The trouble is that, despite noticing that everything else is a lie, they still believe that ICE is only deporting people who ‘deserve it’, rather than paying any attention to the constant reports of ICE throwing people who are legally in the USA in vans and disappearing them.

Yeah, but the AI bros don’t want to imply that the LLMs are lying to you.

And usually with an HOA all you’re funding is people who will fine you for letting your grass grow too tall.

Oh, we know. Given a choice, we wouldn’t have any of this.

But seeing these people suffer the consequences of their own actions and then have the gall to whine about it makes it hard to empathize with them specifically.

You’re absolutely right on all counts.

That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.

MS is especially egregious about it.

They’re planning the next iteration of Windows to be primarily AI-driven - as in, the AI runs things for you.

That’s true until it isn’t.

Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, even early on in the life cycle of a drive. I like having a RAID-5 array … but then again, I don’t really have any other backups (which I really should fix).

What I really need is an ISP that doesn’t have a 1.2TB data cap.

It’s also going to result in the destruction of the Xbox brand though. Whatever they release, no one’s going to buy it. Anyone who’s smart already releases on multiple platforms if they release for Xbox, and this will only exacerbate the issue.

Soooooo they’ve crippled their game making divisions with layoffs that obliterated employee morale so that they had more money to throw at AI, and now they’re demanding that this same section of the company offset even more of their AI costs because it’s one of the few parts of the company that actually makes money?

Reminds me of how Hasbro is milking WotC for all they’re worth while destroying faith in the brand.

Hello Games is absolutely NOT a AAA company.

This is why Pride and Prejudice is so well regarded. The guy was a creep to the girl and she shut him down hard - and only when he did better, treated her like an equal, and most importantly was willing to take no for an answer did she give him the time of day again.

What do you want to bet the contractors currently working on it aren’t going to get paid?

Nah, too many dust mites in dust

However, a law that isn’t enforced doesn’t really exist.

Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.

As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.

It’s almost certainly related to AWS.

Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).

Then run a VPN server, like OpenVPN, on a computer that is always on and redirect the VPN connection port from your router to the VPN server. If you don’t know how to get into your router’s admin console, LEARN HOW! This is critical to maintaining home network security even if you aren’t running servers.

It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).

It’s paywalled.

I dunno, I might go for Reese Withouterspoon myself.

They utilize these tools because they have no morals. They are willing to lie and cheat their way into whatever they want.

The left does not have that advantage. We don’t want to lie, we don’t want to cheat, we want the liars and cheaters to be removed from power. Lying harder isn’t going to work for us because unlike the right, we will call out our own for it.