Cousin Mose

5 is an IKEA fork

Source: I have an IKEA fork

I have this as an iMessage sticker

Maybe I’ve been in LA too long but $11 seems like McDonald’s prices

It isn’t here either. That’s over the course of ~2 years but I’m not wealthy by any means either. I’m lucky to not rely on it for work, so I can wait and take my time repairing it when needed.

Well the good news is that after I dumped a ton of money into it, it’s running smooth and still looks pretty new. It’s a Typ 8P A3 hatchback which are kind of rare here in the US.

The impression I got from the car history was that owner #2 drove it pretty hard and never maintained it. I’m dreaded owner #3.

Such an original, Reddit-style one liner. 😒

And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.

.order(created_at: :desc)

I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.

I don’t know why but this makes me picture some dusty old-school newsroom with that one guy in all the TV shows smoking a cigar acting kind of like an asshole, and he looks up from the rough draft and while pointing at it with the cigar half-yells “have ChatGPT take a crack at it, maybe it’ll spice things up!”

I bought a 10 year Audi for $5,000 (USD) but then spent something like $10-15,000 in repairs because I’m an idiot.

OMG I’m not the only person on the planet that found this photo fucking weird. My wife and I have stickers (iOS) of these two from this photo.

What a bunch of fucking creeps.

But you can do all that without selling out your users to third parties.

As a web developer that blocks all this shit, that’s the line I always use. I would just use first-party analytics from the same domain the website is hosted from. The added bonus is that people like me wouldn’t even be able to block it without blocking the entire website (at least with DNS).

This is why I’m such a cunt about blocking this stuff at the DNS and/or IP level. Google Analytics is essentially everywhere including IRS web pages with your Social Security number in the DOM.

I knew someone with the exact same story.

For that price I might as well get a used desktop or another mini PC.

It does matter to me and I live in an area with frequent power outages. Unfortunately I didn’t check this out before purchasing so I’m pretty annoyed by this behavior.

Why is this even being covered?

Quitting nicotine. I wanted to quit so that I could get in shape without almost dying, but after two months of rigorous exercise and healthy eating I just feel depressed, incredibly bored (the dopamine from exercise was nice at first but doesn’t really help now) and I’m now 10 lbs heavier than I was to begin with.

That is sad to see. I’ve moved on to Raspberry Pi + hard disk enclosure (with incredible performance) but it’s still upsetting to see Synology go this route.