I use proton pass currently.
My life is changing in less than two weeks.
I have an enterprise grade server that I can't run for a variety of home reasons.
When me and the wife... for lack of a better term, escape, our situation, I'll be able to self host. I know its gonna be a struggle, I have things to learn, and that is why I'm so excited.
Oh fuck me, I'm still studying to red team basic computing.
I take it you've never had to log into a printer with an AD account before?
Yeah, I went out to 32 characters once. Until I needed to work on a printer.
Front Right: Keys, wireless earbuds, active nicotine packet container.
Front Left: Eckster Wallet, spare nicotine packet container, phone.
Back Right and Left: Utility Spots, used as needed.
Right Pocket Watch Pocket: CRKT CEO knife, if off the clock, THCa pen (legal in my area)
I don't find myself "engaged," I find myself wanting to spend money for something that will bore me the next week.
There is a reason I've mostly played single player games for the past decade.
I was tired of the "seasons" and micro transactions when I just wanted a story. If the story was good, I'd be ok with purchasing an expansion upon it. I remember my first expansion pack, Warcraft 2, played over a phone line. It felt worth it.
For more modern games, The Witcher 3 DLC felt like proper expansion packs. I have no bad feelings about those.
But just adding a few cosmetic items? Fuck off.
I've thought of this, but don't have the wherewithal to actually make a project come to fruition.
I'm also not a lawyer, but I've read multiple articles on this, and it doesn't seem like any legal violation. Corporation got lazy, didn't confirm where 10m in royalties went and under what circumstance, and got burned.
Finally a corp gets scammed by the common man.
I say good on him.
We live in troubled times, the planet is overheating at a rate that it might affect my life more than being more uncomfortable in the summer. And that's Texas summers at that.
There is an island of plastic refuse in the ocean bigger than some countries.
I saw the home computer come to the living room and the internet be birthed.
If you were to ask if I was jaded as a kid, already? Yeah. Around 7 years old.
It isn't getting better. Corporations claw for more and more at the expense of the people and the planet.
I hope the younger generations can lead the charge of change, but for me... I don't have the time or energy to play games most days, let alone change the planet.
And for those who will say, "Aren't you just part of the problem then?" Sadly yes, I am. I try to make changes when I can, but I fear changing the small environment of my home will not be enough.
Please don't I barely understand subnetting as it is.
I'm not a dev, but I do some scripting. Mostly in a windows environment professionally, linux for personal reasons.
That being said, AI is great for getting a bulk outline of a script done, and you just gotta tweak a few things.
You still have to know what you're doing, but it expedites things.
Work has been difficult, mostly due to coworkers lately.
If I'm blaring Rage, like I have all week, I'm ready to walk or to burn the place down. But I'm a lazy man.
In my southern portion of the US, I find it better to just let shit slide. Never know who is armed with two short cannons, a .38 snub, and the reason for their lifted truck that has never seen "off" roads.
I was tier one help desk, overnight, in a children's hospital.
I had a doctor call me, who expressly made it clear he didn't want a run around, while manually palpating a child's heart to keep it in rhythm and thus, the child alive.
I told him there are back ups upon back ups that can be implemented, and I am happy to talk about his computer problem when the patient is SAFE. Not a little, "we got this," safe, but SAFE.
Tier one help desk, overnight, no support, and I had to tell a person who turned out to be a board member that he could go fuck himself on his computer problem until the child patient was safe.
My first job was customer service, and I've been in IT for a dozen years. Its still customer service. You just have to realize who the customer is - in the case of a children's hospital, it is always the child.