I sync my podcasts hourly with Nextcloud and poddersync, so when my servers go down, my phone beeps at me.

OpenSCAD and my (crappy) 3-D Printer: a phone case! Whoo!

I put solar on my roof, bought some HBA cards from Art of server on eBay and file bays from an ecycler in town, and started shucking old drives from a dumpster that always has a bunch of PVRs in it. My power bill is nuts but I have a lot of DDR3 and spinning rust!

Wife of ten years, I stuck her on Ubuntu 16.04 back in the day. She ignored it and used a laptop. A few years later? Mint with Mate. She started on it long enough to set the background to the Windows 10 background, then went back to a Windows boot, since I dual booted. Last year, new computer, Fedora KDE, again dual booted. Haven’t seen her in Windows yet. Me? I hop all over the place, but our HTPC and her laptop are now Fedora KDE.

We have one vote for nutjob then… I have a friend who sounds like this, but English is his fourth language. There’s also bots, right? I’m never sure.

I know the Lemmy Canada Blog is where I go to determine the truth of the matter… I hate that I have to ask myself, “ESL and miscommunicating, nutjob, or AI?”

I have it running right now on Fedora using lutris. Standard install, no weird steps or anything. Lutris is flatpak.

I tried to run Genshin Impact on Alpine once. Did not succeed.

I put it on a machine as a joke and, well… Three months and it hasn’t gone bye-bye.

I want this.

Rocketeer. She played Millie.

What irritates the ever loving crap out of me is that all the search engines have gotten so bad that you have to use AI to get the answers now… And…! AI scrapers are so hard on bandwidth and servers housing that all the old how-to tech blogs by actual smart people have packed their bags and left. I used to find loads of great self hosting guides by doing a Google search for “Proxmox npm setup guide” and clicking one of the top three results. Now: sponsored, slop, slop, shilling paid product, old Reddit post, etc.

Me and my wife at dinner: Me: 20 minutes about the Open Printer Kickstarter Her: 20 minutes about Say Yes to the Dress Me: Waxing poetic about Godzilla Minus Zero Her: Talking about Term Insurance Conversions We are made for each other.

I use e-ink whenever I’m not doing work. Easier on the eyes.

Not an expert, but the way I understand it is that, instead of b and d looking the same, and p and q looking the same, all rightward facing loops are italicized, and all leftward facing loops are left very round, so a brain that has trouble with mirroring images won’t get confused. They also use serifs, so a capital I and a small L aren’t similar.

My two cents: I ran a bit of both for a long time, and whenever something broke, I tended to jump ship on that device. I’m now only running 2 Ubuntu VMs, and all my bare metal is Fedora or Debian. Most of my VMs are one of those two as well. Snaps break or lag. Snaps kick me out in the middle of use. Debian is hard to use, but it’s still my computer, not theirs. Fedora is a bit easier to me.

I just had two 4TBs eat it on me simultaneously… I lost the entirety of a bunch of utterly replaceable stuff, thank God.

Nextcloud! It was it’s own box, then a VM.

An ungodly mess of cables, planks, threaded rod, and old, used servers! My very own Proxmox Cluster! I have spent years tweaking and changing it, but I’ve had some services up (not, like, continuously) for 13 years now. The original server was an i7-950, and now I’m on dual Xeon Silver on my newest box.

Fun fact: I used Libre Office to write an essay for school. I then saved as docx and uploaded it to my class page, the teacher had formatting weirdness so she asked me to resubmit. So I copy pasted the text into word for web, resubmitted… And promptly got called in for submitting AI. Her rationale? “No edits, no version history…” I had the email proof. What a moron.