they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year.

Holy shit. I think we used that much last month, which is higher than average but not that high for August around here.

Bless me Father Chat GPT for I have sinned.

Producing work that you know is DOA is incredibly demoralizing.

This is a good meme template. I like it.

Yeah baby! Strip those regs! Who’s ready for some more early 2000’s level fraud induced corporate bankruptcies? We’ll call it “Vibe Accounting”, which is where some idiot who can barely add uses an LLM to spit out financial statements that have no basis in reality.

/s

Well you see, it’s ✨magical✨ data that only executives can interpret. Us lowly employees ungrateful peons just wouldn’t understand it.

“Vibe Executing” is apparently how alot of CEO’s do their jobs. They didn’t know how to gauge productivity before the pandemic and they still don’t. They just pull whatever sounds good out of their asses at any given moment.

Ah yes. The Intel Strategy.

Agreed. This whole lawsuit is one giant looming catastrophe. If ISP’s are found liable for copyright infringement, that will be the effective end of the open internet. From there, I can already see the argument taking shape that ISP’s, telco’s, and account holders are all effectively accomplices in all sorts of crimes facilitated using communications networks.

OK recording industry. Riddle me this. If you manage to cut off my internet access, how am I supposed to purchase your media?

Personal Anecdote

Last week I used the AI coding assistant within JetBrains DataGrip to build a fairly complex PostgreSQL function.

It put together a very well organized, easily readable function, complete with explanatory comments, that failed to execute because it was absolutely littered with errors.

I don’t think it saved me any time but it did help remove my brain block by reorganizing my logic and forcing me to think through it from a different perspective. Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

In this situation it’s not necessarily that it’s the “right” or “wrong” device. The better question is, “does it meet your needs?” There are pros and cons to running each service in its own VM. One of the cons is the overhead consumed by the VM OS. Sometimes that’s a necessary sacrifice.

Some of the advantages of running a system like Proxmox are that it’s easily scalable and you’re not locked into specific hardware. If your current Beelink doesn’t prove to be enough, you can just add another one to the cluster or add a different host and Proxmox doesn’t care what it is.

TLDR: it’s adequate until it’s not. When it’s not, it’s an easy fix.

I am not even going to attempt to climb those stairs.

Then there’s all the expenses you didn’t know about before you bought the house. If you don’t have at least some DIY skills, you get to pay people a lot of money to fix things for you.

…BTW, the county just did a reassessment on your property and your property taxes have now doubled. In exchange, you get nothing. Congratulations.

A little surprising since I’ve heard they’ve not been getting along recently.

Absolutely. As long as the boots are made properly and the sole isn’t just glued on. I think a lot of Danner and Redwing boots are resolable.

I’ve got a pair of Danner’s that I really like.

Timberland boots don’t retire. They constantly slack off at work and quit in a rage when confronted about it.

…also I’m pretty sure they were smoking crack while driving the service van

Yeah, with something that size you’re pretty much limited to containers.

Edit: Which is totally fine, OP. Self hosting is an opportunity to learn and your setup can be easily changed as your needs change over time.

I use one VM per service. WAN facing services, of which I only have a couple, are on a separate DMZ subnet and are firewalled off from the LAN.

It’s probably little overkill for a self hosted setup but I have enough server resources, experience, and paranoia to support it.

That goes in the grease jar in the fridge to make gravy later.