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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • Stop needlessly shitring on Windows, iOS and MacOS.

    Recently there was a post about Wallmart blocking privacy features on iOS when connected to their wifi.

    And the comments spoke about how if you are using Apple, you should not expect privacy anyway, implying that Android is a bastion of privacy. Which tunred into an annoying thread and deflected critisism from Wallmart.

    I have seen other threads when people are asking for help with Windows or Mac OS issues and the comments talk about how Linux is much better.

    That is kinda like, asking your friends for help after spraining your ancle, and them suggesting amputating the entrie leg replacing it with a far more powerful cybernetic robot leg, that doesn’t help you.

    I am an IT guy, I just want my computer to work and let me game, manage and edit photos, watch videos, and listen to music, my current Windows 10 machine works fine for me.

    I don’t want to tinker when I am home, I have tinkered enough at work managing 365, reading logs, writing scripts and pulling cables.

    When I feel that Linux is working well enough, I will switch, but that is up to me, I am not interested in how I can configure my computer to my exact specification, I want a decent computer that I can run the same install on for 6-7 years with updates before upgrading or reinstalling. So far has Windows provided that, Linux has not, I have dailied both.

    Sorry for the rant…



  • Here in Sweden we have a chain called Taco Bar (tacobar.se) that sells Mexican derived food.

    I like it, but I realize it is far from proper Mexican food, more like Swedish Tex-Mex…

    Then here in Stockholm we had a small restaurant that felt far more authentic, El Taco Truck, they started as a food truck, got a few proper restaurants, closed them and now runs a brand of food in normal stores. They were great, when I introduced my coworkers at my last job to them, they were amazed, spicy and tasty, but a few years after, they shut their restaurants.

    We have another chain called “La Neta”, I tried it once, and almost got physically ill, not because the food wasn’t cooked, but it was just so much fat in it that the texture was horrible.

    Those are the ones I know of off the top of my head.



  • It is absolutely insane to treat capacitive buttons as a good thing in cars at this time.

    The only capacitive input I will accept in my next car is the infotainment, CarPlay is brilliant.

    Controls for lights, speed, wipers, climate, volume, play/pause, and anything else that you need to use when driving should have a physical control.

    I hate having capacitive buttons for temperature in my car, not to mention that to activate the seat heater, I have to go into a menu in the infotainment.