How many cows do they own in East Texas?

My boss didn’t need Recall to do that to me a decade ago. He called me out for going offline in our messenger app for an hour after lunch while I was helping another tech sort an emergency for a client from their machine.

I told him that’s fine, I’ll just let everyone know that I won’t be assisting and will show them that email every time anyone asks. He backed off, but not everyone is going to get that lucky to have a complete moron who is going to put dumb shit threats in writing without running it by anyone in legal, HR, or their own boss.

I think that’s why they’re big mad at Harris. They don’t have time to spin up a worthless investigation about her and Walz.

I forgot about him! I remember his Feel Good Inc nearly a decade ago then I just never heard about him again.

Thank you for reminding me.

It’s hard out here. They get drug tests because of the nature of their jobs. Weed just isn’t for me. I wish it was because the calorie count is so much lower.

Usually is! Except the time my lead guitar player/singer got too drunk before we went on and pissed himself then passed out halfway through the set.

I’m a Texas Drunk. He’s almost THE Texas Drunk. Except that trophy belongs to a friend that doesn’t live here anymore who I’ve personally watched kill half a handle of whisky and be functional enough to get a ride home.

Heavy rock music, mostly pop covers that we converted but we had to play my friend’s original about fucking his ex girlfriend’s sister about halfway through and a blues/rockabilly song another friend wrote about only missing a woman when he’s drunk to close out.

Now I’m watching a hard rock band cover a bunch of shit from the 50s. This is pretty cool.

Appreciate it. I did a 45 minute set tonight and now I’m getting drunk. The bad shit is all melting away!

I worked for a company where that happened a decade and change ago. It was a total shit show. I was lucky and got out.

Yeah, I know, but I’m hung over and having a bad day. Those people bring nothing to society and in most cases actively harm their employees and customers before gutting businesses, taking the money, and starting over on the next business.

Fuck them, fuck their mom, fuck their dog, fuck the horse they rode in on, fuck their grocer, and fuck them again just for good measure.

The people running private equity companies should just be shot

Who the fuck wants to look at him in the light?

I can always find my senator pretty easily. I just fly to Cancun.

I just wanted to drop another Texan voice to this and agree. I wish Paxton was as good as a ghoul.

They got this one right for the wrong reasons. It happens occasionally.

I have HoloISO running around on mini PCs because they just work as remote steam machines, can play games in their own right, and I can use them as media boxes if I want. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but it was super easy to install and configure except for the Bluetooth issue that cropped up occasionally where I had to unload and reload the Bluetooth module. Now I just have a script that automatically does that on boot because I can’t give a shit about fixing it.

I also have a couple of Slax USBs running around. They used to be relatively popular with folks who fixed computers. I like building from modules and I’m familiar with Slackware so it was a good fit for a live environment.

Yep. I have one registered for professional email. I don’t host anything else.

This is accurate. I mostly know Ampex because of their history with audio recording, but I’m passingly familiar with some of the other things they did.

Booooooooooo

That’s all. I’m too drunk for a nuanced thought. So just booooooooooo.

They can sell more. Using their maps? They can sell what kind of places you’re looking up. Using their music app? They sell your listening habits. Have their app on your phone to take calls and texts? They can sell that data (likely not the contents, but the connections and frequency) along with whatever data their app collects about your phone.

On my truck they can sell driving data and the fact that I have an android phone. On their new systems they can sell everything.

Don’t forget GM rolling their own infotainment system that is tied into god knows what instead of allowing Android Auto and Car Play in a twofold decision to have shitty software and sell your driving habits for extra spending cash. That’s for all of their vehicles.