Enjoy the ride! I too have been building PCs for a long time (since the 90s in my case) and went down the rabbit hole of NAS / self hosting starting about 7 years ago.

In that time I went from a Bitfenix Portal SFF case, to a Deep Silence 6, to an 18U cabinet… so fun and lots of learning.

The free software movement is actually inherently political. Much of modern digital infrastructure is built using tools / software that embodies collectivist ideologies. I would be very surprised if the Lemmy developers even claimed that they created Lemmy in some sort of apolitical clean room (not that it is even possible).

While Karen’s story is among my least favorite in the SAO universe, I’m glad it’s continuing because it means there’s that much more momentum to get more SAO material an anime adaptation.

I just want to see Klein settle down and be happy…

TP-Link Omada WiFi access points, dumb switches, and OPNSense running on a mini PC.

I really like the Omada line up. Affordable, and all their devices can be run in standalone mode if you don’t want to deal with an SDN controller.

Network (1976).

A prescient film that is just as relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. A little monologue-y at times, but that’s just the style.

I think the Black Mirror-ness of Loch Henry is unusually hard to spot, but it is there, albeit not as relatable to the viewer.

Young, tech-savvy film school grads try to make a generic true crime documentary but get wrapped up in the horror themselves, despite the main crime happening decades ago.

Might be more relatable if we were all documentarians. Or maybe we aren’t watching enough true crime meta.