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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • where did I imply it is black and white? I did not say that there are no people who reasonably want to rent, of course there are.

    but I’m pretty sure that it’s not even half the people.

    the problem is not that people who want to rent can’t, they have plenty of options! but that people who specifically dont want to rent, very often does not have amy other choice.
    buying a house for a family comes with a lifelong loan, with all the aid possible, and buying a house as an individual or as a couple is just not possible anymore where I live. unless you have an exceptionally high salary. even just buying an empty parcel or one where there’s only a house so bad it needs to be demolished costs so much, if there’s a habitable house the bank won’t even give a loan.

    Wouldn’t you like to travel the world and see the sights? Would you want to have to buy a house and sell your old one every single time you changed countries? I think not.

    I want to travel, but not through all my life. maybe move to another country if that becomes reachable. but you shouldn’t assume the majority wants to move that often.










  • it cannot really replace a simple database. it has an integrity guarantee. not in the way that data won’t get modified accidentally, but that it won’t get modified onesided.

    the git version control system also uses a kind of a blockchain structure. git was made by the creator of linux. a major difference is that git does not use proof of work for consensus, I think it just does not use anything for that, other than the web server’s access control mechanism.
    commits are built on top of a large chain of histories, and the commit ID verifies that the current state and the history of it is the exact same when you checkout that commit ID on any other computer. if you go find in the repository a commit made 3 years ago, and change that commit (this is supported by git but not recommended), either the content or the metadata like time of commit, the whole history after that also need to get rewritten to remain valid, and so all those commits will now have a new commit ID



  • docker in a vm in proxmox!

    no but really. I don’t like that the vm host’s kernel is shared with all the containers.
    then maybe have 2 or 3 VMs, one of which hosts essential services (not like your nextcloud, but services that are necessary to make the (internal or whole home) network work like DNS and DHCP, maybe monitoring, and another that hosts your convenience services (jellyfin, nextcloud). the first is easier to fix if it breaks, the second is not the end if the world if it does. maybe also have a third for services that would be painful to have offline (nextcloud), but try to limit it to few tasks because the goal is simplicity. this setup can help with distro upgrade difficulties, and vm custom configuration issues when you have set up something that seems to work but will prevent VM startup sometime in the future.

    podman could be a good idea too.



  • But why would they work our their own connection protocol and such? Seems pricey.

    they probably didn’t. if you get into home automation with Home Assistant and such you will find that lots of “brands” just repackage an already existing solution from china.

    Then they don’t have to come up with a way to allow you to enter a password or some other connection like bluetooth so you could configure the wifi from your phone.

    well they still have to for the wifi unit. I think it’s just that sometimes the controller can’t be placed so that it’s easily accessible, so they make it like this. the heating controller I last dealt with was even marketed so that you can control it from your living room with the unit on your shelf