People being ok with their own lives being uprooted for someone who should mean absolutely nothing to them is insane.

I have one of the pro’s from a few years ago and I am just finding out now that they have software. Thanks, i will look later.

If things didn’t get bad, I could absolutely see myself saying the same thing.

We’re gonna need more laws against the homeless soon. About to be a whole lot more to deal with. Can’t tolerate that /s.

Thankfully, nothing like that has happened here, but we have a break glass account that only 2 people know of, and it’s locked in a safe. Also, my place has gotten so good at firing people they know how and when to do it to minimize risk. Like end of day when they are all packed up, and if its a really high up person, top admins are contacted prior and held on standby to disable everything as soon as the word is given. This includes admins. If they are remote, they will normally lock them out of the laptop first and make sure access is gone before letting them know.

Just like real life, it takes time, but eventually, we all get to the do drugs part.

My kid accidentally put this video on and honestly we have all really enjoyed it more than we probably should… its catchy!

https://youtu.be/3WfegWZzxek

As a parent of a kid, I actually know what this references!

Also, is that supposed to be a real-life picture of Ice King? Creepy

I keep reminding my wife about the schools. The town we picked is not considered good by any means for schooling, but I always say the worst here is still better than elsewhere! We have had a few years experience now that our kid is in them and outside a few things that were noticeable (my wife is a teacher) they didnt seem as bad as the rating makes them seem.

We all live in NJ, so I can’t agree with your statement, haha. It may not be bad to most states, but from what I see, NC is about 1-3k for property taxes? For us anywhere in the state, the middle class is going to start at around 6k and quickly rise to 14k a year if not more. I say 6k, but I don’t even know anywhere close to my area that doesn’t start at 9-11k. Mine is higher than that and trust me we live in an average, not even updated, middle class place in a town most people don’t want to live because it was the cheapest within an hour drive, which we did not want to deal with going to work everyday.

My cousin moved down there a few years ago, and a lot of my family talk about how they want to because its so cheap. I guess if you enjoy your local government to be non-existent and allow things like this to even take place, then I guess it’s a wonderful place to live! Enjoy your low taxes, you get what you pay for.

Sue!

I think it’s the smaller version, so more like $3.50. Still, why go for the double when you could have done the same for less with a single.

Sadly, it may not be an option for a lot of people, but on the fortinet firewall you can make policies and set up geoblocking.

Synology with Emby (do not use the connect service they offer) running behind my fortinet firewall. DDNS with my own domain name and ssl cert. Open 1 custom port (not 443) for it, and that’s it. Geoblock every country but my own, which basically eliminated all random traffic that was hitting hit. I’ve been running it this way for 5 years now and have no issues to report.

This brings back a memory… this is like 20 years ago and our early 20’s, we had one friend who went through a weird phase of self harm, but only around people and it got worse the drunker we got through the night. We all had no idea why, and we all got weirded out by it. Anyway, this reminded me of the time he carried around a glass jar with barbed wire inside and other things to cut you with $5 at the bottom. I believe he copied a scene in family guy. He kept asking people to try, and of course nobody would, so he would then say look its not hard and jam his hand inside. It was super creepy, and we think he enjoyed seeing us squirm and squint our eyes. During this same phase one night he carried around a kitchen knife, and he actually ended up stabbing our friend in the leg as he looked at us in horror and us back at him the same. Let’s just say he isn’t really friends with most of us anymore and also moved thousands of miles away.

Seems like a lot of tax dollars being wasted, as well as a ton of taxed income no longer coming in either. How anyone thinks any of this is a good idea is beyond crazy.

As everyone has pointed out, people and content. Its good in some ways since not every post is drowned out with one thousand replies nobody will ever see, but at the same time, you’re not getting much of anything at all sometimes. Not even very niche ones either. Even groups that represent entire states has limited info or replies still. If it can grow to that size and see some more unique and local content more I think even that would be a much better place for it to be.

Yeah, it’s the one I was leaning towards. I liked what I saw, but I want to try it out first before diving in. I like that it offers up the newest updates first. I just had issues with getting it spun up as a vm and all I get is a black screen after it installs. I don’t seem to be the only one with that issue so I’ll have to think of another way to test.

I was already looking around. I work in IT, so I am not completely oblivious to using Linux or how it works. I tested a few out a long time ago, and we have a few systems in production at work. I was going to try out Mint, Elementary, Pop, and KDE Neon before deciding. So far I got Mint spun up as a VM and played around a little. KDE Neon just gave me a black screen after it installed, which stinks because it was the one I was leaning towards the most. I haven’t gotten to the other 2 yet.