I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • I think I lucked out because I live in the suburbs, but it’s a very walkable suburb. There are sidewalks, there is public transportation, and I can walk to the grocery store and back in under a mile.

    There are parks nearby within walking distance, with sidewalks between my house and the park for kids to play in, and all of the main streets have bike lanes.

    I live in America, this is not like European normal standard.

    Oregon and Washington and most of California have a lot going for it as far as human amenities in suburban spaces.


  • Pretty much all of them.

    Most tech issues can be easily reduced to rote actions as long as you have a little bit of knowledge about the environment in which they are being executed.

    Sure, it’s fun rolling out youth systems and dealing with integration issues and things like that, but after the high watermark fun things, there are large gaps of where you’re just doing maintenance, and maintenance is no fun.









  • I learned how to use it as a random attempt to make a hackintosh.

    I succeeded in getting the hackintosh to boot and run, played with it for a few weeks and then got bored with it and now my computers all use Linux or Windows if I have to.

    I now have an actual Apple computer from 2015 that I use just for Logic when I’m recording audio (I got a great deal on the computer and a Thunderbolt 2 audio interface), and I greatly prefer kubuntu over apple.








  • Well, there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The only thing I was thinking is that you would then also have the rest of the Proxmox server to do other server things with.

    For instance, you could set up an LDAP server and create a centralized login for your home domain And have that separate from your portainer setup so that if you make a mistake you don’t end up having to redo your portainer setup.

    You could also use it as a VM host to try out different flavors of Linux and see if any of them make any more sense to you.

    Even though it’s not recommended, you could also host Truenas on top of Proxmox.

    There are good reasons to use virtual machines separate from another virtual machine.


  • Like the other people said, use Proxmox. Just download the installer, flash it to a flash drive with Rufus and install it and then put it somewhere far away where the noise won’t bother you hopefully plug it into your network and then you can just run it.

    One thing that I like to do is to install ubuntu server and then install Docker and Portainer on the server and then you can just run a whole bunch of Docker containers and have a lot of fun playing around with that.

    There are a lot of guides for how to do that, but if you set up Proxmox first and then create a VM with, say, four CPUs and four gigs of RAM and 40 gigs of storage space, you’ll have more than enough room in that one virtual machine to run dozens of net services.

    Some good ones to install are pihole or ad guard home and nginx reverse proxy.

    You can go to DuckDNS and create a subdomain and then set the IP address to your internal ip.

    Once you have that up, you can then go to Let’s encrypt and create a wildcard certificate and then give all of the services you’re running on Docker and on your NAS server an internal name with an SSL certificate instead of having to type in the IP addresses.

    The sky is the limit and the more things that you play around with and try, the better you’ll get at them and the more things you’ll learn how to do.