This is the shit state of the world now. Everything gets accused of being AI by someone. The AI tech bros have well and truly won. They’ve poisoned everything.

Use block lists. I’ve blacklisted tons of keywords. Mostly political. If you’re looking at an unfiltered feed then you’re going to have a bad time.

Mailbox isn’t just good for email. It’s great for getting rid of so many Google services for me. Email, calendar, contacts, TODO lists, online storage, WebDAV sync storage.

Joplin self hosting seemed like a pain and it works perfectly well synchronising via WebDAV. I’d be interested in hearing how you get on.

I’ve been using Actual Budget for a couple of years and only recently started getting into slightly more functions than basic expenses recording. It’s really good to be able to have it do more as needed.

I host Tiny Tiny RSS.

• my list of subscriptions and categorisations are centralised so I don’t have to set this up on any other device. I can access this on my phone, tablet and PC.
• it synchronises read/unread stories across devices so I don’t have to keep sifting through the same articles I’ve seen.
• I’ve got a long list of blacklisted words. I don’t want to hear about sports news, celebrity gossip, USA-centric news, “he said/she said” bullshit from social media that mainstream news seems to love to report, etc. Now I can set up my blacklist in one place centrally.
• there are a lot of great apps that will access the server RSS feed. I’m never actually going to to TTRSS browser page.

The point isn’t to download content to the server at all. It’s to keep the centralised list. I host opodsync (Gpodder podcast server) for the same reason.

Read/listen to/watch philosophy content. People wiser than us over the centuries have spent their lifetimes thinking about these questions. There’s no single answer, but there are ways of thinking through this and coming to a place mentally that you can be happy with.

Personally I find Albert Camus’s flavour of absurdism to be the best way I find things to make sense. The universe is irrational and meaningless, and that’s great news. We carry on in a meaningless world and make our own meaning.

If you like podcasts then here are some great ones:

Happiness Lab

Hidden Brain

Overthink

Within Reason (although he’s spending too much time in his analysis of religion, I prefer the other episodes)

Even just watching TV shows and movies helps, as long as you’re paying attention to the story of the charachters, the messages and the experiences/motives of the characters. Seeing the stories of others (even if fictional) helps put your own situation in perspective.

FYI: I’m a noob myself.

Looks fine, but if you’re looking to mess around with a first build then you could go cheaper. Secondhand hardware would save you money, especially since older hardware is great for server use. At least you’re saving money with AM4 and DDR4.

Some thoughts:

• I went with an Intel CPU for Jellyfin transcoding.
• 16gb ram is enough to start and I host tons of stuff with that much, but the more ram the better. Having 2 more ram slots for future expansion would serve you well (but not essential).
• Faster networking would be better. Your mobo has 1 gigabit LAN. Again not a deal breaker. You can add faster networking yourself later.

This guy makes great videos, but you have to be careful to not overcomplicate things or chase specs that pro home server guys want that make no difference to noobs.

Yup. That’s it.

It’s running in Docker on my Debian server: https://kopia.io/docs/installation/#docker-images

One HDD in my NAS is dedicated to only have encrypted backup data that Kopia creates. The same Kopia deployment can’t upload data to the cloud, so Kopia only makes local backups every night. Then Synology’s cloudsync app is scheduled to send the backed up files to a Backblaze bucket online.

Docker containers:

• actual (budgeting)
• affine (note taking)
• bentopdf (PDF editing)
• beszel (server status monitoring)
• cloudflared (for a cloudflare tunnel with my own domain)
• dockge (Docker management)
• guacamole (server remote desktop access)
• immich (photo application, backup, gallery and AI tagging)
• jellyfin (video and music server)
• kavita (comic books and ebooks)
• kopia (backups)
• mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself)
• papra (document storage, tagging and OCR)
• pihole (DNS adblocking for whole network)
• opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend)
• omnitools (file conversion etc)
• prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning)
• qbittorrent (with gluetun VPN )
• Redlib (reddit access with gluetun VPN because fuck you UK mandatory ID checks)
• samba (file sharing on the local netwrok)
• syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices)
• tiny tiny rss (RSS platform)
• qbittorrent, through gluetun VPN on a VPN)
• SABnzbd, radarr, sonarr (for media)
• watchtower (automatic docker updates)

The setup is on a bare metal Debian mini PC server with storage on a Synology 2 drive NAS.

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Floss. Poor dental health affects overall health significantly.

Eat well. Sugar is hidden in everything and home cooked food from basic ingredients seems to be going out of style.

Keep active.

Get healthy sleep.

Meet other humans and do stuff with them.

People will do lots of other things and have small “health hacks”. But if you don’t get the basic things right then it’s not really something you can fix by taking “antioxidants” or other measures.

But the Y axis says that they’re almost at 150% purity. And down to almost $80/kilo

You’re not strange, but people like you have low visibility and are hard to find. Party animals are obviously easy to find because you’ll find them at loud and obnoxious parties.

Here’s what I can see:

1. Sounds like you need to figure yourself out first. Do you want company (friends? Relationship?). I think legacy is overrated, but if that’s what you want then you’ll have to figure out what that looks like for you.

2. Figure out how to get what you want. If you’re looking for company that isn’t loud and is more thoughtful and introspective then you’ll have to think of where these people hang out. What activity would you find most tolerable?

3. Wherever you go, you’re always going to have to tolerate plenty of people you don’t like and don’t click with. You’re going to have to learn how to best put up with people till you find your people.

I think most online say Pure is better. I liked Pulse more and played a lot more of this. They’re very similar and if you like the Wipeout formula then you won’t be disappointed either way. They do feel a bit different and I forget the specifics. I think Pure had a “drift” type feel to the driving that Pulse didn’t.

People have mentioned a lot of good ones, so I’ll just mention ones I haven’t seen listed.

• Wipeout Pulse is also really fun and should be checked out
• Rock band Unplugged
• Mercury meltdown
• Blast Off
• Disgaea (if you have a hundred hours to spare grinding)
• Everybody’s Golf 2
• Hot shots tennis
• Grand theft auto China town Wars
• Mega man powered Up
• Pixel junk monsters deluxe
• Patapon
• Space invaders extreme
• Tony Hawks underground 2 remix
• Half minute hero (I never played this but it’s on my list as the next one I want to play)
• Daxter

I’m like you, learning as I go along. The answer for complete security seems to be that it takes a bachelors level of learning and you better make a start. I bookmarked this for when I have time to get into it.

For now though, I’ve just followed the steps in this guide and stopped there. I would recommend this.

I wouldn’t mess with that hulk. I’ve seen that gif with Black Widow.

They’ve already got your money. You can choose not to spend any more on their products if you feel strongly. The benefit they are from one additional user is almost imperceptible.

Play if you want to play. I dont think you need to spend any time thinking about how much they benefit from your play.

Not the standard answer, but here’s another opinion: I think Signal is a good alternative.

Depends on how you use Instagram. If you’re just sharing with closed groups of friends and family then just make some groups in Signal and share pictures with each other there.

If you want to post to everyone or look at everyone else’s posts then this obviously isnt going to work. But if your use case is as I describe above then just try using your private chat app.

I can’t get past the daily routine of having 2 uninterrupted hours of gaming and TV watching with the Mrs every night. What luxury. By the time we get the kids on bed, cleaning done and prep for the next day; theres little time left and it is often spent trying to catch up with work emails or home admin.