I have a soft-spot in my heart for these type of people. As an avid backpacker, it's not uncommon to meet folk doing similar things on foot. I've picked up hitchhikers in the past that have similar stories, traveling vast distances. I've shared my home for several days to one of the nicest dudes ever who was bike-packing across America and just wanted to rest for a few days and pitch a tent in the back yard and use a shower. Lot of nice folks out there who may not fit into ordinary roles in modern society but are the most genuine, happy, and free people you may ever meet.

An N Y T onion a day keeps the paywall away ;) https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.html (bypass)

Quote: “Private equity is like the system on steroids,” said Sherry Glied, the dean of the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. “Every time there’s an opportunity for making money, P.E. is going to move faster than everyone else. And consolidation is the way to do that.”

It's not about providing "better care" as I'm sure the spokesperson is touting. 🙄

Yeah, he's great. I used to listen when working 3rd shift in a machine shop.

History says French govt. are actual terrorists.

I've built a number of these over the years. Overall pretty useless.

The most useful one is the one that sits attached the visor in my van. Pull the visor down and there is a screen.

It's perfect for use in parking lots, or keeping track of things while driving. Though, it's really only suitable for text mode stuff. Too under powered.

That's the one that has gotten me though many a late night drive. Others too no doubt, but that's my default.

I'm still only a fraction of the way through his work though.

Made with clipdrop (Stable Diffusion) - link in the sidebar!

This is wicked!!!

Nice!! Thanks for posting looks awesome!! Did you make this??

Looks fun

Another small business... trying to scrape by. 😆

This.

I work in the web-hosting industry, and there are a handful of common and popular proprietary software used that used to require CentOS / RHEL as the base OS. Then most of them now support AlmaLinux, which I've got on a handful of servers as a requirement. Haven't really used Rocky Linux, but have used AlmaLinux a lot now, and I run CloudLinuxOS which is/was RHEL based but it's a commercial Linux OS geared towards this industry.

Anyway, FINALLY some of these companies are producing statements that they're releasing Debian/Ubuntu betas or have it on their roadmap for making their software work on these OSes. Which is great.

There are so many quality alternatives now that this decision will only lower their market share. They are trying hard to be the new Microsoft.

Amazon? Never heard of them! /s

Windows by itself is already spyware. Might as well have some more ;)

It was inspired by the amazing mining algorithm that was developed for Monero.

Monero is true digital cash, anonymous and untraceable by default. Get your hands on some today @ http://lm.i2p

Official wallet available @ http://get-monero.i2p/

Monero is king of digital cash.

The state's monopoly on identification is a crime against humanity.

Time to leave that place.

LocalBitcoins is dead and replaced by http://agoradesk.i2p/

http://ztqnvu7c35jyoqmfjyymqggjpyky6z3tlgewk2qgbgcmcyl4ecta.b32.i2p/

LocalMonero I2p link: http://lm.i2p

http://yeyar743vuwmm6fpgf3x6bzmj7fxb5uxhuoxx4ea76wqssdi4f3q.b32.i2p/

This is the best wallet. Every serious coin should have a wallet like this.

Threads got a jump start on it's userbase by making it incredibly simple for current Instagram (and maybe Facebook?) users from signing up to the platform. They already have your data, so you don't need to 'create an account'. It's more of an opt-in, from what I understand. So with that in mind, it's incredibly hassle-free to join which likely is the reason for such high numbers, if they are to be believed to begin with.

It's unlikely to be a Twitter killer in my opinion, but time will tell.

What I find the most interesting when reading comments on the web on places like reddit is the amount of people who dislike Musk so much that they'll support Zuckerberg blindly. Say what you want about Musk but he has at least been part of advancing the automobile, space and telecom industries. Zuck probably still thinks people are "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data.

(Posted from my Starlink connection. Thanks Musk!)

Nice, will have to check it out. I'll admit, there are some times where I don't feel like digging through ancient StackOverflow entries or random KB articles and documentation. ChatGPT has come in real handy and has likely saved me a lot of time.

As much as I'm uncertain about AI's role in the future, for now, it's helped me out of a bind or two.

i'm here rambling from the i2p network!! lol on my end ramble seems to work really well for me!

Care to recommend a 60% keyboard? Bonus if it comes with a travel case!

It'll only be for mobile use with the laptop, as my workstation and daily driver needs a num-pad for me to keep my sanity since I crunch some numbers from time to time. But I'd still like a 60% option for increased portability and ability to pack one in a bag with my laptop.