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  • Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

    Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

    If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.











  • I am so glad that the military… let me check my notes… ah, yes. Waited to see who would win.

    Are you a high schooler that just learned that being cynical will make you sound smarter among peers who don’t have the knowledge to challenge you?

    Explain what should have happened in that scenario in your view.

    Which person in the military has the authority to unilaterally deploy US Military personnel for the purposes of domestic law enforcement?

    What authority allows them to ignore the Posse Comitatus Act, which explicitly does not allow the use of the Military for domestic law enforcement?

    Or, if you want to go after the NG service members, what should they do as individuals in your mind? Should they refuse to leave their barracks? Maybe go to their commanding officer and ask to be arrested? What specific thing?

    You’re throwing a lot of stones and summoning hypotheticals without any apparent understanding of how the military functions.