+1 I finally finished my bachelor’s at 31 so I could check a box on job applications. I wouldn’t have my current position without it, useless and inapplicable though it is.

Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

Yeah, it’s the worst financial mistake we ever made. If we had waited just a few months, we would have at least qualified for the bailout money.

We had so many friends that bought in 2009 and 2010 at the bottom and watched them flourish.

It took us 12 years to recover, but we’re homeowners again and ultimate leaving for higher pay finally worked out in our favor. We bought again in 2020 and our down payment was the entire cost of the first house (we went from medium cost of living to very high with incomes to match). We emptied just about everything, but had also been saving hard since selling the shit heap. 5 years later, we’re finally comfortable.

We absolutely did not buy to rent.

If you see the timeline, we lived there 7 years and were landlords for 2.5. We moved across the country for a major income jump (and cost of living increase) and literally couldn’t afford to pay into the bank to sell the house for a $50k loss at the time. We were going to walk away again, but some friends convinced us to rent it out.

What a fucking nightmare that turned out to be.

We didn’t live in a great part of town, so rent was cheap and literally less than the cost of owning. We effectively subsidized the rent. A smarter person would have realized that taking a loan to sell was the better plan here.

The first property management company we hired found some people quickly and got them in. 4 months later the person managing our house left and the new person asked us why we hadn’t evicted because they had never paid rent, ever (we had been getting rent minus the fee, so we were shocked). So we had to evict and fucking hell I spent 3k cleaning and fixing and hauling out all their trash, flying across the country to do it. They stole the washer and dryer on the way out, ruined the dishwasher and destroyed several doors and walls.

We fired that company and got a new one. The next tenants actually paid rent for 2 years, but had constant issues with rodents and bugs and the appliances. When the market finally brought us above water we didn’t renew their lease and Jesus fuck me they had destroyed everything. The 160lb Cane Corsa they kept in the basement had literally pissed and shit so much the walls were destroyed and the cement floor had to be painted and sealed after heavy industrial cleaners. There was food everywhere in the house and rodents and bugs were prevalent, so we had to hire exterminators. Also they left several yards of trash in shitty furniture and garbage we had to haul out.

We lost so much money renting we would have been better off taking a loan to sell in the first place. We listed for 40k over what we originally paid, but took just 15k because, let’s face it, the house was still a shambles (and the basement still stank). We got a tax bill for 14k when we sold because of some financing fuckery that screwed us more.

I regret ever having been a “landlord”.

Geriatric millennial here: it’s missing the purchase at the top of the bubble in 2007, listing for sale at a loss 3 times in 2008-2009, list for rent in 2014 and 2015 at less than the mortgage, sell in 2017 at slightly more than when you purchased it when you finally got it off your back (but you paid it all in taxes because it was a rental), then see it sold in 2022 for 2.5x what you sold it for in 2017.

At least that’s how my first home purchase went when everyone told me real estate was a guarantee in my 20s on a non-profit salary. The only thing you wouldn’t see is the 0% mortgage offer they made on the first 150k when we started walking away in 2009. And the medical bills for idiopathic neuropathy from the stress.

Drei bier ist auch ein schnitzel und dann hast du nichts getrunken.

Three beers are also a schnitzel and then you drank nothing.

I don’t speak German, but this phrase spoke to me.

I was going to buy the Lego Star Trek enterprise, but it was sold out before I got there. Oh well, they saved me from myself with artificial supply restrictions.

Instead, I didn’t buy anything.

It’s beautiful!

Missed opportunity for jazz.

They mentioned it at the bottom of the blog: works ok Linux and macos. And they want you to enable it because there a bug they’re trying to reproduce.

TRS-80 then IBM PCjr here. Both hand-me-downs though.

Mom wouldn’t let me on the 386 until I could touch-type and write a program in BASIC. She was a Cobol and IBM RPG programmer.

“Vexillophile” is a word you probably won’t ever need again.

Omg thank you for the money!

It will depend on where you live.

Many US states have laws that carve out exceptions for work done on your own time and equipment. If the contact doesn’t call these out as exceptions somewhere, it’s a lazy contact.

It’s really not bad with full elastic bands. Make a rough square using the point of the corners as one corner and the only non-elastic fold as the opposite. Just flop the sloppy elastic to the inside. I then fold in thirds and again in thirds. Just fold the weird parts to the inside each time.

My wife still thinks it’s magic after 20 years.

I see. Yeah, that compose file is gross unless you’re running this on a dedicated vps, and even then…

I haven’t run snikket before, but it looks straightforward to me. Maybe the documentation has improved?

Don’t forget multicast (live streaming)!

Once podman is installed (iirc the network package is marked as a dependency for most package managers) and your user is configured (provide subuids/subguids), I really think podman is a simpler model. The containers you run are actually yours (not root’s) and you don’t need to be part of a privileged docker group to run them. Of course, you can run containers as root with podman too: just use sudo.

You’ll actually need to configure your user the same way for running docker in rootless mode, which should be the default.

Your dockerfile will work with podman. Your docker-compose file will too (via podman compose). You’ll have access to awesome new capabilities like pods, and defining your containers with kubernetes style yaml, and running your containers via systemd.

However, with rootless podman/docker, you should remove any/all of the USER silliness the rootful/default docker people do to protect themselves a bit from rogue processes effectively running as root and/or container escapes to root.