I have my Immich instance setup with an nginx proxy for security and ssl, and that’s exposed to the internet. I have a domain for my personal website, so I just put up my Immich instance at a subdomain of that. I can now make public share links I can just copy and paste into a group chat. I haven’t added any other users yet but I’d I wanted to all they’d need to do is login via email/password.

This is an officially supported kind of setup for Immich, so I would consider it secure: https://docs.immich.app/administration/reverse-proxy/

I don’t have all of my homelab services exposed publicly though; I VPN in for those.

General tips for exposing a server to the internet:

• only expose the ports you need for services you intend to be accessible. Use a firewall and/or your router’s port forwarding settings to enable only what you need, with blocking as a default.
• update all software regularly
• only expose programs that are built to be exposed. For example, if you make a Flask website, they will warn you several times not to expose it directly, but to proxy it through something like nginx

Indiana Jones

This is one of those cases where the name brand cable probably is better than an off brand.

Tangential story, but a cheapo headphone cable once broke the headphone jack on my computer. It was too big and stretched out the connector in there.

“For Joe”

Purchasing flacs between Qobuz and BandCamp is my preferred option.

This varies. Some albums are absolutely meant to be listened to back to back in order. Others are just a collection of songs and nothing is lost by missing them into a random playlist.

TVs. I haven’t gotten around to it yet, but I want to set up a Linux based streaming box and have my actual TV completely offline.

CDs so I can rip it and store it on my raid array.

I will buy digital if I can find it ofc.

But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%.

Get something with noise cancelling.

Baseball

Big Bang Theory

TempleOS

Samba.

Or one time I made my own simple file sharing website

It probably isn’t going to cost less to get something without wifi.

Keep stuff that’s not designed to be exposed to the internet on your LAN behind your router’s firewall.

Use a VPN to access your LAN remotely. Tailscale is the easiest way to do this, but I found it not too hard to set up WireGuard.

I heard from someone that works in a hospital that the ER gets weirder cases when the moon is full

Two answers.

1. The theory behind why insurance is supposed to exist in the first place.

I put 5k in a health insurance account every year. Most years I don’t spend it all and it slowly builds. Let’s say I have like 30k after a few years with some interest. But then I get cancer and it costs $50,000 plus $10,000 per year after that. I now am short $20,000 and I need to double my annual spending on health insurance and am no longer saving, leaving me and my family in financial trouble.

Now consider I pay 5k every year in health insurance, and most years the insurance company takes that as profit, but if I get cancer, they will cover all the expenses for just my continuing $5k/yr instead of the actual, much higher cost. The insurance company can do this and still make a profit because the vast majority of people who pay $5k/yr don’t need $5k of treatment, so it amounts to more than enough to cover the couple people who need more.

2. The toxic system in the US

A lot of medical costs in the US are massively inflated because the hospital says “this is worth $10,000” and the insurance company says “well only pay you $5,000 for that” and then they tell you “we saved 50% on your bill! Aren’t we great!” But the real value of the thing is like $1000 and both the hospital and the insurance company and other parties like whoever is making “the thing” are in on the whole nonsense pricing thing.

This ultimately makes it even harder to get reasonable medical treatment without insurance in the US.

Probably the biggest effect IMO is sites like arxiv.

had over half my health taken out in a few shots then decided to retreat. Retreating triggered an instant Game Over because the game was glitched

IMO most likely what happened here is the flagship destroyed the Earth. If the flagship arrives at Earth and sits there for 3 rounds, you get a game over. The only way to stop it is to beat it in a fight, and finishing a phase will buy some time.

This mechanic is definitely not super obvious at first so I wouldn’t blame you for missing it.

I ended up cheesing this fight with the “embrace the stinky water” strat