Sad as that is, I think you’re correct

Yes! I hope they don’t roll over (again). They need to fight on every front. Respond to flooding the zone with a torrent of their own.

Several attendees also complained about payment arrangements at food stalls inside the venue, saying food counters were accepting only cash and not digital payments

These food stall vendors are probably selling real deal delicious Indian street food. Cash only places are the best

Props to them

Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…

Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation

Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)

Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab

I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.

I think, all things considered, they handled this pretty well, and I’m actually more likely now to read an Ars article than before the article (when I had a neutral opinion).

The “us vs them” mentality that western media has pushed is backfiring.

In reality its not a competition but western media and government wanted to frame it like that, for 20+ years, and now, oh…looks like the west is losing.

“You’re absolutely right! That was just a party balloon!”

It’s like a delicious home cooked meal, instead of fast food.

Their revenue is growing. Their revenue only from Amazon sales to consumers is also growing (excluding things like AWS, streaming, and advertising). The proportion of sales to Prime members is growing (they stopped reporting Prime membership, but we can presume that it also growing, from this).

The few people boycotting Amazon, maybe for short periods of time, isn’t enough. Every small step is helpful but we need much, much more.

For my part I last used Amazon services in 2024. (personally, not counting AWS at work)

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

I use Feeder too

Isn’t this basically just fracking without the oil?