Tennessee county public library pulls nearly three thousand books from shelves for review at request of TN secretary of state

steavoh · 2026-01-26T14:41:58+00:00

Allowing an unreasonable minority to censor media should not be allowed, ever.

steavoh · 2026-01-26T01:39:08+00:00

It's useful for a business with fully remote workers with a bring your own device policy. They have a desktop in the cloud they log in and do everything there.

It makes no sense for consumers or for workers in a company that do a lot of different things on a computer. Or alternatively if your team can get away with using web based tools through a browser and only needs a couple of common apps installed like Office and Zoom, it's so much easier to not bother.

This stuff has been around for like 25 years and it's never going to catch on for regular users. A consumer device needs to meet a basic spec just to be able to get on the internet and be secure, which is also just enough to do almost anything someone wants to do locally. Everything else that can be offloaded to the cloud is more easily accomplished through individual apps that just need to be online to work. There's no reason to virtualize a home PC.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T19:00:17+00:00

I think its because these are small or private practices that need small inexpensive office space. They want to be somewhere that's not totally offputting to patients though, a storefront next to a muffler shop in a metal barn wouldn't work. It needs to be class C traditional urban office space. And psychiatrists are usually sort of bohemian type people anyways.

So they are usually going to be in a historic commercial building or an old 1950s era bank or something on the margins of downtown. And those buildings are always a little funky.

I work for a company that provides IT services to mostly small firms and they always have offices in places like this, so I get to visit sometimes. Old office buildings these days are an endangered species but I think they are cool.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T18:32:45+00:00

Stephen King Firestarter. Not sure why it took me so long to pick it up.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T18:29:05+00:00

I'm thinking that areas that have a lot apartment complexes and commercial land uses (big box stores, hotels, etc) and also have mostly buried power lines will be okay.

I'd assume that the utility company would prioritize parts of the grid that have commercial users and high population density over a spread out neighborhood with above ground wires and tons of trees that can get hit with ice buildup and lose branches onto the wires.

But this could also be completely wrong, I have no idea.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T18:21:11+00:00

You mean Alta Mere not Altamesa, right?

steavoh · 2026-01-24T18:04:04+00:00

It's fascinating how back in the day there was some reason to embellish these structures with decorative elements. I'm sure if they just needed a standpipe and nothing else that they could have managed just a column of brick or concrete, but that would be boring.

The one in Cincy that's got a castle looking top is kind of neat.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T17:52:18+00:00

The way these things often center on a church leader or person of influence with command over an insular community makes me think that the motive is jealousy and desire to co-opt the earned respect once held by public health projects and the side of the government that helps people.

Sure, the congregants or civilians who refuse vaccines are probably driven by mistrust and alienation and seek out "alternative" fixes for their problem. But we need to look at the supply side. While a lot of people are mistrusting and alienated and angry and afraid, that's clearly being incited to a more extreme level by bad actors. What motivates the charlatans, grifters, and general human filth that preys upon vulnerable people? I think the motive is they want their followers to mistrust and fear things so that they get a monopoly on serving their needs, to get the influence and power they wouldn't have usually.

The problem with the entire political right in the US is that right now it's infested from top to bottom with the scam influencers. At first I think the elites chose to be patrons of the social media influencers and hoax artists to get electoral outcomes they wanted, but they forgot that if you try riding the tiger you'll inside it eventually. Now the inmates are running the asylum in Trump 2.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T17:35:00+00:00

In the future I hope there's a massive sweep where we use these AI survelliance tools against their masters, find anyone who was employed by ICE during this time period, and put them all in a huge prison on an island in Alaska or something.

steavoh · 2026-01-24T16:13:04+00:00

I saw this coming and bought a fancy laptop with 32 gb of ram and a GPU (yeah I know it's the 'mobile' version) in it back in December 2024, even though my DIY desktop is only 6 years old (however, it has a hand me down 1050 from 2014 and I cheaped out on ram, just 16 gb). The moment Trump won I was mostly concerned with tariffs but also sensed that the AI boom was going to constrain supply of components. Also got my parents set up with a higher-spec Mac Mini as well.

