I had a home built NAS running first FreeNAS and then Ubuntu, but eventually switched to a Synology which I am very happy with. Saturates my 10gb network and is super easy to manage and set up stuff like network time machine volumes.

Yours probably does too.

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Without a doubt blockchain has has an impact on the global economy, with an outsized improvement for narco cartels, North Korea, and other super above board transactions.

I had mine done in pairs, the first time was one of the worst experiences of my life with weeks of intense pain, and the other was uneventful.

Just FYI, the idiom is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Agree on your points.

I've been using GrandPerspective since I worked at an Apple store in 2008. Highly recommend.

I highly recommend people use docker for anything they would use Homebrew for. Homebrew is fragile and breaks often. Obviously I understand the appeal, but it isn't worth the heartburn.

Really simple - Plex. I would be happy simply consuming my media on a big screen. I am very curious to see how the image fidelity is, if there is any chromatic aberration, how clear text is, and how convincing it is. I tried bigscreen on oculus and was not impressed at all. The font scaling combined with the display and lens quality made it unusable.