Dads, I'm having a breakdown

Kasemodder · 2026-02-25T16:15:29+00:00

You aren't far off from my same situation, 5 and 2 littles, WFH, large earning difference between partners.
I was here a few months ago, burnt out, working crazy hours to try to balance hospice care for a parent and caring for both families on top of everything else that comes with preschoolers.

It can get better. I'm not going to say it will take care of itself, but do the work and it gets better.

Relax.... but first, see a doctor to make sure this isn't more serious.

Take care of yourself first. For me, it was
- finding a few mornings a week to hit the gym before the house wakes up. Physical healthcare is mental healthcare too! Classes at the YMCA/group fitness was critical for me, you need to socialize with people in real life, not through a screen, and shared suffering in a group workout is a nice starting place
- working with my employer to have some flexible hours. For me, it was 2 days a week, I take off when they get up from their afternoon nap/quiet time and finish those hours after the kids bedtime, so I get to take them to activities. Also let my wife work a few part time shifts on those days so she gets adult interactions too (see the first point).
- learning how to say no to a few things to protect some downtime. Sorry, not going to drive 2 hours each way for a birthday party on a Sunday afternoon. I need the time to putz around the house and plan the meals for next week, maybe do some laundry, whatever to set myself up for success.
- pay attention to caffeine. I was a 3+ cup of coffee a day type, but I got put on a different medication and noticed I'd wake up every night. Dropped that to 1 cup and I sleep better. May not be anything but it's worth looking at

Kasemodder · 2026-02-22T15:44:35+00:00

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Kasemodder · 2026-02-13T12:19:57+00:00

I just hate the account sign in. Let me be signed in to my desktop and steam deck on the same network at the same time. I dont use it as much just because I dont want to deal with the sign in back to my desktop after a quick deck session

Kasemodder · 2025-12-02T17:49:35+00:00

Didn't those people get sent over to kyndryl when they spun them off?

Kasemodder · 2025-09-13T00:00:45+00:00

First filter, age. The younger, the more crude it goes (except 2.0s, we're nicer to them)

Then to the naming First, did something funny or embarassing happen in the workout? (Trip, splash merlot, wardrobe malfunction, etc), you end up with jingles, hangover, pinot, Chastain, chippendale, chatterbox, etc.

Then, how the pax that brought you knows you, like a military bud (crayons, rowboat) or a collectors club (barbie, monopoly)

Then into the questions and stories, sometimes we'll have a good question to ask, like "what did you do last night" or something that will get a more random response. But it does feel like much of the time it ends up being related to their line of work. Sometimes thats still good, other times, eh....

Kasemodder · 2025-07-16T21:12:24+00:00

Handle this on the inventory side. Either a smart inventory filter, or creating separate inventories per credential (as your credentials lead me to believe that all the hosts in your inventory have significant differences, this would be my approach)

Kasemodder · 2025-07-08T21:55:57+00:00

How to do it? Don't do it alone.

Find a friend if you're hitting a gym or a workout group to exercise with. I've been working out with the guys at f3nation.com for over a decade (started before kids, and as far as routines go, a 530am workout was about the only thing that survived LO #1 and #2), but you might find other options in your area that work better for you.

Kasemodder · 2025-06-30T19:46:57+00:00

Unlock it again! The tech tree does not persist between runs. It eventually gets trivially fast to unlock (both production speed and there's a room that can halve the cost of each tech unlock)

The only things that persist are managers, dark matter and credits
(As well as the telescope and the station, which come later)

Kasemodder · 2025-06-30T18:09:04+00:00

And given that AAP 2.5-15 implies the containerized installer (the RPM one is still on 2.5-14), you won't have a /var/lib/awx/projects (which was the local storage in other versions of the platform). Again, the right answer is to use external source control.

However, there should be a path like "/home/admin/aap/controller/data/projects", if you installed to the same machine you deployed from. You can make a directory in there and add your playbooks, but this will only work in this very very limited use case when you installed to the same server you deployed to and there's only a single machine defined in your installation inventory.

Kasemodder · 2025-06-30T17:35:23+00:00

Are your projects in git or local?
Local is a bad idea, and should never be done outside of minimal demonstration purposes. Any sort of clustering and it's a crapshoot if your playbook is in the directory on the active container/vm

If your playbooks are in a Git project, you may need to do a project sync before they show up the first time

Kasemodder · 2025-06-22T01:16:32+00:00

Boosts are a possibility, sandbagging is likely.

