lol really? Cheap labors drives down wages.

lol good luck, Im so happy I didnt job at CNN satcom

Reminds me we are not going to make it out of this game… alive.

Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man…

I have to stay sleek like a tiiiiiger, inside left pocket. Right side is a Kershaw assist blade and a Sig Sauer P226 9mm. OC and the that and the 2 bu mags (right side behind my kidney) are the only thing I wear outside.

Ok so open carrying a full sized pistol catches on everything. I walk different when its on my hip. Take it for what it is, you are adding a snag point. Mine doesn’t come off easy, the flashlight will pop off and you may lose it.

My 2 cents

Orrrrrrr… we could do it the ole fashion way and not add a layer(s) of failure and send out a email… Don’t need security w/ a thermometer and a knob.

I like my version better, simple.

And be real, there is no ZOMG moment in food safety that requires a mass temp change ASAP. Freezers are below freezing and refers have been set to the same temp for 50+ years.

Dead on perspective.

I’ve worked for that company, it was all “we can react in a moments notice on our smart phones” and other BS.

Then we got a real customer, the first thing out of their mouth was "what happens if a bad player gets access to one of those “smart” phones?

*crickets

I was there for sales support. aka a data center monkey (engineer), I was there to answer “can we do that?” from sales.

So blank stares follow from sales, sales looks at me to answer. I have been bitching that this is YUGE security hole for the last 2 years and I can’t answer w/o making the company look bad.

Then I realize why I’m there, I’m the escape goat (scapegoat). I sputter we are all patched up to the latest, we follow the tech bulletins (aka we are reactionary NOT proactive, no TQL another thing I bitched about). I’m trying to defend the undefendable, I wanted a walled system. You have to VPN in to see anything, no smart devices, not “lets everyone have access system” party.

The sale tanked, I got blamed, I said GFY and quit. Got another gig but played dumb as it was easier day to day to let another chump like me learn a lesson. Take the pay check and go home.

Now I live by: “Not my monkeys, not my circus”

And don’t get me going on Grafana… Let “church” up and make pretty data w/ another layer of M&C I have to set parameters too for the bosses to “oh ahh” over for some stuff shirt middle manager in a corn blue tie…

So you can see why I hate “smart” anything.

My big issue is a legally owned machine gun, yeah it happens. I never expected to buy it, the price was right. Now its ATF paperwork and the fucking furniture.

This is one of those moments, like buying a new car that all the “bells"and whistles” in the end work against you.

“The things you own end up owning you.”

-T Durden

I’m going thru this right now. I spent most of my life being able to move in 24 hours. Now I have to plan, I have to check local laws, I feel a slave to things I “own”. Point is the same w/ this. Your unnecessary web enabled device “own” them too.

Why do you need a web enabled fridge/freezer? I want a SNMP/Trap (one way, exit only) alarm when temp is getting near outside the “safe zone”. One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”??? AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”

Funny I’m not “seeing” this in the PM’s markets. In fact silver right now is about the lowest I have seen in ages, fighting off the idea of buying some Au/Ag.

EDIT:

But in the spirit of what I think the AI boom is going to do:

Pop Goes The Weasel

Don’t tell the chinese, they will strip that island clean in a NY minute.

I was at the beginning “This is friggin awesome! Exactly what tech is supposed to be about”

Then the bomb dropped, man people are weird.

Case in point I was part of one of the first streaming companies online (2000). We would stream wrestling as our biggest draw until we got major sports onboard.

We had an email link for “support” for tech support.

A few days before the wrestling events we would get FLOODED with support emails… Nope not for why they can’t get the test stream to work. But to support their favorite wrestler. It was insane the shit these people would write.

I want to name one!

“Mentos: The Fresh Air Maker”

Kinda catchy, might need a marketing campaign, hmmm

Reason 3,256,247 of why I don’t have social media…

I thought maybe they crossed against the light, nope that asshat ran the red light. Whats a POS, enjoy the criminal and civil lawsuit. Hope the kids are ok, worried about the little one, he looked like he hit his head pretty hard.

My buddy let his dog out one morning and he would come back inside no matter what. So he goes to investigate, finds the dog playing with what looked like a weird “ball”.

It was a human head. He lived next to a decent sized highway and a mobster was murdered and they disposed of the body parts along it. The head was the first bit that was found. Investigators doubted the other parts would have been found w/o is pupper going full on cadaver dog.

Never mentioned it, but its got to kinda suck as he can only taste (as best as he can describe) certain foods.

I have a buddy that has a very rare neurological condition where he can’t taste hot food.

He has every “prize” you win for eating the Ultra mega deth sauces from every wing place in the state. I mean some of these wings come out and its like you got pepper sprayed being near them. Its a sight to behold.

Also it affects his ability to regulate his body temp, does not sweat, and physical pain is very dull to his senses. So we have to watch him like a hawk in the summer because he goes into heat stroke way to easy.