Yep, same

Proxmox for self-hosting game servers and pfSense for my firewall

I did an Uno Reverse one year where I had one of these ready to catch them off guard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSrPp40lHVY&pp=ygUYZnV6enkgd29ybSBvbiBzdHJpbmcgdG95

I had a few extras to give away if they chose trick. Was fun times especially the poor few kiddos that reacted more strongly to seeing it sudden slither out of my hand hahaha.

For CLI specifically mostly managing my home lab, yt-dlp and updates

DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.

I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.

Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they’re included in the above.

Just nabbed Necesse now that it’s out of early access; looking forward to playing with my kiddos :)

I worked a factory job for several years that had nearly unrestricted internet and the ability to install programs. There’s a LOT of options here depending on your technical skill and what you’re able to get away with. One of my favs was setting up a remote connection to my home network so I could work on project there without much fuss on the work computers and was easy to just close the connection if needed.

Also games. I played a lot of games… even designed some with all the time we had.

Learning web development was my most productive though; I was able to contribute to the company and got promoted to IT which launched my career to where I am now.

This was me. At first I automated some commonly used spreadsheets and then made some simple web tools to help our team which eventually led to getting to their IT department and now I work from home full time as a developer.

Emulators, whether installed locally or played via an online version, are great too - replayed Ocarina of Time over night shift and was awesome for getting through that time

Yeah my kiddos were born when I was 15 and 17. Wife and I dated all of high school and planned to marry anyways.

At 18 I was married with 2 kids. I skipped college to focus on work and providing for my family.

That was 2002. Since then we’ve adopted 6 more and are currently fostering 2 that we hope to adopt.

I haven’t purchased yet; this is the one I’m currently considering:

https://a.co/d/dDdzptv

I’m in a similar situation currently hosting Pihole on my Pi’s and Jellyfin on a SFF refurbished PC that’s running some other project. I’ve decided to go with a NUC, most likely beelink, and intend to install Proxmox to then run container VMs for each of the various projects to more easily manage them.

Man… I spent a lot of time playing the original N along with some level design. Super fun times. Cool to see them still going strong.

Monody by TheFatRat

I love his work especially with Laura Brehm and this one specifically has a nice slow build without any vocals for a while which I find more pleasant to wake up to.

Disc golf

I don’t have the power or accuracy to score well nor the time to invest in improving. I do love the time walking through the woods with family and friends sharing the experience as we goof around.

+1 for Beyond All Reason :)

So far I’ve only played against the simple AI bots and some easy barbarians; mostly I team up with my kids and we just try out different ways to mess around. Fun times.

Nitroglycerin :(

Glad issues were found when they were though and am consistently getting better :)