InEnduringGrowStrong

Maybe… “there is no such thing as bad publicity” ?

It is itself hyperbole and it’s by no means absolute, but yea plenty of times where bad publicity is still publicity.

I’m a network sorcerer.
Wizards are more the book-type while I draw my networkink power from my bloodline.

Yea, I was referring to the OSI model.

I can’t know for sure if they kicked the bucket or not, but they aren’t around here anymore.

They seemed like a genuinely cool person and it makes me sad that they might be gone.

They’ve mentioned accepting and not fearing death, but also wanting to remain anonymous.
I won’t doxx them, alive or not, but know that it seems someone has since been taking care of what they considered to be their life’s work (their words).

May they remind y’all to cherish whatever time you do have.

So much baiting, the chat bot never had a chance.

A single misconfigured thing can suck real bad as you’ve seen.
Selfhosting involves lots of things that can be misconfigured or go bad.

That’s not to scare you out of it out anything, merely to congratulate you in seeking knowledge first.

Disclaimer: I’m biased towards networks because I’m a network engineer, opinions may differ.

I would say… having at least a vague grasp of layers 1-4 of the traditional network model is a decent start.
You don’t need to understand everything, but knowing a minimum will help a lot imho.

It’s hard to point you in the right direction without knowing what you already know or not.

Things aren’t that bad in my life, relatively speaking.

Just, I’m coming to terms with the fact that this workplace is shitty, and likely beyond repair.
Statu quo is a tough nut to crack though.
I could make a move, I might even have an opportunity lined up. Sure, there’s a few variables that I can’t account for, but whatever.

The real question is… is this really what I want?

Yes and these comments also show up on mastodon.

Don’t overthink it, have fun, bring good earplugs.
No seriously, there are plugs meant for shows, designed to not butcher it too much, merely attenuate it all a bit.
First, you’ll avoid tinnitus.
Second, it blocks out quite a bit of the other show-goers background noise.

I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it

Now’s a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.

One this that’s really hard to replace is DDoS protection.

I leave my phone further away.
Close enough that I’ll hear it if there’s an actual emergency, but far enough that I won’t reach for it just because I’m bored.

That’s enough to take care of most of my mindless night scrolling.

If I just can’t fall asleep, sometimes I’ll go drift off in the hammock outside or something that’ll cool my body a bit.
Tbh, sometimes I just rub one out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also works as a decongestant.
I’m not a doctor, don’t use this as medical advice.

“This is the last straw” 😆

Ghost licensing is predatory.
It’s easier to just wait until the ghost can be published in the public domain.
Blame Disney.

If you have a microwave, follow the instructions in the bag.

I don’t have a glass lid

I’ve used a dinner plate as a lid in a pinch.
Careful it might get hot.

Yes, absolutely. Fuck the stuff you get at stores’ checkout.

I do mean something from a bank or union, it’s just instead of having a limit you can borrow from, you can prepay and do whatever transaction after.
Works fine for online places that only take credit.
You can usually get them even with shitty credit, because they’re not fronting you the money.

You can still probably get a prepaid credit card…
You just have to pay it upfront before doing the transaction.

I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

Just got my 9 year sticker in the mail too.
I don’t even use it as much these days, but it helped me a lot when I was starting out, and I still use it for the webcam.

I donate monthly to Wikipedia, Signal, and Octoprint.
Probably cheaper than Netflix too nowadays.