All of my public facing sites are behind a reverse proxy. I use Nginx Proxy Manager it runs from docker and has an easy webgui. It takes care of things like https certificates and stuff to.

Don’t remember choosing. Feel like uefi was new fangled at the time.

I think a university could do it. But I see what you mean now.

Basically yes. Theres no regulatory issue really. Theres just that companies refuse to loosen their steangehold on “intellectual property”. Like that’s the issue with basically all tech “innovations” they make things faster and more efficient for people with different goals than us. The Luddites weren’t necessarily wrong to smash those machines.

I’d still prefer to keep any tech mods as peripheral as possible. Don’t need my FOSS brainjack getting hacked because I missed a security update still. And if it does get hacked I want it to be quick outpatient to haul out and replace not brain surgery

If I had no other eyeballs probably. I would still hesitate if the hardware wasn’t open ( I don’t want an eye that they stop updating after 1 year or that gets ads when I switch insurance providers)

Eh. Young people are always the most likely to be flakey pieces of shit at any job. It self filters out pretty quick.

Also, I work trades and I’ll just say that from my point of view very few people are literate outside what they immediately need to navigate their lives. Like on bigger jobs we’ll have a worker at random read out a section of corporate safety policy in the morning meeting and let’s just say that literacy is a spectrum and most people are “functional” but do not read for pleasure or knowledge on their own time.

Heh here’s one for people. In my province at least the best way to get cheap 24/7 fuel in every corner even the podunkest no stoplights villages is to get a free membership with the local fuel co-op (UFA here)

I regularly save 2-10 cents a litre and have 24/7 access and even shitters and showers in most locations all for no extra money or work on my end other than the initial sign up.

Windows 7 used to thunderfuck grub at random every few updates just to keep everyone on their toes.

Oh I know, it’s a whole conspiracy to make everything an appliance you can only use in specified ways rather than useful tools. But its honestly going to start coming back on thses companies in another decade or two when no one can work on their shit for them without extensive training. Course I bet well see the big companies just buy out and run their own corporate schools and make good useful school for your kids one of their benefits for working for them but I like to believe that public schools arent dead yet in my province.

Now, generations are a made up social construct. And I think most people would find they have more in common with working class boomers than they do with the rich their own age.

That said society changes very fast now. There are big differences in how 17 year olds now and 17 year olds 50 years ago were raised and socialised. And age is more than just a number. We’ll always discriminate against the young or the old in professional etc contexts because there’s just some jobs that are more suited to the young or that we don’t trust someone very young to have enough experience to do.

I’ve noticed a consistent decline in all skills in the last decade of new apprentices. It used to be that you’d get a “computer smart” kid or a “hand skills” kid, farm, shop class, etc. Now I typically see neither. My last apprentice had only ever used an iPhone and a Chromebook(what schools use now apparently) and an Xbox. So when I handed him my laptop to teach him how to configure some devices he got lost on the use of filling in an excel spreadsheet and saving and finding and opening the files. It would have been just as fast to have someone who’d never even seen a computer before. And he wasn’t able to lift very heavy things and had poor grip strength. Good kid, he’ll be ok but it could all be a lot easier for all of us.

I blame the school systems and the general trend of making all devices extremely consumer unfriendly. I used to tinker with all the aspects of the family computer as a kid, and my dad and his friends would regularly get together and work on their vehicles. Now every device is more appliance than tool. Anyways that’s my prematurely old man rant for the day.

Ah pump jacks are satisfying to watch too. And I mean derricks are temporary. But I’ve always liked windmills.

I’m good on things tied into the brain. Now things tied near the brain like sub vocalisation or little eye twitches or even somehow passive brain wave scans or something maybe. But actual hardware tied into my brain I’m gonna take a pass on.

Would that actually work? How long should the north have kept armies raised and occupied the south to completely root out all bad guys? How long of doing that before you become the bad guys? How would you keep the trials from just becoming witch hunts?

Its such a philosophical dead end. I know a few people who really want the world to be a simulation but I cant understand why. I think they want an excuse to have nothing matter and be shitty.

But i would not live my life any differently if we found out that this is a simulation. Because its still real to me and there’s no reason to believe I can exist outside the simulation any more than my sims can exist outside the game.

OK, I think i see what you’re getting at.

Sure, but what chemicals do we have that are safer? Pretty much all of our over the counter drugs will fuck you up long term if taken regularly, and lots of them are acutely dangerous.

Ok, good to know. I also try to make sure people understand weed is addictive and has withdrawal symptoms and all that. You were the one who brought weed up originally though. And there is still no doubt that cocaine and alcohol are more dangerous than weed.

Windows 10 IoT LTSC version will be receiving security patches until 2032 its what all my work VMS are based on right now.

I mean smoking anything will cause cancer but there’s no reason to think weed taken orally isn’t one of the most safe chemicals we have.