PF is really nice. (Source: me. Cissp and a couple decades of professional experience with open source and proprietary firewalls).
And if they are already using it on openbsd, it’s almost certainly an easier lift to move from one BSD PF implementation to another versus migrating everything to Linux and iptables.
I've gotta me-too this. I've written any number of firewall rulesets on various OSes and appliances over the years, and pf is delightful. It was the first and only time I've seen a configuration file that was clearly The Way It Should Be.
There’s also companies which seemed to break their Web experience specifically to drive people into the app. Credit Karma hasn’t worked on a browser on mobile or desktop for me in years. But the app version always works.
I guess it’s my fault for trying to use an Intuit product to begin with when I already know they’re evil.
This is a reason I also like the web is that after the page loads I can just do stuff instead of getting kicked out to have to update the app ... Or even having to re-log in ...
If Mexico wants to deter America, their best bet by far is to pose a credible insurgency threat. And in that regard, between the number of Mexican nationals and sympathizers in America, the number of guns in Mexico, the national pride of the Mexican people, and their established proficiency with asymmetric warfare (at least from their cartel elements)... I think they've got their bases well covered. Mexicans have the capacity to make an invasion of Mexico be extremely painful to the American public.
But Mexico using conventional military force to deter America? That's completely absurd.
Except America has shown that it would rather chew through all it's resources and capability than accept that "The public here doesn't want you, that wont change, go home and save the effort"
How many people in the middle east did we blow up or kill? For 20 years. For a supposed outcome we had no chance of ever getting. Multiple presidents even.
The deterrence effect of an occupation didn't stop Russia, did not stop the USA, does not stop someone who believes you can just bomb the occupied lands harder until all resistance is "quiet", and doesn't seem to be stopping China from preparing itself for the occupation of Taiwan.
The Middle East doesn't have easy access to the US or its infrastructure though either. If the US started shit with Mexico, the insurgency isn't going to be operating just inside Mexico, and support for occupying Mexico will drop to almost nothing when people in the US are regularly going without power, water, telecomms, or perhaps even food.
That Mexico has zero tanks or infantry fighting vehicles or real self propelled artillery might tell you how they've felt about the odds of the US actually invading again.
(IMO they should get some of these things even if there's no chance of the US invading, given how much firepower some of the cartels have.)
That's not really something Mexico can reasonably do. They are narco-terrorist state and everything there is heavily intertwined with the cartels. They would not want such a thing to happen. War with the US would be bad for their multi billion dollar business.
No one is stopping you from moving to Mexico, and millions would take your spot in a heartbeat. The amount of privilege is astonishing by some of the posters here
I was all in on Tesla in 2019. Solar, powerwalls, model 3.
Traded the car in a couple months ago. It was ok, as a car, but I hated what it had become synonymous with so it was worth the financial hit to give up a paid off car. Turns out the new Mach-e which replaced it is better in every way.
Might be some fanboys left, but a bunch of folks who might have fallen into that category in the past have been driven away by Musk’s unconscionable activities.
Direct primary care was a completely game-changing improvement in healthcare for me.
$95/mo to basically subscribe to a local doctor. Covers most things other than tests or surgery or limb setting. But tests are often very discounted relative to what insurance charges for them (with my previous dpc provider an entire battery of tests cost less through them than just the copay for two of them added up to).
It’s remarkable how different it is when the healthcare provider is focused on you and your health rather than on gaming the metrics by which insurance companies judge them.
Make other plans for catastrophic things (ie, a high deductible insurance plan).
I do this too and I love it, and it highlights what to me is the healthcare's system biggest constraint. It is amazing how little healthcare can cost when you do not need to staff seven paper pushers for every doctor.
It's a good option for primary care. It's also a form of insurance, since the reason why it's low is that enough people will subscribe but not use it, just like the gym :)
The issue is that primary care is not generally expensive, and also not generally needed if you're healthy. I've gone to a PCP less than half-dozen times in my 56 years. So the $100/mo is a waste in my case -- I save much more by just paying out of pocket if every I need to go.
But medical expenses for unexpected conditions -- surgeries, specialized tests, visits with specialized doctors, non-routine medications -- those are all what cost a lot. And that's not covered by $100/month.
So DPC is a nice idea, but it doesn't really replace health insurance -- I look at it more as an "extra" for regular health monitoring and preventative care, which is important in itself (and in most cases worth the $100/month).
My big question about DPC is: what about people who just don't think about primary care until they have something wrong? How long is the wait list at that point? Or can they go see a doctor for $X as a one-off, without a subscription?
I still have a HDHP for intensive visits and if I go to local out of network Urgent Care for the narrow range of things Urgent Care is good for, it's like $50 tops.
If someone was hung up on only paying when they need care, the business model needs to support that would probably look a lot like an emergency room or urgent care facility.
For me, I consider it an astonishingly good value paying $1200 a year even when probably nine months out of the year I don’t even talk to them. Being a healthy dude I get proactive tests done twice a year to keep tabs on a couple dozen different metrics ($150 each round, all in) and inform any needed course corrections over time (early insight- vitamin d was low (previous insurance-based provider refused to order test). Later insight- eating trash and five drinks a day for 7 days at a vacation resort made basically every metric go to absolute shit; subsequently did an early test after a month of clean diet and regular exercise showed tremendous improvement across the board). And then when something random comes up I know they’re there for me.
If it sounds like the sort of thing, you might be into find a couple local providers and just have a conversation with them. I’ve yet to speak to a DPC provider that isn’t excited about the model and delighted to communicate its value to prospective customers.
It’s as close to concierge healthcare as I’ll ever able to afford and I absolutely adore that it removes the parasitic insurance from my primary care loop.
And if they are already using it on openbsd, it’s almost certainly an easier lift to move from one BSD PF implementation to another versus migrating everything to Linux and iptables.