Buelldozer

Too many people thought that Twitters Blue Checkmark meant you were special. That attitude carries over to Bluesky and being verified.

Classic Liberal, yes.

I’m so old that when I started there wasn’t any choice. It was command line or go outside!

You are not spending tens of millions annually and thus Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.

I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.

I dislike having to defend these assholes but the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.

I promise that whatever country you live in also has levels to the body armor worn by their special police forces and military.

Ohhh I like this one!

just so we can give everything a public address

Giving everything a public address was the original intent! NAT didn’t even exist prior to '94 and it was (and is) a massive kludge.

I’m interested in what you’re thinking with this.

I’m cautiously optimistic. This looks like a reasonable use of tech that doesn’t seem to have so many of the spyware elements that other glasses (like Meta) have. There’s no external camera, no screens (only lenses), and no mention needing an app or internet connection.

As someone in their target demographic I’m interested to find out what is actually released and would consider purchasing a pair.

Motors used to be BOLTED together, now they are GLUED together.

50 years ago you were working on brushed motors with relatively sloppy tolerances, less torque, and more electrical consumption. Today’s brushless motors are faster, stronger, lighter, more efficient, and designed to higher tolerances.

It used to take me a half hour to change the clutch slave cylinder on my truck. Now (newer truck) I have to PULL the transmission to do that.

Very few vehicles in the U.S. have a manual transmission and the prevalence of them is decreasing quickly in all western countries. No matter how much we may prefer manuals it’s inarguable that modern automatics get better fuel economy, are easier to operate and are often stronger than their manual equivalent.

My point here is that often the same advances that make things better make them more difficult to service.

I actually don’t know. I’ll have to try it.

Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…

What’s wrong with Active Directory Web Services? It’s installed on every DC by default since WS2008R2.

You could also install PowerShell on your Penguin box and do tasks via command line.

@RedstoneValley@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works

Installing Collabra Office on a Windows PC requires the use of the Microsoft Store. Ick.

It’s been that way for a year now.

It’s been that way for a year now.

IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don’t know a single person who calls it anything other than “Office” or “Microsoft Office”.

But I am curious to hear why it is specific to US politics.

You’ve already gotten the biggest reason but another one to consider is that there are other large countries trying to force the world to become multi-polar. Those countries spend a LOT of time, effort, and money making sure that every possible negative aspect of American politics and culture is brought to light as much as possible.

The Russian troll farms and China’s 50 cent army don’t sleep. They’re always active and always looking to push negative coverage of the United States. They simply won’t allow a focus shift because they are paid to keep that spotlight shining bright at all times.

Shit, I want news to be boring again.

The news has been full of wars, drugs, and domestic unrest since at least the 60s. In the 70s we added rank political malfeasance and conspiracy theories and here in the 2020s its more of the same. The big difference makers are the 24 hours news cycle and the rise of social media.

If you limit your social media time and stay off aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit you’ll find that it’s possible to (mostly) go back to the way it was.

As an American I too am oversaturated with US politics. It’s been this way for a decade now and I fear its never going to end.