But….if someone sold a manually operated plastic extruder, that’s fine?

And if someone separately sold CAM software that’s fine too?

Just sayin’

They want to pay off failed or money losing institutional/private investments with your 401k

They will retire rich and you’ll foot the bill

Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…

Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation

Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)

Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab

I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.

And here I thought, oh, maybe they head into civil engineering, law, chem, or bio and make a contribution to society there.

Edit: or the arts/history, although probably a different type of person would be interested in that

Its the “service economy.” Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).

It does not benefit the individual.

I also used to get the chicken sandwiches (spicy, or asiago) pretty frequently. Like once or twice a month, but pretty consistently from like 2010-2019. The few times I’ve been since 2021, the price went up and the chicken cutlet (which used to be really thick, and real chicken breast, usually hot and juicy too) was thin, and full of mystery meat. And the price was higher. That sandwich used to fill me up, and now its just a few bites.

Well, I haven’t been back. And I’m not going back, regardless of how many changes they make, because I discovered my local pizza shop has a nice chicken sandwich that’s like $2 more but many times bigger and tastier.

That poor guy, the ai is just ganging up on him

Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)

Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.

Maybe people will become very forgetful.

Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.

I’m stealing that post title to use myself

19 months! Who feeds foraged mushrooms to an infant?!

It’s like a delicious home cooked meal, instead of fast food.

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

That is a lot of bats!

They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought

🤷‍♂️ ironfox exists