Generally speaking, people tend to pick teams or athletes you can relate to … In my case for example, I chose to cheer for Sir Lewis Hamilton in the F1 series, even tho I’ve only ever visited Britain, I learnt about his career and his “rag to riches” story and all that his parents sacrificed for him to become the champ resonated with me.

I’ve worked with this monstrosity, it’s not unlike other mainframe operating systems like IMB’s “System i”

I believe there’s still developers out there working on modern versions of it

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/sites/default/files/2025-09/universe-feature-release-matrix.pdf

The whole OS is essentially a really big nosql database, the filesystems are journaled and you have “files” but you also have dynamic files called “print queues” and executables are “jobs” that run queries and output into queues.

I know at least two of the major hotel chains use them still in their core network.

It’s the natural progress curve of a forprofit corporation

If anyone needs an alternative in a hurry and can’t be bothered to self host feel free to use https://pass.bitnet.dev/

I spun this up for me and my family but I don’t mind sharing with my extended online friends

You can also DM me if you want some space in our nextcloud instance, I’m pretty limited right now but I’m planning storage expansion pretty soon

Boy am I glad I self hosted … but sadly this means they’ll likely put a stop to that too eventually

I can see your IP and it looks like we’re twinsies … we both have 127.0.0.1

You’re welcome

https://inkchip.net/

Agreed, green plumber did nothing wrong.

mull is a very decent VPN and that will do OK to anonymize your traffic, but that’s all you’re doing … you’re far from safe from all threats.

There’s malicious downloads, torrent hijacks, honeypots, bandwidth issues, the Number one thing you need to stay safe is COMMON SENSE …

So educate yourself and learn about this world you’re getting into. The information is out there and freely available.

Let me blow your mind … Insurance companies decide whether or not you get medical procedures … and the people that make that choice have ZERO medical training … and their choice overrides a doctors opinion.

Do yourselves a favor … lookup chipless firmware

O U C H

I love saying Microslop because Micro$oft doesn’t translate well into speech … I use this in formal conversation with customers as a support engineer on a fortune 500 European defense contractor.

This … but also a nice old car or motorcycle parked in the living space

Anticheat support for this MFer

I tried to migrate to “The finals” but … not the same

I don’t think we should be ashamed at all, let’s enjoy these cars while we can before we have to transition to EVs.

Corporations emit a thousand million times more pollutants than private citizens, but they love telling us to think green and be eco friendly while they continue burning the planet for profit.

The way I see it, you were going to drive a car anyways, the difference between a 1.6 litter and a 3.0 litter is negligible in comparison to what’s emitted in power generation, plastics processing and other polluting industry.

Amazing, enjoy.

TBF, most cars do that now a days. Car brands don’t make their own ABS systems, they buy them from manufacturers like Bosh and Denso; and they all work on the “CAMBUS” standard, meaning that all sensors talk to each other over a network. Normally these systems light up an individual diagnostics light to let you know if there’s a problem detected (low brake pad / fluid indicator, parking brake, ABS light) so to differentiate when there’s a system error such as a sensor that can’t communicate it lights them all up at the same time to let you know.

For example my 06 G35 did that for a stupid brake sensor, cost me endless hours of troubleshooting to pinpoint.

Check out the maverick, it has all the utility of a truck with all the economy and comfort of a smaller car. It’s kind of a hybrid minivan with a bed, but TBH most people that buy trucks are not really using the bed.

Can’t believe they killed the STI … Granted we have the GR corolla, but it’s just not the same without the boxer :(

I wanted a WRX hatch back, but not like this … not like this.