Windows 11 for my Surface & Gaming PC. Probably gonna try out SurfaceLinux soon though since the Surface Pro 7 is starting to show its age.
But I have a Dell XPS 13 that’s running Ubuntu Jammy now though. I alternate thru all 3 depending on the day.
Yeah back before most plans did “unlimited” data, many of the deals were for unlimited texts. I remember texts costing about that much at first then we moved my family to an unlimited texting plan and never thought much about it again
Actually plan things and research. Too many of my decisions come back to bite me because I don’t plan out stuff like networking, resources, hard drive layouts…
also documentation for sure
It’s very common here in the states actually. Not really by choice though. Around the time many messaging apps were taking off iMessage kinda established itself as “the” way to do stuff like group chats. I hear in the rest of the world apps like Whatsapp are way more common but they’re more of a niche thing here overall
Gotcha, yeah this is running on a set of boxes that I’ve been using as my homelab for a few years. Some of those have graduated to homeprod and that’s where I’m getting stuck. I want to share Plex and the like with my family who are 2500 miles away.
Definitely would setup tailscale or a VPN between the houses if I was closer. At this distance, maintenance would be a nightmare even though my dad and brothers are very tech savvy.
How are those tunnels? Saw those in my dashboard last time when I was looking.
I’ve got Wireguard set up and that’s been good and lightweight for me. Also have everything firewalled off onto it’s own VLAN with ACLs so my data is locked down. That took forever to implement but loving it so far.
The internet facing stuff is on a completely separate box with read-only access to a pretty limited NFS share for retrieving content off the NAS :)
Gotcha that’s fair. Everything I’ve previously had internet facing has always been behind a reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt, but it’s been years since I did that. I’ll look into the VPS reverse proxy option, thanks!
I wish I knew the answer but I understand how you feel. I just turned 30, changed jobs last year, am working on a master’s & have a kid on the way. I wouldn’t give any of those things up but damn I need a break sometimes.
I try to take me time whenever I can. Also something my therapist mentioned that resonates fairly well with what another poster said, take control of at least part of your life.
For me, even though it’s tough, I find that mowing the yard, power washing, assembling something, etc helps me - since I’m choosing to do that thing on my own and not being forced to do it like dishes or work, etc. Bonus points for productivity I guess but really it’s all about regaining that sliver of control and building on it. That “thing” could be playing a sport or watching an episode of TV or brushing your teeth or something but the key is that you do it because you want to, not because it’s on your to do list.
I hope you figure it out and I’m with ya in spirit!
Yep, already deleted my 14yo Reddit acct and made the switch. Really glad I did :)