DrWeevilJammer

DrWeevilJammer , 12 days ago

There are dozens of us!

DrWeevilJammer , 12 days ago

Artisanal upvotes

DrWeevilJammer , 12 days ago

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are call-

NEW! MR BEAST BURGERS AVAILABLE AT STORES NEAR YOU!! -ing,

From glen to glen and down-

MOUNTAIN DEW!!! DO THE DEW!! DEW IT NOW!!-the mountainside,

The summer's gone and all the flowers are-

ARE THESE YOUR CHIPS?!? NO!! THEY ARE NACHO CHIPS!! PUT THE NEW NACHO PRINGLES IN YOUR MOUTH!! -dying

DrWeevilJammer , 1 month ago

Check out Valetudo. It turns supported robo vacuums into local only devices. Works amazingly well and integrates with Home Assistant for the whole tech nerd cloudless smart home experience.

DrWeevilJammer , 2 months ago

Tubesync is pretty great

DrWeevilJammer , 2 months ago

Or 1Password, apparently

DrWeevilJammer , 2 months ago

You may also want to freeze Lexis Nexis and Innovis as well - they buy and sell your data as well

DrWeevilJammer , 3 months ago

I only buy my USB dongles from PUKEBONUR!

DrWeevilJammer , 3 months ago

Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

Not if you're serving content to a device that can do the decoding, like a Shield. My Jellyfin server runs in a Proxmox VM with no GPU passed though, and transcoding disabled for all accounts.

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

Don't worry, I'm a doctor. This is where the weevils are SUPPOSED to go.

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

Several things keep Americans from moving to Europe.

First, immigration laws of the country one is moving to. If one is not able to get a passport from an EU or EEA county based on ancestry, you basically need to be sponsored for a work visa by a company in the country you want to move to, which can be quite difficult. And even then, you have to be employed in that country for long enough to qualify for permanent residency, then citizenship, which can take up to 7 or 8 years in some countries.

If one is lucky enough to have parents or grandparents who emigrated to the US from a European country and can claim citizenship based on that, it's a lot of work to get all of the paperwork together and verified and accepted by that government's consulate (at least it is for Germany, but German bureaucracy is ... special).

Second, the US is one of the only countries in the world that double taxes its citizens. If someone was born in the United States, they will have to file taxes reporting income to the US government every single year until they die, and PAY taxes to the US government on any income over a certain amount every year until they die, regardless of the source of that income, and regardless of the fact that taxes on the same income need to be paid to the host country.

While I have zero respect for the snivelling shitgibbon name Boris Johnson, he was born in New York and had to renounce his US citizenship to escape the IRS. You also have to PAY the US government $2350 (in cash) for the privilege of giving up your citizenship, which is also...unique.

Sometimes there are tax treaties that can take most of the sting out of the double taxation issue (Norway's is decent for US citizens), but it depends on the country.

Finally, it just never occurs to many Americans that leaving is even a possibility.

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

We wanted Beatrix Potter but got The Secret of N.I.M.H.

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

Sounds like a job for Little Bobby Tables

DrWeevilJammer , 4 months ago

There will even be cake.

insert Fry eye-narrowing gif here

DrWeevilJammer , 5 months ago

He just needs to squeeze one eye a little bit and it would be a perfect "filling my diaper" face

DrWeevilJammer , 5 months ago

Several Venstar thermostat models feature local API and work great with Home Assistant

DrWeevilJammer , 10 months ago

Never go in against the Red Cross when blood is on the line?