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Braden McGrath
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IT/network guy near Cleveland, OH (personal acct). Mostly tech or car; occasional food, music, sports (🏒⚾️), or dog/cat stuff. Lapsed Pastafarian. *Rational* 🔫 fan; ✊🏿&🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally (he/him).
It's a goddamn winter wonderland over here. I got to do a bunch of doughnuts and drift around some corners on empty barely-plowed roads
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
These memes cover it nicely
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Brrrrt? (Cat activation sound)
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Pardon the filthy tub (we need a new tub mat), but this is the only time she wants to be petted, and it's mostly just to try to get you to play more...

She loves to have paper on the floor to hide in & pounce on.
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I don't have a lot of followers so I doubt
this will go far, but: we have an adopted shelter cat (they think 4-5 y.o.) that only wants to play. Constantly, regardless of how much she was just played with previously.

The only time she wants love is when you're on the toilet. 🤷‍♂️

How to improve‽
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Even the preview of the link above has actual Lorem Ipsum in it:
October 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"If you see this, post a concert pic you took"

Less Than Jake, Blossom Music Center main stage (on Warped Tour), 2018-07-18
September 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Welp, this is broken (at least in ios26). Or the help text is poorly worded...

I am trying to make it hard to accidentally invoke the camera when grabbing phone from pocket.

Clicking camera button 2x in a screen-off state is launching the camera. 🤦‍♂️
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm open to a key as well but thought for a relatively low security concern the convenience of a combo might be nice. Maybe a 5-wheel to make sure someone who wants in is really serious. Someone with tools will just cut the latch hole (see bottom)...
July 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They cute, but also weapons
July 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
July 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Realized that I never told BSky about our new "secondhand" cats. Pepper (Potts) [tuxedo] and Tony (Stark) [gray/tawny tabby].

They've already brought a huge amount of joy back to our home 🥰 (We were pet-less for about a year)
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@neorsd.org So it looks like some changes have been made, but your "bill coming soon" emails are *still* being marked as spam by Gmail. Culprit seems to be lack of (or invalid) DMARC record at this point. Don't know what's up with {ZIPCODE}, and they've had my first name wrong since the beginning.
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@linusmediagroup.com here's another great thing for Linus to rant about - in the year 2025, how is this the only "official" wired laptop NIC from Apple?

Where's a TB3+ NIC using a decent (not-Realtek) interface? Ideally 2.5/5, maybe even 10Gb-capable, and not overheating/buggy AF
March 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
More specifically, fix your DKIM and DMARC for your outsourced sendgrid mail blasts. They should have help documents explaining how to do this. Someone will need access to your DNS hosting and probably some settings page in Sendgrid to make it all happy.
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
@neorsd.org Y'all should consider getting your billing emails properly authenticated / validated
February 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
December 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
This is from a LONG time ago, but it still makes me giggle

He was trying to say "your Konica Minolta" (copier/mfp)...
December 25, 2024 at 7:38 AM