mvilain

A long time ago, Google stopped doing updates on rooted phones. It’s why I stopped rooting my phone. Doing Android updates by reinstalling the latest release every couple months was a PITA. Also, Google finally got the Restore from last Backup working to the point that I didn’t have to rely on a backup utility that required rooting my phone. Ah, the early days of Android.

Not being able to rely on RCS from rooted phones makes sense security-wise. You can’t trust what’s attached to that message. It could be a code injection hack.

As of tomorrow, she’d be arrested the moment she steps into any public locale in California.

I stopped tipping the grocery clerks when they stopped asking to see my ID when I purchased alcohol.

I mentioned this when the woman ahead of me bought a bottle of wine. The clerk said “She looks under 35. You don’t.”

Definitely no tip.

Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful…
if Loren Bobert, George Santos, or MTG filed the motion?

[listening to my Julie Andrews in my OCR of MY FAIR LADY]

While I can’t be sure, but I’ll pretty certain that someone saying the same thing about the Police Union Leader’s family would be met with a visit from a SWAT team. I wonder where when Anonymous will start doing takedowns of such people. I’m sure there’s plenty of dirt underneath this guy’s carpets.

I switched from Google Domains to Namecheap and found that they have a non-standard requirement for A records (they require an “@” A record) that messed up the transfer. Godaddy, dyndns, and Google Domains use regular zone transfer tables and I thought those entries were all I needed. Nope. I finally emailed support and they told me what was wrong within 24 hours. But meanwhile, my site was down for that time.

I suppose if you worked with one of the companies they partner with and use the automated templates to generate a new entry, it would work out fine. But I was transferring an existing domain. I know better now. But I put this out to warn others.

Time to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12

This cat has the same suspicious look my old cat had growing up every time I pulled out my film SLR with an attached flash. He didn’t like the flash and would run after I snapped a couple pics of him. These days, I doubt he’d blink at phone snapping a pic w/o flash.