I hope I didn’t come off as complaining about degoog. I’m definitely not. degoog is awesome.

Thanks for the advice about the proxies. I’ll be looking into that as I continue to work on keeping prying eyes off our internet usage. I suspect this will be a never ending struggle for the rest of my life.

It seems that both google and reddit block requests coming from my VPN provider(PIA). I may have to set up my own VPN server using Azure or AWS if things keep going this way.

I can’t find the new article now, but a few years back I remember a prison warden in Louisiana grousing about the possibility that pot would become legal saying, “We don’t want that, marijuana offenders are the best workers. They’re not violent, don’t cause trouble and do good work.”

Thanks for this! I included degoog in my arr stack and it works great! I was surprised by the language support when I pointed my gluetun container to an an Italian exit node. But it’s very well documented and the language environment variable was easy to set. Nice!

Getting this working within minutes of reading this post felt like opening an unexpected present. I love it.

It’s so weird that the article just assumed everyone would know what a flatpack was. With all the talk of Lego, I assumed it was a Lego-like toy.

It’s not just corruption. Conservatives are violent in their speech and actions. Consider that back when the Iran nuclear deal was being negotiated everyone who objected to the treaty were conservatives. The conservatives of the US, UK, Europe, Iran and Israel. It was the liberals around the globe that were waging peace.

It just so happens that the GOP is so corrupt

It’s no accident.

Apparently Dawkins also had a habit of publicly cheating on his wife.

At this point in my life I’m starting to think that all my heroes are probably either full of shit or are engaging in unethical or immoral activities.

It really pisses me off that for decades I was unknowingly consuming Zionist propaganda and it worked on me. I’ve always been the type of person to question my beliefs and I got fooled.

Makes me wonder what other bullshit I believe.

Shame you’ve got an idiot rampaging through the world markets for a relative pittance (but actual fortune) from insider trading. Who would have thought that’d go badly long term.

Ironically, it may actually be Trump who brings about the rapid global adoption of EVs and renewable energy because of his stupid war with Iran and his tariffs. The rest of the world is fed up with having to rely on fossil fuels and they are dramatically ramping up both EV adoption as well as renewable energy.

I get the feeling that the US and Russia will be the last countries to fully adopt electric vehicles.

Meanwhile Trump is paying companies in the US to shutter wind turbine projects.

Thanks for this. I’m definitely dropping ollama now. No wonder GGUF models always gave me issues.

I might even dump open webui for llama.cpp’s webui

They really are fucking idiots.

And this is the kindest interpretation of their continued support for him.

He really should have said, “I thought it was me as a wizard”

But he’s too stupid to come up with good excuses and he’s never had to do it because he’s led a consequence free life for all his lies and crimes.

I not only say it, I live it. There is an off switch of sorts, it’s called sleep.

I found out recently that my kids get offended when I read one of their texts and don’t respond right away. People are so needy these days. Makes me want to turn off texting on my phone.

It does blow their minds that I routinely go days without picking up my phone and that I don’t use social media apps.

I’ve always had the same attitude as Betty Draper when it comes to boredom. Only boring people get bored. At the very least, there’s always something interesting to think about.

Big concerts with crazy amounts of people and you got a $20 ticket made out of paper that you could save to display in your photo album.

God yes, affordable concerts that were actually performed live rather than lip-synched. And Ticketmaster had not become the monopolistic scum of the earth they are now. You could actually get really good seats at a reasonable price if you were willing to get on the phone and dial like a monster or wait in line at the box office. Very rarely would anyone overpay. Even scalpers’ prices were reasonable compared to average list prices today.

No cops in school, no school shootings. Parents were not our chauffeurs, either. They might grudgingly drop you off somewhere or pick you up but you could not expect them to do both without a lot of cajoling and pleading or bribing.

Summers from 6th grade on were just incredible. I’d wake up whenever, head out and not come home until dark. If I was going to be later than that, I’d have to call and let the parental units know or there would be hell to pay but other than that I was free to do whatever…but I wasn’t getting any money from the parents to do anything. If I wanted funds for my activities, it was up to me to figure out what kind of work I could do to earn money.

That makes it even more bizarre to me that he’s a practicing Mormon.

It’s called the sunshine law. All police reports in Florida are a matter of public record that can be obtained by anyone. The press trolls those reports multiple times a day.