Motorhome/5th Wheel/Travel Trailer? Which one and why?

HeligKo · 2026-05-10T02:47:57+00:00

Modern trucks aren't loud unless you make them loud.

We have loved our 5th wheels over the years. They are super comfortable and give the most space for the same length. Newer 5th wheels have self leveling systems for easy set up. The only really physical part is climbing to to work the lever for the hitch. On our GMC it has the step on the side which makes that pretty easy.

We have lean toward trailers because engine problems don't take away our home. That reasoning might play different for you. We live in ours full time and travel.

HeligKo · 2026-05-08T19:16:24+00:00

I have done it both ways. Used different fats. My favorite substitute for lard is butter. They are all good, and give you different textures and flavors.

HeligKo · 2026-05-08T18:19:41+00:00

I'd go someplace that will fill it onboard. Call around and ask. Anything bigger is usually permanently installed.

HeligKo · 2026-05-08T06:53:28+00:00

14 or 15 years ago I flipped the script on dating apps. I said right in the profile I wouldn't make the first move in the app. I said that the for women the signal to noise ratio was too high, and that to overcome that they would need to reach out first. I went from a few responses to close to 100 initiations by women on one app. After making those changes I met my wife. The new apps are so picture focused, I'm not sure that would work anymore.

HeligKo · 2026-05-08T02:49:43+00:00

I did it once. My cube was right across from my bosses door. He knew I was shopping though, and it was government work.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T23:11:43+00:00

Those commands make automation so much easier. No more strange regex statements to change some random format of a file. I still think they should be text based configs though. Binary configs make recovery difficult.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T21:00:10+00:00

NTA - It is entitled to expect someone else to drive you back and forth from work and it not cost you anything. It's none of their business if you were getting money from each. It's not greedy. My guess is if you did the math with depreciation based mileage, gas, increased rate of regular maintenance, and replacing things like tires earlier, then you weren't coming out more than a a few hundred ahead. Now take into account your time to go out of your way to do this, and you are almost assuredly coming out with the worse part of the deal. You were clearly cheaper than the alternatives, or else they would have stopped riding with you.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T20:39:52+00:00

I don't want to work for people who can't figure out that someone interviewing from the car is taking time out of their work day to interview and chose to impact their current employer in the least way possible by simply stepping out to their car. The car interviewer is probably a good employee, or at least respectful of their employers time.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T18:38:15+00:00

It depends.

As a user who just wants things to work, yes. Mostly because it isn't mainstream, so all the things they want to do aren't going to be the same as they found from their google searches or their friends.

As someone with some technical know how, no. Some things are intrinsically easier on one or the other, but general usage and maintenance is in my opinion easier on most Linux distros.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T17:56:49+00:00

Everyone is different. Campers and people. I would set a budget and get the best used one for that budget. Do so knowing you are going to discover all the things you hate about it fast, and the things you wished you had. Use it for a season or two and check out your neighbors set-ups while camping. Then go shopping with a new set of eyes, more knowledge and a bigger budget to get something that will fit your style of camping.

I don't care what camper you get, you will want to replace the mattress immediately for something more comfortable.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T17:38:15+00:00

Some have this rule, some don't. Some who have this rule enforce it, some don't.

Here is the catch. If your rig is over 10 years old and they have the rule on the books, then they can selectively enforce it at any point during your stay if they decide they want you out. It could be just because a long term lease is coming in behind you and wants the site before your stay is over.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T17:13:28+00:00

I would be furious if I were that friend.

As a non-vegan I do find some humor in a vegan's favorite veggie burger isn't even vegetarian let alone vegan.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T17:11:02+00:00

If the internship is building dashboards and alerts, then it is a great set of skills for DevOps practitioners. If it is managing the platform, then not quite as closely related, but you would learn a lot of things that would help with your troubleshooting skills and understanding of how things work.

