When I forget the name of someone that I have known for ages. Especially frustrating when I see them somewhere and I’m scrambling through my phone contacts to see if it jogs my memory.

Then, all of a sudden POOF it comes back to me. So annoying.

I use Proxmox for Work and Hyper-V at home. Looking forward to retiring my old Hyper-V host and replace it with Proxmox because Hyper-V is a pain.

Virtualization really helps with reliability. In particular, by allowing you to quickly take snapshots before doing anything destructive and by streamlining backup and recovery.

Have you tried focusing and applying yourself?

/S

Ah. So Galveston.

I think you mean an “eeek-ooh-terrorist”

A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That’s how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don’t recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.

I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.

With TP-Link, I would say the bigger concern is that they are reeaaaalllyyy slow to patch vulnerabilities, if they do it at all.

A lot of people simply do not understand what it’s like to have ADHD. I remember sitting at our dining room table for hours most evenings, staring at my math homework and wondering why I couldn’t wrap my brain around it when all the other kids seemed to find it so easy.

Turns out when you can’t visualize things in your head it makes doing math very hard. Give me 70mg of Vyvanse and I’m all over it. Without it, I can’t even recall a phone number that I literally just looked at. I have to punch the digits one at a time while constantly looking back at the number.

You can’t just will your brain into getting hormones and neurotransmitters to the right places. Who knew.

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it’s powered off.

I would not buy them here or there. I would not buy them anywhere. I do not like appliances with ads. I do not like them Sam-I-Am.

If you’re leading an organization that somehow managed to “overhire” 30k employees, then the first person to hit the bricks should be you because you really suck at your job.

My teachers in school: “JubilationTCornpone would perform a lot better and get better grades if he would just focus and apply himself.”

Me: “Ok detective. You caught me. Being shit at math is totally a conscious decision on my part. Case closed everybody. We can all go home now. Turns out I’m not a complete moron. I’m just lazy.”

First off, I wouldn’t take anything from a junior high level sitcom seriously.

Second, no one cares if you’re a virgin. And if they do care, their opinion on the subject is irrelevant.

Stop worrying about it.

Lots of caffeine to bring you up during the day and alcohol to slow the racing thoughts at night. It’s no way to live.

Every once in a while I still encounter parents who are hesitant to get their ADHD kid on meds. I try to explain to them that it’s not really about performance in school even if that’s where it was first noticed.

It’s about keeping them from killing themselves or engaging in incredibly self destructive behavior.

It’s pretty hard to find a kid that doesn’t have Snapchat anymore. Basically being trained to hand over all their personal info to random strangers as soon as they’re able to hold a cell phone.

And of course they hide the read messages for the end user to provide the illusion that it’s “deleted” which I have to admit is brilliant. Extremely unethical but brilliant.

Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.

It’s a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven’t quite got it working the way I want it to yet.

Well unfortunately the President of the United States is bad at business and the Republicans are …Republicans. The only thing that matters to either are rich people.

And then, as if to taunt me, the idea pops back into my head at the least opportune moment. Like when I’m standing at a public urinal or changing the oil in my car. My phone or a notepad are literally within reach but I know that by the time I wash my hands, the idea will be gone like the mist in sunshine.

while rich people can be reckless spenders.

In the late 1800’s, the Vanderbilt’s were one of the wealthiest families in the world. Right up until they each blew their respective shares of the family fortune by doing shit like building houses that they couldn’t afford to maintain.

Neither. Must wear socks when in the mood for socks.