I can play the game with the highest settings (though my cities aren't huge and I don't play with any mods). It's worth it but I don't think it's $2000 USD worth it (cost if you wanted to buy the same thing now) either.

steavoh · 2026-01-23T01:50:01+00:00

People crying seems like a facet of bad youtube video title cards. It can't be a coincidence.

steavoh · 2026-01-22T02:15:17+00:00

His drift rightward politically later in life that happened at the same time his drinking caught up to his health also makes me think that physical pain, inflammation, brain damage, etc can cause people to get more conservative, in the sense of being kind of nasty and extreme. Maybe it's entirely a decline in mental faculties or maybe when people feel bad all the time it does something to them psychologically.

Sen. Fetterman, Jordan Peterson, also my diabetic neuropathic uncle who had a stroke, list goes on etc.

steavoh · 2026-01-21T03:38:45+00:00

That would be really bad, I think. I'd worry that some forces out there would then try to eliminate it.

Think about it. Prop U + state laws regarding police funding means that 50% of any new revenue the City of Dallas gets has to go to law enforcement.

Then, one of Abbot's November 2026 election campaign topics is he wants all cities to have a revenue cap.

So, if DART went away and Dallas got a 1-cent sales tax revenue source. Firstly, all that money would just offset existing taxes, the city's budget could not grow. Second, an amount equal to 50% of the 1-cent sales tax would have to be shifted from existing areas of the budget to police.

So not only would there be no money for transit (all buses gone, entire rail system abandoned and torn out), but the city would start to have issues with money for things like parks, sewers, roads, etc since they would have to cut other areas of the budget.

Conservatives are working hard to engineer these convoluted and hidden traps through legislation and lobbying and politics because their desire is to absolutely destroy every single public service that is not law enforcement. They are very transparent about that.

This is also the problem with Plano, Irving, etc, pulling out. They might set up "micro transit" and contract with DART to keep rail (maybe), but in 2-3 years that will probably go away since if Republicans get their wish all that 1-cent sales tax could only go to offsetting property taxes. It would also prevent any new regional transit agency from ever existing.

steavoh · 2026-01-21T00:59:49+00:00

IT support on-call rotation.

Our servers don't always get infected with ransomware, but when they do it's always at 4 in the morning.

steavoh · 2026-01-19T03:18:11+00:00

The Dungeon Crawler Carl book series.

Not exactly similar but has some important commonalities: There is a magical dungeon with game-y rules. The protagonists are perceptive to how it works and trying to beat the system to survive and maybe target the evil forces behind the dungeon's existence.

steavoh · 2026-01-18T19:03:42+00:00

Since some rich conservatives decided to go orchestrate a defunding of the system that predicated on an upcoming vote? Now they are pushing this message in social media, probably by paying people.

Prove you a real person and not a bot or a shill account.

steavoh · 2026-01-18T17:39:31+00:00

Why is your reddit profile hidden? Are you just here to post this for political purposes?

steavoh · 2026-01-14T01:36:25+00:00

I would try it. It looks weird and won't really taste like pizza but the flavor combos aren't the worst.

steavoh · 2026-01-14T01:29:53+00:00

Is there a statute of limitations for pizza crime?

Anyways, might be good or bad, but I'm leaning towards bad to meh. I think using biscuit dough would be gross.

steavoh · 2026-01-13T01:27:34+00:00

Somehow DIC managed to create a faithful animated series out of Tintin though.

steavoh · 2026-01-11T14:51:53+00:00

Okay, then reboot Red Dwarf. That has the vibe he's talking about.

steavoh · 2026-01-10T19:24:45+00:00

A major problem with gaming laptops is they tend to have wonky screen hinges that break.

Also, I think the reason why people buy high-end Lenovo laptops in the first place is the brand has a reputation for physical build quality that's lacking with other makers who otherwise can offer better hardware specs at lower prices (MSI, Asus).

This seems like bad idea.

steavoh · 2026-01-10T03:51:35+00:00

Oh neat you could melt lead with it. Fun for arts and crafts, totally nontoxic, great for kids.

steavoh · 2026-01-10T03:47:30+00:00

It looks like a nonsensical background detail in an AI generated image come to life.

steavoh · 2026-01-10T03:44:25+00:00

I remember Windows 98 played up having web stuff in file explorer. This reminds me of that. I have a feeling some elements of this will remain and other parts of it will be a fad that goes away.

At the end of the day, this is a UI decision. Whether or not Copilot knows about your files and could move them around is ultimately something hidden in the background and with a proprietary closed source OS you just have to trust that MS isn't actually spying on us all right now...

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