First and foremost, I’ll say right off the bat that I do not condone targeted mass hate campaigns against individuals or groups. I personally condemn that activity across the board no matter the victim or antagonist in any conflict, for any reason. That said, there’s a terrifying precedent being set currently that’s going to enable certain groups to change the world in ways previously not possible.

First, we need to identify how speech is protected on the internet. Currently there are no laws on any books anywhere that guarantee a person has access to the internet. There are also no laws explicitly stating that a company has to, in good faith, do business with everyone who approaches them for service regardless of who they are or what they believe. There are no laws regulating platforms on the internet that ensure every individual has equal access or ability to use them. There are no laws protecting forms of speech on the internet uniformly. There aren’t any real protections in place anywhere in federal regulatory bodies or federal or state governments on the whole. You can fall back to the first amendment, but the first amendment says fuck all about corporations being required to propagate your ideas. There are no such protections in place.

If you ever decide to “improve” your lawn and sign up to Trugreen Chemlawn Complete you can pretty much count on this being the result after four months:

Just look at that beautiful series of images. Man, they really demonstrated the “Tailored Solutions” and “Science-Driven Expertise”, don’t you think? But they’ll take you for thousands of dollars to do nothing. The proof is in the images. They come out seemingly all the time and yet nothing improves. The weeds stay as thick and huge as they are. The bald spots are unchanging. It’s easily just the worst lawn service you can sign up for, you’re literally better off doing it yourself and saving a ton of cash. These jackasses are useless. Trugreen Chemlawn is basically just a trash can for you to throw $1,500 into. What a scam.

Random stupid bullshit, because why not?

Man, I love being able to embed media in blog posts.

Man, I love this blog setup. I love git. I love MacOS. It feels weird to say that, but I really do enjoy the Mach underpinnings and Unix environment, combined with an easy and native feeling GUI. I don’t know why, but window managers on Linux just don’t feel native. I’m not sure if that’s just a mind trick from how much choice is out there or what, but I think a lot of it stems from how wildly different each toolkit is from any other. For instance, if you’re running a Gnome desktop and you try to run KDE/Qt apps. It’s not as bad now as it used to be, you can get reasonable approximations to suit. But it used to be really bad.

I’ve been biting my tongue and refraining from commenting for long enough, but it’s spilling over and I can’t hold it back any longer. I need to comment on the rift between Democrats and Republicans, and I need to write as objectively as possible. Don’t think for a second, though, that my intent to write objectively prevents me from taking sides. That is not the case, as there is massive wrongdoing here. Not subjective, we’re talking objective wrongdoing. Here goes.

I think I get it now. I think I understand why I really don’t like iPhone but very much so enjoy Apple’s computers. Their phones are designed for everyone, so they’re un-customizable bricks that they design “with any idiot in mind”, whereas Apple takes more of a “intuitive but also POSIX” approach with their desktop and laptop operating system. It’s essentially the notion that everyone needs a phone, not everyone feels they need a computer. At least, that’s how it comes off to me. You can customize MacOS pretty decently, even replacing the dock and other major OS components. You can’t really customize iOS all that much, certainly nowhere near as much as you can Android. Tell me if I’m off base with this, but that’s just the way it seems to me.

This song seems to be old as fuck, but it sure is a mood. A whole ass mood. I’ve been stuck on it for the last week or two. I can’t get it out of my head. Normally the songs that get stuck in my head strike me as being garbage, because they’re just perpetuating due to their tendency to get stuck in your head. I think this song is a damn decent song, but jesus- It’s infectious.

The older I get the more I realize I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground. I guess to be wise is to know you don’t know shit, which I suppose would make me pretty fucking wise. Expect this post to be a sprawling rant encompassing everything and saying little.

The SD card in my 8gb raspberry pi finally took a shit. I knew it was going to be the SD card that failed, because I’ve had a few fail over time. It’s not a huge deal, and I didn’t lose anything critical. I did, however, lose my Ubiquiti controller, and that sucked a lot. Especially considering how much of a pain in the ass it is to find it these days with all the restructuring they’ve been doing to their products. The whole “ISP level networking” thing is great for them, I’m sure, but not so great for me. I’m not an ISP. I don’t have a burgeoning need for serving whole ass populations with data. I’m just a little guy networking a single house with commercial grade equipment. Yes, it takes a little more braining to do something like that, but the payoff is huge. My network downtime is non-existent, and the performance is absolutely stellar. I don’t see slow-downs or loss that a lot of people see. Even people running that cringey “Netgear Gamer Router” crap can’t touch the performance of my network. Your little nighthawk can’t hold a candle to my setup. The nighthawk is only slightly less expensive than my rig, and the performance difference is a night and day comparison. But, as I was mentioning earlier, the SD card in the raspberry pi took a shit, and I’m without automatic updates for my wireless access point. It sucks, but I’m going to fix it this weekend by flashing Ubuntu server onto that raspberry pi again. Once that’s done I should be good to go.