A voicemail transcription displays a scam message about overdue back tax filings with two highlighted phone numbers.

Guess I’m gonna have to make a “scam-of-the-day” section in my “shit I don’t like about living in the States” category of the blog.

✔️ calling from Belgium (?) ✔️ goofy ass AI voice. ✔️ I am literally a licensed tax pro. My shit is always on time.

They got the wrong one today! Don’t fall for this!

States rights < Deep State. Y’all don’t get to have this argument anymore.

Trump administration terminates approval of New York City congestion pricing

I didn’t even know this was a thing: Installed this Intel Arc A310 GPU to aid in transcoding and AI tasks but now my QNAP sees it as system memory. How does that even happen?! 64GB but let’s use the 4GB on the GPU instead. 😒 #homelab

A person is holding a SPARKLE graphics card next to an open NAS computer with visible internal components.

Is Meta AI trying to censor? Thought that was a Deepseek thing only…

A conversation in a messaging app discusses generating an illustration resembling a well-known political figure, along with an image of a NASCAR driver and a cartoonish character.

Anyway I finessed my way into getting what I wanted.

Two men are posing on a race track, one with orange face paint and the other wears sunglasses  giving a rude gesture with his hand.

From the Official White House Instagram account: A pink Valentine's Day-themed image features humorous looking text with the ominous message: roses are red and violets are blue. Come here illegally and we’ll deport you. With cutouts of Trump and some other d¡¢khead’s faces.

Can’t even spread love on the day dedicated to it.These people exist only to see others go through pain and no amount of money, pleasure or drug will satiate them quite like the joy of seeing the world burn.

Happy Frederick Douglass Day for those who celebrate. ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 #UBAFHM

Car tags my uncle has had on his cars over the years. (And one of the reasons I wanted a garage; I’ve got a slew of these myself I wanted to show off)

This smells like some Nazi/Bolshevik/Orwellian type shit right here. Why does it seem like nobody else is giving the slightest damn about this?!

A statement from the Associated Press addresses restricted Oval Office access due to editorial disagreements with the Trump administration.

Just gonna leave this one here and let y’all marinate on it for a bit.

youtube.com/watch

One of my favorite tech YouTubers passed away…

Novaspirit Tech Novaspirit GitHub

RIParadise Don. I know you’re still hacking till it hertz in the nerdcave in the sky. Thank you for personally answering my questions over the years and helping me with my self hosting and coding journey.

…also, f🤬ck cancer.

That playbook being published is the reason I’m not freaking out. Quit pretending like you don’t know what’s coming next and prepare yourself.

We are seeing Project 2025 unfold in real-time.

(The dystopian humor in having AI summarize and keep track of this all II at lost on me either. 🤖)

A phone screen displays a message about dismantling government services and imposing tariffs, with a focus on a Project 2025 document discussing the "Administrative State."Text outlines key aspects of Project 2025, including dismantling government services, immigration crackdowns, tariff policies, and shutting down the Department of Education.

Archiving a bunch of stuff on the NAS and came across the instructions for one of my many “smartphones-when-they-were-nerd-bricks” I used to lug around.

Two social media comments discussing the official payment platform of the U.S. Treasury, with a sarcastic reply mentioning food stamps and prayers.

…and that’s the truth.

It’s #caturday once again y’all

A floofball cat with a multi-colored coat is lying on a patterned white bedspread, wearing an orange polka-dotted bandana.

DAPOTUS: “we still tariffing Canada & Mexico tomorrow” for no good reason.

Stonks: A stock market graph shows a sharp decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, ending at 44,628.97 with a decrease of 253.16 points.

1400 something more days of this 🐄 💩 😩

Not Chinese at all, but with it being CNY and all… I want some mooncake so much right now. LOL

Q: Did Starrwulfe watch the inauguration or any of the outlandish foolishness coming from it?

A: No, he chose not to give it any of his energy or time. We don’t watch bad sequels in my tribe. Also, this:

A person is smiling while holding a cigarette, with a background of chaos and text saying The Next 4 Years Gonna Be Like

Finally hacking my EOL QNAP NAS…

  • backed up all the things to temp drive array
  • almost NixOS’d the bare metal… Almost.
  • decided to stick to mission and play with Proxmox.
  • I think I can have a NixOS VM in there… 🙏🏾

A home entertainment area is shown with a large monitor displaying the Proxmox VE installer, a laptop nearby, and various electronic devices and items on shelves.A computer setup with a monitor displaying the NixOS logo and a collection of peripherals on the table.

I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.

Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?

Can’t break New Year’s resolutions if you forgot to make ‘em in the first place! 😉 👆🏾