This person packed captain Morgan’s to drink neat, and spam.

I do not want to go camping with this gastronomist.

Low tech options: a smart plug that power cycles if it can’t ping eg google and have your edge devices plugged in there, or a timer that reboots the firewall at 0200 daily. I haven’t implemented either of these, despite having a network other people rely on about 400km from my house. I should remediate that…

I have decided dual firewalls are silly without dual internet and dual power, as both those things go down more often than my FW.

I have two instances of pihole on two hosts, because I block dns outbound to the best of my ability.

No idea. Apparently this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-loss

Leaving the theatre with zero seats sold is so much better than spelling rude things.

RSS is just early doomscrolling. RSS is not a feed of my choices for articles, it’s my choice of content sources.

With that said, I’ve used these readers before and simply can’t get on with them. I just procrastinate whether it’s a new tab or saved in an app. Some people like them though.

Currently in Princeton University Art Museum, not on view. https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/59768

Planting vs seeding is a minimal part of the overall labor involved with clearing an area and supporting the plants as they become established. You still need to make a space for and then water the seeds.

With the pictured plants, it’s planted.

Despite the captions Hemerocallis is not native to North America, but serves here as a colourful addition, adding some red depth.

Sticking only to native plants doesn’t always give a pleasing result (especially in more extreme climates); it’s perfectly ok to mix them in with nonnative (noninvasive) species to add some variety. Having some native plants is better than a manicured lawn and entirely nonnative species!

There’s billions of dollars spent on the “war on drugs” and cannabis is an easy target. Plus, there’s decades of messaging about the evils of cannabis that makes a lot of people nervous about it.

You will find it challenging to freelance while living this lifestyle. Looking wealthy implies you are successful; being successful implies you’ve been hired by other companies; being hired by other companies means you’re safe. A bit like why the bank has marble floors.

I created a text file with all the IPs, server name, and function and some general notes. I don’t use good passwords in my home network, sue me. But my master password should go into the will stored with lawyer.

It’s enough to get started but my family will have to find someone to help them at some point as they don’t have the technical skills I do.

Yes, counterfeit goods. Because not only is it entirely plausible that the manufacturing and material cost a small leather bag approaches the sticker price (eg Louis Vuitton) but also, the person who paid $200 for the knockoff is confused and easily would have paid 10-20x more for the same item, made in the “right” factory.

Truly a loss to the economy.

You should consider testing your RO water and replacing the membrane more frequently. There shouldn’t be that much hardness there. My water comes in at about 550ppm and leaves about 20-50 (90% is when you’re “supposed” to replace the membrane from what I remember). I know it’s different than a boiler, but i don’t have scale in my kettle over about 7 years. I recently got a water softener and plumbed my RO into it which should help with longevity (RO was originally invented for desalination).

In the image it looks like there’s some pitting starting, so I’d stop there with the chemistry or see if I can find an alternative.

People get away with a lot, but as you note it’s regional. All it takes is one gust of wind.

But I do have a steady average 8kt wind (I mean average over last 5 years day and night), but gusts and storms push 50kt. I wish wind power was more accessible like solar has become; I live in an area that’s frequently the windiest in the country. I’d be able to use it as primary generation and solar for top off.

Ground mount has to address wind load which can be significant. I think the standard is around 500kg wind lift per standard panel. I’ve got a number of 200w panels I haven’t set up because I don’t have an inverter but also because they’re a pain to anchor.

You’ve got to have space you want to use for them. Just because I have 10 200w panels for free doesn’t mean it makes sense to mount them on my roof (which is the only space I have facing the sun), because 400+w are available now and it costs money to mount them.

But it might not make sense to take down my 20 year old 200w panels and replace them, or maybe I can sell them to someone with more space.

I have snort running on my firewall monitoring my LAN port. Does it help? No idea. Does it make me feel good because it blocks stuff? Yup. It does enforce IP blacklists from a feed, so it’s a start.

Keeping an loose eye on things and watching for extra network traffic, cpu, ram usage is what I do.

I get that. It’s never been easier to self host with minimal knowledge and people still say it’s too hard. I said terminal but I don’t mean that to limit to bash. It could be any server interface.

I deal with the tech all day. I get paid to. I’d rather spend my leisure time touching grass, but I’m at that point in my career where it’s difficult to get excited like I do in my 20s.

Well, like i said, I don’t wanna stare at a terminal at home. I’m running too many services as it is.

Automate the updates with a cron job and use family for outage notifications.

I get that but the setup investment up front. Wow. I’ve built out my services exactly once (over 10 years now), so I don’t really see the value for myself.