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Cake day: May 22nd, 2025

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  • Well I’ve done most of those except for using an immutable distro, and quite honestly have zero interest in running one.

    Just this past year I’ve setup a media server using a bunch of servers I nabbed from work, did unraid because I’ve been toying with the unraid idea for years. Learned and fell in love with Docker. I avoided it like the plague for the better part of a decade. Now I run damn near everything in docker containers. Started using home assistant quite recently actually, my wife got annoyed with the heavily sanitized results she was getting with Gemini for Google Home. So I setup M5Stack ATOM Lite ESP32’s around the house acting as microphones that I then use with home assistant to ferry the query to the Anthropic API and the result to the nearest Google Home device. It’s a work in progress, but happy with the results


  • Bought a deep fryer a couple years back, once you’re done with it, and let it cool down. You can turn a knob and it will filter itself and empty into a storage container. Once the oil has gone bad, I have a Home Depot bucket with a lid that I dump it into, once that is full I take it to the dump. Once the filtered bits are dumped in the compost, everything else goes in the dishwasher.

    I fry in peanut oil, I have 2 air fryers but some things need to be deep fried.



  • Honestly, I didn’t know what to do either. I’m a big iron sysadmin but I’m old now, so I’m mostly relegated to management. We have young guys who do all the cloud and virtualization crap and they make me look like the dinosaur that I am.

    But like many companies we had AI forced on us, so when I didn’t know what filesystem to use on my array I asked Claude. Claude knows everything about unRaid. Every roadblock I hit was answered so thoroughly I hit my usage limit and had to make a note on my profile that Claude was not to make documentation unless I damn well asked for it.

    I know AI is not a popular topic but it’s honestly made my life better. I’ve been running Linux since forever but still when an update breaks Arch, and reverting to a snapshot doesn’t fix it. I usually just reinstall. Now I don’t have to feel stupid asking younger guys how to fix an issue. I just type the issue into Claude, drop into TTY and I have all the info needed to fix it within minutes.

    Just yesterday one of my coworkers calls me up and says Santa was good to him and gives me a Radeon that was leaps ahead of what I was running so I checked the CachyOS wiki, thought I was prepared to switch from Nvidia to Radeon and the second the switch was made everything went to shit. Claude to the rescue with all the commands to purge my system of nividia garbage and reinstall the Radeon versions. He also ran me through adding my old nividia card to unraid so I can use it for my vm’s.











  • Canada stopped using bills for $1 in like the 80s, then dropped the $2 bill in the 90’s. We have the “loonie” which is a $1 coin, and “toonie” which is the $2 coin.

    Carts depending on how premium the chain is, will either use a quarter coin ($0.25) or a loonie ($1.00).

    Coins of Canada

    A few years ago we dropped the Penny, our 1 cent coin ($0.01). All purchases are rounded to the nearest 5 cents.