Walmart is in the process of acquiring Vizio for the express purpose of using TV’s to serve advertisements.

She does it to me! Let’s one rip and with a mischievous little grin says, “I toot.”

I love my kids. They are a ton of work but I couldn’t imagine life without them. But being a parent is not for everyone and that’s ok.

This meme was inspired by my wife telling me about our two year old having a full on five-alarm melt down at Sam’s Club and screaming, “I see Christmas trees! I go see Christmas trees!” While my wife tried to assure her that they would go see Christmas trees on the way out. All you can do is laugh at the sudden realization that the poor person with the screaming child in the middle of the store is you.

If ISP’s are liable for piracy, so are power utilities.

You get involved in a land war in Asia too?

If my grandma wanted a cheeseburger, she would have kept it to herself and eaten a piece of smoked chicken that was hanging in the attic (where they stored the smoked chickens) instead because that’s what they could afford.

In hindsight, I can kind of understand why my grandparents saved every damn thing that they ever bought. When you grow up dirt poor you find all kinds of new uses for what most people consider trash.

I’ve had plenty of hard times in my life but “so poor I gotta save every egg carton like it’s made of gold” is not an experience I’m personally familiar with. I’m thankful for that.

Aaaannnd that’s enough Lemmy for today.

I honestly have had a better experience overall with T-Mobile than with Verizon or AT&T.

That said, having three huge telecoms dominating the wireless communications industry is not a good thing.

Hell, two of those dinosaurs are direct descendents of the same company that monopolized the US telecom industry for decades.

This comment is too real. I like mornings but not at 4:00 AM. Meanwhile, my toddler: “If I don’t sleep, no one sleeps.”

“Chief Fertilization Officer” at [cemetery].

Good tip. Wrong community.

I think administrative overhead is the hidden cost that a lot of technology vendors fail to consider. Microsoft is especially guilty of this. Is a “good” product that requires an obscene amount of esoteric knowledge and experience to maintain really that good?

Microsoft is sunsetting Hyper-V Server (Not Hyper-V itself) so now you have to run Hyper-V on a bloated Windows Server install. Too bad because Hyper-V is actually a decent hypervisor and Microsoft is shutting out a lot of their smaller customers who don’t have the money for tons of exhorbitant licensing.

I even use Hyper-V for my self hosted setup but I’ll be forced to switch in a few years whenever my host server is ready for retirement.

The benefit of splitting services between VM’s is the same as it always has been: I can break one service without breaking ALL of them. Containers are an improvement over native installs but they do not solve this problem completely.

I’m assuming this went down like the church scene from The Blues Brothers. Some lady goes out to the woods to get a little clarity where a bright light from heaven shines down on her and instead of James Brown, Bigfoot appears and says, “Have you seen the light!?”

And she’s like, Yes! Yes! Jesus H Tapdancing Christ! I have seen the light!"

And just like that, she’s off on a mission from God.

Meanwhile my cat:

“Hey. Heeyyyy. Heeeeeeyyyy! Hey slave, where’s my food? Where’s my food slave? Do you not know wtf time it is?? We do this every day. Are you fucking dense? Stupid slave. ‘WeLl YoUrE tHiRtY FiVe MiNuTeS EaRlY’. DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A SHIT!? You should just know! I’m gonna be here eventually. You know this. So why is my food not ready and waiting for me the moment I arrive? Slaavvvveee. Are you listening to me?? Where is my food you useless twat!?”

Tom Cotton is an embarrassment to the State of Arkansas and we did not need anymore help in that arena.

Not nearly good enough to make me give up Quicken but it is nice to see some more self hosted options popping up.

Private equity spent most of the 90’s destroying Montgomery Ward and Eddie Lampert held Sears/KMart under the water until the bubbles stopped so he could cry to anyone that would listen that the retail business was failing while he made a fortune selling off the company’s real estate.