Nope, not at all.

Behind every successful story, is a lot of failures. (or- really rich parents).

I agree, I’d be picking up a bunch of those, if that were the case.

esp32-c6 (supports zigbee), is pretty cheap.

I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…

Nope.

Still just feel like a kid, with extra responsibilities, while raising my own kids. Guess sometime around 50 or so i’ll start feeling like an “adult”

Although, at least I call myself a dumbass, after doing something stupid, or wasting money on crap.

It could end up being a shart.

Sorry… watching a sponsored video for world of tanks for the 10th time, or simply safe, or whatever other garbage is there isn’t going to make me want to purchase it.

I value my time… If I didn’t use sponsor block, I’m still going to skip right past it… This, just does it for me.

Well, I use plex, because I have used plex for a decade, and it just works.

That being said, if I were to use an alternative, Jellyfin is quite fantastic. I actually have a pod running it, just in the event that plex pulls a stupid move, causing me to lose faith in its platform.

But, that being said, I like the plex interface more then Jellyfin, and have grown accustomed to it.

Also, Kodi while powerful and extensible… just feels like a bear compared to Jellyfin.

For certain projects I monetize, there are reasons I don’t share the code.

Patents don’t magically find people infringing your intellectual property. The owness is on you.

That being said, I have bills to pay, and mouths to feed. Giving my solutions away for free, doesn’t help those issues.

Home assistant vs Homeseer.

Home seer will cost you 300-500$.

It’s add-ons and extensions are all paid.

Home assistant is literally better in every way possible.

Bitwarden / VaultWarden also does totp

eh… no. its not.

• coming from an actual developer.

This shit should be all standardised around [micro|milli|Ø|kilo|tera]

Agree with you there.

joules

But- would instead, suggest using watts instead of joules. In general, its quite well suited to electrical devices.

Have a 1,000w / 1kw device? Its going to draw 1,000wh of energy, or 1kw.

Although, the units are extremely similar. wh/kwh are defined as energy per hour, while a joule, is energy (in watts) per second.

The same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit.

Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.

I used to have a list, somewhere. But. will, instead summarize it a bit.

External-facing websites (for both myself, and hosted for other clients).

A few discord bots I created, and host.

10-20 containers for home-automation.

10-15 containers for “Media” management.

A handful of containers for document/photo archival / storage / etc.

Containers for managing storage, backups. etc.

Containers for network management (unifi), SMTP, etc.

Containers for monitoring.

Keep in mind, most common “applications” will run at least two containers (one for the app, one for the database), and, occasionally a redis container.

I run services redundantly when possible. Ie- traefik runs as a daemonset, across all of my nodes. As does longhorn storage.

That being said, I’d guess I am only running around 40-60 total applications, but, those 40-60 turns into a couple hundred containers.

My hobby of home automation, and running a home lab REALLY stopped up.

Pre-pandemic, I had a single server, pretty small, quiet, low energy usage. Post-pandemic, I have a full rack, redundant power, and tons of resources, and hundreds of containers and services.

Home automation: Pre-pandemic, I didn’t have too much. Few security cameras, and a small handful of devices, mostly controlled by alexa. Post-pandemic, I can tell you every time you forget to wash your hands after taking a shit. I know exactly how much energy and instantaneous power nearly every device in my house uses. I have automated just about anything you can imagine. Pools, opening windows, controlling a fireplace, scaring cats away from the kitchen table… you name it, and I have likely automated it and/or built hardware to automate it.

My other big hobby, was working on automotive projects: Pre-pandemic, I build a 1,000hp street-legal “race-car”. Would drive it to work occasionally. Spent a lot of time in my garage with tig welders, plasma cutters, metal lathes… etc. Post-pandemic, I honestly have not touched anything in my garage in years. I don’t really drive anywhere due to being full time WFH. So, I have not had much interest in messing with it. Also, its been really hot the last few years.

Amateurs.

I have evolved from using file extensions, and instead, don’t use any extension!

They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products…

Because, ya know… any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP…

I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.

I pay for the subscription solely for the purpose of supporting it. Most of the functionality it offers, just isn’t useful to me.

And, the best part- Home assistant keeps getting better and better!