Thanks for this, I’m impressed by Bambus’ quality but I’ve always been highly suspect of the true cost of their “turnkey” operation and appliance-like nature.

It was making me sad seeing people just recommending them left and right even though it seemed like a huge step backward from all the hackerspace community-spirit innovation we’ve been seeing with 3D printing.

I’m really glad to see people pushing against that and advising people to consider the ramifications. <3

“mOvE fAsT aNd BrEaK tHiNgS LaWs”

It’s all Thiel’s stupid idea. He’s started a ton of companies all ripping off Tolkien’s work while basically LARPing Sauron. Such despicable trash.

OMG, preach! Louder for the kids in the back!

People are far too eager to identify under monolithic cults that demand perfection, instead of just, doing their best at what they feel is a good thing.

This is how I feel about work. I got a new job, I liked a lot of the tasks, they feel meaningful and it’s a heckuva lot better than the one that I used to have!

Less than six months in and I’m like "Okay, this is no longer new to me. I’ve already peaked here. Sure it generates currency but I have to come back already?? "

I’m trying to remind myself I don’t want a job that’s consistently a new and novel challenge, because that will burn me out on choosing new and novel challenges for myself.

Still! Frustrating. If this was skilled work like the 2014-ish tech industry I could just jump in 6 more months and double my salary, but it’s not. Lol

I think I ended up with a hybrid of your approaches haha. I run Proxmox with a VM running Open Media Vault, and that VM ended up hosting all my Docker apps because it has a REALLY nice interface for managing all of them!

I only have my PiHole and 3D printers on separate VMs

Downside right now is, a lot goes down if that OMV server does, so reminder to everyone (including me lol) backup lots!

Yeah as a warm blooded human being I’m all for a little spicy entertainment, but I feel like the mainstream of that industry is becoming even more depraved and unhealthy because, like everything else, it relies on the attention economy and prioritizes addiction. It’s also notoriously cruel and exploitative of its talent.

That’s SO cool.

I always hoped one day I could make creative things as gifts that people would actually think is valuable, but not just like in that…“I’ll hang it on the fridge” kinda way hehe.

It’s like leaving cookies and milk out for Adam Jensen or J.C Denton ❤️ lol

Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it’s a “store”, and “shop” for something I haven’t played.

Small psychological trick that…seems to mostly work. :)

Also if you wanna go real oldschool, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity go for like 70¢ occasionally. :D

Caption Appropriately

Ummm…

“Arch users about to update without reading the news page”

How’d I do? Lol

I’m definitely not an expert, but yeah that’s kinda the case.

Basically Mint will update core packages and security updates and such, but when Canonical gets another “bright idea” for Ubuntu like opt-out telemetry, or amazon results in search, or proprietary packaging formats (Snaps)…

…Mint will basically just leave that stuff out, and it never reaches the users.

Maybe a comparison could be like one of those “Debloated Windows” OSs with Classic Shell that actually works and isn’t super hacky. :D

the democrats have ignored their voters like this and sided with the republicans.

“ReAcHiNg AcRoSs ThE AiSLe”

This but at a larger timescale.

“Well today is work and tomorrow is work and the next day is some thing I gotta do and the next day is errands and then work again and then…the month’s basically already over.”

I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

This makes so much sense hahaha.

Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p

Mmm MM!

Sandwiches is a good hyper focus. <3