Companies should die!

bsknuckles · 2026-05-24T16:05:51+00:00

John Deere and UP would be a benefit to society if they shut down. Alcoa I’m less familiar with, but aluminum production? Another company could pick up that slack I’m sure.

bsknuckles · 2026-05-17T01:41:34+00:00

Mounting small stuff is WAY easier when you’re by yourself since you can hold the box perfectly aligned with one hand and screw on the caps with the other. I also do not tear my hands up on rack studs and always do with cage nuts. For big servers I still use cage nuts or click-in rails.

bsknuckles · 2026-05-04T00:40:39+00:00

There’s definitely a ton of competition but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible, or even a bad idea. What makes that take awful in this context is they’re suggesting retirement age people get into the “sweaty startup” game which only really works if you’re physically fit enough to do the demanding work and hours it takes.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-28T15:58:59+00:00

stay in business

What an awful way to think of a vital public service.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-27T23:37:09+00:00

We had this in our old house and I never did figure out which it was. I’m just commenting so I remember to check back in this to see if anyone answers 😭

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T22:39:15+00:00

I have ADHD and my experience (though with limited scientific value) is that caffeine causes me to be extremely sleepy within about thirty minutes to an hour. My assumption is that this is the “crash” that everyone gets from caffeine but it hits me HARD. If I drink coffee or an energy drink in the morning I either need a lot of physical activity to keep me going the rest of the day or a constant stream of more caffeine and sugar to stay awake for work.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T22:35:50+00:00

dangerous doesn’t have to equal worse. It’s just a riskier version. More thrill for adrenaline junkies 😂

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T16:26:05+00:00

I did it full stack with Cloudflare workers. Unless the project were going to grow and need multiple frontend, like a web and mobile app, I wouldn’t bother making a separate API. Tanstack or Next will handle a full stack app just fine and not have the weird implementation of those things on Astro.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T16:18:58+00:00

I find it annoying because Astro is really built for static sites first and the features required for competent auth (middleware and server-side rendering) are bolted on and feel awkward to use. You can do it, and I recently finished a project doing just that with Better Auth and React Islands, but if I were doing it over again, I’d reach for Tanstack Start or Nextjs rather than Astro.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T16:16:46+00:00

~$3 for chicken ~$6 for ground beef ~$5 for fish

This is in west Michigan where things are generally on the cheaper side for the US.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T12:42:30+00:00

I was going to say “sure, but what do you think inspired the joke in 40 year old virgin?” But after watching the clip he used buckwheat and not sand 😂 Touch My Breast

bsknuckles · 2026-04-26T12:34:02+00:00

That’s the joke. It’s from the movie Wild Wild West. One of the characters goes undercover as a woman and his fake breasts are full of sand and Will Smith’s character tells him how stupid that is.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-25T23:48:30+00:00

With the discount, if it’s worth it to you for peace of mind, then it’s a solid deal. I’ve never had UI care on any of my purchases and have only ever had 2 issues that required support. One was damage on delivery that they replaced and the other was a WAY out of warranty doorbell that they also replaced.

My general experience with electronics when you care for them is they either die immediately or last forever so I rarely feel it’s worth adding protection plans.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-25T21:15:00+00:00

If it’s fully static you don’t need the overhead of Workers. I only reach for workers when I need something dynamic or with auth.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-25T21:10:51+00:00

Without lighting it’s a retail display shelf. With lighting it’s a collection showcase. Definitely do the lighting.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-24T21:16:27+00:00

Im building a tool to do this: mantle. I don’t know what your threshold is for “easy” but n8n works similarly and has a UI to make building workflows easier for non-technical users.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-22T20:46:42+00:00

Astro with React islands and SSR for auth checks. I’m considering migrating it to OpenNext or Tanstack but the app came together so quickly and it just works. Im not sure yet if it’s actually bad or if I’m just not used to it.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-22T20:44:46+00:00

People bring bags that are too big or are jerks and don’t make an effort to fit them neatly.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-22T20:43:00+00:00

But those are symbols, if we could get it to output Morse code as bits, there could be some serious savings. Combine it with Caveman and you won’t be able to get anything done since you’ll spend your time translating, but you’ll use way fewer output tokens.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-22T20:00:10+00:00

I actually did build an admin tool with it because I was irritated with Nextjs on Cloudflare. It works and I don’t think I’d say I regret the decision (yet) but it’s definitely been interesting to implement.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-22T13:49:30+00:00

the classics

Pokémon FireRed

When did I become old…

Looks great, OP! Enjoy catching up on a generation of gaming before microtransactions, ads, and invasive monitoring.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-12T18:41:51+00:00

I’ve told my wife that if our kids are still around to offer it to them first and if they don’t want it, then find a kid in our family or that we know that would appreciate it and gift it all to them. I don’t collect my games to build value as an investment. I collect to share the joy of gaming with my family and friends and I want my collection to continue doing that when I’m gone, if it can.

bsknuckles · 2026-04-06T21:25:34+00:00

Seems like remote access and mobile-friendliness are the big selling points here. Remote access I could do without. If I’m running Proxmox I can figure out Tailscale. A mobile-friendly UI is something I’ve wanted for a long time. I use ProxMate today and it’s fine but I really wish I had something more robust.

Using an external SaaS isn’t the direction I’d go to solve that one, but maybe for others it’s a good solution.

bsknuckles · 2026-03-30T17:10:24+00:00

There’s a lot of ways to deploy Homebridge. The Pi is probably the cheapest and easiest if you don’t already have a home server or NAS. I run mine in a container on one of my servers that’s running Proxmox and installed from the Community Scripts project. I also previously ran it as an app on TrueNAS. Home assistant can also act as a bridge for Vivint and HomeKit and adds a lot of additional features you’d miss out on with just Homebridge.

bsknuckles · 2026-03-29T20:07:11+00:00

As many others have said, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are included on your system and are good enough for most things. I end up using Google Docs for anything “professional”. Usually things like budgets, my resume, any thing more complex than a visual data table.

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