The Passenger is mild… but only half the story. You want to read the companion novel Stella Maris too

Some of his books are fucked up. The Road and Blood Meridian are stomach turning, gut-wrenching explorations of the awful side of humans.

All the Pretty Horses is: young man likes horses. Moves to Mexico to work on a ranch. Young man falls in love with woman. Hijinks. horses. Done

• All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing are beautiful western novels by Cormac McCarthy. Both are very much “a boy and his horse” kind of stories about learning to be yourself. They’re loosely related and there’s a third book that brings the boys together and concludes their stories

• The Jungle and Oil! by Upton Sinclair are novelizations of Sinclair’s investigative journalism work in the meat packing industry and the nascent workers rights movement respectively. Oil! was very loosely adapted into the film There Will Be Blood (the film covers maybe the first 3-4 chapters by greatly expanding upon the material

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen was a very impactful book for me as a child. It’s a YA novel, but still worth a read. The main character Brian survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and is forced to find a way to survive on his own

A few more recent novels that I enjoyed:

• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. Won the 2024 Booker Prize (best English language novel) about an authoritarian government taking power in Ireland and how that unfolds from the perspective of a mother with young children. It’s a hard read, but very well written

• Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez. Translated into English. A friend described it as “sexy witches in South America deal with authoritarian rule.” And that’s pretty close…

• Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park. A semi-fictionalized history of the Korean Peninsula and the desire to have a unified identity. Many people come to the peninsula (same bed) with very different goals for its use (different dreams). Really fascinating book and engaging

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Follows a trio of friends as they explore the world of video game design. Starts in the early 80s and runs through the 2000s. Reminder me very much of the show Halt and Catch Fire.

• My Friends by Hisham Matar. Follows a Libyan immigrant living in England in the 80s through 2010s as he wrestles with his identity, his homeland, his friends and family. Khaled’s closest friends serve as foils to his own feelings, reacting to the same circumstances very differently from himself

Surprised no one has mentioned The Expanse series. A ton of world building in very different kinds of environments. Space stations, small ships, big ships, generation ships, asteroids, moons, planets.

The environments are well thought out in how the residents would need to adapt

Columbus is a great little city in a not so great state. The local politics are quite progressive and the food and bar scene is quite nice. There was a decently sized queer community when I lived there a decade ago, and I’d expect it to continue to flourish as long as a major university is nearby.

Winters are cold. Summers are hot. The weather is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. Great photography
2. Great performances from Roberts and Ali
3. Great aesthetics
4. Okay story. Which tracks with the book

Lana!

Can you try tailscale or set up a reverse proxy?

For the latter, buy a domain and then use the cloudflare free tier to route to your IP. A simple docker container can run every 60s to update your IP with cloudflare

I wonder if you’d like Sleigh Bells. Twee pop vocals over grungy guitar. A lot of fun

Connect PC1 to the router and you’re done.

Currently PC1 is on a different network since it connects directly to the modem

Why do you regret that choice?

I have a UniFi system: APs, switches, CKG2, Gateway. I’m looking to add CKG2+ and some POE cameras

You need a license for Cisco / Meraki APs

DynDNS doesn’t solve the problem.

DDNS acts as a proxy service between the Internet and your home network. It’s a simple way to have a service running at home (like a Minecraft server) and make it always available to users outside of your home. The would go to a website like “rafa.dyndns.com” which would forward their traffic to your home network. The magic is dyndns is changing the route from their domain to your home network without anyone knowing about it.

The ISP cycling your WAN IP lease every 12 hours is unusual and tells me either A) they’re not a sophisticated ISP or B) you live in an area with an unstable backend.

For an example of B, they might be doing infrastructure improvements in your area which means they have to restart the nodes regularly.

Unfortunately for you, there’s not much to do about your home network connection stability if the ISP is restarting the nodes this often.

I’d suggest either finding a new ISP (if possible) or talking to someone else at the ISP (Tier 2 or Tier 3 Support) about why this is happening and if they have a long term solution

Obsidian

You could put the ATT router into bridge mode and use only the Asus router.

You could run the parallel networks, but ensure they are on different channels to help reduce the interference. The devices may manage their channels automatically, but YMMV

You should not use the same SSID on two different networks. That will be a nightmare.

Check out PiKVM, but I don’t understand why you can’t use SSH or XRDP

Blue Iris is open source

UniFi Protect is closed source but self hosted

find /path/to/parent/directory -type f \( -name "*.mp4" -o -name "*.hvec" \) -exec mv -t /path/to/parent/directory {} +

Explanation:

•	find /path/to/parent/directory: Start the search from the specified parent directory.
•	-type f: Restrict the search to files (not directories).
•	\( -name "*.mp4" -o -name "*.hvec" \): Look for files with either a .mp4 or .hvec extension.
•	-exec mv -t /path/to/parent/directory {} +: Execute the mv command to move the found files to the specified parent directory.

How is it fraudulent if they admitted the mistake and refunded you?

Sounds like a legitimate billing error caused by unusual user behavior

With nginx, you shouldn’t need to forward any ports beyond 80/443

For really simple auth, check out Cloudflare Zero Trust