Sounds like you need to start a company and per diem staff.

Yep I’d call the cops at that time. Not fucking around.

It wasn’t even about going faster at that point.

I was trying to force them to slow down and go around… Instead they went apeshit.

I was on a 3 lane highway going interstate. Doing 80 in a 65 on the fast lane. Big rig in the middle lane. Slowly gaining and will pass the bog rig.

Then a pickup is coming up in the fast lane TOO FAST. Easily 100mph. She tailgates me. Now boxxed in with me in front and the big rig on her right. A sane person would go in the third lane and pass us since zero other cars around. But no.

She lays on her horn and starts swaying with impatience.
So I match speed with the big rig. Maintaining the box. She honks ways more and sways even more. Shaking her fist at me.

I maintain it for another 2 minutes until my wife gets concerned she’ll rear end us and we end up spinning off the highway or under the big rig.

I give in and speed up past the big rig and change lanes to her wacko pass. They speed off.

Yeah it’s never worth it. You never know what people will do.

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon… Just saying

Yeah that’s on my todo list. I’ve got 3 decent but old routers.

I’m aware you need a firewall (I used sonicwall professionally) vlans are for segmentation

Omfg it’s like solar panel companies…

So many damn houses with solar leases more expensive than just electricity

Wait… Is that heavy water?? /s

Or add new bloat features / brick devices after updating TOS…

I’m so sceptical I don’t upvote any comics without an artist signature now…

Yeah. Even my old solid netgear got a firmware update that’s begging me to get the app now. Shobe that shit up your ass.

At least give me a checkbox to stop bothering me

I have:

• 2x pi4 4gb (bought them previously for octopi and pihole)
• Pi zero
• Several old laptops
• 2x SFF HPs
• 2x netbooks
• An old slim workstation

I work as a sysadmin so I’ve picked up a few things that wouldve gone to recycling.

My concern is power draw running 24/7 so I need wattage monitors and going to start with the Pi systems. Until I hit performance issues then migrate to a SFF.

Gahhhh…

Sounds like a total PITA

And yes we need stronger consumer protections.

I follow FUTO so I’m aware of TOS BS.

No garage sadly.

My SO is already using keepass locally. Used to be only a paper notebook. Data breach paranoia.

I plan to setup vaultwarden or keepassXC

Yeah that’s on the list. I want them hard wired though. Gotta hire an electrician to wire up the outside of the house.

Good call. I was thinking of trying a 128GB usb3 stick I got. Maybe a ssd/nvme on a USB3 controller.

That’s a great rule of thumb. So setup two switches. One for manual and one with a ESP32.

I just bought my first home and as soon as I’m decently unpacked I’m going to start my journey on self hosting.

Currently planning:

• Small i5 HP Pro SFF PC for hosting large apps (going to config for Linux and power it off until I get more mature
• Raspberry Pi4: pihole and home assistant
• Raspberry Pi4: NextCloud, Deck
• ZigBee router thing:
  • Nest thermostat came with the house
  • adding light bulbs and switches
  • want a smart doorknob but the security bothers me. Schlage Connect™ Smart Deadbolt, Z-Wave Plus
• NAS
• Jellyfin
• JBOD on SFF?
• flashing old Netgear nighthawk into wwdrt
• OS Ticket to replace NextCloud Deck for a JIRA type solution to manage projects and major house items.
• ZigBee thermometers for better Nest accuracy
• ZigBee motion sensors for entry ways and bathroom
• smart plugs and motion sensors for basement TV lights

Not sure what else to add. Open to advice or suggestions.