Oh man. One of my old companies, the Devs would always blame the network. Even after we spent a year upgrading and removing all SPOFs. They’d blame the network……

“Your application is somehow producing 2 billion packets per second and your SQL queries are returning 5GB of data”…. “See! The network is too slow and it has problems”

It’s the year 2039… Thames Water once again asks for permission to continue polluting on the basis of “we’ve been doing it for the past 15 years, we should be able to continue indefinitely”

I mean ones a hand, and ones a glove. Do the math.

It has, and I’ve been told “it’s a fluke” or “it’s not worth the effort”, followed by them freaking out with us being down and all the money we’re losing and what can we do about it.

My former company wouldn’t let me rearchitect our apps to be regionally redundant because “the cloud never goes down”. All their stuff is in us-east-1… wonder how they’re doing!

Seagate just broke up a massive counterfeiting ring where drives were being passed off as new and having their SMART values tweaked. That’s a good part of the reason they’re controlling the refurbs so that they can check them. It’s also why you saw Seagate getting hammered in the BB charts.

It’s been the same damn group of people running the world since the 90s. Move the fuck over people.

Why aren’t more people complaining “ICE is getting paid but our troops aren’t” or “ICE is getting paid to kidnap Americans, but your flights are delayed because air traffic controllers aren’t”?

So are ICE and the National Guard getting paid? I’m sure some of the people in ICE enjoy being assholes for free, but after a while it won’t pay their bills.

And this is why i stick with Z-Wave/Insteon/etc. I have a local hardware controller that doesn’t have to be connected to the internet to work. It can be cloud controlled remotely, but if their service shut down tomorrow, it’d still be fully functional locally or if I exposed the server endpoint myself.

Circumcision? Oh APICs not gonna be happy with that!

Reminds me of Lloyd and Grim

I literally saw that today after I posted this a couple days ago!

However the price of their 6-8 bay systems are insane and still may push me to something like UGREEN

Suing the government…. Who would then pay the debt…. With funds from……?

“Hey, you owe me $10… I’ll let you borrow $10 so you can pay me back the $10, but you’ll still owe me that new $10 you borrowed”

Which case did you get?

That looks amazing, but damn that’s expensive.

They really are doing this to themselves.

For anyone wondering what’s going on, rice prices in Japan have been skyrocketing for a number of reasons (harvests, workers, etc). However their laws are so protectionist and their nationalism is so strong, they only want Japanese grown rice and refuse to import/place massive tariffs on imports.

For a country that rice is basically their largest staple, this is starting to have a big impact due to prices which is why this is happening.

There is not a global shortage, and prices are reasonable everywhere else, they just refuse to give in to help out their citizens.

He puts it in her socket to check if it’s active or not, wiggles it around a bit to make sure it’s not loose….

The only acceptable form of vibe coding

So I’m seeing people mention TrueNAS and Unraid. Both look like they could meet my needs (Unraid a bit better) but the issue I run into there is hardware. Finding something in a small form factor that can hold hot swappable drives is few and far between, but UGREEN actually looks promising.