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Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.

I’ve never seen a vendor brave enough to make this claim.

I’ve been thinking about my mom lately, for no real reason except that the happiness of her memories is now greater than the sadness of not having new ones. One of my favorite things I’ve done was to sit down with her and write down every bit of family lore she wanted to talk about: child memories, funny family nicknames, how she and my dad moved around when they were first married, war stories her uncles had shared, how her mom ran a diner and was known for her baking, everything. We had grand and wide-ranging conversations with laughter, a little melancholy sometimes, and a deep dive into a rich history that once gone would be gone forever. Now I have that and can share it with my own family. It was one of our last special times together and I cherish it.

I get invited to the most unexpected events. The more astonished I am that someone would want me at a thing, the more likely I am to accept. That’s how you open the tap to being invited to even more things later. Practice saying yes when you can.

I logged into one of our vendors for the first time to make some urgent changes. Every third time I tried to click on something, instead of going to that thing, I got an obnoxious full-screen onboarding screen with no way to close it:

If I hit my browser’s back button, half the time I got a “submit this form again?” popup.

If you really want to thank me because you really value me as a customer, please stop asking me stupid questions and let me use the site I logged into.

Synology just released DSM 7.4 highlighting their new “storage efficiency” feature.

Note that you can’t actually use this feature unless you’re dumb and/or rich enough to fill your NAS with only Synology’s own overpriced drives. It’s unavailable to the other 99.9% of us paying users.

I’m so over their antics.

As of this writing, Synology’s own 24TB drive is $1300 on Amazon, with only a few in stock. Seagate’s equivalent is only $860. You can get a Seagate 28TB drive for $1020, and Synology doesn’t even make that size.

And what happens when you have to replace a drive? I can drive over to Central Computers right now and have a new WD purchased and installed an hour later. I have no idea where I’d source a Synology branded drive on short notice in an emergency.

That feeling when you get to the point where can tell what a company’s compliance regime is going to be like based on the layout of their trust center. “Oh, standard Vanta format. It’s probably fine.”

And then you realize that this is not an S-tier superpower.

How’s my morning going, you ask? Well, I dropped my left AirPod into my cup of freshly brewed coffee, and my first reflex was so try to fish it out. Now I have one working AirPod and my fingers are stinging from being slightly boiled.

Yeah, going just great I’d say.

I need a fidget toy that’s a Morse code key I can use to send myself notes during meetings: “ask boss about thing he said” or “read about new subject”.

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Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP.