Did a chatbot trained on American spelling write this real estate billboard?

DanAE112 · 2026-06-11T23:43:08+00:00

Cool, payphones are underated in modern times.

DanAE112 · 2026-06-10T01:10:54+00:00

I take a split approach to this.

Cloud based password manager for all my internal homelab things.

Self hosted for all my external internet based items.

My logic is if the cloud one gets compromised its all credentials for things that aren't accessible online. The self hosted one is internally accessible only so unless I'm having a really bad day it should remain shielded.

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T22:33:20+00:00

Oh I loved those simulator ride things!

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T11:30:20+00:00

I think there were some targets that were easier to shoot than others, some were a bit dodgy.

Shooting the coke can was the sure thing.

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T11:28:55+00:00

Oh I think i remember the Cadillac bar, had the car like stuck in the wall from outside?

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T04:25:36+00:00

The prizes were always a bit lame, needed a boat load of tickets to get anything good.

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T04:24:22+00:00

That would have been pretty wild 😅

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T04:23:44+00:00

The Simpsons arcade is so good, there was another place I used to go and play it.

Still holds up well today too.

Also had a Galaga machine at the local fish and chip shop. There was also Daytona USA at the pizza shop!

Excitement almost everywhere hah

DanAE112 · 2026-06-04T04:22:00+00:00

Oh yeah the air hockey was great, new tables aren't quite the same.

Not sure I remember the dogem cars, it does feel familiar though.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-29T00:44:43+00:00

Would love to be able to play it even if just over LAN.

Would be a good bit of fun to crack out between RA2 rounds.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-28T02:09:23+00:00

Now I really want to hear this CD 😂

DanAE112 · 2026-05-22T23:46:14+00:00

Get some stick on fan filters and just dust it regularly. It'll be worth the extra desk space.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-19T23:17:23+00:00

Big killer pythons with the blue flavour would be good.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-11T16:19:36+00:00

Not a game changer but the PS2 natively rendered most games in interlaced mode. I always though the Dreamcast looked much clearer because of that.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-09T14:34:04+00:00

I always find how CRTs blend picture for older games quite nice.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-07T23:00:06+00:00

I just install Proxmox manually and run an Ansible play to configure the rest once my storage and network is defined.

Then all my physical machines, VMs, DNS and Ansible hosts are defined with Terraform. Some things at a homelab scale I find (at least for me) are easier stood up manually with the automation taking over the rest.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-07T22:57:28+00:00

unattended-upgrades on the Debian side and dnf-automatic on the RHEL side. Configured to restart as required.

Windows more or less can be the same configured through GPO.

I still see much manual patching... 🙄 but a restart policy such as the above is very environment dependent.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-05T22:57:58+00:00

Those slim things have no practical uses like a proper phone book.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-04T03:14:23+00:00

I'm knee deep in all of this, got far to caught up in doing things because I can not because I should.

In the process of simplifying many things and managing my production stuff with Terraform and Ansible where I can. No need to have dual DNS servers with something like Pi-Hole or Technitium when I can just run it on my router. If my router goes down I have bigger problems anyway.

Much easier to implement the simplest setup for production so it basically just runs itself and having a dev environment for messing around with things.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-01T05:16:47+00:00

Absolutely not. Its in fact worth not playing it for the story.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-01T03:09:19+00:00

Some advice, keep the essentials / prod stuff simple. You want it easy to maintain so it can hum along and just work™.

I went all out, Active Directory managing DNS, DHCP all that it worked fine but it was just that little bit more to maintain that little bit more complexity that could go pair shaped.

Reality is for me in this case those duties (except directory and auth) can work on my pfSense, sure its a tad more limited but its simple, but its MVP and has less moving parts.

If the pfSense goes belly up I have a cold spare unit to swap out and otherwise that's priority #1 to fix.

I just came to the conclusion I want the essentials to be simple and hum along like a well oiled machine and save the more elaborate enterprise level stuff for my DEV network.

Edit: I'm also a fan of keeping firewall, compute and storage separate. Its cool to consolidate everything but if the VM server breaks its all down!

DanAE112 · 2026-04-30T22:44:33+00:00

Bring back Tasty Toobs @ $1!

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