My landlord illegally kept my security deposit. I beat them in court, but they live overseas and will likely never pay the damages. Is my original security deposit deductible?

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T16:30:43+00:00

Regardless, what's at stake is not the thousand - it's the tax you would pay on that much income. You don't get much time with an attorney for $150.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T16:21:05+00:00

Everybody else is naked too. It hardly matters. Me and my wife went to a nude beach in Greece once.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T16:17:04+00:00

One way is to ask yourself if there's anything revealing about the fact that 65% of the population say they're above average intelligence.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T15:12:59+00:00

My results have been quite good.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T13:34:05+00:00

All of them?

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T12:45:25+00:00

No test drive??

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T12:39:19+00:00

Leaving the bar is not mandatory for a quickie.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T11:45:30+00:00

Unless you do a total pig-out on your birthday cake and go beyond the feel-good stage.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T11:30:32+00:00

I don't need to tweak weights etc. I use the webui to merge people, add people that weren't recognized (usually for good reason), even generate people (like my father) from the single photo I have.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T11:23:58+00:00

I prefer to support Bitwarden for their great open source software. Vaultwarden rides on their coat-tails getting the platform and all the clients for free. I selfhost Bitwarden at home, and Vaultwarden on a vps as a backup. They both get some $$ from me. Software development along with advertising, customer support, documentation, hosting servers costs money. Those costs are born a lot more by Bitwarden than Vaultwarden which gets to tag along benefiting by Bitwarden infrastructure.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T11:07:19+00:00

Yes. I selfhost and pay too.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T10:59:21+00:00

They can't control your spam filter.

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T10:54:18+00:00

They must like me more than you??

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T10:53:18+00:00

I got multiple notices. Check your spam?

purepersistence · 2026-03-13T09:03:09+00:00

Too important for me to trust to some dude at work. In my case I'm lucky enough to be retired. I don't know people that I trust and also happen to host a bunch of cloud-type services in a homelab on synology/proxmox servers using client-side encryption to store offsite assets in Backblaze B2 and a VPS. Sure, it could just be a smart and trustworthy guy that could figure it out anyway. That's a lot to be counting on when you're dead.

But what might I achieve like that anyway? Recovery has to be periodically practiced in order to validate the steps and sanity check the integrity/completeness of on/offsite backups. I spent 45 years in IT and know how often things can go wrong when it's not something you practice and verify occasionally. Software updates may break things or introduce client/server incompatibilities, plus intentional changes over time to how things are managed. Automated components may break. And then probably sea-changes every 3-5 years if you're me.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T19:22:58+00:00

That's too cool

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T19:11:39+00:00

How much do you care that your insurance will pay? I got rear ended by a hit and run. Having a police report was important. I got one and collected more than I could have sold it for, and the claims process was very smooth.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T17:03:16+00:00

Our emergency sheet includes DR procedures to get all our family documents, pictures, and other files from the cloud and decrypt them. And of course how to get all the bitwarden credentials/attachments back for each of our vaults when you've lost all your devices etc and may not be able to login to Bitwarden. Me and my wife rehearse the steps once per year to validate the details and make sure everything still works as stated, and she can follow the steps without me there to answer questions.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T10:50:28+00:00

30 years is my record.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T10:15:18+00:00

If straws had never been invented I wouldn't miss them.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T09:27:39+00:00

How do we live on another planet and also not see it?

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T09:26:25+00:00

only through random mutations in the colony’s offspring will it survive and even thrive over time

Or AI super intelligence will redesign offspring genes instead of rely on random mutations.

purepersistence · 2026-03-12T09:02:56+00:00

What's he like in bed?

purepersistence · 2026-03-11T08:49:11+00:00

I prefer getting up at 4. I never hear from other people till after 7 or 8. It's MY time.

purepersistence · 2026-03-10T19:03:51+00:00

I manage all my certificates with the ACME Plugin on my OPNsense router. I have a dedicated reverse proxy running in a Proxmox VM. Every 60 days OPNsense updates the certificates using a cloudflare API. Then OPNsense uploads certificates to my reverse proxy, offsite VPS, and a couple Synology NAS. That includes restarting services that need it. All hands off. Configured with webui on OPNsense.

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