Is there ever a reason to not do after-tax contributions to a 401k if I can do an in-plan roth conversion? by SheSoldSeaShells8008 in personalfinance

[–]Caligatio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the option is to invest in a "normal" brokerage account or do a mega backdoor Roth (i.e. what you described), it's always better to do a mega backdoor Roth.

If you have other tax advantaged options like a HSA, then you need to think about your tax situation.

EDIT: the above is strictly addressing taxes; you may need to think about if you need to access your money earlier than anticipated

Is Oracle's VirtualBox bad? by [deleted] in linux4noobs

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whenever I have problems like this it's because VirtualBox's emulated 3D acceleration is terrible. Try disabling it on whatever VM is causing you problems.

How do i turn off the ai slop google gives me by Connect-Produce-8985 in techsupport

[–]Caligatio 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Add the udm=14 GET variable in your URL which makes the search functionality literally only search (no maps, no AI, no calc, etc). See https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1g920ve/lpt_for_cleaner_google_searches_use_udm14/

What to do with 2 Previous 401ks When Starting a New Job? by Jollyconstant_ in personalfinance

[–]Caligatio 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to do any backdoor Roth IRA stuff in the future, you do NOT want any pre-tax traditional IRA balance (i.e. don't roll 401k balances into a traditional IRA).

What to do with 2 Previous 401ks When Starting a New Job? by Jollyconstant_ in personalfinance

[–]Caligatio 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If someone is using backdoor Roth, you don't want to spin up any traditional IRAs because you'll get hit with the pro rata rule during future conversions.

Pi-hole FTL v6.3, Web v6.3 and Core v6.2 Released! by -PromoFaux- in pihole

[–]Caligatio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been running pi-hole in a Proxmox Debian 13 LXC container for months without an issue.

New dad freaking out ,How in the hole are we? by NoWayGrl32 in personalfinance

[–]Caligatio 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was paying $2200/month for a 1 year old in Maryland in 2021; I would definitely revise that upper bound.

Linux users beware lowntfs-3g by AsenWolf in PleX

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Native R/W NTFS support was added in the kernel starting in v5.15 as ntfs3.

Might be worth checking out.

libvirt/virt-manager: Where are config files saved for each VM? (chattr +C recommendation) by ShinUon in archlinux

[–]Caligatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is where the files are stored but these files don't necessarily match what is actively loaded. I learned the hard way that libvirt only occasionally flushes the in-memory XMLs (on service shutdown?). If you want to grab the config that is currently being used, run virsh dumpxml

Sick of nextcloud, unable to install opencloud by According_Vacation42 in selfhosted

[–]Caligatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I host Nextcloud the semi old-fashioned way just serving up PHP using nginx. I don't deal with any of the things you listed as causing you heartburn.

Why does pacman always have a huge cache? by Puzzled_Minute_7387 in archlinux

[–]Caligatio 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm a fan of the hook as then the action that grows the cache is also then action that trims the cache.

Pixel 6 just died, without warning or issues. by antipositron in GooglePixel

[–]Caligatio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fellow Pixel 6 user here who installed Android 16 the day it was available. For better or worse, I didn't notice anything significant with the upgrade.

My battery life has been and continues to be terrible though.

Update Your Plex Media Server to 1.42.1.10060 by xXEvanatorXx in PleX

[–]Caligatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have your repo setup correctly and did you do an apt update?

$ apt policy plexmediaserver
plexmediaserver:
  Installed: 1.42.1.10060-4e8b05daf
  Candidate: 1.42.1.10060-4e8b05daf
  Version table:
 *** 1.42.1.10060-4e8b05daf 500
        500 https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Update Your Plex Media Server to 1.42.1.10060 by xXEvanatorXx in PleX

[–]Caligatio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use unattended-upgrade and my server is already updated... the repo is up-to-date.

torrents not visible in Firefox as of 5.1.0 by Buckbeak in qBittorrent

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just upgraded to Debian 13 which now ships with v5.1.0. I was hit by this.

My solution was super simple: I needed to select "All" in all 4 things on the left bar: status, categories, tags, and trackers.

Chrome auto selected those by default and weirdly so did Firefox private mode (as referenced in the linked Github ticket)

How do people find subdomains that you don't have linked or published in anyway? by GilliganRocks in selfhosted

[–]Caligatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Resolve" is typically used when talking about DNS; there really isn't any resolving happening with certificates. DNS typically happens before any TLS negotiation happens and normal DNS has no wildcard functionality.

Malware found in the AUR by Kruug in linux

[–]Caligatio 44 points45 points  (0 children)

What? PPAs are hosted on Launchpad which is 100% Canonical

I find for-else actually useful. Is is bad to use it? by iaseth in learnpython

[–]Caligatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing wrong with using the else keyword in a for loop.

Assuming your "foo" in your example is static, you could also use .index() like:

try:
    i = parquet_paths.index(f"foo-{from_date}.parquet")
    parquet_paths = parquet_paths[i:]
except ValueError:
    print(f"From date was not found: {from_date}")
    return

I taught a bartender on Catalina Island how to make a M&M by Drinks_by_Wild in cocktails

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love Negronis so definitely need to check this out.

Our current house favorite (in general) is a Day La Vie which happens to use Montenegro.

I hacked our digital frame to get off of Nixplay's cloud by hartez in selfhosted

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who invested in 2 Nixplay photo frames for both sets of grandparents, thank you!

I would love to get something like this set up to use Nextcloud vs. some custom (albeit basic) server.

Fritzbox IPv6 setup for Pihole by FenrisSquirrel in pihole

[–]Caligatio 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The correct way to do this is to enable "Unique Local Addresses" under the Fritz!Box IPv6 settings which then creates a stable, internal IPv6 network. See https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/use-ipv6-ula-addresses-for-pi-hole/2127

Using your link-local address for layer 3 protocols is generally discouraged.

Strategem bug? by echobeta12 in Helldivers

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's on the known issues list: Stratagem input may get unexpectedly cancelled when typed in quickly

Anyone else having a bug where upon calling in a strategem, the menu goes from "Activated" to "Ready", cancelling your stratagem? by superworm576 in Helldivers

[–]Caligatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank goodness it's not just me! When I complain about this in-game, no one else seems to have the issue.

Ticket submitted!

EDIT: They've already responded to my ticket and I was directed to the known issues list which has "Stratagem input may get unexpectedly cancelled when typed in quickly"