The AI stuff is putting me off though. I didn't see an option to not subscribe to that. Hell, I'd pay the same rate just without the AI parts if I could.
I remember getting pissed that they (Bing, Google, doesn't matter) put one "sponsored" link as the first result. It got me a few times before I started double checking URLs. Now the first page of results is practically useless ads not even related to the query most of the time. Fucking infuriating. Even Qwant will put multiple ads in if you search for a thing. I'm not biting the bullet for another subscription just yet, but paid Kagi lookin' finer by the day.
Bit of a different flavor between the two. Aliens movies are horror. Riddick is action with some scary scenes. You never think "oh, Riddick is about to die", it's established that he's gotten out of bad shit on the regular and this is just another Tuesday. And honestly, half of Riddick 1 and 3 are with him playing the role of the alien.
Now, an Aliens v Riddick crossover sounds badass. He once again gets stuck on a planet with things that want to kill him, survives (as he does), and gets somebody (Ripley) to pick him up for one reason or another. At some point, they tag team some aliens. Wouldn't be a cinematic masterpiece, but entertaining at least.
To me it looks like he's throwing triangles around without actually caring about what kind of help the other people need. If he was just sharing and trying to be helpful, we wouldn't see a triangle bouncing off his friend's (?) head with many more scattered about. His intentions are probably good, but that doesn't mean his type of help is wanted by them.
We could just be reading a lot into a silly comic though.
Very few things out there don't require an agent. TacticalRMM is a decent self-hosted device management platform, but I don't really trust them after some controversy with an embedded Monero miner in the agent (has since been removed, but come on).
MeshCentral is what TRMM uses for its remoting and its pretty robust, but doesn't do patch management on its own. If most of your infrastructure is Linux, you can easily handle it yourself though.
TBH, manual management would be the easiest if your infrastructure is small enough.
Considering horses (and thus horseshoes) came way after the horseshoe crab, we really should rename the horseshoe to "crab shoe" or something and "horseshoe crab" to something else. Ideas welcome.
I use AT&T as my ISP and their router software is workable at least. It can assign static IPs and do port forwarding; enough for a basic home lab and some self hosting. If you absolutely need to be in full control of your network, most off-the-shelf name-brand router/APs will do. At that point in your journey, I'd recommend a Mikrotik hax3. You don't need to dive into the advanced stuff in Router OS, they have a quick setup that's good enough but you can go deeper if you need. Though I will say there's a learning cliff.
NinjaKiwi better take notes for a new Bloons tower lmao