When I bought a new house, the insurance company sent an inspector to check the outside. Trees, roof, siding, nothing inside but the basics outside.

We had to trim a tree back because they didn’t want it overhanging the roof at all. Annoying, but relatively minor. They want to minimize their payout, which makes perfect sense. Part of that is making sure the homeowner takes care of the property.

Maybe…just fucking maybe…basic human needs like healthcare should not be for-profit.

Correct, that’s the joke.

I’m sorry you had to deal with that, but I’m glad your family is ok.

Every time I hear about these events (so WAY too fucking often) I think about my kids, and I hope that we never have to deal with that situation. I’m in the state, and I have plenty of friends in Madison. This is practically hitting home for me.

It also reminds me of the situation we did deal with, which was an abuser. When my kid was in kindergarten. We’re pretty sure nothing happened to our kid, but FUCK. I have never wanted to beat someone to death with my own two hands before, but given the chance I definitely could have seen myself losing control.

What a fucked up country. I was going to say world, but no, it’s just here.

So does Sheboygan (Cheboygan). Probably more.

That’s my plan for our new home. I just have to figure out what to buy.

Otherwise, we have a couple of light-up penguins that my kids like having out for Christmas. I could be just fine without any decorations, but it is what it is.

Yeah, time to pack up and make a change. Find a new place before you quit, and I wish you luck.

Believe me when I say there ARE better organizations out there, even in healthcare. I work for a regional healthcare org, and we’ve got well-enforced policies for security (among other things). We actively work to maintain our environment to supported equipment only, and we have more than 2 people doing it.

Good luck.

While I generally agree, I must say that my Ryobi tools are doing just fine after 15ish years of use. Primarily the drill is what’s used, and it’s seen some shit but aside from a little cosmetic issue (rubber peeling off here and there) it’s in great working order. I can afford better now, but I’m happy enough to keep what I’ve got.

I’m just a handy home owner, so it’s not like I’m abusing these things.

I’m indifferent to them. I use their products, but I’m not a huge fan. I use them because I dislike the alternatives more.

I’ve been considering trying to degoogle myself, but honestly it would be complicated, and there’s a wife-approval factor that likely hinders that. We have multiple Chromecasts, Next hubs, etc around the house, and my wife likes the ease of use. I am slowly building up a home assistant instance, but still tying it into the Google home integration for ease of wife approval.

I use what works best for me, and right now most of those options are from Google.

Fair, but I meant updates from the original manufacturer.

You gain very little from security because nobody is targeting you…

It’s not about being targeted, it’s about being caught in the big fishing net that scammers are throwing. You don’t have to be targeted to have security concerns.

If a phone isn’t receiving regular security updates, I won’t use it. My Pixel 5a just got replaced because it’s coming up on end of support. My new Pixel has 7 years of support, so I feel a lot better about keeping it longer.

The ID on the phone thing is weird. Like I’m gonna give my phone to a cop when they ask for my ID. That’s a nope from me.

That just seems like a privacy nightmare. No one touches my phone. There’s way too much personal info on there to hand over to anyone, much less cops.

My phone has a passcode, so does my password manager and my MFA app - all different passwords. Those are the only ones I need to remember, so it’s not too bad.

Probably not ideal, but to break that someone needs to A) physically get my phone, B) unlock my phone, C) unlock my pw vault, and D) unlock my MFA app. I’m fairly confident in my setup.

Same, but my seeds are stored in a separate vault from my passwords. Seems like having MFA and passwords in the same place defeats the purpose. I used to let keepassxc auto fill MFA tokens, but finally changed to a separate app.

Apple ][e, it became “mine” in 90 after we moved. It’s still at my sister’s house, needs anew drive cable (we think). I bought a P2 350MHz a few years later so I could do something useful…those were the days…

First phone was (I think) a Razr, in 03. My dad was more than happy to buy me a phone so he wasn’t worried about me driving back and forth from college.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

The Treaty is often cited in discussions regarding the role of religion in United States government for a clause in Article 11 of the English language American version which states that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Signed by founders, we don’t even have to wonder what their thoughts were. Leave your shitty religion out of government.

I have no problem with Christians. I have a problem with whatever GOP-supporting assholes call Christian, because it is nothing like what Jesus would teach/do.

Mozilla seized an opportunity to bring trustworthy AI into Firefox, largely driven by the Fakespot acquisition and the product integration work that followed. Additionally, finding great content is still a critical use case for the internet. Therefore, as part of the changes today, we will be bringing together Pocket, Content, and the AI/ML teams supporting content with the Firefox Organization.

emphasis mine

How do you interpret that?

I have a bathroom vent going through the wall. No problem at all, in Wisconsin.

The vent cover has louvers that close it off, plus a shroud covering it. Weather is not a concern.

Holy shit.

We’ve invested heavily in vSAN over the past few years, and use or are looking at a few of those tools. I guess ‘were looking at’ is a better term now.

You had a good run, VMware, but apparently it’s fucking over now.

Playing devil’s advocate…

Wisconsin, being gerrymandered beyond belief, forces the university to play the game or risk even more retaliation from the legislature. I don’t know if that’s what’s happening here, but I can see it as a possibility. Also likely that they don’t want to upset donors, etc. At the end of the day, they are looking out for their pocketbook, like always.