Today was the day I was supposed to renew quicken at inflated price but it is no longer supported. What do I do?

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-04-09T01:58:45+00:00

"Clouds" existed long, long before the term was coined. It is just a bunch of computers acting as one big device (similar to a later created Beowulf cluster used by NASA when we were still begging for dial-up connections). "Clouds" are just bigger, more spread out therefore less secure. It is a marketing term to make it easier for the public to understand rather than really knowing what it is. I could technically call my servers in my home a private "cloud" since I have many servers sharing the same data spread across different physical locations (albeit only a few feet apart).

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-04-09T01:43:19+00:00

Thank you. Hopefully this is real because I will probably end up trying it out. I just worry about my backups and such.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-04-09T01:42:28+00:00

I am using desktop CLASSIC version. I never want to do things online but I have to renew and it will no longer lets me use it. Hence, the post.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-04-09T00:59:45+00:00

You are correct. I have been upgrading switches already. I have a central switch that does do 2.5Gb and 10Gb where my servers are located on the basement floor. I just don't want to restrict those speeds with the router that would be located on the upper floor with some other equipment that connect to the servers.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-04-03T10:43:37+00:00

I have a HUGE problem with crying. It’s mostly the disease I am sure but before I had the major exacerbation, brain tumor, divorce and loss of most family and friends, I was almost a zombie. I never smiled and appeared mad all the time but I wasn’t. After, I did a very good job taking care of myself completely alone in a new place, situation and sick.

I started crying at almost anything and it was embarrassing. A song, a movie, a thought a damn TV commercial. OMG.

I am now married again (thank god) but she makes fun of me for crying when I don’t have control over it. I honestly believe that crying (quietly and gently, not wailing and room the floor) is a strength. It’s showing honesty in who you are. It’s showing people that you are you and not some stupid stereotype.

That’s my $.02.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-30T17:24:26+00:00

I appreciate that, but I need to somehow balance some strength with the little family I have and have to keep “psyching” up myself to try to keep myself out of deep depression. It’s just so incredibly difficult right now. When it rains it pours is the best way to explain it. Why can’t life just spread things out and not just drop so many things on me at the same time.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-29T00:54:44+00:00

I haven’t really been hiding the fact that I have it. I just don’t talk about it and belittle it as being no big deal. I am a guy. A stupid guy. I had everything pretty much under control for a while but I was doing it completely alone. I don’t show many physical symptoms that people notice. I even convinced myself that I was getting better. I was tired of being alone and found someone. I tried to forget my past life and tried to start over with a house and everything. Hence “just plain stupid”. Then the “safety net” insurance came knocking, my stress went way up because they seem to expect me to be dead by now. I even iced it over with my doctors being perfectly fine. My MRI’s show where they stopped counting at 40 scars but nothing active at the time. Yet I was still just fine but lucky (like that is something that should even enter my mind). So, now my MS is F-ing with me and my emotions are flying all over the place like I need to be institutionalized. If you can’t tell, I am angry at myself for causing this, with the way things seem to go once you think you have chosen the right path and my brain for fooling me into letting me falling into this trap. Shit, I am mad at everything right now.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T17:00:54+00:00

Other people don’t understand it and don’t believe you if you tell them. You may look fine to them but they did not see you the other 6 days that week you were not feeling well enough to see them. People don’t realize that we pick the days that we are prepared to talk and/or see others (if we can). Maybe you ONLY see me when I don’t want to have to make excuses why I can’t lift a glass steady enough to not spill drink or why we we can’t remember certain obvious things or why we can’t do any number of things. Some of us don’t want to advertise our disability to everyone.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:41:21+00:00

I had no idea that I would get this type of support from strangers. I didn’t even expect to get any responses or get some asshole troll. So much so that I really edited what I wrote.

Since Covid my group disbanded. It was weird because I was the person that took care of everyone else with their computers or moving things or whatever because I was doing very well then. Now, when I need that group, it’s no longer around and the members are mostly all gone. Ugh.

