George C. Boldt went from rags to millionaire when millionaire meant something. He was able to outright buy a competing hotel to the one he already owned less than 20 years after coming to America as a dish washer. This was in the late 1800s, before income tax and massive corporations.

In fact, it’s believed by many that Boldt’s story inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby.

Andrew Carnegie is another notable immigrant who went from near-naught to millionaire.

Or if we’re allowed to include Americans, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford

As corporations grew and income tax was introduced, it became nearly impossible for someone working a menial job to put enough money away to ‘rise up’ and join the ranks of the elite. The most recent examples people cite, like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. came from wealth already.

Now, do you want to continue this discussion? If so, I kindly ask you stick to actual facts, and stop trying to insult me and/or inferring I wrote things that I didn’t.

The EdgeRouter X is a great piece of kit, but also getting harder to acquire, and it’s unclear what Ubiquiti’s roadmap is for support. I installed one in my in-laws about 4 years ago, and my brother’s house about 5 years ago. Both trucking along strong. My in-laws use a TPLink omada 245 AP in standalone mode. My brother has 2, a 225 and a 245, plus a controller so that AP roaming and band steering work.

I also have a pair of omada APs, one at each end of the house, but for a router I use a HP ProDesk 600G1 DM, modified to handle an extra Ethernet jack via the m.2 e-key slot. It runs Opnsense, but I did also run Sophos XG on it for about a year.

Both are good but I’m a tinkerer so I switched to Opnsense

The American dream was made impossible with the introduction of income tax, although the granting ‘personhood’ to corporations was a contributing factor too.

Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.

Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS

Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.

Edit: someone doesn’t like jokes I guess?

So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don’t have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.

PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.

Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.

I feel like those tournaments usually have more salt than they can handle already…

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Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary.

I knew a physicist who considered 0 negative if she arrived at 0 coming from negative source numbers and positive if coming from positive sources.

Something something sampling rate

Send abusive kids off to camp with vulnerable kids, stick them in a cabin and say goodnight? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

What the heck is a residential treatment school? Summer camp for suicidal kids?

Don’t worry, Americans, even though Trump’s tariffs apply to imported gasses, we’re not charging you for this so it’s a 50% on $0.

You’re welcome! Enjoy the free carbon vapor!

I’d say it’s about 10% as effective as a cup of coffee for my ADHD symptoms, and coffee is about 25% as the low dose concerta I take…if I drink one coffee per hour for the entire work day.

Math says: don’t do it.

I quit smoking cigs a decade ago and would never consider using them for ADHD over coffee…and I only use coffee if I’m out of concerta

Not just that, but how does that exclusion not also create instant reasonable doubt?

I was 'welcome home’d by a US CBP officer after flying into Washington from Africa…I’m not an American, and don’t have American residency, but I’m white and speak with a neutral dialect.

I think you’re right.

Half the people at my local LUG would espouse beliefs like this post unironically.

You weren’t alone in being confused by that. My initial thought is that she’d tied bones to the back of his trousers like the cans behind a ‘just married’ car

UK was red pre-brexit