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I've been self-hosting for 20 years now - a few years ago I switched to using Mail-in-a-Box ( https://mailinabox.email/ ) which makes management a lot easier than configuring each …

Um, what? It's literally what we're talking about haha

We're using the highest tier Postgres instance at my work for one of our legacy Heroku apps and it costs thousands over what we'd pay for the equivalent on AWS directly.

I've got the color/RGB Philips Hue bulbs indoors and I find you can change them to a nice warm yellow color which is nice but they also can be changed to act like a candle. These a…

The claw of capitalism will always tighten its grip. Any software company that goes public has this problem it seems.

Why not use a paper towel?

"Sure, you can overclock that CPU, but why?" I dislike questions that challenge pushing the limits of our existence.

This was great, thanks for sharing. I really do love the "warmth" provided by VHS, but I often wonder if that is just nostalgia from using a technology we grew up with? I've been g…

I think mentioning that you're paying the cheque is tacky. Just invite them and pay for their meal silently as a nice surprise to the end of dinner.

I wish Valve would try to build a desktop OS. They surely have the bankroll to do something like that. I'm curious what percentage of Windows users are only using it for gaming? Ar…

Would be more interesting to include the numbers prior to the pandemic (which had an abnormal surge in hiring).

Are you Canadian? I had previously looked into heat pumps for cold climates and thought that it was economically not a great investment and required a gas back-up.

Ever since I left all social media and blocked (as much as I could) trackers in my apps and networks, I rarely see any targeted ads now. I now see completely irrelevant ads for thi…

AFAIK they can't legally claim your donation as a tax write-off, at least in Canada.

My spending on Amazon has diminished significantly due to the flood of Chinese copycat brands and products on there. Wish there was a way to filter out products by their country of…

When visiting this link does anyone else just get a blank white page in Firefox?

Highly recommend checking out KEDA ( https://keda.sh/ ) which leverages HPAs under the hood. If you need to scale based on some internal data like database records, Redis queues, K…

When you're the only person to answer to for your physical health, it can be very easy to let yourself go. Having external accountability is a fantastic driver for improving physic…

I highly enjoyed reading this book - does anyone else have recommendations for similar reads? Masters of Doom was another great one.

Perhaps the money can be pledged and held in escrow either until someone accepts the work for scheduling or it gets withdrawn by the pledgee due to inaction.

Oof - you are correct. I think I should have slept a couple more hours last night.

I wish there was a better alternative. I know Jellyfin is there, but I can't get behind the .NET framework it's written in.

It appears it does exist: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos

I just learned that in 2021, Plex was acquired by Rockwell Automation. Had no idea that had happened. That seems like an odd company for them to acquire.

They're B2B so not really something the average person would hear about or even be interested in.