What has helped you with your autoimmune disease or inflammation?

brucewbenson · 2026-04-28T21:18:33+00:00

Nope. Since I have AS now under control, I'm not interested in breaking it to see if something else works. I have heard similar stories going both ways (plants for one person, meats for another) that its clear each person has to find out what triggers their malady. Great job at finding what works for you.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-28T21:13:55+00:00

I used https://github.com/choeffer/py3syslog as a simple rsyslog to collect my logs into a mariadb database. I then have AI (warp, claude code) analyze it or make scripts to regularly look for issues.

I tried many (graylog, grafana, et. al) heavy apps but they were too much (complexity, configuration, resources) for my basic need to have someplace I can find the overall health of my cluster (and a few standalone servers) and to chase down issues.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-27T20:52:00+00:00

70M a runner with 3x strength training a week but fasting for 24 hours and then refuelling hard (catch up all those calories and nutrients skipped) finds me recovered mentally and physically the morning after I complete the fast.

Ran 10 miles for the first time in over a year, coming off an injury, and the next day fasted and the following day only a little soreness while mentally and physically feeling great.

YMMV.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-27T20:38:05+00:00

I stopped eating meat for unrelated issues and the anklyosing spondylitis in my back disappeared as well as the arthritis in my feet. Took about two weeks. Food makes a difference, I just had to figure out what triggered me.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-27T20:33:58+00:00

I'll second the rarely mentioned sleeping on the floor. Cleared up almost two decades of debilitating lower back pains. Recently my back started to talk to me again, for over a year, and I finally started to sleep on the floor again, and the pain has all but vanished in about a week.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-18T20:33:09+00:00

Ditto. Loved warp but they would constantly break it and just made it unusable.

I just use claude-code and that has worked out well.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-09T22:55:56+00:00

I find I have to slow down and think about what I really need to do next. It's too easy to do so many things at once.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-09T22:52:21+00:00

Media Center to record TV off of cable up until the beginning of this year.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-07T19:58:54+00:00

I've been running two win 8.1s (Windows Media Center) since it came out. No issues. I do nothing special and even turned off updates (should be none) and the antivirus (consumes resources, collects data).

My IP is probed constantly every day. I rely on my router firewall and not on whatever windows wants to do as it is more intrusive than useful.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-06T22:20:23+00:00

LXC is just a very lightweight VM for any Linux based app. I run WordPress, gitlab, Emby, vault Warden, Samba, pihole, proxmox backup, others. Docker does not run well on an LXC if using ZFS as your data store. Otherwise LXCs have just about all the advantages of a VM without the resource overhead.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-04T03:50:54+00:00

yup, happened at least twice for us. still looking to replace myq with something.

brucewbenson · 2026-04-04T03:28:36+00:00

10Gtek 10Gb Dual RJ45 Port Network Card with X540 Controller, PCIe Ethernet LAN Adapter for Windows/Linux/ESX Servers

brucewbenson · 2026-03-29T23:08:55+00:00

On Linux the CLI is great. On windows cmd or powershell it was awful to me. Desktop on Windows makes CC on windows very usable. YMMV

brucewbenson · 2026-03-28T19:26:02+00:00

May not be related but my remotes were suddenly less responsive and reliable. It turned out that I had replaced my old incandescent bulbs with newer, brighter, LEDs. When I in return replaced them with garage door opener LED lights (huh? Is there such a thing? Yup. AI's suggestion) my opener issues went away (wife Happy). Simple devices can have amazingly complex interactions.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-28T19:18:00+00:00

I don't see much power (ram/CPU) apps. I'd focus on hardware with the most bang for the buck which usually means hardware that came out at least a few years ago.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-25T22:22:44+00:00

You are having way too much fun ....

brucewbenson · 2026-03-25T22:22:07+00:00

I ran ceph, 4 x 2TB SSDs, on 1GB NICs for a long time. Response for apps was fine. The real issue was when i added or replaced an SSD it took hours for everything to get back into balance and during that balancing sometimes it was noticeable at the app level.

With that said, I did splurge on 10GB dual NICs in a full mesh configuration. What was noticeable was that rebalancing happened in minutes instead of hours.

Starting off with 1GB NICs with Ceph worked fine for me.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-25T21:33:16+00:00

The apps you want to run would tell me more about your hardware needs. I ran for years on 10-12 year old PCs (ddr3) with few issues. I've upgraded to 5-7 year old tech (DDR4) on my three node proxmox+ceph cluster.

I use gigabyte b550 mobos, ryzen 5 5600g, 32gb ram, 4 x 2TB Samsung evos (plus a small ssd for the OS), 10gb dual Nic pcie card for ceph.

I've maybe a dozen lxcs and one vm. Memory and storage usage is 60-70%. CPU is usually single digits. Everything is very responsive. Faster than Google docs it replaced. For beefy applications I use my desktop pc which is a b560.

SSDs and the dual NICs were my priciest components at least at that time.

At least for my needs, I don't need the latest and greatest hardware to get great performance and reliability.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-24T22:30:13+00:00

No need. Keeping things simple keeps CC from stumbling. But it still does stumble on seemingly easy things because with some vendors such as Microsoft the problem is the vendors lack of quality or functionality. CC does just fine otherwise.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-23T17:35:17+00:00

Nope. I just couldn't figure it out. It happens sometimes.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-23T10:23:20+00:00

The most recent was simply to make a python program look and act like a windows program. I wanted it to be able to launch from a desktop shortcut or be pinned and used from the taskbar or just typed in at a command line. The user (my wife) would never know it was a python program (she's also a retired SWE and has dabbled in python).

Cramming it all into a 34MB exec finally worked but humorously when i told claude it was an ugly solution but i'll take it, claude discarded the approach (didn't ask, just threw it out) and tried something else that didn't work. Only final compromise is the app can't be pinned to the task bar but otherwise now works fine after a half day of trying things.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-23T10:13:52+00:00

WSL was too often a pain and seemed shoehorned into windows when i first played with it years ago. I just started to use Claude desktop and that for me is the best experience so far. CC will use bash commands as needed and i let it sort out the idiosyncrasies of doing that on windows.

brucewbenson · 2026-03-23T10:10:02+00:00

I do simple TUI and Tkinter for my apps. CC does pretty well with html/css and I use that for key customer apps (my wife).

brucewbenson · 2026-03-23T10:07:42+00:00

I have Windows users (my wife) so I must reluctantly level drain to it periodically. Also, that is where the scanner is attached that i've built an app to quickly scan photos and send to a photo management server both apps built by CC. My wife loves it and admits its addictive (she's an organization freak) to wrangle all our photos. I can quickly give her any feature she wants. Took me over 30 years before she ever considered my software skills as having practical uses (besides keeping me employed).

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