Yeah. Pretty much. CSA is gonna happen to someone somewhere sometime, that’s their problem, but 50 cents more for gas is happening to me right here right now!

Not my belief, but I’ve got a bunch of idiot neighbors and at least two mega chuches near me.

And it backfires hiliariously, hence why Elon will always be the number 1 piss drinker. No one can drink more piss than elon.

Get a different bank. That is rookie shit.

iOS is fine. I fucking hate apple, but iOS is a baby gate that protects (metaphorically) undeveloped minds from getting into danger…

…he says while leashed to his android phone…

It was all Xerox if you go back far enough.

Whomever was involved with the creation of the “new” printer settings menu should be killed by dumping a whole nest of fire ants high on bath salts into their rectum and then stapling it shut.

Yes! Leave notepad alone. I don’t need to load fucking Word when I just want to quickly type out some bullshit that I’m going to reference a few minutes later and then not bother to save. Notepad has always been the fastest, most responsive and reliable tool in windows that I (and probably a lot of people) use every fucking day.

I remember playing the shareware OG doom after my not-uncle installed it on the family computer back in '94.

Yes, I’m basically dead now.

That’s why American Airlines had the “cheat line” livery. Bare hulls saved them enough weight to carry like an extra 2 passengers.

Plus, polished metal on airframes looks sweet IMHO. Real “DC3 golden era of aviation” vibes.

Still more expensive than a paid off gas car. Probably cheaper (when fuel is factored in) than buying an equivalent used gas car.

That’s exactly what I did. I got mine used with about 30k off the MSRP for letting someone else drive it for 9000 miles.

2nding this. My wife was surprised we weren’t saving money on gas. Almost every time, a paid off car is cheaper than a new (or even moderately used) car.

I didn’t say owned.

And trust me, plenty of non-electric cars will be sold today and tomorrow, same for laptops without soldered RAM.

Pretty much every machine I’ve had open has upgradable ram. Unless the machine is the absolute thinnest of ultrabooks, the ram has been easily removed, replaced and upgraded.

(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)

What am I gonna do? Stop myself?

I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.

I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.

Not of age, I got through the “draft period” during GWB. The US probably won’t have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable “volunteer” military.

However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my draft board about how I’ve read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle “Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!” imitation. The military doesn’t care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.

Best I can do is Google it and read it to you. I’m a little knowledgeable about how a pihole works since I have my Net+, and I’ve set up a few Pi-hole’s (or the same one a few times tbh), but I’m definitely not a networking expert.

Your Pi-hole can only block the things that query DNS. Try this, ping a website you don’t normally go to, and you should see that show up in Pihole log. Next, ping an IP, I usually pick on 8.8.8.8, and see if that shows up in your Pi-hole’s logs. I’m fairly confident it won’t.

Pi-hole blocks the name resolution. TV wants to go to Hisense.com, asks your Pi-hole where that site is. Your Pi-hole sees that Hisense is on a block list, so it says back to your TV “sorry, no idea how to get to that site, it must be offline.”

If the manufacturer wants to get around this, they program a public DNS in, like 8.8.8.8, or they hardcode the static IP for their website into the TV. Now when it wants to go to Hisense, it never has to ask your Pi-Hole where that site is, and it doesn’t get blocked. Heck, it probably won’t even show up on your Pi-hole’s logs.

If you black hole the site, then any traffic going out there gets dropped, and the hard-coded addresses on the TV don’t matter for shit.