Beets.

Or bears.

Or buttsex.

It’s context dependent, like “cool”.

No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.

You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.

Probably not great ever, but Plenty of Fish yielded some decent prospects when it was nothing more than a web based classified ad. But those days are long gone.

Find one named Iain and radicalize him! So it would be the Butler Iain Jihad.

Can they get worse?

Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.

When you go to report an issue, and select “Name is wrong”, the send button never activates, whereas “something else” will.

So this is a bit of capitulation that seems to be hard coded and they just don’t want to hear about it.

My own research has made a similar finding. When I am taking the piss and being a random jerk to a chatbot, the bot much more frequently violates their own terms of service. Introducing non-sequitur topics after a few rounds really seems to ‘confuse’ them.

This is prophetic and yet as clear as day to anyone who has actually had to rely on their own code for anything.

I have lately focused all of my tech learning efforts and home lab experiments on cloud-less approaches. Sure the cloud is a good idea for scalable high traffic websites, but it sure also seems to enable police state surveillance and extreme vendor lock-in.

It’s really just a focus on fundamentals. But all those cool virtualization technologies that enable ‘cloud’ are super handy in a local system too. Rolling back container snapshots on specific services while leaving the general system unimpacted is useful anywhere.

But it is all on hardware I control. Apropos of the article, the pendulum will swing back toward more focus on local infrastructure. Cloud won’t go away, but more people are realizing that it also means someone else owns your data/your business.

Good call out on the smart values. That’s on the priority list for my monitoring scheme now too.

Thanks for the tip on measuring temp of the ram, too. I will incorporate that into my monitoring scheme.

The mini pc I have has a good case design with a fan that blows across the ram, cpu and ssd. So I think it has good cooling, but I will definitely confirm with some monitoring.

Oh boy, can of worms just opened. Awesome insight. I do have an ecosystem of servers already and i have a pi zero 2 set aside to develop as a dedicated system watchdog for the whole shebang. I have multiple wifi networks segregated for testing and personal use. Use both built in wifi for the network connection and a wifi adapter to scan my sub networks.

So great insight and it helps some things click into place.

Thanks, a solid suggestion.

I have explored that direction and would 100% agree for most home setups. I specifically need HA running in an unsupervised environment, so Add-ons are not on the table anyway. The containerized version works well for me so far and it’s consistent with my overall services scheme. I am developing an integration and there’s a whole other story to my setup that includes different networks and test servers for customer simulations using fresh installs of HASS OS and the like.

I have a fine backup strategy and I don’t really want to go into it here. I am considering my ecosystem of services at this point.

I am skeptical that this will overload my i/o if I build it slowly and allocate the resources properly. It may be the rate-limiting factor in some very occasional situations, but never a real over-load situation. Most of these services only sit and listen on their respective ports most of the time. Only a few do intense processing and even then only on upload of new files or when streaming.

I really resist throwing a lot of excess power at a single-user system. It goes against my whole ethos of appropriate and proportional tech.

I do have a backup plan. I will use the on-board SSD for the main system and an additional 1Tb HDD for an incremental backup of the entire system with ZFS, all to guard against garden-variety disk corruption. I also take total system copies to keep in a fire safe.

Good insights, thank you for the perspective. I will look into that more closely before committing.

That’s very relevant. Thanks for the heads-up. I will look into that.

That’s surely overkill for my use level. Most of these services are only really listening to the web port most of the time. Yes, some like Immich or Paperless-ngx do some brief intense processing, but I am skeptical that I need nearly that much separation. I am using an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U. I am open to ideas, but I also press hard against over-investing in hardware for a single-person home setup.