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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • Reduce and reuse. Recycling is the last resort.

    Donate to thrift stores. sell on eBay, Craigslist, marketplace, swap meets, yard sales, etc. Give to friends and neighbors.

    Keep what you need, keep what makes you happy. Judge what you actually need to keep. I got rid of so many things before moving, some I am happy I did and some I regret. But since I regret it, I know that I may find that same item again and to keep an eye for it. At least I can always get those items again, so getting rid of it wasn’t that bad.







  • I just moved across states.

    I took everything apart, packed the equipment in boxes using tons of padding. Any extra space in the boxes was filled with extra cables and more padding. Rack mounts that I have come completely apart.

    My main servers have hard drives, so I used a lot of foam all around the server and added trackers (air tags) to the servers and my camera stuff.

    I’m now off grid so not really in a hurry to setup all this stuff, but happy it seems to have made it here in great condition. Eventually I will setup the rack mounts just to hold the equipment and maybe I will power on things here and there as I feel like playing with them again.




  • If you can not afford rent, there are alternatives such as living in a car or suv. It’s much cheaper. I lived in a car with my wife and cat for a while, but we are now in an RV on some land we own. If that is an option you are considering, check out the YouTube channel “cheap RV living” is where I learned most of what I needed to know. We had window vents, battery and solar, fridge for food, twin bed, and so much more in a little space.

    Just make sure you have a job because everything cost money and things happen, just had to pay a fortune for the clutch in the car going bad.









  • The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.

    I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.

    It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.