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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I have a few things:

    UnRaid server:

    • Guacamole (though not really doing anything with it at the moment.)
    • Wireguard VPN
    • SpeedTest (forget the exact name, does period speed tests and lets me see over time how my connection is doing.)
    • DuckDNS
    • Heimdall

    VM server (esxi 6):

    • Windows machine for those times when you just need something
    • pi hole
    • sharing VM. Dockerized all of the *arrs, sabnzbd, qbittorrent
    • plex server. This will probably eventually move off its own VM, but it’s there for legacy/laziness reasons.
    • Minecraft server, though this is getting dusty as my kids aren’t into it like they used to be.

    Dell Wyse thin client:

    • Home assistant

    Pretty simple. I still use iCloud services for most of the other basics (email, call, contacts, iCloud Drive, etc) mostly just because I don’t trust my home connection enough to rely on it, and I’d rather the things that actually effect whether or not I can work aren’t my problem.




  • I’ll also toss out that if you privacy and non-annoyance are your goals with an out of the box voice assistant, the only real option these days is a HomePod. I built my smart home with combination of Echos throughout the house, and I pretty much regret it now. I wasn’t as worried about privacy, but these things are so fucking annoying these days. “Start a timer for 5 minutes.” “Okay, do you want to play some bullshit trivia game while you’re timer is going?” No, never. Ever. I mean, at least she’ll still turn the lights on without spouting back something dumb, but that’s just about it. Probably what I’ll be doing now is still using the Alexholes as a speaker target with the mute button on all of the time (better spotify integration) and start replacing with siri balls.



  • I think this whole thread/post is over-thinking it. If all reddit wanted was to break-even or make some profit off of the api, they wouldn’t have priced it this way. They would have had changed the api to a key system and then created a two tier pricing system: third party apps like RIF and Apollo, and a large commercial license for LLM training and such.

    This is fuck you pricing. As in, if you don’t want to take a job, you tell them the price is 8x your normal hourly rate. You either get that bag or more likely, they don’t offer the job. Although I say this with less certainty than I would have a month ago seeing exactly how stupid reddit is about all of this, I can’t believe that anyone at reddit is so out of touch they actually thought any of the third party app devs could afford this pricing, and if they did and it wasn’t just to kill apps, they would changed the pricing structure and not triple/quadrupled down.

    This is just Huffman going after the IPO so he can get his golden parachute and peace out. I would absolutely put money on him being out less than a year after IPO, with the small asterisk that as bad as he’s fumbling right now the board might kick him before that.


  • It’s fine now when there aren’t nearly as many users, but I don’t see it scaling long term unless hashtags are a thing or something like that. Even something simple like gaming, over on reddit I’m in several very active subs - pcgaming, playstation, playstation4, several zelda subs, etc. If fediverse alternatives get to even 1/4 of the userbase that reddit has, the gaming (or whatever) portion is going to be such a firehose it won’t really be usable. And IIRC this is how it played out on reddit as well. I think (though could be mistaken) reddit started with a fairly small set of subs and it wasn’t until later that you could create your own subs.