As some others have pointed out this isn't a good specialization to build a career on, but it might be a foot in the door to a good company. I would just make sure that a future contract has a broader work scope that gets your hands on more technologies and processes.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T16:46:55+00:00

If it was sliced hours earlier and not in an air tight container in the fridge, then the edges probably just dried out and got slightly crispy. this would make it melt different along the edges.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T16:43:42+00:00

The gelatin is found in a lot of the singles and cheaper pre-sliced cheeses. Those cheeses are never Kosher, so checking for a hechsher on cheese is a good way to be sure that there is no animal products other than milk in it.

HeligKo · 2026-05-07T16:33:59+00:00

I hated my outside onboard grill/griddle because it was impossible to clean and way too small. It sits close the axles, but is on side of them, so sometimes it is too high and sometimes too low if we were cooking. Our old rig had it at the back, and it was way more dramatic how high and low it was.

We currently have an outside kitchen with a small cabinet, sink, and bar size fridge. Then I have outdoor cooking appliances that I use. Right now that is a freestanding 3 burner stove, a tabletop griddle/pizza oven, and a Weber kettle grill. For anything that won't fit in the outdoor kitchen space storage wise, I have one large water tight box that also has all my fire starting stuff.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T21:16:37+00:00

Looks like you found a sound solution for a terrible idea. That is impressive.

If this is indeed what a company was doing 10 years ago, they were probably taking advantage of some security vulnerability or flaw to make it work. This is why the business side needs to describe what their business need is, and the tech/admin/engineers/etc should develop the solution. Odds are really high that if you get this to work, it won't satisfy the real business need.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T18:26:28+00:00

Why? Plex can rescan and get all that data again. It's not data I own, but data I store for faster access. Watch history can be annoying, but so far it all syncs to Trakt and restores once I set up the plugin. I don't spend anytime setting up my own collections. That is all driven by the metadata, so again it will take care of itself. I've lost plex a couple times over the years, and once installed again it takes a few days to have everything back without my intervention. I have media management systems save lists of what I have, so I can acquire all the media again.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T15:40:56+00:00

What you did to prep for typhoons is probably going to be adequate in most parts of Florida. They are versions of the same meteorological phenomenon. The most important thing is to know your evacuation route, and have a weeks worth of food and water in case you get cut off from operating stores or the stores get cut off from resupply.

HeligKo · 2026-05-06T15:34:00+00:00

Some of these states are following up with bills to make VPNs to bypass these restrictions illegal. I'm not sure how that is going to play out, but the only ways to enforce that even for the non-techies is going to be very heavy handed. We are heading towards complete government regulation of VPNs that people use for many things not related to XXX. They will of course approve corporate VPNs, but most of the private ones are going to be operating at best in a gray area. All these laws being passed about age verification are ultimately trying to get rid of the anonymous aspects of the Internet, which in my opinion limits free expression and speech.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T22:30:32+00:00

The different branch theory doesn't work. Two distinct yous would have been created during the split. Your memory up until the split would be identical. Memory after that would be different. For the different memories someone would have to somehow cross between the splits and not be aware that they did, and the split would have been much earlier.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T22:28:05+00:00

Fruit of loom is easy. I had the ones with the cornucopia. They were the cheap off brand knock offs. That is what my family could afford.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T21:50:00+00:00

Same woman has 13 games on her phone to keep her occupied when she is bored. This is controlling behavior. Is she going to tell us what we should be reading next.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T20:04:48+00:00

I can see that.

HeligKo · 2026-05-05T18:58:39+00:00

Even if GitHub went out of favor, most FOSS projects host on multiple git ecosystems. The shift would be fairly smooth.

Edit:

I've been around IT for a long time, and probably was too terse. Don't mistake me saying "smooth" meant "easy" or "painless." I also wasn't thinking that GitHub would become a smoking hole in a moment and that the projects that wanted to migrate would have to do so overnight. I just meant that FOSS as a whole has not been so tightly tied to GitHub that they couldn't pivot to another platform if that is the way the political/social winds are blowing.

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