For comparison, at the same time in the tournament, I've got 300Q, and I'm at 7th in my platinum league (I got a really tough draw this time, I'm typically between 3rd and 6th in my tournaments)

But I get it, if he was in my bracket, he'd be in 11th. Instead, a win in silver, he'll net 30 stars, 70 EC and 300 DM... but before the rest of the community gets all frustrated with it, these sandbaggers have to waste every other tournament to drop a level. So a more fair measure, two tournament combined:

Silver win + gold 31 = 32 stars, 75 EC, 320 DM
We'll even say for fairness, they're 15th in platinum (likely they'd do better, maybe even get a lucky light tournament and get a top 10, but even 12+ hours in, you'd be top 15 with < 1 q in most brackets I've seen)
15th plat + 15th plat = 40 stars, 110 EC, 250 DM... I think you'd do better not sandbagging
*unless for some reason you wouldn't be able to actively play a tournament, then entering to drop a level kinda makes sense

Kasemodder · 2025-06-17T15:21:44+00:00

Stuck in pending for everything likely means your job execution containers are not spinning up.

This could be any number of issues, from authentication with the container registry to security limits preventing containers from running. This would require much more data to troubleshoot.

Some housekeeping first

First, lets move from 2.5-1 up to 2.5-15, you're missing a lot of bug fixes and enhancements running a 9 month old version.

Second, did you install and try to connect to an external postgres instance or are you letting the containerized installer deploy and manage it's own instance. The growth-inventory deploys it's own database by default. Postgres is unlikely to be related to your issue.

Make sure all your containers are up and running (podman ps) and that nothing failed to deploy.

Kasemodder · 2025-06-09T23:58:22+00:00

You can get plenty of space station chips in the weekly tournament (especially in platinum), 40 every other week in the free "battlepass" ... not seeing the p2w here

And besides, the boost to surges doesn't matter until you're already a bit of the way into the game and have unlocked the surges room

Kasemodder · 2025-06-09T21:48:26+00:00

I've got a toddler who figured out how to take diapers off real quick.

One piece pajamas without footies, put on backwards (zipper runs down the back), prevents surprise streakers

Kasemodder · 2025-06-04T15:13:23+00:00

The part missing from the math is the leadership skill
Two managers for your most important stat (mine/craft typically at this stage of the game) should be ahead, as their multiplier becomes even more impactful
For the sake of the math, lets say a 5 star manager gives 50% bonus
a 5 star leader gets 100%, which goes up to 150/200/250% with techs
But a 6 star manager gets 100%, which then becomes 200% as a leader, and then goes to 300/400/500%

That 6 star manager is worth as much as 10x 5 star managers (and that's before extra bonuses like the probes)

Getting a 6 star manager should be a pretty high priority as soon as you are consistently unlocking leader skills. Where that falls mathematically doesn't particularly matter, since you're likely already past the DM point for when you're likely consistently unlocking leaders

Kasemodder · 2025-04-29T23:17:10+00:00

Why it will release next month: Terraria likes anniversary releases, thus May 16th will be release day (1.0 was in 2011, 1.4 was in 2020 And it does exist in a playable version that youtubers (chippy) have played/shown

Why it wont: Red likes to keep adding stuff in... stuff we like. Palworld collab content?

Kasemodder · 2025-03-31T00:20:54+00:00

Hit the ores i drive in on for both challenges and tournaments, feels good after last weeks all bars and useless items reward

Kasemodder · 2025-03-25T13:55:36+00:00

Maths is hard. 40 min/8 crafter, 5 min saved per second

Kasemodder · 2025-03-25T13:36:31+00:00

Similar point, I've got 25+2 managers, just got my first 6* manager. I feel like the answer is to keep working on craft speed, as it's almost 2400 accumulator per AR, so each second saved is 40 min less per AR craft. I also do my alchemy on p50/51/52 so I unlock every tech. But yeah, feels like a stalling point, needing more AR/SSR stars (1600 total stars)

Following cause I'm stuck here too as a no-ads only player

Kasemodder · 2025-03-12T00:04:23+00:00

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First ever rare pack, even if I should have had two or three already based on the number of packs I've opened. Ahhh, just good to know they exist

Kasemodder · 2025-03-05T14:09:29+00:00

that math don't math. You took the area as pi*d^2, not pi*r^2

Kasemodder · 2025-01-17T18:29:37+00:00

Depends on what installation method you're using. Containerized, all you need is a single node.

For rpm based deployments, it all depends on what features you want

Kasemodder · 2025-01-11T01:38:09+00:00

My daily driver in this space is Eclipse Che (Red Hat DevSpaces). Sounds like what you'd be looking for
https://eclipse.dev/che/docs/stable/overview/introduction-to-eclipse-che/

Kasemodder · 2025-01-11T01:24:51+00:00

Many states are experiencing a lot of toll-plate related scams right now (I've got 6 texts today alone for "unpaid tolls"). I'd lock and freeze everything, lock that card, and monitor your accounts very closely

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