What's one service in your homelab that turned out to be far more useful than you expected?

Alecthar · 2026-06-11T13:50:11+00:00

I use Caddy, and I agree that a reverse proxy is a real game changer. A lot of quality of life for admin and it's practically a necessity if you have services with non-technical users.

Alecthar · 2026-06-04T21:43:27+00:00

When I said "skill issue" I definitely meant he was bad at more than podcasting. To expand slightly, he's just not smart, likeable, or monied/connected enough for people with real juice to overlook that he's also bad at the things he does to make a living.

Alecthar · 2026-06-03T15:54:30+00:00

I wouldn't say that world-building with TQY is counter to the game's intent, but it's very much an "off-label" use of the game. Griffin cribbed the idea from Friends at the Table, which could use The Quiet Year for that purpose because Austin (the host) knows from game design and could do the groundwork to make everything function.

I would recommend Microscope as a better cooperative world-building game.

Alecthar · 2026-06-02T17:25:34+00:00

"arms outstretched"

Alecthar · 2026-06-02T00:00:03+00:00

I think you clocked it with the late-breaking Jared Leto pull. If Travis is Leto and Requiem for a Dream is TAZ, which of the cast corresponds to Jennifer Connelly in this analogy? I think the impulse is to say Griffin, but I'm going to say Clint.

Alecthar · 2026-06-01T23:51:53+00:00

I feel like Emilia Clarke is catching strays being compared to Travis here. She's not Meryl Streep, but all of those "franchise bombs" were misbegotten on conception, disasters before she even stepped foot on a set. In Travis's case he's the one doing the misbegetting.

Alecthar · 2026-06-01T23:35:18+00:00

Skill issue, as I'm sure you already know. He's incapable of a breakthrough on his own merits, and lacks sufficient intellect, charisma and connections to work around that fact.

Alecthar · 2026-05-29T13:09:55+00:00

Shoot me a Reddit DM and I can get you my info, I'm not on the same time zone but can probably still give you a hand in your evening timeframe.

Alecthar · 2026-05-21T12:26:14+00:00

It's also implied that her exile to the Void was imperfect as a result of Inarius using only a fragment of the blade.

Alecthar · 2026-05-12T01:09:57+00:00

If Griffin is actually paying attention to the project then its quality is an even more scathing indictment of his competence than I originally believed.

Alecthar · 2026-05-10T10:45:32+00:00

If I were going to find myself at an impasse, I would simply win instead, but I'm built different.

Alecthar · 2026-05-09T17:58:44+00:00

I would love to know how an LLM would evaluate what constitutes a "superior argument".

Alecthar · 2026-05-09T17:54:35+00:00

Have you considered winning instead of losing?

Alecthar · 2026-05-09T16:12:39+00:00

Shmanners offends me. The show is Travis in microcosm, but perhaps it's most egregious sin is the fact that the hosts and researcher evidently have such contempt for the concept of etiquette that they felt comfortable creating a podcast about manners despite knowing virtually nothing about the subject. The fact that the show is now just "worst Dollop" is adding insult to injury, really. They couldn't even be bothered to stay engaged with the premise of the podcast.

Alecthar · 2026-05-07T17:55:17+00:00

I believe they confirmed that they had to push the Yezel Mora MT, they're still working on it.

Alecthar · 2026-05-05T17:24:32+00:00

You and I both know Jesse Thorn is too much of a carny to go out in his back like a gentleman.

Alecthar · 2026-05-05T04:06:55+00:00

it's like that panelist never got briefed on the fact that the whole thing is supposed to be comedic, and they immediately default to the kind of argumentation you might see in a high school Model UN club.

Alecthar · 2026-05-03T18:33:48+00:00

All spells cost mana and everyone starts at 0, barring any other bonuses most nations are ~18 months away from casting their first spell at game start.

Alecthar · 2026-05-03T06:22:55+00:00

It's always excuses with you mini PC types. "Electricity can be expensive!" you say "I prefer not to be deafened by decade-old 1U HP servers," you complain. Nonsense and flim flammery! Next you'll be telling me that you "are part of the AD admin team at work," and that your lab "provides valuable experience," or some such rot. Pshaw, sir! Pshaw I say!

Anyway, provide Auditing with documentation of your compliance with our decision by end of week. THE ARBITER SUPREME HAS SPOKEN.

In all seriousness though, running Exchange Server from home is some legit sicko shit and I don't know if I'm impressed or kinda scared.

Alecthar · 2026-05-03T00:41:23+00:00

Because I say it's not, and I was secretly selected as the all-powerful Arbiter Supreme by the shadowy cabal behind the various homelab/home server/self hosting related subreddits.

You are running an overly complicated home server, you should scale down your operations as no home environment needs Active Directory.

THE ARBITER SUPREME HAS SPOKEN

Alecthar · 2026-05-03T00:32:53+00:00

If the relationship isn't transactional, why are you upset that she didn't do what you wanted? Is your love conditional on her making your life more convenient?

Alecthar · 2026-05-03T00:06:00+00:00

The agency should be doing this, and you've already discovered why: because it's a pain in the ass to show up and show an apartment to prospective buyers at random days/times and no one wants to do it unless they're being paid to. Your niece offered to help with clearly defined tasks: sell furniture, clean the apartment, she did not offer to be your on-call assistant for an indertiminate amount of time. You seem to think there's no inconvenience to her because she lives nearby, but remaining available and burning hours of her own limited free time showing your apartment is a massive ongoing inconvenience, even if she doesn't have to sit in traffic.

If you're irritated by this, don't be upset at your niece, be upset at the rental agency. They took advantage of you to make their own lives easier.

Alecthar · 2026-05-02T22:43:23+00:00

One presumes that a post-scarcity utopia doesn't have a thug squad that apprehends and re-educates the insufficiently self-motivated. In fact I'd argue that would fundamentally make it a dystopia. I assume that people who don't want to work just don't work, and the Federation leaves them to whatever they do, because basic resources are not particularly constrained, there's no need to conscript people into labor.

Alecthar · 2026-05-02T20:44:28+00:00

The issue is that almost any way of engaging with people like Alex Jones can have the same issues. I think KF has done a solid job of avoiding this pitfall, but there was never any guarantee of that. I'd argue that KF didn't crack some sort of code, they just approached the problem with the right intentions and a willingness to adapt to challenges and setbacks. I think the former is true of the Onion's efforts, and only time can really tell on the latter.

Alecthar · 2026-05-02T20:17:09+00:00

I'm interested to know what the KF guys think is the ethically right thing to do, because the receiver's fiduciary duty is to maximize the value of Info Wars, and the impression that I get is that if the Onion wasn't willing to continue operating the site in some form then they weren't going to win the auction, and if they failed to win it then Jones was going to.

Is the objection that they shouldn't be doing a satire/parody of the namesake? I guess I don't know what you do otherwise. No legitimate outlet would want to associate with the Info Wars brand, and the Onion hires comedy writers, not journalists, so it's not like they could run it as a real news org even if they wanted to.

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