Yeah, but the AI bros don’t want to imply that the LLMs are lying to you.

And usually with an HOA all you’re funding is people who will fine you for letting your grass grow too tall.

You’re absolutely right on all counts.

That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.

That’s true until it isn’t.

Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, even early on in the life cycle of a drive. I like having a RAID-5 array … but then again, I don’t really have any other backups (which I really should fix).

What I really need is an ISP that doesn’t have a 1.2TB data cap.

Ah, good on you! How long ago did you buy the place?

Now good luck finding a home for only $240K in an area that actually has decent-paying jobs…

The housing market is in a bubble right now. Buying a house is no guarantee of equity when the value can plummet and put you underwater at a moment’s notice.

This is why Pride and Prejudice is so well regarded. The guy was a creep to the girl and she shut him down hard - and only when he did better, treated her like an equal, and most importantly was willing to take no for an answer did she give him the time of day again.

Car rentals aren’t as much of an issue, because of how much less expensive it is to own a second-hand car. If you’re homeless and you need access to a car, you don’t go to a rental place, you get a beater from Craigslist for about the same price it would cost to rent a car for a month (if not less).

Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.

As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.

It’s almost certainly related to AWS.

Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).

Then run a VPN server, like OpenVPN, on a computer that is always on and redirect the VPN connection port from your router to the VPN server. If you don’t know how to get into your router’s admin console, LEARN HOW! This is critical to maintaining home network security even if you aren’t running servers.

It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).