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  • I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

    I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

    If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

    If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

    Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?




  • I kind of disagree with that being not caring about you. It’s kind of more like they are helpless to help you, but they still want you to be better because they want you to be happy.

    So, a lot of people default to giving useless advice. It is still an expression of care and love and support, just an ineffective one that is insulting and annoying to someone who’s currently going through it.

    I would much rather have somebody whom I’ve known for years tell me to try doing things that improve their mental health than to have nobody or for everyone to just look the other way while I am suffering.





  • What I would do is get a lot of experience with a lot of different systems.

    If you’re enjoying self hosting and setting stuff up, go to something like TurnKey Linux and download a handful of applications that you’re interested in using.

    Spin up virtual servers on a proxmox server, install the turnkey Linux systems, and then learn how they work. Get ldap running on your home network. Set up an nginx reverse proxy and get a certificate so that you can go to a duckdns internal name spaces instead of IP addresses.

    Find use cases for your home network system and then find how to make the systems you have available work for those use cases.

    And for the love of god, find yourself a cheap Windows server license and virtualize one of those and integrate it into the mix.

    Host a WordPress or Joomla on IIS, set up a pihole for your home DNS on Ubuntu server.

    Run a jellyfin server and download a bunch of public domain movies to it.

    Hello, find yourself some Kiwix images that you like and figure out how to get https and nginx names running on them.

    The more you play around with the technology, the more you’ll find out what you like doing and what you don’t like doing and what you’re good at and what you’re not good at and that will help you understand where you fit and wear your talents lie.

    Once you know that I’m sure you can put those talents to use for gainful employment.


  • I’m with you. I make mid-100s myself and as a single homeowner with no children I still can’t afford to go on funky vacations.

    My take home after 401k and taxes is like $7,600 a month and my mortgage, heloc, car and student loans eat about $5,000 of that.

    But, car will be paid off in the next few months, student loans should be done about 2 years after that, he lock will be done about 2 years after that so 5 years from now it’s only going to cost me like $2,500 a month to keep my home.

    I have been told that I fit into the Henry class, “high earning, not rich yet”.

    I just wonder if I can keep going for 5 years to accomplish that or if I should just finish up the house and sell it and pocket the 200k in value it’s accrued, pay off any other outstanding debt, and then go find an apartment or something or go travel.