I found that while Doctorow post weird like an ad in the form of a post.

Yup or colo is full and won’t accept any more changes. So one has to wait until someone else gives up space and then a fire sale on the newly freed space.

BYD is in Mexico and selling so we see them on the streets. They are sharp looking cars.

You are right. I’m going to cry in a pillow now

Your forgot expensive too.

We went one step further than courthouse and that was Las Vegas. About $1,500 USD for everything. Still together and no regrets.

40down, 6up, 50USD/mo go USA! Only other option is Starlink which already had and was too unreliable.

It is awesome

Ha, that is what I was thinking too.

For clarification, is this serious or sarcasm?

Thanks for the fantastic write up. It has been about 5ish years since I used VBox. Back then extensions were still needed for USB to work so this is good news.

VBox was always a great software, Oracle getting it really sucked

Dumb question: why would anyone improve VBox?

I have heard of Oracle looking at IP addresses and if they notice a trend they try to collect a license off it. Same crap they do with Java. Do people use VBox and not concerned of Oracle looking over them?

I loved VBox back then, it worked great.

Oh also the 2k is assuming an increase for 2024. 2022 my premium for the same crappy Bronze plan was around 950, then jumped up that much to 1400 in 2023 when one the insurance companies pulled out of our states healthcare market.

For a silver plan, lower deductibles etc (3500), you can almost double the crappiest Bronze plan premiums. So 2,000 - 3,000 premiums wouldn’t be a surprise before subsidies. Also if you aren’t familiar with the subsidies those are calculated based an a certain income. So if you put down a range (55k/yr) and let’s say you got a raise at the end of the year ($62k) it may disqualify you and boom you owe an extra 7k during tax time. Happened to my dad.

The best thing to happen was getting employer backed insurance but now our insurance is tied to our employer, yay for employer latitude.

Because I have the receipts when Atena hit my card monthly until we cancelled.

CA does not represent the rest of the USA. CA is near if not the most top state in the USA for medical coverage, very progressive except maybe shy of Virginia. Hell they even negotiated insulin down to normal levels since they threatened to open the our insulin production.

And you are correct the healthcare market place for last year had two options, Blue Anthem and Aetna. My state sucks so much….

Last year my plan was family of four (Aetna), had individual deductible of 7,500 and family deductible of 10,000 and was 1,400 per month after subsidies. It was essentially a catastrophic plan and the cheapest one I could afford. Any silver plans were around 2,300/months.

You would have to be piss poor to get anything of 300 for a family plan. I would be smiling ear to ear for 300/mo. For last year you can guess that yup we had one ER visit that I’m still paying off because we didn’t hit the deductible. Thankfully nothing bad except RIP my wallet. I don’t know who enjoys paying 1,400 per month for such a shitty plan.

Best way for me to insure my family would be to quit my job so I can get max subsidies and get all my premiums covered. Thankfully my SO got a job with some healthcare so I could get rid of that plan.

Cool, now how about the shitty ass $2k monthly premiums for what is basically a catastrophic plan?

Great minds think alike!

Hours, max 12

And yes I take two showers a day. Got to keep all the bits clean.

Worse try a body order cloud, not fun

I had a similar issue too. Tailscale messed up my resolv.conf and I rebuilt it to get basic dns working.

What I would do is look for a basic dns tutorial for Ubuntu to ensure either the local or remote dns server is working. Before you do that verify the internet is working by pinging something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 just as a sanity test. If that works then DNS is the last thing to get going.