Like we don’t have child labor here in the good ol’ USA.

Hell yeah, dude.

I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

Hey if your list of projects isn’t insurmountable what are you even doing with your life?

Most carriers have an email to sms gateway address Usually your [email protected] or similar.

I feel you, trying to find a smart gadget that is actually smart in 2025 and not just a data collector is nearly impossible. Learning to DIY a lot of these projects. Throw one of these or similar in there with a little control board set to email you if 0 changes to 1 or w/e

Idk that seems to happen pretty fast these days, FOMO from the studios. What’s rarer is it actually being developed.

15 years?

Only posers create open source projects as a promotion tool

Wasn’t aware of this, that’s awesome. Unfortunately it would need to be able to cast to various HTPCs and be easy enough for my family to use to fully replace YouTube in my house.

So it’s a masters with practical experience.

A website could open your freaking CD tray.

Ah, memories.

I don’t have a case on my work phone. I carry two phones so I don’t need the extra bulk and if it breaks oh no I have to get a newer phone!

I love when I’m surrounded by treasures in an ancient temple no human has laid eyes on in thousands of years, so I take a look at a scroll then immediately leave.

There’s your mistake, loving a billionaire.

I’m Jewish and I give you full permission to take the mustache back. It’ll help if you wear your “I’m not a Nazi, I’m just taking the mustache back” shirt.

By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven’t learned on top of that.

That’s pretty hilarious considering I’ve been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it’s been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.

Airlearn isn’t quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we’re used to in English. An LLM could never.

What? No? I don’t think the scientists abusing meth all have ADHD or they’d have meds prescribed by their doctor. What I was saying was just a tongue in cheek response to someone telling you that you’re basically taking meth.

I am really not following your analogy.

Meth is the #1 most abused drug by clinical scientists. That is to say, just like functional alcoholism is a thing, there’s functional meth heads among some of the most well-respected and reputable scientists in the world. Anyway that would be my response if I was told I was basically taking meth.

Well like I said you can start running servers right now for free with your desktop. Then your best bet is in my opinion going to be buying a NUC, Elitedesk, or another smaller form factor PC, this will save you on energy costs and noise, and flashing truenas to it (Or you can run everything you need to in Windows or Linux or containers if that’s what you’re comfortable with) and using either external hard drives or getting a hard drive array and using that to store everything. This is going to cost more than a Synology and takes a little setting up but it’s infinitely expandable and will suit your needs whatever they become. And don’t forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups. These rules are written in blood. And RAID is not a backup, I learned that one the hard way, myself.