Since when has breaking the rules stopped this administration?

You’re absolutely right on all counts.

That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.

That’s true until it isn’t.

Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, even early on in the life cycle of a drive. I like having a RAID-5 array … but then again, I don’t really have any other backups (which I really should fix).

What I really need is an ISP that doesn’t have a 1.2TB data cap.

Look what only President Trump can do.

Look what only President Trump can do, when the GOP also has the majority of the House and Senate, and - oh yeah - the Supreme Court.

I think you underestimate the effect all the propaganda has on the youth growing up in red areas. They only switch allegiances if they learn to think for themselves.

Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.

As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.

It’s almost certainly related to AWS.

Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).

Then run a VPN server, like OpenVPN, on a computer that is always on and redirect the VPN connection port from your router to the VPN server. If you don’t know how to get into your router’s admin console, LEARN HOW! This is critical to maintaining home network security even if you aren’t running servers.

It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).

A LITTLE FUCKIN’ LATE, BUDDY!

That said, welcome to the resistance.

It might also have been a jape!

That’s why you use Discord for friendly chats, and Signal as a side channel for anything political.

Johnson praised the president for making “very clear that, yes, he’s happy to sit down and talk to Democrats about health care or anything as soon as they reopen the government.”

I think perhaps it should be made clear that Democrats know very well that he will not, in fact, do that if the government reopens.

Just the next step in escalating the discourse against their opposition. I hadn’t expected it to ramp up as quickly as it has, but ramp up it has. At this rate, there will be forceful silencing of political rivals by the end of the year.

If he keels over I’m still gonna get drunk with my mates though.

Let’s face it, the VA was on the chopping block already thanks to Trump tightening the purse strings. There is quite literally no reason to even accept a deal that gets the ACA funded again, because Trump can just say ‘no’ and choke it off anyways.

This isn’t even massaging the numbers to make the statistics lie. It’s just more bald-faced damn lies.

Exactly. It’s not important … until it is. :D

If you’re running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn’t matter and you don’t need to care.

Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn’t supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.

Pulling out OF the futon you mean?

At least where I live, the ballot does not have identifying information on it. The information on how you voted is there, yes, but not who ‘you’ is.