4grams
@4grams@awful.systems
- Comment on upgrades 4 days ago:
I swear, that is the hotel room I stayed at in CA. Looks like the Huntington Beach Springhill Suites.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m sure my normal is not regular normal, I’m an old graybeard so my perspective is a bit off.
But a pihole is super easy. Mine runs in a VM in Proxmox now, but I’ve run it on a raspberry pi and as a docker container as well. Well worth a shot.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I honestly don’t know what I’m doing right, just typical stuff I’d think.
I have a pihole as my dns/dhcp. I use Firefox with enhanced tracking protection turned on, ublock origin and privacy badger.
On my phone I have AdGuard (paid one time license fee).
I still am seeing YouTube without ads. I occasionally have to reload a video, but no showstoppers yet. Only posting my setup in case it help anyone else. Hopefully it’s not instructions for them on what to attack next…
- Comment on All in one 2 weeks ago:
Yep, I use Dr. Bronners for everything, especially when camping when it’s: hair, face & body, toothpaste, shaving cream, dish detergent, bug repellant, emergency lubricant (stuck stoves, tentpole, etc), laundry soap, and anything else I can find to use it for.
- Comment on Rare, slightly used 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mint 2 weeks ago:
Already done. It was actually a freebie supermarket plant my son picked up. The local store has a section where the ugly and dying plants are free. So we picked up a chocolate mint, and are trying to bring it back to life.
I had it nearly there, so I gently moved it to a bigger pot, with fresh new soil, and it promptly died. There was one single stem that was left that had gotten buried when I replanted it. Everything behind it died, but it must be trying to put some roots down at a buried node or something. It was floppy and I thought dead, but then decided to come back to life and is growing new leaves. Fingers crossed, I’m too afraid to touch them t right now, so I’m just keeping it watered and sunny and hoping it comes back.
I can always go get some from the yard :).
- Comment on Mint 2 weeks ago:
I have a mint plant in my house, in a pot, that I simply cannot seem keep alive. It has a single stem left that’s trying its hardest to die every moment. I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to nurse it back to health (I need an easy win these days)
Last time I mowed, I noticed a new weed in the yard, popping up all over; this one smelled different, pleasant even. Fuck me, I’ve got a yard full of mint that showed up on its own, I’m guessing to mock my black thumb.
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 2 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for the inevitable hantavirus parties. Gotta make sure little Timmy earns his immunity!
- Comment on Some people really lack civic sense 4 weeks ago:
I sat next to a lady on an international flight, who took off her shoes and clipped her toenails mid-flight. Dude on the other side of me was too drunk to notice.
- Comment on Just april... 1 month ago:
Somewhat different motivations though I’d say.
- Comment on I'm a MAGAt 1 month ago:
I mean, sorry if I misread your intentions, but your phrasing in such a thread in response to the OP appears to make a statement. You are also aware that the people cheerleading this war are echoing exactly what you said, in essentially the exact same words.
No need to be a dick.
- Comment on I'm a MAGAt 1 month ago:
Honestly, what makes us the world police? I don’t want protestors killed, but dropping bombs in schools is not the help they need.
- Comment on Small victories. 1 month ago:
lol, yeah, wife is a nurse, she brings them home for me :).
- Comment on Small victories. 1 month ago:
Reapers man, let’s just say I wash extremely well these days after cutting them up.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 month ago:
I say may, only because there are edge cases and exceptions to the rule. Few and far between I’ll grant you.
Still, unresolved parental issues need a partner too, so no skin off my nose…
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 month ago:
I think it’s kinda weird and likely indicates that one or both have some unresolved parental issues. I even may silently judge, but it’s none of my business otherwise.
- Comment on marriage update 2 months ago:
And just where can one procure such a pile of towels?
- Comment on Make a note 3 months ago:
I too have been to Jamaica. That second bite of brownie was an experience.
- Comment on Website 3 months ago:
Why it was funny in the first place. I knew I was messing with the best.
- Comment on Website 3 months ago:
I swear on my life this happened to me but I don’t care if you believe me or not.
- Comment on Website 3 months ago:
This goes back some years, back when the ping of death was still a thing. I used to hang out in IRC channels and someone decided they needed to show me what a real hacker could do. The dork asked for my IP which was hilarious to begin with, so I replied “127.0.0.1”. About 2 seconds later I see them disconnect from IRC.
A minute goes by and they are back online, spitting mad. Tells me the m lucky their computer crashed but I’d better get ready…and disconnected again.
Back again and folks are dying laughing thanks to my 1337 teenage hacker skills but eventually someone spills that 127.0.0.1 is localhost. Instantly I’m talking to zero cool again and was too scared to give out my actual address. Being a hardened nerd, this time I complied.
I was on slackware and had already figured out their game from the get go; oh and I actually knew how to find an IP. So right in the middle of this future titan of industry’s insults and threats…they disconnect one last time. 😎
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I like it, do it! Have you read Altered Carbon? Has some similar themes. I loved the book, might be some good inspiration. I’ll read yours when it’s out, love that genre :).
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 4 months ago:
I already have my nodes up and running. It’s been picking up like mad lately, mic more chatter than this time last year.
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 4 months ago:
he’s got harry potter money, takes roles for the fun of it now…
- Comment on 5 months ago:
OMG, I do this when a drop is about to spill, it’s reflex, Can’t help it. But I’m always terrified someone will see me being so weird.
Glad to know I’m not alone I guess.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 5 months ago:
I am still pissed off about losing Force Touch on the iPhone. Haptic Touch is so much worse and slow. I loved using various pressures with good feedback for things that made sense. It was so much faster and more deliberate than the stupid replacement.
It felt like a great step in this direction, but instead of improving, they just shitcanned it for something much worse.
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 5 months ago:
Which religion will he convert to this time?
- Comment on Diced Giant Steak 5 months ago:
I wish I had more upvotes. Perfect.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 5 months ago:
Oh come on now, the dems give everyone other side a pass. Look at Al Franken, what he did was way worse than anything in the Epstein files and got off scott free.
Er, wait…that is what happened, right?
- Comment on everyone warning!! 5 months ago:
I was going off about passwords last week because of exactly this kind of shit. Who in the goddamned fuck needs a pringles.com account.
We live in insane times.
