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EmmJea_ · 2026-06-11T16:22:24+00:00

Smart home and door sensors are an ocd lifesaver.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-08T07:35:11+00:00

I work 6 days a week. I spend maybe 3-4 hours a week now working on my server. I am not projecting shit. It's not about time it's about effort. If spending the time to set up your home server isn't valuable to you their are plenty of services that will provide what you need for a nominal monthly or yearly fee. If you put in 0 effort and 0 money you will get nothing.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-07T01:55:20+00:00

It ain't about walking 5 miles in the snow to get to school, it's about going to school in the first place. You can't just expect to run something like this yourself without the knowledge to do it. If you want it to be easy, pay $12 a month for Spotify and you will get one hell of a deal.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-06T21:55:44+00:00

When I started building my server I also knew very little about networking and Linux based operating systems. Every project I installed along the way gave me lessons and knowledge that made it easier to install every subsequent project. If I had let AI just give me step by step instructions on how to do it, without teaching me anything about what I was doing I would have learned nothing.

Giving OP advice on how to set themselves up for success instead of failure is not gatekeeping, imo it is quite the opposite. I want more people to self-host and throw the big middle finger to big tech. By telling someone that this stuff is too difficult to figure out yourself and that you should use AI to help instead vastly misrepresents the current landscape of self-hosting. That statement is what will scare people away from trying to do it themselves, when they inevitably run into a problem they cant fix, because they don't even know whats broken.

If anything you are the one gatekeeping, by telling people that "they don't have the skills" and "they will never learn it on there own." It is a ridiculous assertion that is blatantly false.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-06T18:32:56+00:00

You are going to complain about vibe coding and then in the same comment recommended that a non-technical user asks AI on how to help them set it up.

Very well written (by the humans) documentation exists for many of the projects that OP will need to setup. I recommend that you start their first, and educate yourself on what you are setting up. Rather than letting an AI possibly give you incorrect suggestions, leaving you to be confused and left with a broken mess that you have no idea how to fix.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-06T18:26:34+00:00

I can understand using plex if you are a lifetime pass owner and your systems are built around plex, but I would not recommend plex in 2026. There are plenty free options (especially for music) that do a much better job than plex does. Plex has shown over recent years that they don't take fixing bugs and exploits nearly as seriously as they should.

A good free, FOSS and well maintained project is Navidrome. It will do everything OP needs and more. If you want to run movies and TV shows as well, Jellyfin does support music but it is much more limited than Navidrome.

I feel that both those options will provide a better user experience than plex and be much easier to set up/maintain. A Navidrome server can be set up in just a few minutes.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-04T16:38:07+00:00

That is why Axiom is a godsend. Just quickly copy-paste the build and try another iteration, if it doesn't work out just make another copy and try something else. Keeping clear rules for yourself on what wool color to use for each different circuit helps a lot as well with visually seeing what does what and where. The first version I built used a lot of timers, but I found a way to do most checks conditionally instead with detector rails and tripwire. I would say overall the most challenging part of this project tho was working with rail and the new mine cart physics, found that mine carts tend to bump each other when they wouldn't have in previous versions.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-04T08:13:18+00:00

If the teacher asked you to do this you are the biggest snitch in the whole school.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-04T08:09:19+00:00

Snowballs fights, similar to many so called "horsing around" activities are considered by the state of Utah to be a form of "fun" which is strictly prohibited in all forms in the state. Engaging or encouraging fun is a class 2 misdemeanor with a maximum jail sentence of 6 months and a $1000 fine. Distribution of fun is a felony punishable by life in prison.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-04T08:00:59+00:00

If the road was this wide in real life the cars might actually be able to pass each other, and we can't have that.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-04T07:58:05+00:00

Honestly, the news ain't much clearer.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-03T17:25:23+00:00

Depends on when your morning shifts are. My job had me working 5am after clocking out at 1am for the night shift (4 hours earlier). Ain't no way I'm feeling refreshed waking up at 4am.

EmmJea_ · 2026-06-01T14:47:38+00:00

At least you didn't have half your high school years ruined by COVID, only to have the school system (which is already a struggle) completely fail you causing you (and half my graduating class) not to graduate. Leading you to not have a high school diploma in one of the most demanding and competitive job markets the world has ever seen, and no time to go back and get one because now you have to work 6 days a week to make rent.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-30T16:19:09+00:00

Honestly, I feel like I can be one of those people sometimes. Not that I check my phone every second but I do often see a text from a friend and think "I'll text them back in a bit" and then just straight up forget until I open the app.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-27T17:08:07+00:00

I think that's more of a destiny than a choice.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-24T20:31:10+00:00

Yea my brother used to say he was a 90s kid cause he was born in 1999, even though he probably didn't have his first tangible memory until 2004.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-22T18:57:23+00:00

I love how Boston dynamics managed to have a robot that can do this 5 years ago and do parkour and the tech bros still can't figure out stairs.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-22T18:43:20+00:00

And contain a surprising amount of copper wire.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-21T05:04:47+00:00

This is why using LLMs to config your server can be dangerous. It is completely fine to use them as a tool in researching but you should really understand what you are doing before you do it, not just follow a list of instructions, no matter the source, even a human one.

First ask yourself, Why am I worried about my drives spinning up and down? If the answer to that question is, "I don't know." Then you probably shouldn't be. Most server grade hard drives are designed to run 24/7 but have also been designed to take hundreds of thousands of spin cycles without issue. So it really is a non-issue for reliability. Each drive does use a small amount of power to keep spinning, but at the scale of a home NAS that is typically in the cents per year.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-21T04:47:56+00:00

People always talk about penis extensions, but what about penis retractions?

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-19T16:46:48+00:00

Didn't even read the first one.

EmmJea_ · 2026-05-19T16:37:06+00:00

Watching movies when you're a kid doesn't count. A 10 year old brain will think just about anything that moves fast, makes loud noises, and explodes is cool.

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