I’ve never rage-quit, but I put it out there a few times.

I had a district manager in a burger flipper hell decide to go through all the employees one by one and yell at them about their ‘faults’ in a successul clean restaurant with decent sales/waste.

When he got to me and raised his voice, I handed him the spatula, said if you’re going to stand here and berate me now, you’ll need this because i’m walking the fuck away. I’m open to criticism, but you’re not going to treat me the way you treated all these other people. He frowned, told me I didn’t use grill salt enough and moved on to the next person.

20 Years later, I was working in IT at a healthcare company. I had just finished an exchange migration from a desktop computer to a bona fide bare metal cluster. We got the license for webmail, but never ordered the licensing for ISA, which was specially designed to secure their OWA. My boss said, “Just hook it up, we’ll order it later. The ‘big boss’ is here and I want to hand it off to him”. Me: I am NOT putting that thing on the public internet without a proper firewall, we are constantly in a stream of attacks. Boss: Just do it, nothing will happen, I’ll take the heat. Me: I’m our HIPAA contact, no fucking way. Boss: I’m ordering you to do it. Me: You want my job, decide right now, You can hook it up, go show it off, i’ll find somewhere else. He grumbled and walked away. I had more system failures on that job from him pushing me to do shit wrong, fast and cheap. That place, of anywhere I’ve ever worked, had way more danger to the public of things going down and information being lost.

If I could do it fast enough, the windows laptop has a decent mobile gpu

But I kinda want to do it in a VM, and i’d rather pass through the coral than suck up the cpu cycles on the box from the other vm’s

But you lose encryption.

So, I setup meshtastic.

Put an antenna on my roof.

Have a decent number of mesh radios. Put one in each car in relay mode.

Setup a locally run LLM and made an interface to it.

Working on setting up a BBS.

I’m in the high density suburbs, I can, when the weather is just right, reach a single node that doesn’t seem to be able to reach any other nodes.

If I go on a drive, I can see 5-10 nodes.

Adoption in the mid-Atlantic US is just so damn low, it’s not really usable.

We need some antennas up high, but there aren’t any reasonable options around me.

I’m certain they make them get signoff from neighbors, do an architectural application, and have it reviewed.

The minimum they’re likely to be able to get away with is repaving in whole or part and about 6 months to get the authorization.

were me I’d be tempted to put up with Windows until something forced a change.

I’ll get to it eventually before it breaks :) Of all the windows needs, that’s the lowest hanging fruit.

Home Assistant already draws feeds from the cameras in tandem, so the alerts themselves could be replaced easily, but getting the offending image and the pixel barriers would require Frigate. I’ll probably build it up in a container and pass through a USB Coral

So what I have going on is Blue-Iris. I have a load of pixel barriers and notifications wrapped around times. If someone opens the community mailbox not between 2 and 4 pm on week days or 11am on Saturday, it sends me a webhook ntfy with the image and an emergency alarm (mail thefts been happening). I have it doing ALPR on two streets and then I have alarms for humans in the driveway and humans on the back porch at specific hours with more webhook ntfy. I dedupe alarms and use Blue-Iris for scrubbing and storage.

My cameras are super good at AI person detection and provide it through ONVIF so I don’t know that I’ll get a lot more out of it, but getting rid of the Windows laptop running the job would be nice.

Every tool for it’s job.

I have 4 windows boxes 5 linux boxes and 3 macs in the house.

I will not force the children off Roblox I will not buy the children macs. I will not put forth monumental effort for a substandard experience just to get rid of windows.

If roblox gives in to linux with a native app or wine, (or they age out of roblox) I’ll give it a test run with the kids assuming they don’t have another game that requires the same.

I cannot eradicate the last Windows box for work because there are closed things I must occasionally deal with. That said it’s use is around once a week.

I will eventually eradicate my security camera VM, but I need a lot of time to work on frigate.

Because it had nothing to do with AI

It was an excuse to slash the workforce with relatively little backlash.

I dunno, letting the him stay in the media for saying pedophole comments seems like a reasonable thing to do, least someone might not know what his stance is.