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

Is Meta AI trying to censor? Thought that was a Deepseek thing only…
Anyway I finessed my way into getting what I wanted.
From the Official White House Instagram account:
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?!

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


…and that’s the truth.
It’s #caturday once again y’all

DAPOTUS: “we still tariffing Canada & Mexico tomorrow” for no good reason.
Stonks:
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:
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… 🙏🏾
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! 😉 👆🏾