I’ve been using ProtonVPN with port forwarding for quite a while now specifically on Linux by downloading Wireguard config and running it via terminal. Works great for my purposes.

Ditto though ended up dropping Bluesky

Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

Polarity

You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

One of the boys we fostered over the years: he was ~10 at the time and pretty sure was bipolar or schizophrenic or something as his eyes / face would change suddenly and attitude would become extremely defiant, destructive and sometimes physically violent. Thankfully he never hurt his baby sister we also had. We managed to capture one of these episodes over phone with our social worker and was able to move him to a therapeutic home where he was the only child and able to get the help he needed. Kiddo was a chill, happy boy normally but “evil” is pretty accurate to how we felt during those episodes.

Switch to All

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