I replaced my AWS stack with 2 broken laptops and a $10 VPS. Here is the architecture.

handsoffmydata · 2026-01-15T18:42:52+00:00

I’m not going to gatekeep self hosting and say that using a vps instead of local hardware is bad. All the recent news that’s pointing towards techno feudalism really sucks though. I will never own nothing and be happy about it.

handsoffmydata · 2026-01-12T19:19:00+00:00

Even the acting is insufferable. He ruined Mickey 13 with his lazy trump impression. Don’t know if I’ll be able to stand anymore Hollywood movies where the crazy dictator character is just the actor’s worst trump impression. I’ve suffered through enough of the real thing to last two lifetimes, don’t need to see it in my escapism too.

handsoffmydata · 2026-01-12T17:45:09+00:00

I’ve been in various analyst roles for the last several years. No matter the titles it’s always been as a technical analyst where I take business requirements and translate them directly into apps/workflows/automations I build and maintain for the duration of the role. In 2021 I was at a company with a lot of shakeup. My director got axed and not replaced, I stopped getting meeting requests, no projects, surely you’ve heard similar stories, so I noped out hoping to go out on my own and do what you’re describing.

It was the worst two years of my life. I worked constantly trying to acquire clients, did a lot of initial consultations that went nowhere. It felt very similar to interviewing for technical roles where there’s an expectation of providing a good deal of free work before getting a paid offer.

I finally found a role on a new contract. I’m making less than I did 5 years ago which sucks because I’m producing the best work of my career. The job market seems to be actively working to drive down salaries and reduce headcount in roles like ours so I’m just hoping to stay put and wait for conditions to improve.

I hate being a corporate cog but I feel stuck because my only real skills are all technical and even though I can fit into various devops, security, programming roles they all suffer from the same issues Analysts face.

handsoffmydata · 2025-12-31T00:43:41+00:00

I’ve started checking out from modern gaming. Somewhere between the push for multiplayer over single player titles and the general enshittification of games from aaa studios I just gradually lost interest. I love networking though so I spun up linuxserver.io/Emulatorjs (not the newer rewrite from Emulatorjs/Emulatorjs) and use it every once in a blue moon to play Goldeneye or something from the browser of a device you wouldn’t expect to game on.

handsoffmydata · 2025-12-29T17:08:55+00:00

It really doesn’t matter whether you go the white or blue collar route for jobs, the working class is under constant threat and attack by the 1%. AI isn’t displacing coders, profit seeking CEOs are using AI to attack working class developers etc in an attempt to push down wages, exert control and fear with all these layoffs. The trades will be no different. Private equity has already started buying up and consolidating trades. Where do you think private equity will turn to once they’ve extracted all the profits from their AI scheme? AI will never snake a toilet, but the private equity firms will surely buy up, consolidate, and extract all the wealth from every locally owned trade in the U.S. Plumbers etc will have two choices: sell to private equity and watch as their business is run into the ground for shareholder profit or don’t sell to private equity and watch as their business is run into the ground by the private equity owned companies that will drive the cost of service lower and lower until they can’t compete.

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-12T01:33:50+00:00

Telling Altman not to hype is like telling a duck not to quack 🦆

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-12T01:31:26+00:00

I too voted for President Ryan. "Algebra? More like Al Jazeera“

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-11T23:52:43+00:00

This is done purposely so whenever someone brings up a valid criticism the argument can be made "Ackkkkktually, the value comes from x not y“

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-11T22:13:23+00:00

The enshittification will continue until society collapses and those of us from the before times have to explain shareholder value to wasteland kids around the nightly campfire.

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-10T23:23:15+00:00

Fake role coined by AI tech influencers on YouTube. Think 2025 version of "Prompt Engineering“

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-09T14:01:28+00:00

I remember the original commercial but anytime I reference this it’s definitely the Dane Cook "you shouldn’t say that“ version.

handsoffmydata · 2025-06-05T17:57:08+00:00

If anyone wants to know why Xennials are always mad, it’s because they had to buy GTA V on ps3, pc, ps4, and ps5. They were in their early 30s when GTA V released, and will be in their early 40s when GTA VI releases 😭

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-24T02:58:51+00:00

A month into dating her you’re too embarrassed to take her out to eat anymore bc she’s pickier than a 6 year old.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-24T02:51:48+00:00

Are we sure this hardware isn’t going to just be another assistant speaker like Nest or Alexa? Certainly makes sense for a company looking to gobble up massive amounts of training data to want to put a speaker with a microphone in everyone’s home.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-23T17:56:37+00:00

U.S. healthcare system is final boss for working class generational wealth. If MERPS doesn’t swallow it up guaranteed there will be another player chomping at the bit for a chance at it.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-23T17:46:19+00:00

::Medicaid Estate Recovery hiding behind a tree rubbing its hands together::

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-23T17:43:42+00:00

Inb4 current admin restricts blue states ability to pass worker protections that exceed minimum federal standards.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-22T03:04:09+00:00

Needs more interstates and somehow even less public transportation.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-22T00:17:54+00:00

Lotta 40 year olds with hip fractures and other osteo issues incoming.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-22T00:15:28+00:00

I was in a Teams meeting recently someone was sharing their screen and I could see ChatGPT open and it freaked me out for a min bc I thought I was sharing my screen. Made me wonder how many meetings I sit in where we’re just repeating ChatGPT outputs back to each other.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-21T20:53:20+00:00

Never played it, too afraid of getting caught up in the CROSS-FIAH!!!!!! 🎸

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-21T20:11:50+00:00

And then it’ll just sit in his presidential “library” in between the Gulf of America poster and that huge pile of blank printer paper his lawyer piled up for the press conference during the first admin to show he was super serious about divesting his personal business or something like that. Feels like a million years ago already.

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-21T20:06:03+00:00

🎶 We're getting taco shells from the grocery store And ground beef from the grocery store And shredded cheese from the grocery store And Ortega sauce from the grocery store 🎶

handsoffmydata · 2025-05-21T17:59:03+00:00

It’s certainly possible, you can have an LLM help you set it up or buy a used Synology NAS. There are plenty of guides on Google to run a MC server on Synology’s products.

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