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Blue Angels supercut from today’s performance! 🎬 youtu.be/HN7sAXLmX…
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What convinced me to change my political alignment from liberal to democratic socialist was the recognition that FDR was not simply an altruistic class traitor in a vacuum, but that he existed in the space just after the Russian revolution. The New Deal was a compromise to prevent a revolution.
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Here’s my current update strategy on Windows btw:
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Hop into WSL and run: omz update; sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade; brew update && brew upgrade
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Once or twice a week: Fire up UniGetUI and force updates for most user apps.
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About once a day: Manually run Windows Update.
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Fuck you, Windows Update
Windows Update is broken. Full stop. The situation regarding unwanted reboots is unacceptable. My work machine is on Windows 11 and I’ve tried all of this shit to no avail: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ans…
None of these solutions appear to be effective at preventing automatic updates from triggering a system restart without asking me. Short of completely turning off the Windows Update service itself, which makes it impossible to get updates at all even manually.
I’ve been running an experiment lately: I specifically make a point to run Windows Update once a day and STILL I come to my machine this morning and it had restarted itself, fucking up the state of my apps. I’m not crazy: My system was already VERY UP TO DATE and Windows Update is just fucking with all of us.
Now what system update could possibly have come out between yesterday and today that REQUIRED a system restart that the system didn’t bother to notify me about a day ago?
What I want is for Windows to toss up a dialog when it needs an update. It can pop up once a day if need be for persistence sake if I’m not cooperating. Then I can choose when to apply the update. That’s all I want. It should never – EVER – fucking just restart my machine without asking me first. Ever. Don’t do it.
It’s just a batshit situation. This software does not respect the user’s wishes at all. Why do we tolerate this? It’s like the Windows Update software is designed to provide the user with settings that are nothing more than elevator buttons that don’t do anything at all. It’s like an illusion of control.
Well fuck you, Windows Update.
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And here’s a possibly controversial hot 🍕 take: Pizza without pepperoni isn’t pizza at all! #ATP
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I have many thoughts about the latest ATP member special. 🍕 atp.fm/atp-tier-…
My 2 cents: Pagliacci’s Diavola is IMO one of the best pizzas in Seattle. The soppressata + hot honey combo is wonderful. Fight me, Marco (jk). 😆 pagliacci.com/order/pro…
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Dave got a VAX youtu.be/z-iA_9U3W…
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“The government is abducting individuals … purely on the basis of protected political speech that they disagree with” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
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Looking forward to the ATP follow-up on this one. It turned out exactly as expected: Apple would likely sooner Brexit rather than allow this overreach by the UK government to succeed. daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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Heads up: I just learned all sales are now final at Bartell Drugs. While I was ultimately able to convince a level-headed store manager that it was unreasonable to apply that policy to a defective product, buyer beware! seattlemag.com/seattle-c…
RIP Bartell Drugs.
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It’s a HOT one out there today in Seattle! Temperature reading at my house is 96.4 right now. 🔥
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Is there a Mastodon-like equivalent of TikTok yet? Cuz I think we should get cracking on that…
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The entire front page of USA Today this morning.
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I’ll share some more photos soon, but… it’s been a thoroughly fun and eventful week!
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What a Waste: The soundtrack of World War III. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjvmJq…
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Playdate has a Gameboy emulator called Playboy. 😆 github.com/adamsouta… #SFW
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Here’s an idea: We are all human beings and we should all be able to peacefully share this planet together without fucking each other up. Why don’t we give that a try?
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One of my backburner projects has been partly fulfilled. That was to have a simple weather base station outside of the house that takes local readings (temp & humidity). It sends its data via RF to a clock. I intercept that signal and decode it. Less reliance on internet weather data is better!
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Visited PSRG’s Rain or Shine noon net meetup at the Museum of Flight today. Was fun to finally meet in person with a bunch of the fine folks that I’ve listened to for years on the radio! What a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Did my check-in today standing right next to net control. 😆
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It may be possible to see more auroras tonight as the night goes on, but it’s already way too late for me. Time for bed! 📸
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KP index is 6.67 right now. Probably a good chance of seeing an aurora tonight!
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The CW trainer I ordered arrived today. I’ve been waiting to be able to use my key for a week! Video: youtu.be/X8vwP45Bq…
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Don’t buy a Baofeng UV-5R. Get a Quansheng UV-K6 and put EGZUMER on it. You’ll be so much happier. What a fun radio to take on the go! I checked into PSRG’s noon net from the waterfront today with this stealth Nagoya NA-810 antenna. I’m told I was heard loud and clear.
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Launched almost 50 years ago, and operating at distances unprecedented in human history, it’s amazing that we are still able to interact with the Voyager probes and obtain useful information from them. www.npr.org/2025/05/2…
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