In fairness, I still play 5e

I haven’t given WotC a dime since that fiasco, though.

The last thing I bought from them directly was the R20 integrated Out of the Abyss digital campaign for me to DM with some friends.

We got halfway and it was kinda mid. I tossed a big ass boss fight at them along with the mid-game boss and it felt final enough.

Once it releases in full, we’ll be a Cosmere RPG group for a good while.

Ask WoTC how they feel about sending thugs to people’s doors

“learned some things like Linux, command line, docker, and networking/pfsense” “I don’t consider myself technical”

Don’t sell yourself short, I work in IT and have colleagues on our helpdesk who would struggle endlessly with those concepts.

I hereby dub you a tech person, like it or not, those skills can and do pay the bills.

Nintendo is just on their own planet when it comes to… Basically everything, including game pricing.

Syncthing is fantastic. Loving it so far.

The customer is only right if they threaten to cancel their service

Even then, if the cost of improving service is more than one customer’s cancellation, the customer can kick rocks

Free hardware is the best hardware!

I’ve had trouble using any kind of VPN on ABB. It’s pretty frustrating.

Second time Sony has done this in almost as many months. Fuck Sony.

Guess I’ll be putting Helluva Boss on my Plex server.

Meh.

My prime was already cancelled because they billed me in early January, when that extra $100 could be used on Christmas gifts, so it always snuck up on me.

I didn’t use it enough to justify it anyway.

I’m able to get a lot of gear secondhand through my job, so I’ve got:

One 2u Intel server running proxmox in a ‘cluster’ (circa 2013ish. Added RAM and upgraded the CPU/storage.)

One Intel nuc with an i7-7th gen as the other host in the cluster - only one VM is set to fail over between the two if needed.

VMs:

• Plex
• 2x PiHoles (one of these is the failover VM) (these also have a few docker containers like Uptime Kuma.)
• Windows arr box (I know it’s blasphemy but I felt more comfortable doing that stuff in windows)
• anything else I want to mess with because the server really doesn’t run that hard.

Network:

• Sonicwall TZ 300 (incl a perpetual VPN license)
• Unifi 24 port switch (it’s gigabit and POE but doesn’t output enough power for the…)
• single Unifi AP.

All acquired over the last couple years for the low low price of “it was going into the trash anyway”

Plex+Plexamp works great for audiobooks

For some reason the regular Plex player would restart tracks on me after being out of the app for a long time. But Plexamp seems to have that one under control.

Oh, also, while we’re talking audiobooks, check out Graphic Audio versions of your various books. They do a great job

The reason Valve is so heavily investing in Linux is that they know that Microsoft could - in theory - flip a switch and kill their business, especially because Microsoft themselves is a competitor to Valve in the form of Xbox and Gamepass.

It’s a defensive tactic, not a money-making venture.