Tailscale, Netbird, or Wireguard, depending on how many people you want to share with and the technical comfort of all parties

Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, the first book in The Expanse series. I’m roughly half way in, and it’s enjoyable so far.

Hence my final sentence saying the comparison doesn’t hold up under any real scrutiny.

American football is a bastardized reenactment of WWI. The poor cannon fodder in the trenches (linebackers and whatnot) get chewed up like so much meat while the artillery (quarterbacks) lob shells (the ball) to try to gain a few yards on the field. The field marshals (coaches) try to direct the troops and take all the glory of a supposed victory, while the chateau generals (team owners) rake in the money and suppress the research about systemic traumatic brain injuries resulting from the activities. The general public doesn’t know any better and just wants to do their patriotic duty and support their boys.

Of course any real poking at this comparison falls apart next to real historical information but it’s a fun little thought experiment to piss off the football fans.

Not a hair person (curse you, male pattern baldness!), but picaridin based bug spray is effective, safe for skin and clothes, and non-greasy. Sawyer’s version works really well!

Hardware: what you currently have on hand to play around with.

Software: start with something simple and well documented. Not quite the driver for the learning phase, in my personal opinion.

“Utilities” as you call them: What is useful to you? What do you want to play with or need to improve your personal use case?

I don’t mean to be flippant with my answers here. Do a little introspection and determine what is genuinely useful for you to self host. I personally run Technitium, Jellyfin, a portion of the "-arr"s, Immich, and Navidrome. My family uses all of these services/utilities on a daily basis, so they are useful for me to host. I have some of the services that need CPU and GPU processing power running on my gaming PC and others running on a Lenovo ThinkCenter that I got for free from the IT department at work. They have bins of PCs slated for recycling that work perfectly fine but are “outdated”.

That’s horribly bleak. For what it’s worth, I hope you stay safe and have your basic needs met.

How much of an impact does federal/local government (or equivalent distinctions in Iran) have on your daily life? What does a typical day look like for you?

Oooh, that one looks bitey!

I’m just a geologist, so I only know which minerals are friendly or not haha. But yes, I always do my best to approach nature with a good dose of respect. Nonvenomous snakes bite, too, so no sense in stirring it up.

Absolutely! I’m very much an “observe nature doing its thing without interfering” type of person.

Perfect! I’m glad it was a friendly one

Okay, looking at the photos in the link, I’m pretty sure I saw a milksnake. I’m happy that I had a dull wildlife encounter! The state forest I was at is in southeast Ohio, and ODNR cautions that both timber rattlesnakes and copperheads have been observed there. I went with a healthy dose of respect

Dang, that’s a bummer, but I totally get making sure your dog was safe! Where I was hiking is in the territory for timber rattlesnakes and copperheads, so I was doing my best to be vigilant while huffing and puffing along the trail. I thankfully saw this one well ahead of stepping on it and getting bitten. That certainly would have put a damper on the fun

Shit, what about the giant clouds of asbestos dust that wafted through DC when the demo happened? They absolutely did not do any of the required sampling, abatement, or control measures throughout the surprise demo.

As cool as the breeze from a camel’s behind.

Oh it doesn’t happen every time or anything. It’s more just what my wife and I call any fart the day after drinking kombucha.

I get the intent of the question. As in, should the focus be on parents with non-adult children rather than parents with adult children and/or grandchildren? Not that all parents aren’t celebrated, but the parents actively doing it every day should receive more focus than those not actively parenting

Reminds me of a song with the same name

The gas production as a result of drinking kombucha