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Cake day: October 11th, 2023

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  • All true, but It’s all about perspective. Trump won the election promising repeatedly that he wouldn’t start new wars, and would in fact end wars.

    And depending on which polls you follow, the approval rating for the attacks on Iran are as low as 27% (Reuters/Ipsos, March 2026). But all polls conclude that the majority of US citizens do not support the war.

    So this is definitely not something the US voters directly signed up for. Voting for a president is not a mandate for that president to operate on wholesale deception.



  • So true! But I found a trick where you can get Jellyfin cheap if you buy it pretending to be a resident of another country. Here’s some prices:

    • Vietnam - 0₫ (VND)
    • India - ₹0 (INR)
    • Indonesia - Rp0 (IDR)
    • Philippines - ₱0 (PHP)
    • Thailand - ฿0 (THB)
    • Mexico - Mex$0 (MXN)
    • Brazil - R$0 (BRL)
    • South Africa - R0 (ZAR)
    • Turkey - ₺0 (TRY)
    • China - ¥0 (CNY)
    • Malaysia - RM0 (MYR)
    • Egypt - E£0 (EGP)
    • Argentina - AR$0 (ARS)
    • Japan - ¥0 (JPY)
    • South Korea - ₩0 (KRW)
    • Singapore - S$0 (SGD)
    • Australia - A$0 (AUD)
    • New Zealand - NZ$0 (NZD)
    • Canada - C$0 (CAD)
    • United Kingdom - £0 (GBP)
    • European Union countries - €0 (EUR)
    • United States - $0 (USD)




  • “So much winning!”

    During the first Trump administration, Soybean farmers were hit hard by the tariff war with China, especially in the mid-west. The administration had to bail out the industry with tens of billions of dollars in handouts. Many farmers went under, and there was a clear rise in farmer suicides.

    So what did these farmers do?.. yep, they voted for Trump again for a second term [sigh]

    And after seeing how devastating tarrifs were on farmers and industries, and the deaths it caused the first time around, surely Trump learned a valuable lesson and vowed not to use tarrifs so recklessly in his second term…



  • Kopia might meet your needs.

    https://kopia.io/

    (Edit, because I’ve got more time :)

    • Runs native on Windows and macOS. Doesn’t need Windows WSL or a wrapper
    • Can run as client-server, or standalone, backing up to local, network, S3, WebDAV, various clouds, etc
    • Open source
    • Snapshots are incremental, encrypted, and deduplicated
    • CLI and GUI

    I’ve been happily using it for years for similar needs (mixed systems)



  • To be fair, commercial long-life nickel-iron batteries are already being sold for grid storage. The main reason they aren’t used more widely is they cost more up front.

    That’s ok, because they still cost less than alternatives over the full life span of the battery.

    The risk is that the higher purchase cost required will likely be wasted as new battery tech surpasses it long before its life is over.

    So for now, it’s all about weighing opportunity cost, tech lock-in, and early obsolescence