Partnered dance class.

You gain an attractive skill. You get regular exercise, if you practice outside of class, practice outside of class. Pick the correct dance class and you meet people with similar tastes to you. At all the dance classes I attended there was a shortage of leads, don’t be weird¹ and you’ll be in demand. Exercise, music and dancing is a formula for happy people, the people you meet are already in a good mood.

Just don’t be weird¹, practice to get the rhythm in your body without thinking. In the “free dance” time at the end, get around the room ask anyone alone looking at the floor for a dance. Dance, talk (don’t be weird)¹, say thank you, onto the next one. Eventually you’ll make friends.

¹Be wierd later, or be just under your partner’s level of weird. Focus on being a good partner, part of that is having people be comfortable around you.

I’ve been doing my best to approach discussions with empathy lately (I’m not naturally good at it). The people interested in mudslinging get bored I don’t rise to it. People not interested in mudslinging but expected it get drawn into a conversation instead

I hear you, your conclusion is valid given your axioms. We agree on these points. But, have you considered someone with different axioms would come to a different conclusion. Neither of us are irrational, incorrect, or invalid. We’re mostly the same, just differ on a few key points.

Does wonders

I used proxmox to set up my ZFS pools and use bind mounts. It’s fine, I’m sure it’s a “grass is greener” thing.

Home labbing is a winter hobby, so in the summer months I hate the time spent updating all the machines when I could be outside.

If I had purely Docker set up, in winter I’d be complaining that “everything is too simple” and “I want more control” etc.

I, personally, mostly use docker as a package manger anyway. I know I’m not supposed to, I know it’s lazy. But, if community-scriots doesn’t have an install then it’s going in one of my Docker Hosts.

I have a VM spun up as virtual laptop, it’s just plain Debian, every couple months I nuke it and go again. Plain Debian is fine

I really should learn Podman. I tried PiHole, as I am familiar with it, and immediately ran up against Podman’s security (the thing I want Podman for) and gave up. I find solutions sticky in that I don’t migrate unless I really have to. It’s why I haven’t learned IPv6, or systemd or, god I am so behind.

You can pry proxmox from my cold dead hands.

I do sometimes dream of running everything in Docker though for how easy it is to update. I’ve got the community scripts running and still it’s a bit of a maintenance job.

A TrueNAS + Docker machine is pretty tempting. If I were to migrate, that’s where I’d go.

Don’t start here. Get something tiny: some ewaste, a rPi3/4 or an n100.

Build a Pihole to block ads, malicious sites and trackers on your network

Risk free, tonnes of learning opportunities, huge utility, tonnes of documentation and guides to help.

Once you’ve built a couple Piholes (break and rebuild then) you’ll have an idea of what you might want to do next and what is achievable for you.

I don’t believe so. Maybe someone’s written a script on github, I haven’t looked.

A thing I like about lazylibrarian is that it just keeps rerolling until success. You probably miss good files just because LL couldn’t parse the folder structure or something, but it’s just set and forget.

Perhaps this could be modified to work. Like time is set to zero and file size to zero.

Not that I use LL, I just think it’s neat… From a purely onlooker POV.

Here’s my list, saved you a click. Ignore the *.iso, I added that for the seven seas peoples. Obviously, all I share are Linux ISOs

*.exe

*.sh

*.lnk

*.iso

*.zip

*.zipx

*.iz

*.izh

*.arj

*.scr

*.lnk

*.cmd

*.msi

*.bat

*.scf

Have your torrent client not download malicious file types like .exe, doesn’t solve the immediate problem but it helps in two ways.

First you don’t help spread the nonsense.

Second qbit will mark the torrent as complete and sonarr will then flag it for manual import with the reason no valid files to import. They’re easy and quick to spot and reroll that way.

Oooo this might be the path I take to finally get off IPv4. Cheers. I’ve already set up reverse proxies, but finally updating to 1999 technology seems like a good plan.

I didn’t mean to give the impression I thought the food/coffee/magazine I offer solves the root of a problem. Merely that it’s a thing I can do to solve an immediate need.

The root of the problem won’t be solved by donations to either an individual or a charity. The root of the problem, imo, is political and requires a change in politics. I think we agree on this point.

I hear you. But 10 people donating £5 a day also pays for a shelter to hire a motel room no?

I’m also not judging people on the street, well I probably have some internal biases to work through (more likely to ask a woman than a man, that sorta thing) but I don’t consciously care much about the “what” they are. Also, those internal biases would present themselves no matter what I offered. A service that measured their biases would be better able to give equally than I would as an individual.

