retired at 40 and am now 61

Oh dang, a billionaire in our midst.

It seems all we ever hear about is paedophiles and sexual abuse… Consensual affairs seem like a bit of a nothing burger. The drama seems to be about whether secrets were leaked to the Chinese and selling Nvidia cards to China. Other than that, not sure what the excitement is about being involved with an existing Nvidia exec.

Happy to. It costs nothing, is an amazing piece of software and your team have worked hard. Don’t want to undervalue you efforts.

Its a good tool, but I uninstalled a long time ago. I’ll use a lot of ram on something like Immich and Jellyfin. But can’t justify blowing so much ram on things like Linkwarden or Paperless in this era of impossible ram upgrades.

I would recommend Floccus.

I tried Linkwarden and others, ultimately didn’t want to consume half a gig of ram for this when all I need it simple bookmarks. I sync through WebDAV and use the addons in all my browsers and the app on Android. Works great.

Sounds great, I’ll try it out.

I’ve just uninstalled Super Productivity because all the data was client side and server sync was problematic. I’m always going to use it on the home network. This sounds like what I wanted with time tracking and everything.

Same with removing Affine having recently removed that. Same client side data nonsense. I want everything processed on the server.

Other than this… I’ve been trying to keep up with updating everything with all the vulnerabilities with PHP, Debian Kernel vulnerability, etc.

Oh I also set up Homarr. I didn’t think I needed a dashboard. But this has been amazing.

If you can’t repair or use that, it will still sell for quite a lot these days on eBay.

I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.

I feel bad for anyone building now. I built my gaming setup + NAS and server PC and upgraded my Steam Deck in the past 2 to 3 years. Going to get as much milage out of these as I can till things settle down. I’ve changed all my Docker services to lower resource alternatives to keep things running on my existing ram.

Then in 5 years when things have only gotten worse and this is the new norm then I’ll cry alongside everyone else. Or maybe China will get their fabs up and running and swoop in to undercut these bastards to save us all.

I still follow some webcomics and search for things occasionally on Reddit. Using Redlib has been fantastic. Don’t need to worry about their interface changes. Don’t need to worry about having an account. Just input the few subscriptions I need into the Redlib docker container. All my devices are setup to redirect Reddit links to my Redlib deployment.

Everyone uses their phones while eating or pooping. Those activities don’t take long either. I choose to listen to something while showering.

It’s ok if you don’t understand it or do it yourself, but some people take their phone into the shower. It is a thing.

I do it all the time. Before smart phones were a thing I had a water proof shower radio. Now I use the phone for the same thing. Mostly listening to news or a podcast or something. Sometime it’s a Nebula video, but in the shower I’d just be listening to it like a podcast anyway. Before phones were waterproof I used to use a waterproof Bluetooth speaker.

I’ve never had steam cause a problem, but then again my showers aren’t long, aren’t very hot and my phone is kept pretty high up and out of the way.

You guys poop in the same toilet?

My wife has banished me from the ensuite and wants that as her private toilet. I have to go to the other room to use the toilet 🫤

The old ways are best

Since this is DIY, you can fuck it up as badly as you want. The possibilities are endless!

Watch this guy’s video. He DIY restores a smashed iMac screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FStfdGjAwc

Excellent hack.

In case you’re a masochist like me and want a lot more work on your hands, then you could remove the whole laptop mobo and make its own case and make it more compact in the process.

I’ve done this recently to make a standalone machine out of a busted laptop. This can give you a single, more compact unit with all the parts inside. You can improve the cooling and noise too (by using desktop fans). You’ll maintain your laptop resale value too by not destroying the case and being able to put the mobo back in place in the future. Infact, with today’s ram prices, the reason I went down this route is because you can get broken laptops with soldered in DDR5 ram.

Paint.net is awesome and one of the reasons I used to keep Windows installed for dual boot. Then I found a Linux clone and I’ve been using that (Pinta).

For anyone else in my position:

I’ve searched online extensively. Disappointingly, this doesn’t seem to be real news. Seems like what some might can “fake news” 😞

They’re surprisingly expensive for what they are. I’ve been shopping for broken laptops like that for ages to use as an emulation console for my kids. Ended up going with a NUC/mini PC and that’s got a smaller footprint, better cooling, better IO and tends to be quieter.