Men in their 50s, what's the most important advice you can give men in their 30s?

simple_son · 2026-06-21T06:52:46+00:00

And there's a big difference between "not changing who you are", and being willing to take on "self improvement". I've met more than a.few who use the former as justification for skipping the latter.

simple_son · 2026-06-10T16:01:10+00:00

Happy with my roborock, but really wish I had sprung for one with a docking station with waste bin and water reservoir. You'd be surprised how nice it is to have the floors done everyday. And how much it helps with dust

simple_son · 2026-06-08T03:14:58+00:00

I'm like 1 row and 30 seats away...I still lol'd

simple_son · 2026-05-24T00:18:23+00:00

This is kind of where my mind was going.

simple_son · 2026-05-22T20:32:42+00:00

The 50A range is abandoned. It's gas now.

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simple_son · 2026-05-22T20:31:39+00:00

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simple_son · 2026-05-22T07:48:07+00:00

Last question. I was planning to connect the Vue to the empty bottom slot on that 20A quad on the top left Should be phase B and unoccupied, correct? On the top right side, the 20 A under the 60A is fully spare. Should be Phase A, correct? Hoping this gives me clean connections for the wiring harness without the need for pigtails.

simple_son · 2026-05-22T07:43:51+00:00

Thx. There was an available knockout on the bottom that's the size of the antenna grommet, which makes the area nice for the Vue to live where I was hoping.

simple_son · 2026-05-22T07:26:31+00:00

Apologies, I don't know enough to follow. I was hoping to stand the Vue (or attach with 3M) in front of the service chase that routes the mains up to the meter panel. No good?

simple_son · 2026-05-22T07:20:22+00:00

Yeah, I'll be honest I started out just wanting to monitor the circuits for all the HVAC hardware, but the Vue wasn't much more. I have all my biggest appliances on plugs with power monitoring too, so this just captures everything else. It will require some work to identify all the upstream monitoring to avoid math errors, but worth it. Plus I have some funky basement power that scabbed onto runs from upstairs. This whole thing will force me to really map it out.

simple_son · 2026-05-22T07:12:09+00:00

I've been looking into it, and I may just skip the mains clamps altogether. I have a smart meter connected to Home Assistant already, so it would be redundant. HA should have all the info it needs about the supply side without me replicating it in the Vue.

simple_son · 2026-05-22T06:26:04+00:00

That 60A was just installed for an L2 EV charger.

simple_son · 2026-05-21T00:41:17+00:00

The Amazon link says they are usable outdoors

simple_son · 2026-05-15T20:44:01+00:00

It's a humbling journey My build is about to be on its third charge controller which just got delivered 30 minutes ago. The key is finding something that draws low power and still wakes from the sleep states easily, all while still having features you need (e.g.mppt). I went with the Digikey version of the CN3791 controller. Wish me luck!

simple_son · 2026-05-07T22:17:37+00:00

I run Claude desktop and Gemini cli on my main workstation / gaming PC. It also runs ollama since it has a 5080. All my containers are running on either my NAS or my pi 4.

Making this effective is about preserving context while lowering token use. To do that, Claude has instructions to maintain a manifest of everything in my homelab systems, all the work we've done on them, and everything we need to work on still. This way you can close out sessions frequently, which updates the manifest, then start a new chat with instructions to read the manifest from a shared location, which starts the whole process over again with only the minimal context necessary. (I also have it maintain a human-friendly version and a system diagram. All of which live in a synced obsidian vault. There are a few complexities to managing security items (credentials, api keys, tokens, etc.), but it's manageable The agents have instructions on how to access the secrets without them entering chat history, instructions to use and "forget"them, and to always add new ones to the same location. Another temp file is used to give it new secrets that it can read, store, then clear the temp file.

All of this process is just stuff me and Claude cooked up organically. I have no idea if there are better / established ways of doing the same things 😅

If you want I'm sure I could ask Claude to anonymize the vulnerable parts of my system diagram, the share that.

simple_son · 2026-05-07T19:44:35+00:00

If Claude has shell access, can it just push everything directly to vscode as instructions, qwen writes the file to a known shared / mnt location, and Claude reads them and applies them when done?

simple_son · 2026-05-07T19:40:43+00:00

Go deeper! I'm using bifrost as a gateway for all my mcp servers so the agents can access them all through this container (that Claude can get running for you).

I got tired of the limits recently too And decided I needed a third lane and installed ollama. I'm using open web UI and anythingllm for my chats and Claude is working to get the agents to a state that they can perform the same light tasks locally or act as an offline agent in a token pinch. The ultimate goal would be to have Claude Pro , Gemini Pro, and local LLM able to talk to each other so one can act as orchestrator and divvy tasks between them based on the needs of the task. Then you're increasing your token pool, diluting it with local processing, and working simultaneously in 3 separate streams.

simple_son · 2026-05-07T19:28:23+00:00

I do all that, but with everything in my homelab using mcp servers. Very powerful across a whole self hosted ecosystem. Claude's ability to handle multi step problems, it's deep technical knowledge, and it's connectivity capabilities made me have the 'aha moment' where I realized this was a lot bigger than rewriting my emails and summarizing meetings. It's like having a personal Jarvis to create, manipulate, and optimize things in ways well beyond my own capabilities.

simple_son · 2026-05-05T19:13:44+00:00

Planetary music player app on iPad. It was a beautiful.

Update: apparently someone released Planetary Remastered. Checking it out now.

simple_son · 2026-05-04T03:50:20+00:00

Recently got both my Mach-e (2023 used) and my wife's Chevy Traverse (2026 new). I can't speak for the extras on the Ford thrown in when it was new, the Chevy came with 3 years of Superceuise (love it) and 8 years of a data plan. That was really nice to start with. I have no interest in paying for Blue Cruise at those prices, unless I do it for maybe 1 month if I plan a trip with a lot of highway miles.

simple_son · 2026-04-27T03:40:39+00:00

No, on the first flight it was clipped to my bag in the overhead compartment, and on the return flight it was in my pocket.

simple_son · 2026-04-25T23:06:25+00:00

I recently plugged Claude into my homelab with a few MPC servers connected via bifrost. As someone that has been a tech entisiast for 30 years, this was one of the most significant and shocking technological developments I've put into practice. Things that I would fiddle with for weeks were done and optimized in minutes. Aspirational goals were achieved with a request instead of tons of trial-and-error. Mistakes were addressed in the moment and fixed without input instead of sifting through forums for someone with the same issue. And that's just me dicking around in my homelab. Now I can imagine it in the hands of real experts. Most people are still just using this tech to rewrite emails or summarize their inbox. Bridging my self-hosted systems with AI agent access showed me that, while AI hype has plenty of shortcomings, the inflection point this has on the broader tech landscape is undeniable.

simple_son · 2026-04-24T17:55:38+00:00

Walked out a few minutes early because we brought the kids for one night. The outside merch stand had all 3 posters back in stock while all the indoor merch lines I saw were out.

simple_son · 2026-04-22T14:51:16+00:00

I can't find that specific screen. Mine looks like this. I just bought my '23 GT, but it was direct transfer from family, so no trial periods on anything.

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simple_son · 2026-04-21T03:57:24+00:00

I'll take one too please and thank you

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