RE: Silo. The books were good… the first was the best in my opinion and the quality didn’t shift too far in the subsequent books, but Dust was definitely the weakest (and last) of the three. Still consistently good, but I did find myself a lot less invested by the end of Dust than I was by the end of Leviathan Falls.

TV series I haven’t started Silo yet but it’s definitely on my radar. The Expanse TV show was really good and I felt ended at just the right point in the story.

This is exactly the problem I also have with Marvel movies. Once you’ve raised the stakes so far it’s impossible to go back without seeming less than your predecessors. It’s why Iron Man worked so damned well as it was a pretty small, personal story… same for most of the early Avengers movies. Ever since Endgame it seems like everyone wants to either make it even bigger still (???) or challenge these people who have saved literally the entire universe with… emotional trauma? I don’t know… I’ve seriously lost interest.

No, that’s what I’m using. Thankfully it works fine and I don’t worry too much about security because I just leave it turned off until I need it. The “/droppy” url directs to it but if it’s off then it just throws an error back.

Oh jeez… there’s quite the list. I have a Ceph cluster of 3 nodes with 15x HDD’s and 3 SSD’s… on that cluster I run some VM’s that in turn run a Docker swarm. All Ubuntu 22.04, all commodity hardware. Currently I’m running;

• Portainer to help manage this beast
• NGINX which proxies all my web facing services on multiple websites.
• Wordpress for my personal site which sync my Instagram pictures to it as well
• MariaDB Galera cluster
• Nextcloud for file sharing but also provides lots of plugin services like a password manager, email client and so on
• Photoprism for my photos… I use the Nextcloud client to automatically upload new pics from my phone to Nextcloud then Photoprism is attached to that same library
• OnlyOffice as a plugin to Nextcloud to allow O365-like functionality
• ElasticSearch plugged into Nextcloud for full-text searching
• OpenProject for project management in my own businesses
• Jellyfin and Plex both attached to the same media library
• E-Mail using Docker-Mailserver… so Postfix with a bunch of ancillary tools for 3 domains
• Droppy as a quick-and-dirty file repo for when I need to get files to people easily
• FreePBX (Asterisk) with 4 extensions around the house
• MeshCentral for managing my family’s PC’s and also doing remote tech support for family, friends and customers as necessary
• FOGProject for imaging PC’s and VM’s as necessary
• ReactiveResume
• Docker Registry set up as a caching proxy
• YoutubeDL-Material
• Karaoke Eternal for those nights when you just get drunk enough to karaoke

Then there’s a whole host of ancillary services; BackupPC, Unifi controller container, piHole on a couple of Raspberry Pi’s, ts-dnsserver for internal DNS management… probably a dozen other containers and tools I’m forgetting.

Oh yeah, and a Synology NAS as a backup target :)