Over the last few days, I've been working on seting up a new computer for my dad. As he's a mechanic, one of the things he'll be using it for is to lookup information on different makes and models of cars and trucks. He's been using Alldata for some time now, but I tipped him off to charm.li and he was interested.
I've been working on a fork of an end-to-end encrypted file transfer service called Sharrr lately. It's been a lot of fun and one of the better learning experiences I've had as of late.
This post may take me a few to write, but it's an important one. I'm turning a corner in my life, and it amounts to the following...
I've been using DigitalOcean as my cloud provider of choice for VPS since late 2019, and overall, I've been very happy with them. While I can't say a bad thing about them as the service has been rock solid, as of late, they've gotten much too expensive for me.
I will not disclose the price to acquire this domain to preface this post. The magnitude of it still hasn't quite hit me yet. I spent money that I truly hope I'll never need one day.
I fully acknowledge that I have a problem with compulsive behavior, specifically with gambling-related to purchasing domain names. I'm in therapy and working towards becoming a better version of myself. I am and will always be a work in progress.
The following is the story of how I came to acquire one of the oldest domains on the internet.
One of the last posts I wrote was vastly different from what I usually write about. It was effectively a cry for help. Reading it again, I realized just how out of control my life had become. Since I wrote that post, my life continued to spiral out of control. I bought a few more domains, with the most expensive one being $19,400.
Although Searx comes with it's own built in statistics, it doesn't natively allow for adding analytics. This is largely by design considering the privacy aspect of the project. However, I was curious to see if my instance gets any traffic that isn't from me.
In the last few months, I've decided that I no longer have a use for quite an extensive homelab. I'll outline the reasons below, but this has prompted me to give considerable thought to replacing my current setup little-by-little.
I've decided that my HP Z620 Workstation will be deprecated in favor of Intel NUC (NUC10i7FNH1). I haven't decided what to do with the Z620, but it's still a workhorse and can either be repurposed or sold.
The title of this post comes from the old saying...
Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
It's a mnemonic that's been used for over 2,000 years to predict good/bad weather conditions based on a particularly red sunrise/sunset. A red sky in the morning indicates a low pressure front is coming in and can often bring rain and/or rough weather.
While this post has nothing to do with sailing or weather, the title has meaning within the context of the article.
This should serve as a reminder that even the most basic things can be interpreted differently by different people. Always be clear with requirements and don't assume anyone knows what you're talking about.