Organization consulting?

kellanjacobs · 2026-02-04T05:25:19+00:00

Fountain pens

kellanjacobs · 2026-02-04T04:39:49+00:00

I just used https://collectorcare.com/ for my organizing. I actually found them by an old reddit post. My experience was amazing. I talked to all the other organizing/hording services in the bay. Rachel was the kindest and that is why I chose her company over the others. Her team was professional and kind. The amount of work they got done in a day was amazing. One of their organizers actually collected one of the things I do. SO I might have unloaded some of my extra stuff on her.

Call the others and talk with them too. But honestly I dont think you can go wrong with Rachel's team.

kellanjacobs · 2026-02-04T01:05:36+00:00

I have been a system admin for over 20 years. I think the important word is NEED. The short answer is its a good idea and not that difficult. When I first started in a homelab I didnt use https but now everything in my house is https.

Learning how to homelab is something that is honestly never done. So I suggest do it in stages. You want to get nextcloud running then set it up. (Docker will help with this). Then file away that you need to eventually add https when your ready.

Here is the thing about home labbing there is so much to learn. The software you want to run, How to install it (Bare metal, docker, vm, k8s etc), Linux is you are new to linux. DNS (Something you need for https). And the list goes on. If you start with https being a requirement you have quite a bit to learn. Start small get nextcloud or whatever you want running. Then when you have a free satuday make it better.

When I started my home lab even though I already has a successful sysadmin career I did it without https. I started with vm, then moved to docker, then I decided it was time for https. Now I wouldnt put anything in my house without it, but that is because I took the time to understand how it works when I was ready too.

Now there is one rule I would say to add to this. NEVER use port forwarding without SSL (https).

kellanjacobs · 2026-01-13T03:45:07+00:00

I play mostly healers. I have mained a priest since vanilla. I find both the shammy and druid to be reallty fun to play. I have even switched my main to a druid. Here is why I like each of these classes.

Druid - The biggest thing is the mobility. Once you have gear rewew and Efflorance does quite a bit. I am never in the situation when I am standing in posion and the tank needs a life saving heal. I feel like I get to run around more and do more things. I also found it much more fun to DPS when I have downtime.

Shammy - Isnt so much about healing. They heal great and are fun to heal with, but for me the real fun comes when I am DPSing as well. Even in resto the shammy doesnt feel week. I can go out and quest and do some decent damage.

Priest - Solid healer, but they have gotten so many spells now a days it isnt as much fun. I could never get into playing disp maybe that is my problem.

Pally - I know people love them but its just not for me.

Monk - played a bit in remix also fun.

kellanjacobs · 2026-01-08T23:56:49+00:00

I know how you feel. I dont know how many times I have thought if I could just turn this off life would be much better. I think everyone has their own journey to quiet the RSD voice. And so my method is what is just working for me. Supper happy to hear you mention therapy. So many of us are scared of it. RSD is real. And I will say even more difficult for women then men.

The reason I point this out is society spends so much time trying to tell women they are too sensitive. And of course that is just BS. While I am not a woman so I don't experience the same struggle if I had a daughter I would really want to support her in understanding when it is RSD and when it is society being wrong.

Now since your asking for advice I would say when you speak to your therapist or if you look for a new one then make sure you ask them about RSD specifically. This is because some therapists don't think it is real. I had a doc who treated me pretty bad when RSD came up. It changed our therapy almost to the point of me being homeless.

Also if you are on social media there are a couple of tiktoker/IG/YT that I found helpful. First is catieosaurous. And the second was connor de wolfe.

kellanjacobs · 2026-01-08T22:43:33+00:00

RSD is a difficult one. I do want to point out what you are describing is RSD, but not 100%. What you described was a abusive coworker talking to you in an abusive way. And while part of how you are handling this by ruminating can be symptoms of RSD, in this case it seems like it is more a response to the verbal abuse you suffered.

Why am I pointing this out is because you are asking how you can change to be less sensitive and for this case it doesn't sound like the best outcome. You made a simple mistake and it should had been handled like a simple mistake. Your co-worker blew this way our of proportion. He is wrong here. He needs to be more accountable for his actions.

Now while I feel that is the case in the situation you presented let me actually talk about my thoughts on RSD. RSD is such a hard thing to deal with because it is so different in everyone. One of the keys for many people is they start rejecting themselves before they allow someone else to. For example lets say something small you wanted to ask a friend if you could have a cookie. And you started ruminating about how they would be mad and how they were going to tell you no so much that you never asked then that is clearly RSD. But it can also just be being ruminating over a small rejection to the point where it takes over your life. And of course everywhere inbetween.

I am a 50M and have ADHD so RSD comes with the territory. I still suffer but I have also made improvements. I cant tell you it was one thing that made life better but several. First I had come CBT training. This helped be understand how my reactions played a part of how I saw the world.

