I have no friends.

it’s mostly a personal choice, but also a lack of acceptable partners.

I rely on nobody. I lean on nobody. I share with nobody. not because I feel masculine doing it, but because I don’t feel the need to. I’ve been “alone” for decades at this point and anything else feels foreign.

should I find one or many friends, they would inevitably need me more than I them and that would be unfair to them and me. if I would befriend someone like me it negates the friendship entirely. the importance of a friendship being built on bilateral support is often undersold or ignored entirely.

Am I lonely? sometimes. Am I happy? rarely. Am I satisfied? satisfactorily. introducing a friend to my life would inevitably destabilize my balanced world where it was no longer within my control.

why tf are you fighting so hard against something that’s so trivial? don’t antifascists have more important battles to focus on than using the name “antifa”?

Look, I get it. it’s the principle that you feel like they’re winning if you abandon “antifa”. don’t you think that maybe you feel that way because that’s what they want you to feel?

instead of focusing on how they want you to be perceived, force them to recognize who you are. you are anti fascist and anyone who argues against that is clearly pro fascist.

the only way to flip the narrative they want is to turn their script upside down.

they changed the narrative on the term.

antifa is a dog whistle now. call it something else.

it’s almost like regions that experienced decades of decline, malnourishment, and poor education are prime breeding grounds for nationalism.

Andy grabs some lube and Rex before shoving his tail up his own ass.

you’ve got a friend in me plays

blizzard of 78.

so much snow entire families were begging to get out of their homes for it.

a VLAN is assigned to a specific port on the same subnet.

now I have to know which port is for that VLAN specifically.

now I have to segment my network to ensure I know which IPs are on that VLAN.

now I have to statically assign IPs.

now I need to replace my router and rebuild everything.

or I setup a separate network on a different subnet with firewall rules to ensure nothing can talk to anything outside of the private network and let dhcp do assignments.

hmmmm…which one is easier to maintain… I wonder…

VLANs literally exist because it would be too costly to run dedicated networking hardware in enterprise solutions. from a networking perspective in a selfhosting or small business environment VLANs are overkill and high maintenance.

you caught me!

A. Do you absolutely NEED the VLAN for your NVR? Why not just isolate the devices on the network with a bogus DNS record or FW rule blocking via MAC or IP?

DNS doesn’t stop direct IP comms. I have seen a few devices that talked direct IP to bypass DNS blocks. as you said, a firewall rule is a far better solution.

However, I don’t trust my Chinese cameras enough to not rootkit their way across my network, so it has to be quarantined. a VLAN is one way to successfully do that.

personally I dislike the high maintenance costs of VLANs. That’s why I opted to run a completely different network for all my IOT devices including cameras. the DVR is on that network and proxied through a dual homed server that straddles the two networks. firewall rules in place that only allow specific ports through on specific devices to specific devices.

I know my comments are worthless, that’s why I post them.

no, and frankly I never want to be.

people who think they are “good people” stop striving to be better.

I give to my community when they ask. I help those who need help. I try my best to make sure everyone around me is safe.

Not looking for clout. Not looking for praise. Just doing the things that need to be done because they need to be done.

That doesn’t make me a good person because I’m just a person.

You will also be without a job.

Then I guess they’ll have to find someone to cover when I’m gone. either way, it’s a notice not a request.

while you’re at it guys, could you force the current administration to release the remaining unredacted Epstein Files?

“work will set you free” energy.

I’ve seen plenty of videos of cops being complete abusive dumbasses, but you’re not wrong about them destroying the most damning evidence.

when it first came out I was skeptical of their claims they wouldn’t replace people with it, because what company wouldn’t replace a person with a bot.

as it became apparent that not only was my original mistrust of them appropriate, but that they were literally breaking laws to build it, my dislike solidified into loathing.

then they began to force the use of it through companies, selling it as a product that can improve productivity while studies had proven the claims as false. my loathing precipitated to hatred when people started losing their jobs for not using it or just being replaced by it.

finally when my government began to use it to kill and oppress, my feelings about AI changed into those of active rebellion.

now, when faced with interacting with AI at work I perform as an idiot. I pretend I don’t understand how to use the tools, or how to set them up. I pretend that I don’t understand what the slop means that someone just vomited up in chat. I pretend that I am such a useless idiot that the only way to help is by personally interacting with me.

weaponized incompetence is a fine line to walk, but I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years.

so yeah, fuck AI, fuck LLMs, fuck anyone who willingly supports fascist tools.

• fly to Mexico with $50k in gold in your pocket
• buy car
• request bill of sale to state the car was $5.00
• bribe the salesman with gold
• drive back to the US

100% tariff on my bill of sale of $5.00 is $5.00.

totally legit and totally the way every rich asshole does business.

nah, Homelander.

just won $6 million in the lottery. I plan on, snorting, shooting, and fucking my way to Thailand to retire.