Previous job: Windows, because it was a company issued laptop. Plus a lot of the company was built around the MS ecosystem.
Current job: Linux, because I got to keep the perfectly decent Dell laptop when I left. I wanted to make sure I purged everything, so it’s running LMDE now. Plus, there’s not much outlook and teams stuff that I have to use.
I blame Daniel
Unusable in our case
No. Beegfs.
I realized a few years ago that my GF inadvertently solved this issue for me: She likes registering for anything that provides a discount, so I use her phone number.
“Are you a member?”
“Nope, but my GF probably is…”, and 90% of the time I am correct.
Hobbies: 10/10. Factorio Dpace Age is out, and I’ve started tinkering with music making again.
Work: 9/10. I’ll spare you the boring details, but I was able to deliver some great news yesterday, and my design doc draft is now what we’ll be doing for the next two years. The next step is to get budget approval for 5 additional hires.
Family: 8/10. Youngest one has the sniffles, but she’s in good spirit and watching Gabbys Dollhouse.
Finances: 9/10. Payday today, and all of the bills that are normally due today were paid ahead of time.
All in all, pretty good.
Some surface-level info while I’m waiting for my kids to finish the evening ritual: No need for an extra IP or VPS. You can host them all on the same IP and machine, provided there aren’t any conflicting port assignments.
In the DNS server, you can enter the various subdomains as CNAME pointing to the A record. The server-software is configured with which hostname it should operate as (For example, HTTP/1.1 has a Host-specification in the initial request, so that one server can host multiple domains on the same IP)
It should be noted that mail servers are indicated by an MX-record. And mailservers should also have a TXT record (SPF record) as part of spam prevention - some SMTP servers query this to ensure that your e-mail actually comes from you and not from someone spoofing the domain.
I used to have a zone file that did roughly what you’re trying to do, bit sadly I don’t have it anymore. But as you have DNS up and running, I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out the rest through checking some examples.
I half-baked an example zone file for you. I haven’t tested it, though. It assumes the domain of blargh.com being hosted from an IP of 123.123.123.123:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.blargh.com. admin.blargh.com. (
2024102102 ; Serial (incremented)
3600 ; Refresh
1800 ; Retry
1209600 ; Expire
86400 ; Minimum TTL
)
; Name servers
@ IN NS ns1.blargh.com.
@ IN NS ns2.blargh.com.
; A Records
@ IN A 123.123.123.123
ns1 IN A 123.123.123.123
ns2 IN A 123.123.123.123
; CNAME Records
mail IN CNAME blargh.com.
mastodon IN CNAME blargh.com.
matrix IN CNAME blargh.com.
; MX Records
@ IN MX 10 mail.blargh.com.
; TXT/SPF Record
@ IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all"
Oh, and some tips:
Will have a look tomorrow if I find the time. I don’t have much storage space at the moment, though, so if I do end up grabbing it all, I’m going to need one of you to take it off my hands, depending on size.
One thing I’ve learned over the past 13 years is that the parts one thought would be easy were actually hard. But the things one thought would be hard are actually very easy, namely “fancy” meals and other “luxury” every day stuff.
I’m currently redoing the bedroom of my oldest kid (removing an ancient bathroom so he gets more space, and rebuilding a wall for extra soundproofing. It surprised me how happy he was about learning these two nuggets:
After my last grandparent passed this spring, the final stages of dividing up the estate on my fathers side is now in full swing. As my father died around a decade ago, his share is divided equally among my siblings and I. My aunt is in charge of the estate, and last week she looked at all the accounts, and I was pleasantly surprised at what was in them.
While my grandparents weren’t rich by most standards, their generation was simply really good at saving up. Despite my share only being one third of a fourth (my dad had three siblings, I ha e two), it was enough to pay down all of my debts except the mortgage and then leave a decent rainy day fund.
The ones who claim that money can’t buy happiness obviously didn’t account for situations where lack of it is what’s keeping you from being happy. I’ve been financially stable for a while, but I’m officially no longer living paycheck to paycheck.
Two Raspberry Pi Zero W arrived in the mail today. One will be a VPN gateway for when I’m out and about and I wanna log into my home network.
The other one might be a print and scan server.
I’ve set up the basics on one of them and connected to an unused USB port in my TV for power so that I can ssh into it and tinker with it during idle hours.
I have a bunch of SD cards leftover from work, and I intend to set up various images for various uses, so I can move the boards around as I please and just swap the card to whatever I want to do.
The boards are dirt cheap, so I kind of wish I had bought more than two.
Found the Ferengi
Depends a lot on the sheets. I find that the ones in hotels are both clean and crisp, but I find the fabric to be too course.
At home it’s not as clean and crisp, but it’s a lot more comfy.
A block of blue cheese and a beer.
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Currently going through a huge backlog of torrents as I’m temporarily stuck on a ship with satellite internet not suitable for streaming.
Started with Top Gun: Maverick. Surprisingly good movie, except I found the writing for the plot-mission to be a bit lazy.
Then I saw Seven Psychopaths. It was OK. It had some funny scenes and plot twists, but summa sumarium I’d call it a pretty average movie.
I’m currently going through Rick&Morty season 6, as I’ve had it in my backlog for ages.
After this I’m not sure what I’ll watch next, but I’m considering New York Undercover (a 90’s cop show) that I found interesting 25byears ago. I’m curious if it holds up. I also have a bunch of 30 Rock that I haven’t seen yet.
Oh, and I also have Season 1 of Six-Four, a series I know literally nothing about. I downloaded it mostly to have something to seed, so it could be great, horrible, or something in between. Time will tell.
I’ve been on both sides of this dynamic. While it can be summed up as depression, I want to put it in the words I felt: Her world feels very small right now. Because it is very small. And she’s holding on to what little remains of it that isn’t inside her own head.
The solution is “simple”: The depression needs to end. I’m not the one to tell you how this can be achieved for her, but I can tell you what worked for me:
Pretty decent. Similar to other offshore roles with specialization.
Work.
I’m currently sitting in a minibus near an industrial port in the middle east, waiting for the crewboat to arrive. It’s taking me on a 10 hour ride for me to board a ship pretty much in the middle of the Persian gulf. I will most likely be on board tomorrow and finish up what I’m doing the same day.
Then it’s a short transfer to another ship nearby where the same job awaits.
If timing works out I will head back to shore on Sunday, arriving very early Monday. Then it’s a few days of chill before my return flight on Thursday.
I’m soaking wet. My kids wanted to go trick or treating, but there’s a storm at the moment with sideways rain. So I followed them in my car until I decided it was enough. Two of them had already capitulated, but the 3rd and a friend wanted to keep going.
Helping them in/out as well as helping their friend getting the bike out was enough weather exposure for me to get properly soaked - all of my kids were completely drenched, but they had a good time.
They’re currently eating Halloween candy, and I’m looking forward to a hot shower with a cold beer once they’re in bed in not too long.
Oh, and I got a new laptop today, which is pretty nice. Haven’t had much time setting everything up yet, though.