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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • OpenMediaVault is pretty rad. I run it in a VM on a ProxMox machine and it ended up doing all the Docker lifting because the GUI management is just so nice.

    I do need to get more CLI-ninja with Docker eventually, but in my experience it’s a very cumbersome and fiddly process.

    Unless something breaks and needs more hands-on, I feel like OpenMediaVault’s container interface completely replaces Portainer and smooths the on-ramp for newbie self-hosters.









  • I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with most computing tasks, not particularly great with basic spreadsheets, but unless there’s some kind of usable frontend to reliably manage a database, I mostly see databases as:

    “A magic box that holds tons of cryptic information, would be tedious to open, risky to edit, risky to backup or migrate or update, and could corrupt at any moment.”

    Maybe I should put more effort into learning DBs besides initializing them in a Docker compose and praying, but for human readable information that’s meant to be shared, I think you’re bang on the money when it comes to why spreadsheets are still so popular!




  • “You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

    – The 90’s, Probably.

    Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

    (Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

    Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol


  • Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

    Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

    Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

    Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅


  • The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

    Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

    Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.




  • The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

    …for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

    Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

    This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

    As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

    So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…‘Mancy’?” ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

    …and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)



  • I can’t imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I’d end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn’t be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

    Maybe that’s the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck “SOISOISOI” does, compared to “Whopwhopwhop”.