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I don’t do any self-hosting anymore, but when I started I only had a couple uni classes that were related (I quit after about 9 months as uni wasn’t for me when I was 17). I somehow got recommended Gentoo linux back in the early 2000s and stood up my first server not long after (and got a lot of lessons in dealing with email servers). Now, I just don’t have the time to do it as a hobby and certainly not the money for any hardware in this economy. I thankfully never had any real security/hacking issues thanks in part to good guides even back then. It actually taught me a lot about both linux and many other things. I’m now a software engineer for a living, but mostly just doing backend work with little exposure to the infra side.

Especially as someone paid in a currency weaker than the dollar with a lower salary than I’d have in the US, I can’t even afford to do this if I wanted to. I do still subscribe to Nebula which has many creators I like

So the only thing that changed is that the area lost their own access to them at the termination date, but the camera companies still collect that data.

Sounds like the thing to do is take the cameras down

I was doing a code review this week. There was nothing wrong with the code in terms of structure or performance, but it was doing this really weird operation with an ID after DB insert. I asked about it and the author was like “yeah, that’s weird; I don’t know why the AI did that. I’ll remove it.” My dude, I know you can write good code. Don’t be lazy!

We don’t need giant, dangerous, shitty trucks like that here.

I was originally thinking of grabbing parts as they go on sale finally (this PC is from 2018ish, I think, and I guess I could upgrade some bits), but I think I’m just going to wait and get a laptop. In part because I do less gaming, the gaming is less intense, and I’m thinking about trying to spend part of the year living outside of Japan which would make the logistics of shipping a heavy full tower around (or even mid if I downsized) just too much of a headache. Still not 100% sure, though.

There’s a lot wrong with this.

new nuclear plants are politically untenable now

Was the case but not so much now, especially as rising prices and inflation are crunching families. Several parties now include at least reviving shut-down plants that are safe to do.

the grid infrastructure isn’t good there

Could you elaborate here?

When the sun stops shining, it stops shining for the whole country

We’re not that small, even going on the main islands alone.

When the wind doesn’t blow, it doesn’t blow for the whole country.

And this is just plain wrong for a number of climate and geographical reasons.

I’ve lived in Japan for more than a decade both in greater Tokyo and rural Tohoku in addition to traveling all around it.

I work in Japan and get paid in yen so that seems unlikely. Indeed. I am basically at the median us salary with the exchange rate. I’ve bought two phones in the last 11 years (and won’t replace my pixel 6 until it dies). I also work two jobs.

Xennial here. I got rid of most social media years ago (FB, twitter, etc.) and never signed up for a lot of others. I’m replacing my google pixel watch with a pebble. I’m open to ditching my android google phone as well once something works properly with all the Japanese government and banking services. Thinking about how to degoogle.

It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows back in the '80s and '90s, but I definitely feel like we should take back some of our balance, security, and comfort (though streaming and recording video can stay).