Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.

When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid… I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.

It’s certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.

On the contrary, I learned nothing first and I struggled pretty bad.

After a while though you start to get a grasp on things.

0.8, 0.9, etc…

Isn’t building a CRM a sort of rite of passage for tech entrepreneur failures?

YouTube doesn’t owe you this. It’s up to you and creators to accept it or move away

So the year of the Linux desktop is finally happening

I’ve had 2 multiple day power outages in the Milwaukee area, and 4 or 5 shorter ones over the past few years. It literally never used to happen.

Oooh sirry aboot dot

I don’t like it, but at least the numbers are ordered by specificity. MM/DD/YYYY is a big red flag.