People want to believe because they wish badly for the money. Back in the late 90s my friends and I keep seeing papers advertising a guarenteed money making system for only $2.

Finallt one of my friends could not resist and ordered it.

He got instructions to put signs all over offering the money making system for $2.

“As you paid for it you can see that it works.”

Tipping when they visit places where it isn’t normal or expexted.

If you ask me, you are better off focusing on monitoring, fast detection, and auto-healing in a homelab rather than High Availability. I use an ancient tool called monit and newer tools like uptime kuma for this. Detection and restart is easier than having 2 of everything.

I’ve been using Quad9 DoH for a few months now. Very happy with it so far.

A young broke me once spent 3 weeks after school each day in 1994 downloading slackware floppy images from my Dad’s AOL account via modem so I could try it on my 386.

cat sends its error via stderr so it won’t go into the pipe (or grep). you will see the cat error on your terminal, unless you have redirected stderr to stdout