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I was thinking about this the other day. Awhile back I was talking to my mom about, I think his name is Haberman? There was an article about him awhile back that, among other things, took issue with him doing ads for athletic greens. She said she doesn’t hold that against podcasters since they have to pay the bills like anyone else. The article’s issue was that, given his background, he would know better that AG1 is basically placebo - that to get the advertised benefits, one would need to drink a prohibitive amount. While I hate ads, I also like not paying for some things. I don’t care that Robert Evans does Better Help ads. He’s not a psychologist or psychiatrist, so I know he’s just reading ad copy to “pay the bills.” I would have a larger problem if the hosts of Maintenance Phase did this. They’re also not professionals in those fields, but they have researched them pretty extensively; so I would expect them to know better.

You make it clear that you don’t like new things. You really need to recognize that this makes it difficult for your loved ones to buy you gifts. I’m old enough that I generally don’t want anything for Christmas or my birthday. I have enough stuff. What I want is time to spend with the people I love. That doesn’t mean I refuse gifts or complain about them, because a gift means that someone saw something that made them think of you; and they bought it for you to celebrate your relationship. So even if it’s a bad gift, it’s coming from a good place.

I know autofs will work with nfs. Never used it with SMB. I’ve used it on a share of /home to specifically mount /home/user as needed (e.g., at login).

I’ve really enjoyed 4K77.

I mean we reelected one of our biggest mistakes a year ago, so…

New Year’s Eve, a number of years ago. Wife and I went to a bar with some friends and rang in the New Year. I think she and I maybe smoked a pack between the two of us that night. Next day, both of us felt sick to our stomachs. Really nauseous, and just terrible. We didn’t get that drunk, so it wasn’t a bad hangover or anything. Anyway, just the thought of a cigarette made both of us even more nauseous. Flash forward a week, and neither one of us had spoken about not having smoked, and we didn’t want another cigarette. A week later, wife confirmed to me that she hadn’t had any at work. I said the same to her. Years later, we haven’t had any either.

Now we’re “ex-smokers,” who I think are the worst for smokers to be around. We’re hyper-sensitive to the smell and smoky rooms.

Yeah, was gonna say, “duct tape. We’re done here.”

So I got back to my server, and here’s what I do:

gluetun settings:

services:
  gluetun:
*snip*
    ports:
*snip*
      - 8090:8090 # port for qbittorrent
*snip*

qbittorrent (in the same compose.yml):

  qbittorrent:
    image: linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
*snip*
      - WEBUI_PORT=8090
*snip*
    network_mode: service:gluetun # run on the vpn network
    depends_on:
      gluetun:
        condition: service_healthy
*snip*

Also, in qbittorrent settings you can bind it to a network device. In my case it’s “tun0.” This same thing can probably be done w/ a docker network in a gluetun container and separate containers that rely on that network being up, but I haven’t looked into it. Right now, I have 2 other services that require VPN, and I’m looking at possibly 1 or 2 more. That’s pretty manageable as a single stack, I think.

This was my thought as well. Anything by that requires VPN is added to that stack and if I can bind it to the “tun” device I do - but the container requires gluten to be up.

My parents helped through college, and then I went out on my own. The help was still available, though. In my early 30’s, I moved back in with them because I had taken a job in the town where they lived. It was supposed to be temporary, but they saw that my financial situation needed them to step in, so they offered to let me stay and pay them a small rent (basically to cover bills and food). That was a huge help! 2-years later and I was mostly debt free (only student loans and a small car loan left), and taking a new job further away from them.

Long story short, I think parents should help when they can, and if the situation warrants it. There’s something to be said for letting your kids fail on their own. They learn more than you can teach them that way. But, while it’s good to help them, it’s also important that they recognize the help they’ve received. Knowing that outside help got them where they are is a Good Thing. It helps make them more empathetic to others who maybe don’t have the same support system.

ETA: the student loans were very low interest rate, back when that was a thing.

I picked one up on eBay earlier this year.

I thought HA stopped selling Yellows awhile back.

What distro is the toaster running?

When I was a kid, I watched Ayrton Senna drive a McLaren F1 car. Not long after that, my dad showed me an AC Cobra.

I think 3-days. Just to see if I could and how it would feel. Felt fine. Could probably have done at least another day, maybe 2. Was sort of starting to feel hungry around the end of day 3.

One of Liz Taylor’s husbands ran a construction company, I think? Can’t remember the details. There are a handful of current stars dating or married to people in finance. Amal Clooney wasn’t exactly “famous” before she got married.

It happens, but like any relationship, you have to run in similar circles in order to meet before any relationship can form.

Famous people tend to have somewhat closed circles around them because fans can be crazy.

Be the chaos you want to see in the world.

Something I dealt with a long time ago that has become a sort of rule for me, regardless of how true it might be: Scientists, and University researchers (the tenured ones) hate learning new programming languages and methods. There’s decently good reason behind it, as far as I can tell. I used to support an archive of weather satellite data. Whenever we had a software stack upgrade come in, the scientists grumbled because it meant they had to revalidate large swaths of their data with the new versions to make sure all results were reproducible. One thing they never did, if they could help it, was change the base code they used to generate those results. That would mean much more work. Also, if they wanted to to come up with a new subset of the data, they wrote it in what they knew. Usually Ada! Supporting this is how I learned that we couldn’t get an Ada compiler that would produce 64-bit binaries. The compiler binary itself was 64-bit, but that was it. From what I could learn, SGI had produced a 64-bit compiler for IRIX (I think - which ironically we were migrating from to x64 Linux clusters), and PGI gave up on theirs for “lack of consumer interest.”

I have far less issue with that than I do clipping nails at one’s desk!