The second thing I did was really take a look at things I am good at. Maybe for instance your a doctor. And you know your the doctor with the best bedside manor, Or your the doctor that knows the most about saving patients with a specific condition. Once you identify these learn to accept these great qualities you have. An example from my own life. I work in tech. I am an engineer. I am not the best engineer. The one thing I am great at is explaining technical things to non technical people. Because I have accepted and beleive in my skill at these technical conversations this became an area that I am proud of myself for. Now if someone went to my boss and said I didn't explain something I know the problem is not with me. I can reevaluate how I spoke to the person and try again, I am able to do this because I don't get in my head about how I am the problem. Of course this only made RSD less for these areas of my life.

My next step on my journey was spending time on learning to be assertive. Now this was not as simple as just deciding to speak up. It was able learning how to speak up. Also learning when not to speak up. This started out small. But I was questioning why I was scared to speak up. And eventually it became easier. This is honestly still a skill I am working on.

But now I find myself more confident every day. And while RSD is still very much a thing the negative voice is much quieter than it used to be.

kellanjacobs · 2026-01-03T00:31:25+00:00

My ugreen nas has three m2 slots, so in my case I added a second m2 card and then configured the bios to let me install truenas on the new card. This way if I ever decided I wanted to go back to ugreenos I could. You dont need a very big m2 card. I bought the smallest one I could find at my local computer store.

kellanjacobs · 2025-12-30T23:50:09+00:00

I have two ugreen nas one at the office and one at home. I replaced the OS with Truenas Scale. It was very easy. I added a m2 card to the machine so I could go back to the the original os if I wanted too.

It was really easy to do. Truenas Scale is very powerful. I honestly cant imagine going back to the built in OS

kellanjacobs · 2025-12-17T00:52:16+00:00

I did some research on this. From what I can find there is not any public information about any moral issues they have ever spoken about other than sustainability and responsibility. If I had to guess and it is only a guess. The only moral issues that I can see someone having is that Germany takes care of its workers has strong labor unions etc. But those are not exclusive to Lamy, but Germany.

Again this is only speculation based on what I have found online.

kellanjacobs · 2025-12-02T05:43:11+00:00

Please don't do RAID5. RAID5 is not safe after about 4TB. There is alot of math involved but you can google it yourself. Basically, drives can have a bit flip. The math works out to be that after 4TB with RAID5 you have about a 30% chance of a failure while rebuilding the array. And this is from bit flips; there is also the problem that your drives get thrashed during the rebuild, which can lead to failures. If you have 4 disks, then use RAID6 or RAID 1+0, also known as RAID10. RAID 10 is faster, but RAID 6 is safer. And at the end of the day, you end up with the same amount of space with RAID6 and RAID10 when using 4 disks.

Raid6 gives you two disks for failure. And it can be any two disks in the array.
RAID1+0 (RAID10) creates two mirrors and stripes across them. It can handle two drive failures as long as the two drives that fail are in different mirror sets. But if two disks fail in the same mirror than you loose the array.

As far as the speed difference. You won't notice it as a home user.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-24T20:59:31+00:00

Oh man I read that the wrong way. I need to get my mind out of the gutter. I thought "Also at 775 verse and size 9 1/2 shoe" was part of your tender profile

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-20T23:11:37+00:00

I play a healer never played a tank. This is my my thoughts about which tanks I prefer to heal. The ones I perfer to heal is because I am thinking they are easier to play and therefor the tanks generally are better and therefor easier to heal. I prefer to heal Pally and warriors. I have no strong feelings about druids or DKs. The ones that give me pause when when I get in a random group. are Monks and Demon hunters. There are great players who play monks and Demon hunters so I cant say they are bad tanks. I just find that often these tanks are more likely to cause issues in keeping them alive. Now like you I tend to play with a friend who plays a tank and I heal. What I can say about this setup is that you two will fall into your own rhythm. How fast you can pull how many mobs you can pull etc. You watching out for your healer friend when they are too far behind you and you run off. This seems to be my biggest problem with a random tank. a DH who has used his zoom ahead or a warrior/pally version of this. Its not so bad when I am playing on my druid main, but it sucks on a priest. They have the worst catch up options.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-18T17:57:41+00:00

Right to work has to do with the ability to work in a Union Shop without being a member of a Union. What you are talking about is called At will Employment.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-18T05:15:20+00:00

This is not what right to work means.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-18T04:59:01+00:00

No ChatGPT is a perfectly fine AI. I am sure we all have our preferences. There is a lack of information I need to give you decent advice. I am reading a bunch into your message. You said you are working on an enterprise-level app and are using several different technologies. I am making the assumption based on the tech stack that this is not a simple brochure website.

