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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • I would be willing to pay an initial setup fee followed by some maintenance fee. I would expect the initial fee to be significant due to a custom setup/requirements. (I am talking just setup, not cost of hardware/ physical installation).

    Unique home network with 2 managed switches.

    Self hosted security DVR, automated computer backup, photo backup, network drive for document storage and then self hosting a Jellyfin server along with a torrent service.

    (I am sweating just thinking about trying to set that up)

    Storage will be a RAID setup where I can just upgrade by throwing a new drive into an open slot and replace (as necessary) existing drives by just swapping them out and server automatically handles the data management.

    I have a VAGUE idea of what that takes

    Maintenance would cover service calls to resolve problems due to security updates/patches, end of life upgrades, normal planned maintenance type of stuff.

    User caused issues should be extra :) (i.e. I was just trying to install a Minecraft server)

    Couple hundred bucks, at least, for setup. And that seems cheap.

    I would pay $10-20 a month for a maintenance fee after an initial setup fee.

    I would MUCH rather give my money to an individual sysadmin than a corporate megalith that will use my membership to force an arbitration clause to any future service of theirs I use. Fuck the mouse. Fuck em all. I tried to do it right and that still want enough for them.


  • I would be happy if I could pay you to just set up and periodically check my setup. I only say that because I would probably want to put together something that cost more than $150. But I am absolutely overwhelmed by what I don’t know. Every tutorial I read gives me more questions than answers.

    I just want to self host, share it with a close circle of friends, and keep everyone else’s noses out of my business.










  • Close but not correct.

    It’s an established marketplace, where legislated “middlemen” buy from the utilities and then sell to the consumer.

    You can’t actually buy directly from the utility generating the power without going through the marketplace.

    It is sold as a “free market” that would drive competition and keep prices down. In actuality, it just allows leaches, who don’t actually produce anything, to sit in the middle and suck money out of the economy.

    Sure some of them will lose money, while others will make a billion, but the system works just fine as a regulated controlled monopoly.

    Texas is a perfect example of Republican hypocrisy. The Governor, Lt Governor, State AG, etc… are quite literally the worst kind of politicians.

    I seriously dislike Sheila Jackson Lee, but I feel bad about her situation.

    I would laugh if that wheel chaired, piece of shit rolled off a cliff.

    I would laugh if Dan Patrick caught on fire.

    On second thought, I might use Ken Paxton to put out the fire, by that I mean, push him onto Dan, hoping he would catch on fire too.

    Shit, that went a lot darker than I intended.




  • Think of free market capitalism. In an ideal world, where people played fair, this system would work. But it has been clearly shown that any and all abuses of a free market will be made in order to gain an “edge”.

    You are clearly so naive that you think the meaning behind a vote somehow makes that vote more important.

    I wish you were right, but you are not. I am a registered Republican and I have been voting Democrat, down ticket, as a protest for the last two elections because the GoP has become taken over by fundies and fascists.

    Project 2025 scares the shit out of me. It should scare the living shit out of you too.

    But here you are, arguing that Biden doesn’t deserve to be President because he did horribly at the debate, ignoring that Trump was 90% full of shit.

    I don’t want Biden to be President either. JFC, he was a corporatist asshole 30 years ago, but at least this country has a chance to move forward with him in the oval office. If Trump gets elected, this is the fucking end of our Democracy. Do you not realize the point of project 2025?

    I wish you would just shut the fuck up. The time to talk about different leadership was three fucking years ago.

    I’m trying my best to change the local party but I’ve been blacklisted from every local GoP event. What the fuck are you doing, besides watering down opposition to literal fucking Nazis?