Chris Snyder

Husband. Father of three. Technologist. Cloud Surfer. Flight Instructor. Wind addict.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven According to @grok the slow pump likely CAUSED the shutoff to fail:

https://t.co/II0HrkAjkA

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven why is my local Diesel pump slower than an EV to fill up my Jeep EcoDiesel?

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven @grok can you estimate how much diesel fuel was spilled under my Jeep?

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven The automatic shutoff didn’t even work!!!

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven I hope the 2022 copyright isn’t an indication of priority that contact us form submissions are given.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@7eleven Ironically I am still at the pump. I’ll give you a call.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

When I sat on the board of a modest neighborhood where our main amenity was water falling over rocks by a gazebo.

The management company took almost half of the HOA dues to collect our quarterly payments and conduct a reserve study that valued the replacement rocks so highly that we were going to have to raise our dues by 25%. I contested their assertion that the usable life of rocks was only 20 years. The rocks have been there for thousands, maybe millions of years. We did not end up raising the dues.

Everyone else on the board just went along with the management company without questioning. I have always thought that management companies are money printers if you can find community managers with rhino thick skin.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

Have Grok review legal documents like vehicle purchase orders. Based on the feedback, I decided to get an independent trade offer that netted me an extra $1,000.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@alt_w_v_g That reminds me of my HOA “mailbox wrap war of 2011”. HOA boards attract misery.

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@alt_w_v_g Love it! Now do HelloFresh

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@alt_w_v_g Enjoyed the analysis. Sirius also has in-cockpit weather for pilots $30-40/m. Probably not a big base but not something Spotify can replace (yet).

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

Prayer is POWERFUL

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

PRAISE JESUS!!!!! We have finally seen incredible progress with our son after like 48 hours straight of agony for all of us. Deep breath for the first time this morning.

Thank you again if you prayed for my boy.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

Pray for Colton

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

Say a prayer for my son. His name is Colton. He’s 8 and loves the Lord. He is gonna be in the hospital overnight.

I’m a believer in the power of collective prayer and I come with this request in humility as a father.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

Level up your menu with Grok. Several times a week we ask for meal ideas. Today won our local chili cook off with his recipe!

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

Very interesting idea

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨Someone just open sourced a computer that works when the entire internet goes down.

It's called Project N.O.M.A.D.

A self-contained offline survival server with AI, Wikipedia, maps, medical references, and full education courses.

No internet. No cloud. No subscription. It just works.

Here's what's packed inside:

→ A local AI assistant powered by Ollama (works fully offline)
→ All of Wikipedia, downloadable and searchable
→ Offline maps of any region you choose
→ Medical references and survival guides
→ Full Khan Academy courses with progress tracking
→ Encryption and data analysis tools via CyberChef
→ Document upload with semantic search (local RAG)

Here's the wildest part:

A solar panel, a battery, a mini PC, and a WiFi access point. That's it. That's your entire off-grid knowledge station. 15 to 65 watts of power. Works from a cabin, an RV, a sailboat, or a bunker.

Companies sell "prepper drives" with static PDFs for $185. This gives you a full AI brain, an entire encyclopedia, and real courses for free.

One command to install.

100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@alt_w_v_g You must be very good at your job. Brass XY’s

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@alt_w_v_g Work history is a trove of stories. This could be bigger than Dilbert. Maybe even Garfield big.

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@DudespostingWs I think it will be awhile before AI takes this job

[Chris Snyder @tri413]

@alt_w_v_g I just signed up for notifications. No chance I am missing one of these posts.