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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • He’s not happy, but that’s got little/nothing to do with his money. He’s doing the same things and experiencing the same consequences as a lot of people who fall into the extreme-right. He alianted his family, he’s in trouble at work and he’s blaming everyone and everything but himself. Only difference between him and the qanon conspiracy-brain who got fired from the plant in some small town for saying racist shit on Facebook is that Elon’s wealth and public status means his life falling apart is a public spectacle instead of a private one. That, and the fact that his meltdown impacts a lot more people.

    Money actually does buy happiness for most people (up to about $75k USD annually, at which point the correlation fades). I suspect that happiness is a direct result of not feeling like you’re 1 sick day from homelessness, but I don’t think the data is there to support why yet.

    Edit: $75k, not 7k








  • I low-key love the little 8-bit-sounding victory songs all the little machines play when they’re done. Makes me feel reminiscent of how I pictured the future when I was a kid… or maybe or beating a very old video game.

    Thank you for trying so hard, little rice cooker!

    But still, put all that shit on a different subnet or a different network if you can. I use the “guest wifi” network for all our iot devices so i can still access things from the apps when I’m not home, but it’s segregated from our actual internet devices.





  • I mean, I use a Windows 11 machine for work and play…spend probably 10 hours a day on the thing most days, and the only popups I ever remember getting are from Steam and the Epic game store…the most annoying thing I can remember that wasn’t vendor bloatware (that I removed once and haven’t thought about since) was disabling onedrive.