Here’s something I didn’t catch right away in the promotion for the Fantastic Four movie.
Author: DOuG pRATt
That Musky Stench
This isn’t just a crime, it’s a coup. Next? Social Security. The first benefits to be cut will be for people on disability.
Musk’s DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems
Musk’s DOGE operatives who are freely roaming around the Treasury’s payment system aren’t experienced, responsible professionals. They’re children.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-musketeers-secret-team-elon-221351736.html
The Inevitable Outcome
With Republicans in full control of the federal government, the big banks will be free to do whatever they want. This will greatly increase the likelihood of another financial crisis.
Another Mandatory Reboot
They’re going with H.E.R.B.I.E., the robot from the 1978 cartoon series? Really?
Another Mandatory Update
Google issued a mandatory update for my phone that crippled its battery. In return, I got a very good deal on a new Google phone. They didn’t even want the old phone in trade.
On the front porch yesterday morning there was a big box from Verizon, filled with equipment — a new router, DVR and STB. They don’t want the old gear returned.
I have 30 days to activate the new DVR before the old one is shut down. It isn’t clear that the router needed to be replaced, but I did it anyway. Compared to the old router, it seems to have better 5 GHz coverage and it adds Wi-Fi 6 support.
Protocol: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Security type: WPA2-Personal Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Description: Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz Driver version: 23.70.2.3 Network band: 5 GHz Network channel: 52 Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 432/432 (Mbps) IPv4 address: 192.168.1.183 IPv4 DNS servers: 192.168.1.1 (Unencrypted) Physical address (MAC): E4-0D-36-EA-20-63
Losing the old DVR will be painful. It has a nice collection of movies in HD from TCM. Almost all of them are on an external 1 TB HDD I added a decade ago. It’s connected with a Firewire interface, but the drive also has a USB port, so it can be repurposed. I’d be amazed if its file system is readable on a PC.
I’ll look into disposing the old video equipment. I’m keeping the old router and its extender, as there’s some network experimentation I want to try.
So much technology that’s been working perfectly, but is now considered junk, and I’m being forced to retire it. *SIGH* This is why I am so pleased with Lyrion, the successor to Logitech Media Server. I was close to giving up on my Squeezebox Radios and the Touch streamer, but now Lyrion has brought the music network back to life beautifully.
A F- -k in the Road Ahead
“So you have to be very humble about, wow, if you miss a turn in the road, you can be annihilated.”
-Bill Gates
Here we are, six months away from the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. That was when Gates almost missed a turn in the road before realizing the future wasn’t CD-ROM libraries and proprietary, online commercial networks.