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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I think we all want to be paid a fair wage for our labor AND and fair price for food, with reasonable expectations of safety on both sides. 50+ years of wage stagnation and the expectation from major corpos that they can keep extracting more profits are two factors working against us, though. The problem isn’t about what consumers are willing to pay for food.

    We, the People, aren’t going to be able to fix this if we don’t start electing leaders that can resist big-dollar donors and lobbyists, because we need regulations around major markets that will be met with insane amounts of resistance by money-backed interest groups. We need labor reforms, we need housing reforms, we need finance sector reforms, and none of those are favorable for a Fortune 500 company’s “Line go up” policy when implemented. But far too much money has flowed out of the hands of the poor and middle class while the ultra-wealthy are buying islands and yachts (and bugout bunkers in case of an uprising or whatever), and fixing that issue in both an acute and a systemic way is necessary and needs to happen before we get better.



  • I still hope for midterm that can steer us away from the cliff. As an American, I need that hope. We are, historically, a hopeful people (albeit one with many atrocities along the way).

    An unimaginable amount of damage is being done right now by the current administration. There are people who have died and who will die because of the cuts made in the last 6 months, and the people whose lives have and will be snuffed out early are unrecoverable entirely. Imagine Socrates, DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Hawkins… not allowed the chance to live and gift all of humanity with their insights. We have no idea what we lost nor what we will lose, and no way of knowing.

    The hope I hold onto is that we can stop the bleeding and begin to heal. Midterms are our best opportunity at that before things have a chance to really accelerate into even more fascistic behavior.

    MAGA country is going to feel the pain of their tiny penis deal when the rulers pass it, and they are already seeing pain from ICE raids on farms and factories. When the slackjaws catch on to the fact that they’re being fleeced, the charade should end pretty quick and the number of people actively opposing the administration will increase accordingly.

    I hope.




  • Ultimately up to you, but I’d go with no GUI and just use ssh (and sftp if you need to do file transfers).

    When I was using Docker, it was headless because the GUI just ate up space and resources I didn’t need. All your interaction will be in the shell anyway, launching your compose.yml files.

    But, if dealing with a headless machine sounds like more trouble than you want to try, install the DE if your choice and breathe easy because it’ll still work perfectly fine.


  • Those advancements were made possible by the Roadster, which was the true pioneering product that made EVs cool again. A car that was dreamed up and invented by Martin Eberhard, and would go on to be built by someone else that gave him the shittiest end of the most shit-covered stick there ever was.

    Everything that has given Tesla a reputation as an imnovative company was either done by the original inventor or their amazing engineers over the years.

    Elon brings money and celebrity recognition to the company. If the celebrity recognition turns and becomes a net negative, the money is going to start becoming an issue too because his loans might get called and then he’s got nothing to bring to the table. I choose to dream about that future right now.


  • I think you’ve put more thought into how to get started than many others would! You have a pretty good plan from what it seems. My thoughts from each section below.

    Hardware: I’m partial to Crucial and Kingston for storage that is affordable and dependable

    OS: I’d probably spin up a Debian install if I were in your shoes and run my services using docker-compose files. It’s a quick and easy to get up and running, and despite the ease, there is still the option to do a lot of customization when you want to, and that will make it easy to learn more at your own pace and leisure.

    Services: For the CalDav portion, I’m really liking Radicale.

    Security: PiVPN is what I’m running on my actual RPi along with PiHole, and it was a super simple setup. I connect via Wireguard from any of my other devices.




  • If they are one people, then all of Russia is also Ukraine. And I happen to think Zelenskyy is a more legitimate leader.

    I wonder if there’s a localized zone where there is some sort of really great density of people who consider themselves Ukrainians. And I wonder if there exists some distinguishable boundary between them - culturally, societally, dare I say politically - where on one side an individual would expect to encounter a Ukrainian, versus on the other side, where they would more probably expect to encounter a non-Ukrainian?

    Edit: Maybe an edge? A ridge? Something that describes a clearly defined boundary between two distinct areas that are closely related in many regards while also being clearly distinguishable based on the split that defines the division between said areas…