Noogs

I use my laptop for anything that requires a real keyboard or bigger screen. Then I have my server, and my phone. So I mostly just use the laptop and the phone. I do have a dual screen phone though so that helps a bunch for multitasking.

A simple yet loaded question. Overall I think I am. I spend a lot of time working and commuting but I’m in the growing years of my career and working hard to prove myself. The late night work is usually things I enjoy doing but don’t have time for during the day and I’d otherwise be sitting in front the TV so I might as well make money.

I make time for family as well. For example leaving early for date night every now and then, taking days off for family events, going on family vacations. It’s important to have balance.

If I were to pick an area of my life that I’m unhappy with, it would be friendships and hobbies but I think most of that is due to undiagnosed mental issues. I don’t make connections easily so friends have always been hard. I have one good friend that I’ve known for almost my whole life, every one else is an acquaintance. The only hobby I have is the same thing I do for work. I don’t really enjoy or get excited about anything else.

Monday: Get kids ready for school and drop them off. Travel 45-60 minutes to work, work 9+ hours and travel back. Eat dinner and help clean up (wife cooked after she got home from work). Get kids ready for bed. Work another 3-4 hours. Sleep.

T-W: Leave for work an hour early. Work 9+ hours. Get home and help make dinner for the family if not yet made, help clean up, get kids ready for bed, work another 3-4 hours, sleep.

Thursday: Get kids ready and drop them off at school. Work from home for the day. Help make dinner. Help clean up. Get kids ready for bed. Work some more, sleep.

Friday: Get kids ready and drop them off. Travel to work and work 9+ hours. Travel home. Either get ready to go out with the wife or, if we’re staying in eat dinner and help clean up. If staying in, spend some time with the fam before sleep.

Saturday: Both wife and I are off work so we run errands, take the kids to do something fun, visit family, home projects, etc… Saturdays are busy.

Sunday: Wife is working, spend most of the day working on home projects (yard work, laundry, cleaning). Make dinner, get kids ready for bed, sleep.

Do it all over again.

Wife works in retail so does a lot of shopping for household needs and groceries throughout the week. She also cleans the house and works on home projects on her days off if she’s not running errands.

I worked with a debt collection agency from an IT perspective and dealt with what I believe to be the same company. It is an industry that I never want to support again if I can avoid it. I met some good people but it’s just an unhealthy work environment overall.

I don’t know enough about the fediverse or Lemmy code to say how easy or hard this would be to implement but if we’re logging in with the username noogs@lemmy.noogs.me for example, it’s reasonable for the app to assume the server is located at lemmy.noogs.me and it can derive the likely URL of https://lemmy.noogs.me from that. The only case this wouldn’t work is if your instance is running on a port other than 443 because then we need some way to tell the app what the port should be.

Email (or at least Microsoft Exchange email) uses a protocol called autodiscover for this which uses DNS to tell an email client where to get connection information from, it then polls that URL for the information and configures the email client automatically. Using a similar DNS based approach may be useful as well.

There’s a bit to explain here. So the root user is basically the equivalent of Administrator. One big difference (there are many) is that when you run something as root using sudo, you are actually running as the root user. When you ran the first command to create the folder, you created it in your home directory using the ~ shorthand variable which points to your /home/ user folder. The second command, also references your home folder. However since your running as root, it’s looking for the file in the root user’s home directory or /root, not your home folder.

The config file needs to be in the home directory of the user running the command unless you can put the full path to the config file in the command, then you can put it wherever you want.

I feel like the average person doesn’t need a computer most of the time. Anyone who’s a “power user”, for lack of a better term, probably does. I run a VM with a desktop OS on my Proxmox setup that I remote into from my phone for things that I require a full OS for but don’t want to break out my laptop. I often find myself remoting into it from my laptop anyway just for continuity.