Them: Why don't you act your age?
Me: Well, I've never been this age before.

Like buying booze, renting a car, purchasing a handgun, buying a lottery ticket, getting a tatoo?

(some of these vary by state)

I don't see how you're too immature to order a Chianti with your steak dinner but you're mature enough to go $200K in debt based on a sales pitch of returns after investment.

These aren't even reasonable equivalents from a neuroscience perspective.

A read is supposed to be fine. At read time the firmware *should* rewrite the cell if the read is weak.

The firmware also *should* go out and patrol the cells when idle and it has power.

you can dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=2M once a year if your firmware behaves.

If your drive is offline you could
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdX bs=2M iflag=fullblock conv=sync,noerror status=progress

to be sure, though write endurance is finite.

If you're running zfs you can 'zpool scrub poolname' to force validation of all the written data. This is most helpful when you can't trust the firmware to not be buggy crap. Which only applies to 90% of drive firmware out there.

Well 0-clicks and OTA attacks but yeah, to your point, device compromise lets you use apps on the device.

News at 11!

> I have found that streaming directly to my Plex home server over TLS is generally smoother without going through Wireguard. Not quite sure why.

I recently had to solve this.

Wireguard should work with a regular 1500byte MTU connection at 1440 or 1420 bytes (the default) --- however --- if your ISP is routing your IPv4 using 4-in-6 internally (like my major cable company) everything goes to hell.

Try dropping your wg MTU to 1360, MSS at 1320, and set up a mangle table to clamp MSS to PMTU (e.g. iptables rule).

I got a 10x bump in TLS over wireguard throughput.

Total pain in the ass and lightly documented.

... I guess it's rabbit ears.

Would PRC leadership's actions be an acceptable thing, or are Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks just being evil anti-Chinese Westerners when they made the new rules starting January 2026 for EV export licensing?

Google this from your favorite news agency. CCP has specifically decided to tighten licensing because of utterly horrible quality problems with exported vehicles. They even have a name for it to pretend it's not a widespread problem: "rogue exporters".

That's the worst of the lot, the ones that export China spec cars (no rust protection, very limited safety features, parts often missing entirely) because there's a massive surplus of them. Official CCP narrative is that "this is all there is to it, everything else is best in the world, China Numbah Wan". Meanwhile internal CCP messaging is "BYD, SAIC, et al, fix your shit because our reputation is in the toilet because of your excesses".

Because massive quality control problems also persist for official exports, far in excess of their typical competitors that are German EVs. Which in themselves are fucking awful compared to the industry leader Tesla.

If you're not trolling and genuinely know nothing on the subject, googling something among the lines of "chinese cars having quality problems in PRC" should generate quite a few stories on the subject, including reporting on official stance of the Communist Party itself. Which is also a warning to the trolls. Are you sure you want to suggest that top Party leadership is wrong on this subject?

Suno's previous iterations are behind multiple top sellers on Spotify already. And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones use AI assist at this point. It removes almost all of the menial parts of work.

At this point, it's like masturbation. There are two kinds of artists. Those who use AI assist, and those who lie about it. And then there's that tiny group of religious weirdos standing on the corner screaming that you're going to hell for doing it. Ok boomer.

The only difference at this point is model used and scale of the assist. Suno v5 is pretty much gold standard at this point.

And no, artists don't have copyright of derivative works. Otherwise all artists today would be paying massive royalties to those that came before them.

It's funny how people pushing this angle aren't hunting bison for blood and collecting plants to make their own paints.

Apparently some level of automation and outsourcing is fine, but they are the judges of how much is allowed before it becomes bad. Everyone else is wrong.

Who would opt in to this? No matter how well the company tries to police this, there will be AI generated slop of artists singing terrible lyrics that they would never do in real life. Does is matter that the company can issue take down request after the fact when your new hit single "Adolf's Solution" featuring your likeness adorned with a silly mustache has already gone viral? Maybe that's on the nose enough for an LLM to shut down, but there are plenty of other terrible things that can be made with this and 4chan will try to make them all.

Oh Chinese top tier EVs are great at point of sale.

Problems don't start showing until several months down the line for most things being promised. And the problems that cause people to really not like them back in PRC and only buy them at massive discount vis a vis Tesla, like the infamous lack of galvanic rust protection don't become noticeable until a few years of ownership.

Well beyond what "car reviewers" will review. This is the stuff you go to mechanics and engineers for.

There aren't that many billionaires. The Wikipedia article on them says that there are only a bit above 900 in the U.S. and a little over 3,000 in the entire world. They have a lot of money, but only because other people voluntarily gave it to them because they valued what they were selling. Maybe this isn't the case worldwide and I'm sure there's a warlord or two that managed to export enough wealth from the people to be considered a billionaire, but most of them got there because they built something valuable, perhaps a few because their father did.

I don't entirely blame the problems of the present on previous generations either. They certainly could make life better for the current or next generation, but why should they. Many of them worked hard to get where they were. Many more worked hard and got nowhere. Why should they give up what they earned to spoil someone who lacks the context to even understand how appreciative they should be. They'll be dead in time and their assets will be passed along regardless of whether they hoard them right now.

If you want to blame someone for the world not turning out the way you wanted it to, look no further than the mirror. Why don't you amass the wealth or power to shape the world as you wanted it to look? Why would you expect anyone else to do it for you?

No, those are government jobs. No one in the private sector employs anyone (unskilled or otherwise) any longer than they have to. Unless they're in management of course. I think most managers are hired to waste the time of other managers that are also time vampires so that some engineers and developers can actually get things done.

.. a good thing?

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