My work laptop is a dell xps and it’s the same, 3 USB c and that’s it. One gets used for charging. It came with a c to HDMI and A adapter. Basically forces you to need a dock at the desk and carry a bunch of adapters for anywhere else. Even just 1 type A for the mouse receiver would be nice because logitech still don’t make type C receivers.

100%. Took me a good year to learn it well enough to be confident with what I was doing but I’ve now got it on everything with a single flake for all my hosts. I love that my user profile is configured the same everywhere. I can add a new tool or config or alias or whatever and it’s the same on every computer.

I’ve now written a module to define all the services I self host and from that it generates both nginx config and DNS config on different hosts.

The main advantage for me though is I only have to solve problems once. Once it’s there in the config I’m confident it’s solved and I won’t need to worry about it again. My previous server was 10 years old and there was stuff configured I’d long forgotten about how it worked or even why I did it.

Yeah I’ll willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Could very easily believe that a dev added the reference without realising the implications and they fixed it very quickly. Will be watching for any future attempts though.

Haha I know what you mean. It’s in St Helens unless there’s more than one

I’ve worked on SCADA systems. The most the keyboard was used for was logging in then then putting something heavy on it stop the computer going to sleep. System was entirely controlled by the mouse and head office didn’t consider that 1 person might be monitoring 4-6 computers on their own for an 8 hour shift and enforced a 5 minute idle lockout on all of them.

I’ve been using silverbullet.md

Its more notes than wiki I guess so depends what you’re after.

I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there’s not a lot of differences really. If you’re happy with Borg keep with it.

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I use audible, then download with audible-cli and decrypt with ffmpeg.

I thought colo was your hardware in someone else’s data center.

For me though a VPS is still self hosting because you own your applications data and have control over it.

You’re less beholden to the whims of a company to change the software or cut you off. With appropriate backups you should be able to move to a new cloud provider fairly easily.

Maybe that’s normal in US but it’s way overpriced in UK. They want £75/mo and I’m paying £35 for 500Mb in a rural area and there’s several different providers to choose from. My sister is even more remote than me and they’re getting fibre this week.

I could also get unlimited 4G for about £20.

I don’t know anyone who is using starlink

Years ago now I was asked to be on call for a week, 24/7 outside working hours. I was told it would be paid. Being naive I thought I’d be paid at my normal rate.

Turns out the on call rate was based on the likelihood of being called and this project was deemed to be low, after tax I got less than £10 extra for the whole week. It was something like 14 pence an hour.

They had a whole load of restrictions on my life as well, couldn’t be more than an hour from the office, couldn’t be drunk, had to answer the phone within a minute at all times and be able to get on my laptop within 5 minutes.

Refused to do it again after that first week and they ended up having to pay a contractor £400/week instead.

“How many Transporter accidents have there been in the last tens years, Reg? Two… three? What about the millions of people who transport every day without a problem” - Geordi - TNG Realm of Fear S6E2

That’s a cool idea for an automated offline backup. My equivalent is an external hard drive connected to a mechanical timer plug. Every day it turns on for 30 minutes, that triggers a script that mounts the drive, syncs my files, then unmounts the drive. Then the plug turns off the drive until tomorrow.

I like this better though. I’ve got an old pi1 somewhere, might have to try it.