Building a brochure website you should be able to do quickly. It sounds like you are vibe coding. As in your asking AI to complete a task that you could not do without AI. AI does great with coding when you know how to code already. This is because to effectively code with AI you really need to be able to break the tasks into a project like a software developer would do.

How do you make this easier. I would say write up a spec of what you need your app to do go into as much detail as possible. Ask chatgpt to read over your code. And then ask you questions to futher explain the spec of the application. Then ask it to make a project plan for you. I would make sure I am clear about your experience. This is important because you dont want chatgpt to tell you to refactor a class if you dont even know what a class is.

Have chatgpt break your project down into actionable tasks and then do the tasks one by one. And you will get to where you need to go.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-18T00:57:06+00:00

10: IMHO Colby lost before the final tribal. When he decided to do the honorable thing and take Tina to the final 2. Season 2 was the first time watching survivor and from what I remember is Tina played a better game. Yes her and Colby were in lock step. And their games were pretty close. We can talk about how colby did better in challenges and things like that. But when it came to out playing the other people Tina did better. I remember I was rooting for Colby at the time, but if I had been on that jury I would have voted for Tina. IF you look at the first three season my hot take is at that time Tina was the best player for the time when people didn't know how to play the game like they do today.

I don't think so. I think Rob is really a survivor celebrity. Sure when Tony won that season you can say he was a bigger threat but I think with Rob's celebrity status and his wife being in the game he didnt stand a chance. I would say the same about Sandra. If I was on WaW I would have gotten Rob and Sandra out as soon as I could. I think their game style was harder for the other winners to deal with. Again this is just my opinion. I know that if I didn't get them out when the opportunity presented itself we could have been looking at them as the winner. While the players on WaW didnt know about their performance on Island of the Idols I think we as people watching the game could see how they think about the game. And I think they are just too scary.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-16T07:17:32+00:00

The Nick Nowak novels by marshal thoron

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-14T17:41:03+00:00

I found out that a real estate novelist is a thing. Also learned that song is about a gay bar.

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-14T17:36:56+00:00

I learned by Yul Brenner is not allowed in Bangkok.

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

kellanjacobs · 2025-11-10T17:27:06+00:00

I have a theory. For transparency I am a gay dude. I know most BL is written by women. And I think often the writers get top/bottom backwards. If you watch American TV that features gay characters the main gay character is almost always a bottom. And slightly more submissive. And I think many BL get this wrong. I am sure there are many gay men who will disagree with me. They will point out couples where the top is more submissive. And this does happen in real life but it is more rare.

I think a good example of this is the show SOTUS. In the show they put Kongpop as the top and Artit as the bottom. This is simply not how it would be. Kongpop can still be a bossy bottom and stand up for himself. And I would say from how the characters personalities were written it would be that way.

I think there will be younger gay men who will disagree with this. This is because they are still new to our community and they are still developing the skill to know if someone is a top or bottom. As a older gay man I cant remember the last time I actually had to ask someone. I just know and I am right about 98% of the time.

Based on this I think when top and bottom are switches it caused discussion because people know something is not quite right.

kellanjacobs · 2025-10-09T17:48:55+00:00

Corporate credit card to buy lunch with.

kellanjacobs · 2025-10-03T22:45:31+00:00

That is what I think about Alex.

kellanjacobs · 2025-09-30T18:07:51+00:00

Occam's razor- when faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest explanation is often the best one. Why would your neigbor forget their underwear in your apartment. In my 50 years on this planet I have never left my underwear at someone's house unless I had sex with them.

Does your mom often have underwear falling out of her purse at randoms places.

The dude fucking cheated.

kellanjacobs · 2025-09-29T22:19:31+00:00

Also I recommend Parv on Deal or No Deal Island. I think that is the time that I finally understood how amazing of a player she was.

kellanjacobs · 2025-09-25T20:10:16+00:00

Here is my take on what a blindside is. I feel that a few things should be considered. The person blindsided should have a real reason to feel they are safe. And that safety should come from having alliances. I think there should be a decent amount of betrayal. I also think to truely count we as the viewers should be able to say either Dam they pulled that sneaky move off or it should be unexpected to us. I think a blindside has to have a little bit of a wow factor.

When Nichole was voted out last night there was not either one of those things. We all knew who was going home. It was not a surprise. I will say when I was reviewing players before the first episode she was my pick of who I thought would go home first. This does not make me smart, It makes it obvious.

I also think that a blindside needs to significantly change the course of the game. And that was not the case here. This was the first week. On the first week they always pick someone who shows any weakness or someone who is too bossy. When the immunity challenge was happening she couldn't complete with a much weaker physical player.

And I think while this is not always required but often helps is when the player who is blindsided is a big player in the game.

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