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(good vibes and pickin'):
sedrosken
Florida Man
Yeah, we're hitting on-season where we're at -- living in a tourist economy means EVERY field has an on-season because about now's when the money comes in and everyone wants stuff done, they tend to want to coast through the fall and winter -- and I'm just ridiculously busy.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I was celebrating my first weekend of not having small human houseguests.
June - early September, yes, I probably do have some intoxicated young ladies who might be in bikinis visit a couple times a week. This is definitely a point in favor of my beach-adjacent apartment.
I actually spent mother's day visiting all the single moms I know for quick photo shoots. I'm feeling extremely thankful that I have a relatively secure life right now. $5/gallon gas is hurting everyone working in tipped occupations and I could see it in every home I visited yesterday.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Where I'm at it hasn't been much over $4/gal but we had cheap gas to begin with, and it still went up almost 100% relative to what it was. My gas budget for the month has had to eat into my "everything else" budget.
My old contacts from the truck stop have reported less traffic for trucks too, meaning the fuel surcharges have hit shipping hard as well. Not to mention, a significant chunk of our fertilizer came directly through the Strait of Hormuz before all this stuff started up -- we haven't even seen the start of the real problems and probably won't until it's harvest season.
Frankly what has me more surprised than anything is that we haven't started to see fuel shortages or rationing yet. Especially since diplomatically we're in a much more precarious spot than we were in the 1970's oil crisis.
My old contacts from the truck stop have reported less traffic for trucks too, meaning the fuel surcharges have hit shipping hard as well. Not to mention, a significant chunk of our fertilizer came directly through the Strait of Hormuz before all this stuff started up -- we haven't even seen the start of the real problems and probably won't until it's harvest season.
Frankly what has me more surprised than anything is that we haven't started to see fuel shortages or rationing yet. Especially since diplomatically we're in a much more precarious spot than we were in the 1970's oil crisis.
Some of that could be related to tapping into and loaning out some of the strategic petroleum reserve.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Just wait for the forthcoming MASSIVE FUCKING INFLATION because every single thing needs just in time delivery and Diesel is 33% higher than gas.
For the most part, once prices on something go up, they generally don't come down. We should really be out with pitchforks and torches over all this.
For the most part, once prices on something go up, they generally don't come down. We should really be out with pitchforks and torches over all this.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Vaguely related to work stuff, but my dealings with GoDaddy have convinced me to never, ever, not EVER be their customer.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
One of my co-workers had stuff on Godaddy. They were telling me all the shit they just can't do. All their stuff is on Dreamhost now.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Even the best case scenario so far I've seen is just using them as a domain registrar (we've had a couple companies that used to pay for GoDaddy to host their email -- a couple of disastrous M365 transitions have been the result) and even then they suck eggs.
Me personally, my domains are through Namecheap, but I've heard a couple less-than-stellar things about them to the point that when it's time to renew I may just kick them to the curb too.
Me personally, my domains are through Namecheap, but I've heard a couple less-than-stellar things about them to the point that when it's time to renew I may just kick them to the curb too.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm dealing with this right now, actually:
Namecheap supplies a bunch of wildcard SSL certs I have. The certs generally have between two and four years remaining.
My normal name registrar doesn't support API access for updates and it doesn't support wildcard SSL at all, so I can't just set up my own Let's Encrypt certs there.
Namecheap wants me to move my domains over to their service so they can handle the short expiration terms for SSL certificate re-issues.
Their service doesn't have any kind of bulk import tool for A records from the existing nameservers and they won't let me pre-stage A records until I transfer in domains. Their support DOES say they have API access, so in theory I could make my own update tool, but they're saying that it's not intended to handle hundreds of A records for single domains, but rather small updates to single domains.
I did a count: I have 1122 A records currently covered by five wildcard certificates. They want me to enter them one at a time on a web form.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do but I have about three weeks to figure it out right now.
Namecheap supplies a bunch of wildcard SSL certs I have. The certs generally have between two and four years remaining.
My normal name registrar doesn't support API access for updates and it doesn't support wildcard SSL at all, so I can't just set up my own Let's Encrypt certs there.
Namecheap wants me to move my domains over to their service so they can handle the short expiration terms for SSL certificate re-issues.
Their service doesn't have any kind of bulk import tool for A records from the existing nameservers and they won't let me pre-stage A records until I transfer in domains. Their support DOES say they have API access, so in theory I could make my own update tool, but they're saying that it's not intended to handle hundreds of A records for single domains, but rather small updates to single domains.
I did a count: I have 1122 A records currently covered by five wildcard certificates. They want me to enter them one at a time on a web form.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do but I have about three weeks to figure it out right now.