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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I wanted to do my own self-hosted storage but for the cost and features I went with Dropbox. It’s $10 a month if you prepay for the year otherwise it’s $12 and you get two terabytes of storage. For that you get all the same things most self-hosted solutions will offer including 30 days of versioning/backups. Additionally it’s pretty popular so most software has built in integration which is convenient but not something you need. Bottom line is doing your own storage can be cheap but adding off-site backups gets expensive and just going straight to off-site backups (cloud storage) is going to be close to the $10-$12 dollars you’ll pay anyway but you have to do all the work.



  • When it happened there was public outcry and as I recall the excuse given was that he had given them Starlink to assist in recovery efforts which is fine. When they started strapping it onto weapons that moved from providing aid to providing weapons to a foreign nation whom at the time was authorized to receive weapons and Starlink isn’t an authorized weapons dealer to begin with. So it was shut down as a knee jerk reaction to avoid penalty US arms dealing penalties.

    Mind you this is just from my imperfect memory and only hearsay at that, I honestly don’t know why six out of every ten articles are about this guy.




  • AT&T

    We had a bad lightning storm happen in the area where I was working every day and it damaged the cellular tower so you couldn’t get service anymore in that area. After a week of waiting for them to repair it I called to see what was going on and they told me they weren’t going to repair it as that area was going to be upgraded to the latest cellular technology at the time, but it wasn’t expected to be done for another four months. They offered me a single $25 credit if I’d keep paying them $80 a month to provide nothing. I don’t think my phone would have even supported their new network even if they did make their changes in a reasonable time. My favorite part was when I got transferred to cancellations department they asked if there was anything they could do, “Yes provide cellular service.” “Sorry, we can’t do that.” 😂