For the uninitiated: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

I recently got back into the homelab hobby. Fucking around with installer drivers has been eye opening. I had to fight to get drives recognized and the same with NICs. Funny, Proxmox worked without any issues (virt-io was leveraged, but the internet made that obvious before I even downloaded the ISO for it).

This was a good one, completely unexpected. Someone once emailed feedback that one of my coworkers deserved hookers and blow for doing such a great job. My blow is also prescribed, thanks.

Apocryphal: user reports laptop frequently crashing. Tech is putting it through paces, can’t make it crash. Tech slides it over and asks user to show them what they do differently. User touches the laptop (before they can do anything with it) and it crashes. I was told about this, I didn’t see it happen.

Give them the numbers for your past employers. Or possibly other sex-workers who can vouch for you. I’d go the first route, personally.

Our media apparatus and schooling don’t promote critical thinking.

You are not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

I don’t think he’d be stupid enough to try that again. For as much of a shit-fuck as he is, I think he’s actually got some brain cells spinning around.

Moving abroad.

My father also couldn’t digest this information. I chose to pick my battles and let him keep doing it his way because there’s a limited amount of influence I could spend.

Yes! Do it. Make your platform even less relevant, Lonnie. Run that shit right into the ground.

I’ve had Mullvad installed for around a year or more. I turn to it from time to time when I wanna keep things separate from my regular browser, like if I’m looking into items on Amazon that I only need once and don’t want recommendations to get polluted. For example, I was looking at the price of spinning platter HDs after one failed in a NAS. I don’t want Amazon trying to sell me more old-tech drives once I replace it.

Has worked well so far. Haven’t tried the other one.

And stopthatgirl and probably someone else I’m forgetting. Thanks to all aggregators. We appreciate you.

Proxmox is available free. You pay for support and maybe other things with a license, but you can download it and give it a spin at no cost. I just switched to Proxmox around 1m ago when I restarted my homelab project after years on hiatus. I used to use Esxi before Broadcom bought VMware and decided to suck. I like it so far.

It might be overkill for your needs. I’m running it because I want to play with setting up and managing Win Server (I only have experience managing existing servers on Win), so there’s a distinct reason for me to be on Proxmox even though I’m a Mac and Linux person. I agree that it might be overkill for your i5 if you only plan to run one Ubuntu instance on it. However, a lot of homelabbing is about having an environment to try out and learn new skills. If that’s something that’s interesting to you, it might be worthwhile.

Keep in mind that you could also run KVM for virtualization if you find reason for VMs. You’re not limited to Proxmox. And if you see no need for VMs, you already have three devices to do the things you bought them to do.

Dominance?! Ha!

Money left to me when one died has made my life tremendously easier. It’s unfair, really, and I had a lot of complicated feelings about it but worked through them in therapy.

Why does this feel like it’s a flat-earth slide? I haven’t looked at any flat-earth propaganda, but I strongly suspect that it looks a lot like this.

That said, I’ll stick with my VMs regardless. I like simplicity.

Recording of waves or white noise from a fan.

I like this answer the best.

Ha, you just made me look it up in my inbox. Here’s the ad copy:

Hello Listeners!

This is not an ad. Grumpy Old Geeks are selling ads at a discount, so I bought this slot. I have no product or service to sell.

I hate ads. Don't you hate ads? I just saved you from having to hear or skip an ad! You're welcome!

If you aren't running an ad-blocker in your browser… what's wrong with you?! If you aren't subscribed to GoG to avoid ads via the private feed… that's your call. But I'll never hear this because my stream is ad-free. I never thought I'd pay for marketing, but this seemed like a fun idea. Also, check out the fediverse.

Deliveroo, Fuckers!

Love,
Your pal, another listener.

It ran for $125. It appeared in the episode after 2023-06-27, based on my email correspondence with one of the hosts. So whichever one was next after that.