people remain in amazing physical health into their 70s and 80s, and some people have something tragic happen that hobbles their health for the rest of their lives. You simply can’t make sweeping generalizations like you have

I mean most of his tweets are deranged rants, its just that it so happens he’s the president of the United fucking States so whatever he says has the weight of the United States and all it implies behind his words now

Honestly I love the idea. I wonder if they’re planning on the obvious next step of adding a media player that will work similarly, turn it on with a disc or SD card inserted and it’ll play the DVD or music

My gut feeling is just that discourse shifted rapidly regarding left leaning gun owners over the last year or so, and I can’t help but suspect it’s not partially driven by the gun industry trying to get more people interested in buying guns.

But yeah I’ve known about several left-leaning organizations directly supporting gun ownership for quite a while now

I’m just jaded and struggle to not assume that everything online telling people to buy something isn’t a marketing campaign of some sort

My understanding is their economic model has every creator being a part owner of the platform

I’m not convinced the sudden surge in posts from otherwise left-leaning people encourage gun ownership aren’t at least partially perpetuated by an astroturfing campaign on behalf of gun manufacturers

Once you have stuff running on an old computer you’ll get to know what you actually need and can spend your money more intelligently. If you do buy anything, buy an ~8 year old corporate desktop. They’re cheap as chips because they’re close to ewaste, but 4/6th Gen Intel systems have enough performance to really do a ton with in the homelab scene

The expanded federal child tax credit during the pandemic also greatly reduced poverty, and that was just an extra couple thousand a year (paid monthly)

…you want a state to jail people for following the laws of the country that the state is a part of. You do realize that’s putting the entire state population into a catch-22 of having to decide whether or not to pay federal taxes and hope that this whole protest thing the state is doing doesn’t blow up in their face and leave every single person in the state with a bunch of debt that we all know is extremely bad debt to have (the IRS does not fuck around with unpaid taxes and folks who get into debt with the IRS tend to be stuck there for a long time) not to mention whatever retaliatory measures would probably be taken and implemented against the citizens of participating states

In short, it’s a hell of a gambit and quite frankly requires a successful secession to have any hope of not royally fucking yourself over

A couple of years ago my wife was driving through New Mexico on a cross-country road trip (I had to fly due to another work trip bookending the vacation) and a truck fire forced a detour through Albuquerque, and she said the poverty she saw on the little bit of Albuquerque they drove through was insane. Described seeing presumably homeless people high out of their minds in the street, and other homeless people shooting up. And still others painfully sober and aware of their situation

Housing insecurity truly exhibits itself very differently in different places. Where we live it’s not folks living in worn out tents or ramshackle shelters built from trash, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

It’s Read The Fucking Manual not Fuck The Reading Manual

We are however at the stage where law enforcement has used a remotely controlled robot to kill people though. Almost a decade ago even!

Autonomous weapons are already in development and likely have been used on the battlefield already, and now there’s discussions to ban their use entirely so potentially we might be pretty dang close to that future already

Correct, the ISP would assign you a /56 of public IPs that all share a prefix which you can slice and dice into however you see fit. All devices receive a publicly routable IP which your router/firewall would limit access to. So no running out of IPs ever, no network/IP collisions if you have to connect to another private network, etc.

I always bring it up when the network is experiencing problems that they wouldn’t have with IPv6. Running out of IPs in a given scope, increasing costs of public IPs, etc.

First of all, enterprises usually have at least one public IP (the one I work at right now has more public IPs than they have server VMs)

Secondly enterprises have big enough and complex enough networks to see other benefits of IPv6. For example IPv4 has some problems when broadcast domains are too large, so your internal network sizes are artificially limited when following best practices. Without private networks you don’t have to worry about IP collisions between different private networks that you have to route between (comes up more than you’d think!) etc etc.

I’ve encountered way too many administrators and network admins who swear that “IPv6 does nothing but cause trouble” but the truth is, the trouble it’s causing is because you can’t half-implement IPv6. You either roll it out to the whole network or you don’t, and the longer you kick that can down the road the harder it’s going to be.

Basically too many professionals who haven’t learned a new technology since 2005 and refuse to try new things keep holding the world back

I’m on one of the regions of fiber that CenturyLink spun off to a private equity firm a few years ago. Zero IPv6 support here

“They’re” is a contraction of “they are”

“Their” is possessive

“There” is a directed place

“The problem with the MTV generation is they are kids” wouldn’t make any sense

I knew it must’ve been bad given the local place that did 99¢ margaritas on Tuesdays nowjust 5 years later does $3.99 margaritas on Tuesdays