Lion ponderings

An example from Greenspun made lions ponder the reality of buying the absolute cheapest house.  https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/florida/orlando/eagle-lake/ranches-at-lake-mcleod/cottage-collection/kitson     It's pretty depressing in even the sales pitch, with just a garage, a small window for the facade & all wood. No-one even uses garages anymore.  The price difference is so small, the owner would have to be extremely stretched to not go higher.  6 small windows in total, with 1 small window in the bedroom.  The apartment of the last 25 years & most other apartments have more exposure.  That's $265k nowadays or $185/sq ft.  Lions could probably get used to it.  They're sacrificing exterior for square footage & the interior is a pleasant cocoon.    The next higher one is the $252k & has 2 front windows.  That would be less depressing.  Proximity to water causes the depressing one to cost more.  ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJaoUrxVzQ A series of LTVA videos got lions pondering if large van cities are the only viable housing solution.  The mane features about quartzsite are a mobile commercial area which supplies all the needs of the mobile residential area & it being walkable.  The mane limitation is the 7 month time limit for residents.  That could be overcome if the van cities constantly move. Van cities are limited to BLM land & most of the BLM land is useless southwest desert land.  Everything else is a national park or agriculture.  Lions can only hope no use for the useless land is found, like solar farms or mining.  Water is 25 cents per gallon & showers have to be paid for.  The lion kingdom's water bill is now $60/month, manely for manual dish washing & showering.  They would most certainly need a dishwasher.  They're not saving anything on food.  Jeeper paid $15 for a small burger.  It's ...

   Amusing that Grok applied an IPv6 style pseudo header to the computation of an IPv4 ping packet, even though IPv4 doesn't use the pseudo header.       Another Grok error was in a basic TCP demonstrator.  To avoid a TIMED_WAIT on the server blocking the port, you have to exit the server without closing the socket.   These errors take a lot more time to track down than doing it the old way.  It might be fixed in paid versions of Grok. The solution to everything ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Krispy Kreme run.  Always a satisfied mane after 6 miles.  Always a horrible bloating, after 13 miles.  Noted the half marathon times with mane feedings are on pace for the lion kingdom's best full marathon time.  Lions took a step down from their maximum power delivery in the shortest time when the leash enabled food breaks.  Before then...

Another year & the pendulum swung yet again to no longer owning any property to build a man cave on.  After the inflation of 2022, fixed costs rather than principal became the new limiting factors in owning anything.  Inflation had finally caught up with homeowners.   Reviewing current prices in greater Gainesville, prime walkable locations, Subject to change with 1 time never again inflation events, but $150/sq ft including the land can't be beat by any off grid man cave at $200/sq ft not including land.  The property tax at 2% is still horrendous.  It's not even beating rent anymore, let alone senior discounts. A man cave music room with Steinway could still happen, but it would have to contribute a seriously high value to justify itself.  Lions would have a hard time draining their brokerage account on such an economic disadvantage.  It would have to be top 1% net worth suitable for burning.  It seems the off grid guys are either all...

    Torrents inside a VPN inside a container behind masquerading inside wifi were the next challenge. ifconfig showed the container transferring data, but transmission-remote showed nothing coming in.  wget & ping were pretty intermittent. Every VPN needs a script that sets the tun0 MTU.  Wget only worked intermittently with 1420 for eth0 & 1340 tun0.   Openvpn uses options in the .ovpn file called tun-mtu & mssfix.  After a certain number of logins, protonvpn starts rejecting everything for a while.  This & the lack of peers for torrents make troubleshooting quite difficult. Looking like torrents need to join gootube downloads on the gateway & that means the gateway needs to be not recording audio.  The local wifi shouldn't be recording audio either.  The raspberry pi 3 doesn't do 5Ghz.  Another raspberry pi 4 could come online & go on the floor. Simultaneous access point & station requires both f...

 Big division between Diamond Nestegg & Doug Kass.  Nestegg is definitely a Trump supporter, sees falling interest rates & falling inflation, rising stonks.  Kass is definitely a Kamal supporter, sees rising interest rates, rising inflation, falling stonks.  Not much fundamentals going on.  Stonks tend to spend most of their lives at all time highs & stretched valuations.  What increases is the earnings while the price to earnings stays perpetually high.  We're definitely heading back to 2% & maybe 0% interest.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  It can be said romantic relationships are a way to be remembered.  Lacking that, in today's world, all but the very most famous are just going to be forgotten.  It wasn't like that for much of the last 30 years.  The internet was a new way for a lot of animals to share their works, be discovere...

    Mane war  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Another ultimate man cave.  The lion kingdom would either need windows or live video feeds on large screens.  He burns $200/month on electricity, which might be lower if he split it into a bedroom with a different zone. In the midst of all this efficiency, he owns the most financially crippling vehicle possible: a cybertruck.  That alone is the only clue of how much money he made from his business in Long Beach.  He owns Ivoprop, which continues to be based in Long Beach.  They have produced over 20,000 propellers.  1 was used by SpaceX in either a wind tunnel or an air boat.  The stonk alone probably made him really well off.  He continues to work at least part time at 65 & this seems to keep him sentient despite being alone.   Note how he arranged the kitchen & bathroom.  Lions would put some kind ...