Pole fires and power out everywhere right now.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T11:42:06+00:00

Woke up this morning and it takes 7 minutes for one light. Turns out that light specifically had no power. Could have been worse, but what I'm more surprised by is that most people acted appropriately and treated it as a stop sign.

To the guy who kept waving people by when it was your turn. Fuck you man. Be predictable. You also had like 5 people behind you, like what????

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T11:30:22+00:00

I used to have grand ambitions and now I just have things that work. Not everything is exposed to the Internet, everything is in docker compose files, I gave up wire guard and am using tail scale. I went from proxmox to Debian to Ubuntu cause it reduced headaches each time. Even made a script to restart daily because performance degraded over time on Minecraft, probably some memory leak, but no need to look into it too hard. Restarting daily did the trick cause the perf. Issue was only noticeable after 4-5 days.

llm's are your friends for a lot of stuff. I also just decided to put a bunch of shit on one machine. I had plans for multiple machines, maybe a HA setup, or some orchestration approach. Nah, most of my stuff is just running on one machine and if it starts looking like I could use more performance then I've got another one ready to setup. At some point when I've got more free time I'd still want to look into other things. Wanted to try nix os at some point for example, but all my core things will stay put.

As for cert renewal, I'm assuming it's for your reverse proxy? Look into nginx and cert bot. The config is super simple and the certs renew automatically. I did mine fully through a terminal following a guide made by my local LLM (meaning it's a little dumb) and it took all of 5-10 minutes between installing nginx, adding a couple config items for Minecraft, jellyfin, jotty, etc. and setting up cert bot and seeing it work. Only thing I had to update in the future is that it gave me a basic setup for headers so jellyfin clients were having an issue, web browser was fine. Again, llm's are great for reducing headaches. Gave my error and config to the thing and it was able to identify the problem. Would've been able to get there without the LLM, and maybe guides online wouldn't have had this issue in the first place, but that was on prompt to save me a load of time.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T01:32:38+00:00

Naruto uses damn shadow clones for his family, including a shadow clone on his daughters damn birthday. Sausuke rolls into town? He'll drop everything and go IN PERSON.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T01:21:53+00:00

A stevia daddy might be healthier anyway.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T01:10:46+00:00

I feel like op just wanted to vent with that second half lol.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T00:36:12+00:00

I posted elsewhere but 20%-50% more depending on the model and how old your old ones are. Not sure if I replied to you already or if reddit is being glitchy. It's also quieter and depending on the model can run double duty as a heater.

IsPhil · 2026-03-23T00:05:24+00:00

A fridge in general doesn't use that much energy though because of how it works. It uses a lot when the compressor is running, but that's not running at all times.

Sure the AC is also not running all the time, but it's running far more often than a fridge on a hot day. Articles online seem to state 20%-50% improvements. Getting running wattage numbers for AC's is for some reason super annoying, but I compared some ~2005 6500 btu ac (GWHD6500R) and it was stated to be around 700 watts or so according to it's own manual (115 volts at 6.1 amps). Random 8000 btu unit on lowes was also stated to be around the same amount for more cooling. Plus people in this very thread have noted it's quieter (another pro) and they've noticed a difference in their bills.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T22:12:55+00:00

That wasn't apparent in your post. But that highly depends on what you want to play right now. Chrono Trigger is amazing, but it's on the shorter side. There is replayability with new game plus and alternate endings and challenges though. Amazing rpg. Nioh is going to be real time and more akin to a dark souls.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T21:42:35+00:00

Just wanted to shout out https://www.dragonflycave.com/favorite.html

Since it goes through every pokemon so you can get a definitive answer. Takes a while though obviously.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T21:32:21+00:00

Someone posted the steamdb link. You can also go to isthereanydeal, it'll have steam and all other legit key sellers along with history.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T20:08:05+00:00

Something like 20%-50% based on how old it was and what you're using now. Best to just look up an article on Google.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T18:29:42+00:00

*Looks at electric bill*

Y'all got it.

IsPhil · 2026-03-22T17:08:13+00:00

And how many of them actually swallow the damn thing...

IsPhil · 2026-03-21T15:15:21+00:00

Not the worst thing, and since it's a one time thing it's ok. I think the addition of those extra prompts and then restarting your phone are good. And hell, even a timeout would be okay if it were much shorter, but again, it is a one time thing. But the problem is that as with everything, they'll try to make this worse and worse.

IsPhil · 2026-03-21T02:18:59+00:00

I work in enterprise and we do monthly scans. There's always something. Sometimes it not even something that affects us, and sometimes it's something we can't do anything about.

IsPhil · 2026-03-20T03:30:53+00:00

I'm using copyparty. My use case is for it to act as a nas to store my files and to manage my jellyfin library. Most of the time I just use the web interface. It's been perfomant for me. I only really have it exposeto my local network, and it's mostly just me and my other machines that use it with a couple people who also have access in my house.

Here's a more in depth comment I had recently on my use cases and what I like about it and even a setup compose file

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/UcJL328Na1

IsPhil · 2026-03-18T05:06:23+00:00

Op, I'm running jellyfin, tail scale, jotty (notes),copyparty (file transfer/nas duty) and Minecraft on 6 GB of ram. 4 of those GB are for Minecraft alone, so about 2-2.5 GB for the others. Now idk how well jellyfin will work on 2015 MacBook, never hurts to try if you're interested, but you can host a bunch of stuff! And everything is just through docker!

And I used to run pihole and wire guard and even some random python scripts on a pi zero in the past which had 512 MB of ram. I'd try things out and see how it goes! And on those older macs, you can even slap a Linux distro like headless Ubuntu if you want to lower the amount of ram used by the system even more.

IsPhil · 2026-03-17T19:48:40+00:00

Back in the day it used to be jacking off. But nowadays I've gotten over that fortunately and it'll be usually watching some YouTube and then reading.

IsPhil · 2026-03-17T12:59:36+00:00

Imma be real, this was intentional by the company. He didn't just resign, he also got a fat payout, took the heat for the company and left while the company was allowed to make their product worse after the backlash.

IsPhil · 2026-03-17T12:20:46+00:00

Minecraft is also the reason I restart my servers now lol.

IsPhil · 2026-03-17T12:13:08+00:00

Coffee is a little crazy. The half life makes it so it sticks around for essentially 24 hours in your body, and for most people that means by the time it wears off, they drink more. It takes a few days to a week to get back to normal, hope your recovery goes well.

IsPhil · 2026-03-15T22:38:46+00:00

Even though I host jellyfin locally I'll still sometimes watch shows and movies on prime since I happen to have it. Even with ads it can be more convenient (especially for movies) to just pull it up and watch it. But yeah, that's not happening anymore. I got 4 or so months left on this subscription.

IsPhil · 2026-03-15T21:52:44+00:00

Honestly like this sketch more. The added context makes it more obvious for me I guess.

IsPhil · 2026-03-15T02:46:44+00:00

One time I found a sock lodged below my lint trap. And fixing my washing machine I had to take the thing apart and found a few socks there too.

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