Drusenija

From a hardware perspective I need more storage. Am thinking I'll probably end up with a second Synology NAS unit before the end of the year with 4 hard drives at whatever a reasonable price vs size point it at the time I do it (likely 12-14Tb drives at this stage). Bought drives 2 at a time last time so I'm running two RAID1 pairs right now on the existing unit - adding 4 new drives at once to the home lab will let me move all that content to the new drives and reformat the existing ones into a RAID5 array and get an extra 12Tb of storage.

The one I already have does support adding the 5 drive expansion bay, but figuring that with a second NAS I can move some of my Docker instances currently running on a dedicated laptop onto the second NAS which takes one computer out of the setup as well.

Maintenance wise I've just only done my 2024 maintenance stuff that I do each year. This year it was going through my password vault and making sure everything was synced up, had complex passwords, had two factor enabled where applicable, etc, as well as setting up unique email addresses for every service I'm using (they just forward to the same inbox) to help me track who's been selling my info. Have already found a local fast food outlet who has from that.

Have also rotated all my SSH keys, made sure they were all upgraded to Ed25519 from RSA, set up unique keys for the three devices I regularly use so I can revoke one individually if required, made sure all my hardware was running the latest updates (my RPi running my Pi-hole instance was still on Buster so I had to get that updated before I could even update Pi-hole), etc.

Also swapped my Mullvad connection on my gateway to use Wireguard instead of OpenVPN since they're dropping support later this year.

Honestly I'd love to invest in some sort of rack mounting for home, its something I should look into some more, but right now I just have a whole section of the wardrobes in my study for equipment and tech storage. It's working for now although I worry about it in summer with not a massive amount of heat dissipation in there. This weekend is supposed to be close to 40 degrees Celsius both days 🥵

We've all had that moment where stuff gets a deep discount not too soon after we've bought it. Everyone else who was also debating making that same purchase but didn't is now thanking you for being the one to make the sacrifice and pay full price to enable the discount to happen 🫡

At least there's Faux Leaves as an alternative for most of the stuff you get with a gold voucher. There's only one way to get that Chocobo ring, you gotta win the Cactpot 😭

I know it's not out yet but I feel pretty confident adding Persona 6 to this list too.

Karens vs CEO, you know what, it couldn't be any worse than the Jake Paul v Tyson fight.

It's a Victorian distribution centre where the strikes are happening, I suspect WA would have their own separate centres given the distance from coast to coast, so unless their workers join the blockade there probably won't be much interruption there.

They'll probably get more business actually as someone will happily take over the newly vacated position and see it as their right to get their own yacht.

I don't think it'll actually happen but I would laugh if the social media companies decide this isn't worth the effort for the size of the user base in Australia and decide to just pull out of Australia. Then we can see how many people decide to learn about VPNs and how many decide to get more involved in politics because they can't watch TikTok.

Will second Doki Doki Literature Club. Undertale should also be on this list I feel.

So basically this. Honestly I'm with @just_kitten@aussie.zone now.

But you know what? Despite all that, everything will still be alright 😊

How do you type on them? I've always wondered that, since if I invested in one it would be to play FFXIV and I'd want a way to chat. Always assumed it was a touch screen thing, and have no idea how well that would work for it.

I ended up with pretty much all the west half of the country, and it got progressively more sparse from there. Basically anything further east than Texas I had maybe half a dozen or so, and the rest I just couldn't find in my head.

I knew one of them started with G from the US elections, but couldn't get to Georgia 🤦 Oh well.

Vermont I did get thanks to a comedian, I think it's Tommy Johnagin. He does a bit talking about Texas and how it's not uncommon to hear something like "we're gonna beat your ass, Texas style", and then points out no other state says that, like you won't hear someone say "we're gonna beat your ass, Vermont style".

Odd things that stick with you that help with trivia 😂