Clowns

MAGA Clowns

Chill Clowns, Evil

I think it’s something like that. So many people have had it reasonably well for so long (effective vaccines, enough food, no invasions, etc.) that they have no idea what it takes to maintain and extend that.

So we are where we are: a bunch of utter clown dumbasses destroying everything because they do not understand why it exists.

Cooling Off

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Oh, fuck you, lady. You can always tell when dumbasses live somewhere that never gets all that hot or humid. And where it cools down at night.

Put her in Florida or Texas or Southern California and she’d be begging for AC. I hate those clowns so much.

Harm Self

Chill Clowns, Evil

Nine Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything.

Long term, by far the most moronic and clownish thing the Trump administration is doing is defunding scientific research. It’s just pure self-harm for absolutely zero tangible gain.

Why does science make so many conservatives so angry? I think it’s largely they just hate the idea that anyone is smarter than they are. Which means they hate a lot, lot of people.

Not Accepting

Chill Clowns, Rant

Yeah, it’s not that hard. Mostly this incorrect belief emerged from the Fat Acceptance/Early Death movement spending more than a decade lying about how it was “impossible” to even lose a pound and that no one could resist eating pints of ice cream and anything else in sight like some omnivorous Cookie Monster.

All lies. It’s not even really that difficult not to just mindlessly eat. I weigh less now at 48 than I did at 28. It can be done.

Hours Matter

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

Also, as most of you reading this are not familiar, at the true enterprise level hardware support simply cannot be that shoddy as what Synology is offering. Since that higher tier is what they are attempting to move to, having a drive show up “lol, whenever” is simply not any sort of acceptable answer.

I worked at a hosting provider a while ago. We had very large HP 3PAR SANs (60+ drives in each). When a drive failed in those we often had a replacement in two hours. Yep, two hours. Someone from HP literally drove from the distribution center with the drive or drives, showed up at our datacenter, put the drive in and verified it worked. We were by contract guaranteed a new drive within four hours but almost always received it much sooner. And we paid dearly for that, by the way.

Until Synology can offer something close to that, they ain’t enterprise shit. They’re just playing pretend; hoping to capture the margin but not providing what’s required by the true enterprise market.

Plot Lost

Chill Clowns, Tech

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move.

I was previously a loyal Synology customer. No longer. I will never buy one of their devices again. Their lock-in model means paying more for drives that aren’t even as good as the ones I already use and are vastly slower to receive if something goes wrong.

And as the article points out, if Synology goes out of business you’re fucked. You will not be able to find working replacement drives.

Big nope. There are tons of alternatives out there. Shit, I have the skill to build my own NAS from scratch. And no, I don’t mean TrueNAS. I mean using the raw tools (mdraid etc.) and making it work. That’s what I did before Synology was even a thing. I can do it again if needed. All I really use a NAS for anyway is storage (not transcoding etc.) so it’s not even that hard.

I got into a rather salty exchange with some clown-ass Synology product manager I emailed directly about this, which was fun. Entertaining, at least. I’m very good at making people angry, which might not be that productive but is certainly enjoyable when I make a doofus fume.

No matter the price or even lock-in, a vendor that can’t get a NAS drive to me in 24 hours is fucking worthless. For home, but especially for enterprise. Just to make that clear.

So there are at least four major reasons to steer clear of Synology now: ancient hardware, lock-in, price, and donkey-based shipping.

Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Next-level Clownishness

Chill Clowns, Evil

MAGA clowns are so stupid. Fundamentally, they are just dumbasses.

No Energy Star: I want my refrigerator rollin’ coal!

No NSF or NIH: I want to be sick with everything all the time forever while living in a cave! I love the smell of pustules and buboes in the morning!

No NOAA: Durrr, I think weather is the same as climate and both are evil!

No trade with other countries: Elves will surely make all this shit by magic! I saw it on Joe Rogan!

No EPA: I love nothing more than burning rivers and my kids dying of lead poisoning at six years old. That is, if the measles or rubella or whooping cough don’t get ’em first!

Come on, these are not serious people. Though they are seriously harmful. They are idiots and absolutely deserve to be made fun of.

Divided

Chill Clowns, Evil

NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions.

This will harm the United States and its position in the world for the next 100 years. It’ll be devastating to science, to America, and to everyone everywhere who has benefited and would benefit in the future from advancements funded by the NSF.

I do believe the enemies of the US substantially run the country now. No other explanation makes sense. You’d only destroy the NSF if you wanted to hobble America in the future.