Here are the problems I, personally, have with cash donations:

Firstly, I don’t carry it, but adding one more coffee to the one I’m buying anyway is no issue.

Secondly, it doesn’t support panhandling as a career, shitty career choice probably a minority. So minor that if you want to argue that “The rate of professional panhandlers is zero (it isn’t) and this point is invalid” I won’t push back

Thirdly, it doesn’t get to the root of the issue, I’m not judging if they’re on the street for mental health, addiction, ex-convicts, bad luck, whatever, as in no-one deserves to live in the streets barring their own personal choice. But, I think solving the issue is beyond an instance of a donation. I also agree that charities don’t get to the root of the issue either, but I do think they’re better equipped than individuals. Individuals working with these services experience greater success than if they were to go it alone.

Not telling you you’re wrong, just trying to justify my decisions (maybe to myself).

Take this for the uninformed opinion it is.

But, does panhandling ever lead to someone getting off the street? I thought of panhandling as pure survival resources.

I am unable to provide shelter, I could donate to one of the charities dedicated to temporary shelter to provide that. Arguably a better donation than panhandling, as those charities offer pathways off the street.

Jobs, permanent shelter, etc aren’t achieved via panhandling, but through other means (local charities, what not).

But, food/water/entertainment I can provide, like right now. So on my way into the fast food place/shop I’ll offer to grab something.

I pretty much never have cash. So, if I’m buying a ‘to go’ lunch/coffee I’ll offer to get them something.

+1

I’m running a media/back up server for 4 households on a single n100 mini pc and a couple USB drives. It’s a “good enough”, low cost, high wife acceptance factor entry point into self-hosting. It’ll happily age into a firewall if I want to build a better box later on.

It’s revealing what I do/don’t need vs what I want. It’s teaching me what people use, what they don’t and where I might want to go in the future.

If I could go again I’d probably get a n100 2Bay Ugreen thing. Then it’d age into a local back up and I wouldn’t have to deal with USB drives.

I wonder why Greene king want to tax profits? It’s because they don’t make any.

Nope, you chose to expand beyond what you can handle. Tax the wealth, if you can’t afford to run your pubs give them back to the people and pay less tax that way.

I dunno, the second silent generation? Born into hard times, don’t know any better. Defined by their fiscally conservative ways and “none of my business” outlook?

They haven’t been too silent though, and more power to 'em. The un-silent generation? Seems a bit disrespectful to riff off of their great/grandparents though.

Maybe. Their generation starts 1946 so I thought they were the product. One way or the other they are involved in a baby boom.

They’re just place holders until the generation gets a shared experience to refer to. Millennials saw the millennium. Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom. Gen X are missing, their letter was fitting.

My prediction is one of them will become gen algorithm, as they never knew a time when their media wasn’t decided for them. Maybe, gen android, few of them know how to use a file system after Chromebooks became ubiquitous. Or they’ll be the second greatest generation due to ww3. This stuff is entirely unpredictable.

I must have been having more basic problems than you. I found LLMs to present the most common solution, and generally the most common way of setting it up is the “right-way”, At least for a beginner. Then I’d quiz it on what docker compose environments do, what “ports: ####:####” meant, how I could route one container through another. All very basic stuff. Challenge: ask gpt

what does "ports:

-####:####" mean in a docker compose?

Then tell me it doesn’t spit out something a hobbiest could understand, immediately start applying, and is generally correct? Beginners, still verify what gpt spits out.

By the time I wanted to do non-standard stuff I was better equipped with the fundamentals of hobbiest deployment and how to coax an LLM into doing what I needed. It won’t write an Nginx config for you, or an ACL file, but with the documentation and an LLM you could teach yourself to write one.

Goes without saying I’d take the output of the LLM to Google for verification, then back to the LLM for a hobbiest’s explaination, back to Google for verification… Also, all details are place holders: don’t give it your email, api-keys, domains, nothing. Learn to scrub your input there and it’ll be a habit here is a bonus too.

Properly made software has great documentation and logs. If you know how to access those logs and read documentation (both skills in themselves)… Not to mention not all software is “properly made” some of it is bare bones and just works™. Works it do, absolutely not a criticisms for FOSS projects, I love your stuff keep making it, and I’ll keep finding ways to teach myself to use it.

For all its flaws. Low level tech support, rubber duck, command explainer is something LLMs do really well. Kept my early mistakes off the web and got me where I needed to be most times.