The worst piece of tech that I have ever owned in my life is a CD Cleaner I bought from GameStop back in the day. That shit was straight up a sacrificial altar. It never cleaned. Only consumed.

Oh shit, I remember those. They “cleaned” by using an abrasive spray to “polish” the CDs. Those things were straight-up evil.

This is the way.

takes notes so I can bring a quart bag with 3.4 ounce bottles of acid onto a plane.

The first part of my email has remained unchanged since about then. I’ve gone through various services though. AOL, Earthlink, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and now Proton.

I also have a first.last@gmail address I keep for anything more formal (resume).

This article is short on details but what I really want to know is WHERE is that data coming from and how the fuck does United have access to it?! Also, a follow-up question would be how does one ensure they don’t get access to that data? Is that even possible anymore?

I had that happen for a while too, somehow it thought I was using it too much or something that wasn’t for personal use. You can request a whitelist if you are so inclined. The process was pretty simple: https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request

After I did that I haven’t seen that pop back up in over a year.

Seriously, they ALL fucking suck. I honestly kinda miss the old nub thingie that IBM (now Lenovo) had (has?). It took some getting used to but it was so much better than a touch pad.

How about meatspin? That was a classic!

lol omg it is!

I feel like “eat all politicians, burn the system down, and start anew” is a valid position, lol.

You can tell shit is really getting crazy when the list of people CC’d grows with every single reply-all, lol.

Huh really? I have tons of trash pandas around me (central Ohio).

Doomsday clock? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

That’s my only guess.

lol same, or maybe “hold my beer.”

sudo apt remove

Agreed, custodians (usually) wouldn’t refer to themselves that way. Without them though, trash doesn’t make it to the point of disposal. Which is a break in the chain. We could debate the finer points I’m sure, but it’s about bed time for me and I have an early AM meeting with offshore.

So have a good one, and I do appreciate the discussion!

Depends on where you draw the line. Janitors for instance are usually paid a pittance. As are cleaning crews that vacuum the vast offices spaces around the country.

If you are talking about CDL drivers that collect trash cans then yeah, they tend to be paid well. Without all the pieces of the puzzle though the system breaks down.

Plumbers, as it turns out, are paid quite well since nobody wants to go into the trades currently.

To expand a hair on this, modern waste disposal. So with plumbing comes sewage. Then the close child is refuse removal. We literally cannot live (healthily) without these things.

Side-bar, the folks that power waste removal are VASTLY under-paid.

Typically, very little. I have ~40 containers in my Docker stack and by in large it just works. I upgrade stuff here and there as needed. I am getting ready to do a hardware refresh but again with Docker that’s pretty painless.

Most of the time spent in my lab is trying out new things. I’ll find a new something that looks cool and go down the rabbit hole with it for a while. Then back to the status quo.

Not until you made this comment…now I can’t un-consider it.