Maybe not. But that was before he was president for four years - fuck, it’s still crazy to think that happened - and really forced people to acknowledge that yeah, he is a pathological liar who doesn’t give a shit about the country.

A lot of people still suck on the tit. But a lot of others recognise that the hot pain comes from getting burned.

You had all the tea party nutters for years - but none of them became president.

If I were a democrat pol, I’d want to keep Gaetz, and Trump, and all the nut jobs.

They are loved by their base and horrible to work with in the houses, but they are electorally toxic.

Prediction for your next presidential election: Trump will still be on trial on federal charges, he will be the nominee anyway, and he will lose badly. DeSantis will bite chunks out of him. Bullish on popcorn.

Or Trump bites chunks out of whoever they do nominate. The party either gets moderate votes, or Trump votes, or DeSantis votes, but not all three.

Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

Edgy shit like this is why anti-woke is a vote winner. It’s repulsive to normal people.

It’s not a uniform, it’s a dress code, and it long predates boomers.

Peace On Earth is a book by Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.

It is my all-time favourite sci-fi novel.

The premise is that mankind builds autonomous war robots and sends them to the moon to fight proxy wars instead of real wars on earth. But the robots evolve. For reasons unknown, contact with the moon is lost, so humanity sends a astronaut up to see what’s going on.

My friend, you haven’t heard about Oracle.

Microsoft at least gave the world Powershell, to balance out their sins. I can also name other good things they have done. Oracle is pure and deliberate evil.

I believe that the human race will end in one of three ways:

• asteroid strike
• disease
• Oracle

I think you were merely being pedantic, but there are some interesting points in there.

Is it a crime to generate fake “csam”?

Should it be a crime?

How can prosecutors get convictions against a defense of “no, your honour, that video is AI-generated”?

What we have now is still miles off general AI, but it’s going to take years for society to catch up. Interesting times.

Deliberately duplicate a mac address, and worse, deliberately pick a device that’s definitely going to be online in the same network segment?

At first I thought you were either trolling or profoundly ignorant.

Then I remembered that wifi is CSMA, and thought, hang on… is this actually a genius idea? Has this user come up with a hack that no-one else knows about? So I tried it.

It doesn’t work. I couldn’t even join.

So no, you are either trolling or ignorant.

Hers some discussion and links, for anyone interested: https://superuser.com/questions/1132935/duplicate-mac-on-a-wifi-network-problems

Racial origins of those terms? Citation needed.

Black and white, in the sense of good and evil, have had their connotations for a fucking long time, whereas black and white to describe skin colour are relatively recent etymologies. I’m pretty sure that Romans didn’t call themselves “white” or others “black”, for example.

I’m willing to be taught, but this sounds like bullshit to me.

The etymology being wrong doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t drop freighted terminology, I just don’t want false justification. Bullshit is never a valid reason to do something.

His password was “daddy”

Now it’s “daddy2”

Looks like yellow fingers and grey complexion.

I did not find that at all.

I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)

The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.

If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.

I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.

“…because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this… bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye.”

• Ellen Ripley

That charge is already on the docket.

The feds move slowly, but they have their teeth into him now.

Beau Of The Fifth Column has been pretty much nothing but diving into how fucked Trump is, finally, for a few months.

Hmm. I run mine off a usb3 ssd and it’s faster, but still slow.

It’s OK, but I’d suggest:

Atom > arm64 > arm32

I ran on a Pi 4, but switched to a PC for jellyfin. The pi can’t transcode for shit. It was slow to boot and slow over SSH.

Look for a NUC - they’re designed for desktop use, so they have more poke than a Pi. The N6005 CPU is a good choice, the N5105 is ok. These are x64, so you’ll have the widest range of packages. 4GB will do, if its upgradeable later. NUCs usually take SODIMMs, which you can pick up on ebay for peanuts.

Bear in mind that network chipset will be your bottleneck in some use cases. If it has a “gigabit port” but only a cheap chipset, and you use it as a router, you might max out at ADSL speeds… in that case you’ll wish you’d gone for a box designed for soft routing, which are a fair bit pricier.

Pi is not the only SoC, merely the best-known.

I’d earn anyone thinking of buying a Pi for a home server: ARM is widely supported, but you might regret investing in arm32. Atom is a safer choice.

They don’t supply PoE, mind.

I’m planning an ubiquiti deployment:

• 5-6x AP 6 Pro (haven’t done survey yet)
• 1x TL-SG1016PE PoE switch (yuck, but cheap)
• 1x R86S running opnsense and docker VMs, with unifi controller and pihole in docker

The R86S is the same price as the dream machine, but good luck running pihole on the DM.

I considered Mikrotik, but my mum would have to call me every time there was an issue, and it would only be marginally cheaper. I expect any competent local tech to be able to support unifi and opnsense.