Aaron

I just saved $550 by switching to a plan with co-pays. #thatoneweirdtrick

PayPal replaces CEO Chriss with HP's Lores PayPal is replacing CEO Alex Chriss with Enrique Lores, saying that the pace of change and execution at the company has not met board expectations over the past two years

PayPal sucks, so the board hired the CEO of the most-hated printer manufacturer to drive things further into the ground. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/paypal-replaces-ceo-chriss-hps-lores-129810507

Why, oh, why, does my laptop shutdown when I say "restart"? I really want to like Samsung, but it's getting more and more difficult.

Beaufort scale - Wikipedia

Where has the Beaufort scale been my whole life? And to think, Home Assistant supports it out of the box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

Bought a humidifier. This thing has managed to raise the humidity in my house by about 10% in the less-than-three hours it has been running, all the way on the other side of the house). It feels so much better, too. #soexcite #muchwow

#ProTip: Hide the min and max buttons by default. Your users will be angry! 😈

#ProTip: Piss off your customers in Louisville by using any shipping method other than UPS.

#ProTip: Cut down on meetings by rescheduling ones that have already passed. Most people will forget to reset reminders and then fail to show up. No show, no meeting! #Winning.

Here's a comprehensive guide to using mentions in Outlook:

Don't.

#ProTip

Yesterday, I got caught up on days 1-3 of Advent of Code 2025, Today, I read the puzzle, and...

"Oh, this shit again."

Don't get me wrong, I love me some Advent of Code. But I hate these kinds of tedious puzzles.

You'd've thought I'd've written some tools by now to abstract this, as often as […]

I got a new router to take advantage of my new 1Gbps fiber connection. It only took me a week and a day to get everything sorted out again. Other people look at me like I'm insane, but I call that a win.

Grocery store coffee is so gross, but my mail order won't be here until this weekend.

#ProTip: I hate cookie banners. I do not care: I can turn them off at will, regularly, automatically, or even selectively delete them. You do not have to animate them to get my attention. And no, despite what your highly overpaid paranoid lawyers might tell you, there is no law on Earth that […]

That feeling when you find out the guy that sold property to your great grandfather on your dad's side was a distant cousin on your mom's side. I shouldn't be surprised, but it's still cool. #Genealogy

#TIL: Hours can be saved by remembering sort in Common Lisp is destructive.

I've gone for a 30 minute walk the last three days. I was going to go for a walk today, but csütörtököt mondok.

Git is great for managing repositories. Until you realize you didn't set up a remote repository and lost it all.

So, I nuked my laptop. Oops. Well, I was looking for an excuse to try Qubes again. Guess I found it.

No, I did not tell you to overwrite my main disk to test out a new operating system. Why would I erase data I wanted to keep?

As much as I like OpenWrt, I hate that they use Anubis on their website. No, I don't want to enable JavaScript.

Note to self: Don't delete blank lines when using ledger-narrow, unless you want to redo your ledger file.

Also note to self: Writing and testing scripts to convert bank files is so much better than doing it by hand, especially when you bork your ledger file by deleting blank lines while in […]

Harcosok Klubja. Mert harcolni akar? Hú... S itt gondolok, végére van szükségem.

Why, oh why, does a "blank project" at GitLab have a commit and a file I didn't ask for? This is such a pain.

Why, oh why, does Oracle Cloud not let you set a block rule? Le sigh.

Just for good measure: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

"Our best punctuation mark is dying out; people need to learn how to use it"―I agree, right along with en- and em-dashes […]

Why, oh, why, do package managers insist that upgrading packages is simple? I think I just borked my Keycloak database. Thanks, pkg!

Texas may have sued Google and got a payout, but they still lost.

"Google admitted no wrongdoing when agreeing to the settlement." Weak.

"The settlement does not require product changes." Loser.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/google-texas-data-privacy-settlement

Texas may have sued Google and got a payout, but they still lost.

"Google admitted no wrongdoing when agreeing to the settlement." Texas is weak.

"The settlement does not require product changes." Texas lost.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/google-texas-data-privacy-settlement

Having recently migrated 2 nonprofits to Microsoft 365, I'm feeling rather let down by Microsoft's rug-pull. Their nonprofit website still says, at the very moment, that Microsoft is granting up to 10 free licenses to Business Premium. But the four emails I received says it is being discontinued.

Speaking of Nextcloud, turns out, updating from 27.something to 28.something and finally 29.something fixed my issue with files not showing in all files in the Android client. Double w00t!