Thunderbird4

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[–] Thunderbird4 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The other generations listed cover anywhere from 15 to 28 years. Why would gen alpha only be 11 years?

[–] Thunderbird4 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Is IP not logged anywhere in Lemmy/ ActivityPub?

[–] Thunderbird4 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I had the same idea and looked into it. If you’re a salaried employee, the only way to not have withholdings taken from your paychecks is to claim withholding exemption on your W4, which you can only legally do if you had no tax burden last year and expect to have none this year. The threshold for that is really low, like $13,800/yr I think.

You can always try it anyway, but if they do come looking for their money, there will be penalties to pay on top of the tax amount.

It sucks because even just a high yield savings account could make you an extra $800 or so on your income tax money if you just held it and paid as a lump sum.

[–] Thunderbird4 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Low income Alabama residents” is the key phrase. Considering the demographics of Alabama, the majority of people helped by this program were probably Black.

[–] Thunderbird4 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thanks for a lot of useful replies, everyone. Sorry I ghosted my own post for a couple days. I’m seeing surprisingly few people who actually use or used TrueNAS, so maybe that’s something to consider moving away from. I’ll have to weigh my options.

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How do you keep up? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Thunderbird4 to c/selfhosted
 

A year ago I built a NAS to reduce my reliance on cloud services, and set up an arr stack. I went with TrueNAS Scale, which was on Bluefin at the time. In the past 12 months, TrueNAS Scale has been through FOUR major OS versions, with a fifth already announced. At least one of those involved a release train switch so, despite diligently checking for updates in the dashboard, I was left in the dust with an obsolete OS, and didn’t find out until it was already a huge hassle to upgrade.

I’ve been really happy with the utility and benefit of having this tool, but holy smokes how is anybody supposed to keep up with all of this? This is far from my only hobby, and I simply do not have the time, patience, or interest for a constant race to keep up with vetting new release versions and fixing what breaks every 3 weeks. I have enough tinkering hobbies as it is.

On top of that, there’s the whole blow up with TrueCharts, which has also left me with an entire suite of obsolete albatrosses around my NAS that I need to deal with. Am I still waiting for them to figure out an upgrade path? I don’t even know anymore.

Sorry for the rant, but I guess what I’m looking for is: how do you keep up with the constant maintenance and updates, and where do I go from here, in February 2025, with a system running Bluefin 22.12, a 32TB ZFS pool (RAIDZ1) that has to remain intact, and a handful of TrueCharts apps that I don’t want to lose the data from (e.g. Jellyfin configs/watch history)?

[–] Thunderbird4 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s gonna be Aileen Cannon. She’s already proven that her only judicial competencies are complete deference and fealty to trump and disdain for impartiality and procedure, which are the only qualifications they’re looking for.

[–] Thunderbird4 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could you kick up the 4d3d3d3?

[–] Thunderbird4 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

2028: Windows 12 is the last last version of windows you’ll ever need.

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[–] Thunderbird4 10 points 1 month ago

Dude just can't run/be on a ballot.

We tried that. The states, ostensibly, run federal elections independently of the federal government and decide who goes on the ballots. Colorado, Illinois, and Maine removed trump from their 2024 ballots on the grounds that he was ineligible under the 14th amendment. SCOTUS struck it down saying that the states (who, again, are supposed to have authority to run and administer federal elections within their territory) do not have the authority to enforce the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment.

[–] Thunderbird4 6 points 1 month ago

Nah, I’d rather push them into embracing actual, full on nazi symbology. Believe it or not, the majority of the American public do not see republicans as nazis. The sooner they look like it, the sooner the last plausible deniability falls, and the sooner the “cheaper eggs,” “voted for the economy” idiots have to face the realities of their decisions.

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