OpticalMoose

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxmpmln-CI

Words just mean whatever these folks want them to mean.

Friggin' sweet! One of these days I'm going to look into building a shifter and clutch pedal because I'm too cheap to buy a whole new set.

I'm definitely going to keep that one in mind - it looks a lot more straightforward than Pixelfed. For now, Cloudron only lets me install 2 aps on their free plan. Installing another would more than double my hosting costs.

I guess I'll see how far I can get with Wordpress before I have to look at another option. Thanks for all the help!

As far as I know, he still has to pay the full amount if he looses his appeal https://trumpdebtcounter.com/ The judge just lowered the bond amount Trump has to put up in order to file an appeal.

At this point, I don't care if he's still rich as long as he doesn't get back into office. We've already seen that justice isn't blind, some people are above the law, and Trump will never be held accountable. He's going to weasel his way out of paying most of the judgements against him.

I don't know what's wrong with that debt counter. It was showing $474mil a week ago.

Another update. I went with Wordpress and it's working like a charm so far.

Another question - is Wordpress suitable for hosting thousands (upon thousands) of images, or should I set up something like Pixelfed to handle that? I'm basically trying to digitize as many photo albums, VHS tapes and obituaries as possible before this stuff is lost to time.

Those look pretty good. I'm going to take a few days and try out some different things.

Static would definitely be easier. I finally got MediaWiki working but it's really picky about what info I can enter and how I have to enter it. And if something goes wrong, it'll be a pain to get everything installed and working again, even with backups.

But Peertube was the main obstacle. Now that that's done, I don't think the website will be a big issue. The real issue is scanning thousands of photos, organizing them, and coming up with a privacy policy. I'll probably have to require a login because people don't want their photos out there exposed to the internet, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Just brainstorming here. Maybe I'll store all the personal info in MySQL (which I'm pretty good at) and serve the individual pages with Joomla. Having all the info in a database will make it easier to migrate to whatever the next platform will be. And the only people listed on the site will be already dead, so that cuts down on privacy/identity theft issues.

I've been dreading starting this project for over a year, but now that I've started, it's not so bad - kind of fun, actually.

I may end up switching to something else. I'm doing a family history website, so MediaWiki seemed like a good choice because I like the Wikipedia style pages. But it's been pretty difficult to work with so far.

I had a course on Drupal and Joomla in college, maybe I'll give those a try if Wiki doesn't work out.

Wordpress sounds good too - I've heard that's the easiest to work with. Since this is a family history site, I've gotta think about the unlucky schmoe that has to take over this site once I kick the bucket.

I'm slightly pissed about the shrinkage, but really pissed that they don't come in packages anymore (at least not where I live). It's bad enough I have to scan my own groceries, but now I have to scan 8-12 individual eggs in a row. What's next?

Just an update, so far Hostinger is working out ok. I gotta say choosing not to self-host was probably the best decision I'll make all year. There's a lot of security stuff I had no idea about.

Peertube was a huge pain - I never got it working on my own. Eventually, I got it and MediaWiki installed through Cloudron. Now it's just a matter of making a decent looking website, which is another of my weak points😐. Thanks for the help!

I pirated a certain 'crash cars and shoot'em up' game because, even though I own it on Steam, the gameplay (especially the launcher) absolutely sucks.

No more automatically downloading online content when I don't even play online and no more updates breaking my mods. It's worked out so well that I'm looking at pirating other games I already own.

Well, I retired from the military, and my sister was already taking care of my parents, but she needed help, so I decided to do that instead of finding another job. Caring for them in their home was wayyyy cheaper than a nursing home. Then, once my parents passed away, my brother started showing symptoms of dementia, so I looked after him during the daytime so his wife could go to work.

I'm only now realizing that I've been suffering from depression. I've probably always had it, but work was the only thing that kept my mind off it. So, I'm going to go back to work, and hopefully start therapy soon. My brother recently got approved for adult-daycare, so there's no need for anyone to watch him at home during the day.

I'm still reassessing the retirement plan. It seems like people in my family start developing dementia after they stop working, so my best hope is to try to stay as active as possible. I'm going to start drawing Social Security as soon as possible and live life to the fullest before the cognitive issues start showing up.

But money-wise, I'm ok. I'd like to buy a house before I retire, but if worse comes to worst, I have a rental property that I can move into.