Of course it's an Israeli firm that is enabling this greedy behavior. They already price gouge as it is. Can't we go back to the formula of "our cost + our profit margin adjusted for market". This bleeding the customer dry bullshit should stick in bullshit avoidable video game micro transactions.
Zikeji
joined 2 years ago
I have some invites.
9? That's quite a bit of compute lol.
My journey started with 1 server, then 4, then 5 (one functioning as a NAS), then 1 (just the NAS box), then I moved and decided to slim it down to a proper NAS and 1 mini PC/NUC clone. Now I'm up to two because the first was an Intel N105 which just isn't up for the challenges lol
Fahrenheit. So roughly 4.5C.
The bone chilling part wasn't due to necessarily being cold, moreso due to the wind, location, and attire that generally isn't meant for the cold lol.
I mean there was no party for his. Also only like 40 people. His soon to be wife convinced him to use the money he'd saved for the wedding on a down payment for a house.
My sister had a wedding at the start of June and it went surprisingly well. The only aspect they skimped on was not hiring a videographer, so I took that role. Despite having a job to do and being nearly rained out of a outdoor wedding, the stars aligned. It went well. I think it was definitely cathartic to me after the first immediate family wedding. My other sister had one in March but that was an elopement and it was miserable. Outdoor ceremony in 40 degree bone chilling weather.
Anything immediate family is pretty much competing for worst ranking, simply because of how much extra effort it is.
Out of 6 siblings, 3 have gotten married. Worst was the first, my brother. I was a groomsman - 1 out of 7, there a were 7 bridesmaids as well. A huge wedding party. Photos took -forever- and happened before the ceremony. It wasn't too hot, but another groomsman (my other brother) ended up fainting (locked knees). We recovered from that. Later on, about an hour into a hour and a half ceremony (ridiculously long speeches) another faints. We're all suffering because we're standing for the entire ceremony.
Then it's finally over, but like any good wedding they had to sacrifice on one aspect. - they hired catering from a friend of a friend, and the caterer's crew were a no show (apparently they didn't check the address when they agreed and when they checked and saw it was a 2 hour drive they just didn't show up). So we all stepped up to help.
There was other shit too but despite outwardly going well that wedding gave me trauma.
Best would be my close friend's wedding. Just a ceremony and photos. Indoors as well. Easy.
Last time I tried to migrate to Podman the first container I tried was incompatible, so was the second, and the third. Turns out at the time Linuxservers.io stuff wasn't rootless podman compatible. There have since been some improvement according to my most recent Google search just now, so maybe a retry is coming up.
While I've never directly used them I've definitely seen content hosted by them. I've also seen CSAM promptly removed by them (I work for a hosting provider and occasionally will forward a report their way). I'll drop them some mons.
I'll limit this to devices in use.
- phone
- laptop for work and occasionally personal
- steam deck
- gaming desktop
- 4 bay Asus NAS
- 2 mini PCs (headless)
- 9 VPSes of varying size (I get them free via work)
If I'm using Bluetooth earbuds I can receive a call from Signal or WhatsApp. So it stands to reason it's possible a Bluetooth device exists to act like earbuds but for a landline phone. I found a few (cell2jack and XLink BT HD) but could not verify if they'd work for anything other than normal phone calls.
He got scammed again? Damn. Sorry, I was referring this one. And not really the details of the scam, but it was the wrong place / wrong time element that reminded me.
Edit: the article you linked is older, so I guess not "again".
I acknowledge that, this is the result of unbridled capitalism.
When a person uses social engineering and manipulation to extract money from an individual or company it's called fraud, when a large enough company does it it's just business.
If only our government could give us some handy dandy consumer protection laws.