Clowns

Fund

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Politics

It’s also similar to the left’s assertion that if we could just not send those evil and bad rockets to evil bad and scary space, we’d be able to fund everything.

Start Spiking

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

I am using Windows 11 on my work laptop now as I need to experience what my users experience.

And it is. Fucking. Slow. OMG SO SLOW. Who wrote this, a snail? It’s amazing how absolutely abysmal the experience of using modern software has become.

A Big Fat Lie

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Nearly everyone lies, but fat people lie a whole damn lot on such surveys. I saw one obese woman claiming she’d only eaten 500 calories a day for decades and had lost no weight.

And no matter how obese you are, you’d die after a year or so on that sort of diet. Just not physiologically possible.

Frontlash

Chill Clowns

It’s so very oddball how so much of the contemporary left has settled on these fucked up “truths:”

  • That people of different races cannot have anything in common.
  • That people of different ages cannot have anything in common.
  • Who owns land or should own land is based on genetics.
  • That biological sex doesn’t exist but gender is all-important, except when it doesn’t matter and bio-sex does.
  • That men are inherently evil.
  • And that women are inherently good.
  • Immigrants are inherently good and don’t harass women far more than average.
  • Sex is icky and bad.

You can kinda see why there was an (equally-stupid) backlash. What the left believes is some pretty vile, outlandish, anti-human stuff.

Stages

Chill Clowns, Rant

And the most moronic response to the thread below:

That has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with it. Jesus fuck why are people so obsessed with something irrelevant but quantifiable? I guess because it is quantifiable, unlike compatibility, attraction, shared goals and interests, etc.

Clownish idiocy by oafish doofuses.

Face It

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I broke up with my GF after she got a face tattoo.

Appropriate reaction to any tattoo; if you want to despoil and deface1 yourself, not wanting to be with you is a very appropriate response to that self-destruction.

  1. Pun intended.

Take My Apple-cation

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Is this serious?

While by no means perfect, Apple’s machines just work, are wicked fast and their laptops last a whole day on battery. Even their high-end machines. And no, I do not mean a whole eight-hour work day. I mean an entire 24 hours. I brought an M2 Macbook Pro to a three-day work conference, used it for hours after the conf each day and didn’t charge it the entire time I was there. Try that with any other machine.

The Macbook Pro might be the only actually-good laptop on the market. It is truly an excellent machine, the exemplar of what a laptop should be. Lenovo, Dell, HP and any other maker now just seems to churn out absolute crap in this category. They appear to have just given up. Using an Apple machine feels great in comparison.

The M-series chips are pretty damn innovative, by the way.

Apple’s products are overpriced only if you don’t care about quality, reliability, supportability, usability, resale value, and not having to fuck around with your machine for hours to get it to do something that Apple ones just do by default. Or in the case of Windows specifically, spending half a day evicting all the surveillance and ad infrastructure — only for it to be reinstalled on the next update.

And Linux — don’t even get me started. Using that as a daily driver is about as smooth as sliding 300 meters on concrete. Clarification: I use Linux all the time. I was working in three different Linux VMs today that I have doing various things on our network. But as my main machine? Hell no. Too much bother and hassle.

As I mentioned, Apple machines are not perfect. Finder is absolutely chock full of bugs, is ridiculously slow, and has not improved at all in more than a decade. Pseudo-security has been ramped up too much — as with most companies — so you have to actively fight your machine to make it do what you want.

But compared to using Linux or Windows? Or a tablet running any OS? It’s not even a choice. Apple is the way to go.

Host Parasite

Chill Amusing, Clowns

For a while I worked at a hosting company. Sometimes as a side business, though, we did field installs for customers. Since I was one of the few people there who knew enough in disparate areas (solution design, security, hardware, networking, software, racking, cabling, etc.) I usually got picked to go to customer sites to set things up.

One of our major customers was a nightmare on the phone so I knew it’d be even worse in person. And sure enough when I arrived they were hovering over me, asking how long it was going to take and saying they were losing money while things were down (they had chosen the time for the migration). But after an hour or so I got everything racked, networked, set up, running and ready to get back into full operation1.

When it was all done the hoverer said, “I notice there’s only one server. I thought this would be a cluster. It’s not redundant this way.”

This customer had specifically said they did not want a cluster on multiple phone calls where I stressed this solution would not be redundant and that if enough items in the single server failed2 the virtualized machines hosted thereon would indeed crash harder than a 737 MAX.

So I said, “On our phones calls I noted the chosen solution would not be redundant and if you wanted something with more resiliency it would require two servers. You said this was too expensive and not to do it.”

“Oh. I thought your company would just provide it anyway. That’s poor customer service that they don’t,” the customer said angrily while sighing loudly. This “provide it anyway” would mean giving the customer about $10,000 worth of free equipment. Not even close to happening.

I didn’t really know what to say to that so I took the wiser path by saying nothing and got out of there as quickly as I could. When I made it back to HQ, I let my manager know about the exchange and closed the ticket out.

The customer wasn’t done with their carping, though they let the redundancy “issue” go. The next day they called claiming their new server was only running at 10Mbs. I knew that was impossible because the networking equipment we installed wouldn’t even negotiate a 10mbs connection (100Mbs and above only), so I remoted in to take a look. Somehow, they’d misread 10Gbs as 10Mbs. When I pointed this out they got very defensive and claimed it had said 10Mbs before.

Right.

Customers be crazy, man.

  1. What I did would’ve taken most people a full day, but I’d done some clever stuff in advance to reduce the setup time.
  2. It had dual power supplies, RAID 6, etc.

MAGA Clowns

Chill Clowns, Evil

I think it’s something like that. So many people have had it reasonably well for so long (effective vaccines, enough food, no invasions, etc.) that they have no idea what it takes to maintain and extend that.

So we are where we are: a bunch of utter clown dumbasses destroying everything because they do not understand why it exists.

Cooling Off

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Oh, fuck you, lady. You can always tell when dumbasses live somewhere that never gets all that hot or humid. And where it cools down at night.

Put her in Florida or Texas or Southern California and she’d be begging for AC. I hate those clowns so much.