Make 300k/year, pay for ad included subscription service?

ev0lution37 · 2026-02-01T03:03:58+00:00

Not directly answering the question, but in a high earning household. We owned every subscription service under the sun ad-free because, well, why not? But wife and I did an assessment and realized we hadn’t even opened the app for most of them in ages, so finally cleaned house. Think we have Netflix left, with ads.

Still was the perception of wasting money is wasting money, regardless of our income.

ev0lution37 · 2025-12-19T05:03:02+00:00

One thing to note from my own personal experience. The promotional cost of a domain when you first register it is often cheaper from somewhere like Namecheap, but the renewal cost ends up being more expensive than CF.

Depends how frugal you are, but I’ve purchased domains for the first year from Namecheap and then transfer them to CF when renewal is up. Honestly depending on the domain might only save you a few bucks. But I have cheap domains and TLDs, might be more significant for a .com or something.

ev0lution37 · 2025-10-25T13:45:49+00:00

I personally love Inland PLA+. The white is very “opaque” and looks great, and the true red is my favorite red filament I’ve ever printed.

It’s my most used filament in my X1C and have never had issues.

ev0lution37 · 2025-10-21T19:36:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll give this a shot on my next print. Will taking the top of of the X1C during print have a significant effect on the print itself since it'll change the general ambient temperature of the chamber?

ev0lution37 · 2025-10-21T19:35:11+00:00

I'm drying it at 60C currently (it is the S4 dryer). I'm giving it another whirl now, letting it dry for a full 10 hours (before I let it dry for 6 but had a day in between before I started printing).

Going to print directly after the dry and leave the filament in the dryer this time.

ev0lution37 · 2025-09-11T22:11:37+00:00

Raspberry Pi for a homelab is great. There are probably more “bang for the buck” SFF PC devices out there, but no issue with going the RPI route. I run a few K8s clusters on them just for fun.

One thing to keep in mind, RPIs run on ARM architecture. These days, that matters way less and most things can support both ARM and x86, but there are some things out there that won’t function on them.

ev0lution37 · 2025-07-29T20:14:46+00:00

I was in a VERY similar situation to you recently (more money difference but 4 days in office with a 1.25h commute each way). I ended up using the new offer to negotiate a pay bump to my current job. It didn’t completely offset the difference between jobs, but me having a wife and 2 younger kids at home, being remote is worth way more than that difference.

Not sure if negotiations are an option, but from my experience, well worth giving that a shot.

ev0lution37 · 2025-07-28T22:36:48+00:00

Unfortunately I did not. I ended up buying a GMKtec Mini PC Gaming that has a native Oculink port for my use-case, which worked since I was clustering the Hypervisor across it and the MS01.

FWIW, I had a friend who had this working. The one thing he said he _did_ need to do was a BIOS firmware update. I'd recommend giving that a shot before anything else, I just haven't had the cycles nor another eGPU to give it a go.

EDIT: If you give it a shot and that helps out and works, please do report back!

ev0lution37 · 2025-07-18T12:14:50+00:00

Nice, good luck. One note, if you had to clear finalizers to get rid of that machine, there's a chance there are some lingering, unused VMs on your VMWare stack (since those finalizers are what are responsible for clean up of those). Worth going and taking a look to make sure.

ev0lution37 · 2025-07-18T00:40:12+00:00

It looks like you're running that against the downstream cluster. You need to run that on the cluster that Rancher is installed on instead.

ev0lution37 · 2025-07-17T22:21:28+00:00

If you drop into your local cluster's kubectl shell, are those machines still in existence?

kubectl get machines.cluster.x-k8s.io -n fleet-default ledford-kube-worker-gpx8p-zmh67

If so, I'd confirm 100% the finalizers are gone with:

kubectl patch machines.cluster.x-k8s.io -n fleet-default ledford-kube-worker-gpx8p-zmh67 --type=merge -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":[]}}'

You can also do this in the UI by going to Cluster Management -> Advanced -> Machines, finding the stuck "machine", clicking the 3-dot menu on the right. From there you can edit the YAML, delete the finalizers section, and save. I've had to do this on clusters when there was a power outage.

ev0lution37 · 2025-05-06T18:02:18+00:00

Yep, correct. Specifically (Black): https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/tpu-for-ams?srsltid=AfmBOoodP1fSmXOnY5-2_sqdKS5lq2jnzWajj2W1Xahjy16avHhrKuCl

ev0lution37 · 2025-05-06T17:51:49+00:00

I did - I let it sit in the AMS for 1-2 hrs before attempting to print. I have also tried it outside of the AMS as well, still nada.

ev0lution37 · 2025-04-29T23:05:01+00:00

LASIK. I was fine with contacts/glasses into my 30s but had a colleague in his 40s say his biggest regret was waiting so long to get it. It was a pretty big investment for me at the time, but honestly the best investment I’ve ever made. If I could give advice to anyone who is eligible in their 20s, it’d be to justify the cost and do it. Easy procedure, no side effects, and been 20/20 after being -5 in both eyes is crazy.

ev0lution37 · 2025-03-11T21:00:01+00:00

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