All of my points have been vibes?

They were specific examples.

Lol, you’re a fucking dumbass that will refuse to listen to any argument that might actually cast doubt on your fantasy.

It’s called cognitive dissonance and makes you no better than a trumplican.

Capitalism sucks for the same reason Communism sucks. For the same reason Libertarianism would REALLY fucking suck.

Because people fucking suck.

People will always abuse the power they have to keep/accrue more of it.

Look at unions. Absolutely necessary for workers to unite and fight being taken advantage of by the companies who see them as nothing more than a number on a sheet. But then they can become the problem. (Look at the police unions for a perfect example.)

Religion. It was a great tool that helped raise civilization from small tribes. It created ethical mores that cemented the value of the individual. Then the ones that became powerful went on to become institutions of manipulation and control

There needs to be a balance and Communism is not it.

The original commenter is right. This is a stupid meme.

I would be willing to pay an initial setup fee followed by some maintenance fee. I would expect the initial fee to be significant due to a custom setup/requirements. (I am talking just setup, not cost of hardware/ physical installation).

Unique home network with 2 managed switches.

Self hosted security DVR, automated computer backup, photo backup, network drive for document storage and then self hosting a Jellyfin server along with a torrent service.

(I am sweating just thinking about trying to set that up)

Storage will be a RAID setup where I can just upgrade by throwing a new drive into an open slot and replace (as necessary) existing drives by just swapping them out and server automatically handles the data management.

I have a VAGUE idea of what that takes

Maintenance would cover service calls to resolve problems due to security updates/patches, end of life upgrades, normal planned maintenance type of stuff.

User caused issues should be extra :) (i.e. I was just trying to install a Minecraft server)

Couple hundred bucks, at least, for setup. And that seems cheap.

I would pay $10-20 a month for a maintenance fee after an initial setup fee.

I would MUCH rather give my money to an individual sysadmin than a corporate megalith that will use my membership to force an arbitration clause to any future service of theirs I use. Fuck the mouse. Fuck em all. I tried to do it right and that still want enough for them.

I would be happy if I could pay you to just set up and periodically check my setup. I only say that because I would probably want to put together something that cost more than $150. But I am absolutely overwhelmed by what I don’t know. Every tutorial I read gives me more questions than answers.

I just want to self host, share it with a close circle of friends, and keep everyone else’s noses out of my business.

Taiwan made a sarcastic comment.

Essentially calling out their policy of “Territorial Integrity”, they told them to take back land they gave to Russia

Hot take:

China has lost all faith in Russia. Is reorganizing to reflect that.

And maybe is even considering Taiwan’s advice, lol.

I don’t think you’ve seen some of these movies if you think it has anything to do with how sad it made them.

Imagine if D&D hadn’t gotten fired, how much worse that trilogy would have been.

Still, Disney seems incapable of recognizing good vs bad writing.

You are right, we’ve gotten some pretty awesome content, but then they fuck away most of the movies.

Can’t tell if that bar is gold or silver.

With that try-hard moustache, it is probably gold. 😏

(That patch also makes him look like an Air Force doofus.)

Tell your friend good luck, and make sure his landings = his take offs.

Because they were going to dump it themselves and were trying to lay the groundwork to blame WSB?

They are seriously trying to blame WSB for this?. LMAO, Fuck Spez.

I want to believe this is true but this reeks of Chinese State propaganda bullshit.

That government is so full of shit, their mouth and their asshole are the same thing.

BIG difference between a drone and a cruise missile.

🤣

“Sophisticated Iranian cruise missiles”.

Yeah…

Anyone remember their “Stealth aircraft”?

I miss CPU. Maximum PC was good, but I preferred CPU’s deeper dive.

I had a subscription to both,but I guess they just lost popularity.

That is what I love so much about standards: there are so many to choose from.

It’s hilariously laughable that you are trying to, somehow, put China on some moral high ground.

US is not a prize horse, I assure you, but to somehow put blinders on, for all of China’s egregiousness, is particularly funny.

Is it because you are researching China behind their great Internet wall that scrubs all references of their atrocities?

My favorite was the recent blurring of two athlete’s uniforms, because their numbers, next to each other, references Tiannamon Square, even though it was a random happenstance

Tibet, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Hong Kong, South China Sea… innumerable imprisonment of dissidents, with no legal recourse or contact with the outside world, and that’s just in theast, what, 10 years? Shills like you give shills a bad name.

How about the flagrant disregard for IP or international environmental laws? The constant industrial espionage, the flooding of the market with cheap, inferior made products. Yet their own economy is a house of cards, since Winnie the Pooh started disregarding the long term consequences for short term gain.

There is no area where China is NOT a bad actor. I’m starting to think it’s their culture and not just the latest administration.

This is such a stupid argument.

The whole point of force projection is to show them they can’t just get away with the shit they are trying to pull!!

We are there because we are allies with the folks they are trying to bully.

The whole point of having large allied groups is to prevent the shit China is trying to pull.

I wish you were a tree because then you could still be this stupid but still have some positive benefit to the globe.

You’re probably just a troll anyway.

I feel like I have to shout because either you are being deliberately obtuse or you are just stupid.

IT IS NOT THEIR AIRSPACE!

JUST SAYING IT NOW BELONGS TO THEM IS NOT HOW THIS SHIT WORKS!