This is the best option when dealing with companies like MS. Some companies actually use reports, issue CVEs, acknowledge shit… MS does not, fuck them. Sell the 0day to a company that will go on to sell it to a state actor, MS will patch it eventually but you won’t be treated like shit to keep it under the rug.

I love the idea but already did the work manually. Keep up the work on it no matter what anyone says, I could see this being badass to someone that has good access to a crapload of disc’s.

Symbolic links for the win!

Unlimited Usenet plans are pretty cheap to depending on sales.

Edit to add: I’m not a quality snob, but I’d probably blow through 500GB way too quickly.

Exactly why I’d like to shift my life. I’m not looking for profits, just time away from my desk lol.

I love mint, but much prefer LMDE over the Ubuntu based one.

Wanna be a goat farmer with me (https://www.goatops.com/) ? I’ve been in IT for 20 years or so and when I first saw that goat list maybe 10-15 years ago it gave me a chuckle, then over the years it made more sense and became a goal. Not necessarily goats, but something entirely separate from IT; for now I’m stuck trying to earn a bit of a retirement, but my eye is on the door.

There is still some good IT stuff to be done though. I have a homelab that I use to avoid Google where I can (degoog/nextcloud/immich/etc), and keep my data indoors as much as possible…

When the doctor is late I tell them they missed their appointment time and will need to reschedule, then I enjoy the time I took off work for an appointment. It doesn’t happen often, but if it hits 10 minutes past when they should be seeing me, I assume they overbooked themselves and won’t be giving me the attention I’m paying them for; we can reschedule.

Authentik is your friend fam. Might take a minute or two to get it spun up the way you want, but then you can support using a single IdP (that you control) for all your hosted stuff (except Plex). If you want MFA you’ll have to set it up differently than I, I just use an LDAP lookup but it works great.

Plexamp is all that’s keeping it installed in my homelab.

I’ve still got my Plex up, I only use it for Plexamp though, and my brother watches stuff on it (lifetime pass since forever). I quit watching stuff on it because in order to log in you have to hit Plex’s servers (even when logging in directly to the self hosted server); that doesn’t work for me because we block them at work. If they would let me use my own IdP, I’d probably stay. At least with Jellyfin I can authenticate how I want.

I’m not positive but I believe that is a setting, it defaults to a poster view but I think it can be swapped to a list view.

A five dollar electric toothbrush from Walmart becomes a very effective electric pick after it meets a dremel.

I’ve been self hosting Degoog (https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog) for a bit now and have to say I’m a fan.

Yeah, over the past 5 years or so I can’t say I’ve had to do a lot with it either. There was a time I accidentally nuked it, but that’s why I had a backup.

Which portion of the electricity tax is used to repair the roads they use? Not trying to be too defensive but if we all switched and didn’t pay more, the roads would be even worse than they already are.

Have to love the narrative spin, they are placing a post limit on free accounts; as far as I’m aware, ‘verified’ accounts are just paid accounts now, right?

As pissed as I get at fees, electric cars don’t typically pay a gas tax, the taxes we levy on fuel pay for road maintenance so that fee should be for road repairs. In my very small car I pay around $1.80 or so each week in federal fuel tax (not sure what I pay to the state, but those combined is very likely over $130/yr).

Nice! I’m giving it a go with some dumb free m3u’s now and so far it’s been pretty great. I haven’t tied it into Jellyfin or Plex yet but one I decide on a decent iptv provider it’ll be happening.

Not in my experience, but I keep my Plex up for my brother. I shifted away personally a year or so ago because I couldn’t watch at work anymore (despite self hosting, login still requires a connection to Plex… Which is blocked at work). With Jellyfin, I can just auth against my Authentik server.