Thunderbird4

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[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

To further clarify on the point you were making in the post, he didn’t just mean he was going in spirit. He fully intended to go, but he was prevented from going by people who knew when to tell him “no.” He even physically grabbed his driver and the steering wheel of the car in a tantrum insisting that he be taken to the Capitol instead of the White House.

Everyone should have watched the January 6th Commission hearings, but now it’s like they basically never even happened.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man!

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You know, it’s actually a lot more complicated than I thought originally. It is a satire account, and it isn’t a “real” place, but apparently a lot of the photos originate from a truck stop in Tennessee. There’s a whole internet saga around finding the actual location. Most of the photos they post are digitally manipulated in some way, including alleged AI face superimposition, but they play the satire so straight that it’s impossible to know to what extent. You may be right that it’s not whole-cloth AI generated, but it also isn’t a photo of a kid with a tub full of orange soda.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 293 points 1 week ago (28 children)

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, this is from Celina 52, which is a fictional truck stop social media account that uses AI generated images like this one to satirize rural American culture. Peyton doesn’t exist.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

What on earth are you talking about? California has the fourth largest economy in the entire world, only behind the US as a whole, China, and Germany.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is probably in reference to USAID and other global humanitarian efforts formerly provided by the US that were eliminated by doge earlier this year, directly killing thousands of people, destroying decades of good will, and handing all soft power in the developing world directly to China.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the sleek, svelte Iberian isthmus of yore

 

A year ago I built a NAS to reduce my reliance on cloud services, and set up an arr stack. I went with TrueNAS Scale, which was on Bluefin at the time. In the past 12 months, TrueNAS Scale has been through FOUR major OS versions, with a fifth already announced. At least one of those involved a release train switch so, despite diligently checking for updates in the dashboard, I was left in the dust with an obsolete OS, and didn’t find out until it was already a huge hassle to upgrade.

I’ve been really happy with the utility and benefit of having this tool, but holy smokes how is anybody supposed to keep up with all of this? This is far from my only hobby, and I simply do not have the time, patience, or interest for a constant race to keep up with vetting new release versions and fixing what breaks every 3 weeks. I have enough tinkering hobbies as it is.

On top of that, there’s the whole blow up with TrueCharts, which has also left me with an entire suite of obsolete albatrosses around my NAS that I need to deal with. Am I still waiting for them to figure out an upgrade path? I don’t even know anymore.

Sorry for the rant, but I guess what I’m looking for is: how do you keep up with the constant maintenance and updates, and where do I go from here, in February 2025, with a system running Bluefin 22.12, a 32TB ZFS pool (RAIDZ1) that has to remain intact, and a handful of TrueCharts apps that I don’t want to lose the data from (e.g. Jellyfin configs/watch history)?

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