845 karma · joined August 28, 2018
My previous job had some mandatory travel every few months which was great to get out and be around the team I worked with. My current job is happy to never get everyone together and I miss it.
Couple of reasons:
* Keeps me disinterested from caring about karma and making comments all the time (basically keeps me a lurker)
* Prevents me from adding any value to Reddit who I hate as a company
* Since I don't leave comments it lessens the time I spend on the site
* Once I had my first kid I realized that my discourses online were pretty "unkind" and I realized that if my kids looked me up as teenagers I'd be pretty embarrassed. I went on a spree of removing all traces of myself online and now I just use throwaway accounts everywhere.
Years ago I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get a Kindle to "Whispersync" sideloaded books. Eventually I figured out it was as simple as having an ASIN included in the books metadata (Calibre does this automatically now, but it was fun figuring it out manually with Python scripts).
Originally I thought the ASIN had to be valid, but eventually realized it didn't even matter, just had to match the pattern.
I also wrote my own container that I use for all my development so I like to keep it snappy for that.
I have about 20TB of platter storage (WD Reds) + parity, and 2TB of SSD cache (an additional 2TB SSD passed into the gaming vm)
It slowly adds up. I started with a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive as storage.
I've gone through several iterations of hardware and hard drive capacity over about 7-8 years now. Hard to imagine I'll ever go back.
It's not even about the monthly subscriptions, I've spent more on hardware I'm sure, plus my monthly VPN and Usenet fees. It's really an exhaustion of SaaS becoming essentially keyloggers of our entire lives. I guess self hosting is the closest we have of opting out, but even then it's not enough.