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Cake day: September 21st, 2024

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  • anyone who seriously cooks will pick their battles. why make a cake from scratch when boxed mix is just as good. seriously, ask any pro baker.

    premix or premade doesn’t matter, as long as the end results are the same, good food that can be enjoyed.

    if you like cooking because you make everything by scratch, go for it. just know the only reason why it tastes better is because you think it tastes better. when you get down to it, chemicals are chemicals, and cooking is a branch of chemistry.







  • years ago I gamed the casinos on an old Intel II that was slow a shit online. The cup game was the easiest to beat. because of this, I had collected over 7 million bottles of sand that were worth like 1np.

    ffw a few years and I sign in and these things were some kind of quest item and were selling for like 40np.

    I flooded the market with my stock at 5np each, caused a run on the bottled sand market and caused a market crash.

    got my account banned. they refused to activate my account and said I hacked their system because there was no other way to get that many bottles.

    and that’s how I tried to usurp the corrupt neopet kingdom and never played again.






  • IMO this is the best OS way, but without nix it’s a pita to maintain through restores/rebuilds. personally I never fully comprehended how to properly configure iptables/routes (I did try though, so nobody can blame me lol).

    however, a major benefit to using a contained VPN or gluetun is that you can be selective on what apps use the VPN.

    I host 12 other containers (with nas mounts) on the same host outside of the three that need to use a VPN, so this is why the solution I described works for me. and should I ever need to use routes for more advanced network filtering I still have it available without adding the complexity of splitting normal traffic vs VPN traffic.


  • I’ll ask this question because it might be something you didn’t think of.

    What happens to your network connection if the VPN fails? will it continue to connect without a VPN?

    I had a similar case of that happening, and ended up causing me to get some shame mail from my ISP.

    now I run my VPN inside docker, and any containers that need access to it are configured as network slaves to it. VPN goes down? container reboots, all the others reboot after connection is restored, but will have no connection while it’s down.

    it’s all in a well designed system of healthchecks and container configuration.