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

Well damn

The tech itself would be fine if it wasn’t such private/public bullshit.
Public costs with private profits should be illegal af.

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.

White elephant vibes.

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.

C’est très peu, très tard, mais légèrement mieux que l’inverse…

Fuck les génocides

Little click on 5, nothing on 4, 3 is binding, 2 is a cherry red…

Typical Danielle Smith bullshit.

What they mean is they don’t have to do layoffs to please some publisher’s exec, they have the luxury of doing these things for their own greed.

“We don’t have to (but we do anyway)”

Well yea, this was always dumb as fuck.

I’ve literally unclogged a toilet today and that was just about the same ballpark of things I would never even consider drinking, along with Tim’s.
Everything there is bullshit, even their handsoap smells terrible.

compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.

Woah, this idea fills me with a vague sense of dread.
Like seriously, I’d rather eat pretty much anything other than Tim’s. What options are even there then?
Wet Cardboard Express?
Get-Outta-here burger?

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.

“everyone that is on this list is over the age of consent in their state”

“In their state” is suspicious af here.

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.

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.

Beautiful yet sad