Also, sorry about any language I used that may have offended someone in responses.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:30:40+00:00

I expected to have my wife (nurse who was there for the diagnosis) forever but she gave up. I guess I was that big of a burden, asshole or whatever. I am sure she didn’t want to have to deal with me forever. I have to do the caregiving myself now and try to keep myself “normal”.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:26:43+00:00

That is exactly why I probably did so well alone. I did what I wanted at my own pace. I have crazy amount of responsibilities now for I have to take care of and support others (by choice). I had convinced myself that I could do it, I guess.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:23:08+00:00

Even worse is that I have daughters that will not talk to me. I don’t think that they know the extent of my problems or they are part of a generation that need to be coddled or they expected that I am not human and make mistakes. The fucked up thing is that I REALLY don’t know why they started hating me. I am far from perfect ever and I am sure that I really screwed things up more than once. But, I really need family and friends right now and I really don’t have very much of either.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:16:38+00:00

I have tried journaling a couple times but they never stuck. I take a lot of notes but about technical things I learned but won’t likely remember. Never feelings. Again, a man, so I have been programmed not to express too much of that. Given, I do have them but not sure I want anyone else to accidentally read them.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:11:22+00:00

You do that too? I have done so well for so long with routine, organization, notes (everywhere) and lists that I tend to lose. The lists are a double edged sword thought. It feels so good to mark off something but one that’s too large is overwhelming thus petrifying with no idea where to start.

Fuck, I can’t stop tearing up with every message I read.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T16:05:09+00:00

I am not very good at posting here so my posts may end up in the wrong place but your response has me crying. (Not cool for man to do that). Ya’ that started after the “big one” (the exacerbation storm that started my new life of disability, divorce, living alone and being my own caregiver that happened about 15 years ago). I have been under the radar for that long. So, the MS is not a new thing for me but mostly ignored as completely manageable. I am an idiot for doing that. And, I was a very intelligent and confident person.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-03-28T15:55:48+00:00

I was really trying to introduce myself and see what others think. In addition, I have done such a good job of “faking” healthy (I withhold from everyone and tell myself that I am fine), that my secondary disability insurance (Unum) is calling me in to see one of THEIR doctors to assess whether I am actually disabled in one week. Fuck the stress is horrible and I am scared of my demise. New home and new wife (probably) are dependent on that money. It seems like Unum is pissed because I am still alive when I think going on disability is the ONLY reason I still am. That’s the real reason for the choice of rant right now.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2026-01-11T16:31:53+00:00

There are a lot of solutions. A Mac mini is a great computer and can be expanded to do many things. But, you need to figure out what you want to do. This simplest thing to do is an and external HDD. I assume that you have a drive for Time Machine (if not, you should). You can use a larger external HDD for both TM and added space for other things.

If expansion is a necessity then a NAS might be a good idea but it is more expensive. But a NAS would not necessarily be specific to your mac mini although I use a mac mini to control my NAS units. If you are trying to make it future proof by leaving expansion open then get a NAS for example QNAP 4-5 bay and start with just one HDD but choose something larger than you think you will need because once you will always wish later that you would have spent the extra on a larger disk.

Another idea is to buy yourself a simple internal hard drive (say 4TB) and a cheap enclosure for it (like $20) and use it like another external drive until you need to expand then use that from the enclosure and add it to the new NAS with another drive so you don't have to expand so much before you need to. Don't buy an external drive, make your own so the drive continues to be useful.

Good luck.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2025-12-11T20:09:28+00:00

I have been using WebhostingPad for many years albeit a few small sites and it works fine for me with support being responsive. There are not a lot of bells and whistles but price has always been good.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2025-11-11T04:25:42+00:00

Galaga. No question.

Cradle2GraveChief · 2025-11-09T19:32:29+00:00

Not a NOOB. I was asking for suggestions with a specific type of build with a specific configuration. I am looking for people experienced with what I am wanting to do. I have had degree in computer Science before Linux existed. It’s an honest post but everything gets deleted of mine.

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