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Cake day: September 21st, 2024

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  • people romanticize the idea of having children and realizing it’s not what they expected

    dude…so much this.

    I had zero romantic thoughts of having kids. I didn’t even want them, honestly. my wife and literally everyone around us on the other hand, very much so wanted us to have kids.

    don’t judge though. as a current parent I don’t ignore my responsibilities and fully intend on giving my kids the best I can. at least, a better more loving home than I had.

    but man, life would be so much easier without them. I literally could be on a beach somewhere in the world right now if I didn’t have kids. have lunch in Paris. then stop by in Denmark for some dinner.

    by the time they can stand on their own I’ll be dead. so now I can only save money in hopes to help soften any financial hardships they will need to endure.

    I’ve been playing around with the idea of recording some “dad’s wisdom” videos for them when they get older and I’m not around.












  • When UEFI was imposed upon the plebeians it was marketed as improving security and increasing hardware limitations. BIOS could have fulfilled those same requirements but Microsoft imposed TPM support which was new at the time by requiring TPM to install windows which in turn required UEFI over BIOS.

    hardware developers, out of fear of not selling units, switched to UEFI because Microsoft strongarmed manufacturers into adopting UEFI by force.

    similar business model to how AI is being rolled out to businesses. if you are running a company and plan on selling within the next year, you should be heavy on AI, otherwise not just potential buyers lose interest, but lenders have been rejecting proposals to purchase businesses that don’t use AI.

    BIOS was old, yes. it was also limited in by the bit-size however they were working on a replacement but refused to “play ball” with big tech. so naturally they created their own. within the first few years it was found that Microsoft was using UEFI to track installations of the OS on your system. so if you had installed windows more than 3 times on the system it would just brick the system. why does a glorified boot system need to track any of that? trick question, it doesn’t.

    UEFI was the first deathgrip big tech had on consumer electronics.