The “original owner no longer wants this windows machine” to “healthy linux/openbsd member of homelab” to “one hard-to-replace part broke, ebay the rest for a profit” pipeline in my home is very real.
Personally, I love having a highly heterogeneous self-hosting setup. My long-term reliability metrics are definitely very bad, but it’s way more fun to set up and maintain, and feels more like a hobby to work with (less like a job).
Oh wow.
HexChat is still, in my opinion, the best graphical IRC client. It’s the only graphical IRC client I use (I also use rcirc in Emacs sometimes).
With the nature of IRC, I imagine it will keep working for some time, at least.
Neat
The usual suspects: Emacs, Arch Linux, Firefox.
This is neat. I’m wondering if there’s a large crossover between Erlang and Lua programmers.
The “original owner no longer wants this windows machine” to “healthy linux/openbsd member of homelab” to “one hard-to-replace part broke, ebay the rest for a profit” pipeline in my home is very real.
Personally, I love having a highly heterogeneous self-hosting setup. My long-term reliability metrics are definitely very bad, but it’s way more fun to set up and maintain, and feels more like a hobby to work with (less like a job).