Beats the shit out of me. But now corporations are being treated as people so maybe it’s a welfare subsidy? 😆

Yeah, in my facetiousness, I forgot that I actually do something remarkably similar in terms of a sewer bill.

Fuck Tesla without any lube.

LOL! I know right.

Mark my words we are soon going to have to subscribe to our toilets. You get one flush a day for free. Save money by subscribing to the flush-lite which gives you 2 additional flushes. If you choose not to subscribe, you will be charged 2.99 for each flush beyond the first one.

Well, point of fact, if you have a mortgage, your landlord becomes the bank anyway. You only get to own it after 30 years, and that is, if you haven’t needed to take out a home equity loan or other line of credit against your home to make necessary repairs.

If corporations are gonna be greedy. It’s time to steal some of that value back for us. Huzzah!

Fuck it! I’ll be old fashioned and use an outdoor grill.

This is fucking ridiculous! Do you have to buy a subscription in order to use the appliance? If so, it seems to me that this would constitute unfair trade practice. Some shit just does not belong on the internet. Can you imagine the serious and life threatening situation that could develop, if say, somebody hacked into a system and turned gas stoves on and a fire developed? No, it’s time to draw the line at IoT!

I have to admit I like the concept of rootless containers very much.

Thank you for the recommendation. I am checking it out now.

I would consider myself a very beginning docker user so I’ve a long way to go but I can see, given that I am a beginner, it might make sense to pivot now to Podman.

What about Void are you liking?

I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 micro with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. All it’s doing is running OpenBSD as my firewall and router. But it is doing some complex routing and traffic shaping and queueing. It’s also a VPN termination point for the WireGuard tunnel between my cloud VPS and home network. My cloud VPS is, in this case, a reverse proxy.

I get the appeal of the single board computer but it never held much interest for me. That could possibly be because my manual dexterity isn’t that good and I found the assembly side of the SBC to be daunting. I’ve been more interested in using the tiny form factor Dell Wyse and Lenovo micro machines.

Elon Musk is nothing more than a scumbag with money.

That’s true as there are still some CNC machine tools that do use Windows 98 and Windows NT.

This is cool for retro computing enthusiasts.

Shout out to fellow Arch person!

I would expect nothing less. But to be fair, I’d expect any large corporation to behave this way. Microsoft probably doesn’t want to get sued by publicly admitting fault.