How would that work and what would the benefit be even if it did work?
Buying/selling stock is done through a market. It’s not peer to peer. You have to ultimately send buy/sell orders to someone anyway so what’s the point of self hosting?
Why wouldn’t you do a small test and find out before throwing literally everything at it?
I think most of the answers here are kinda lame. It’s not easier to deal with networking rules or backups or flakey consumer grade Internet or power outages or redundancy or a lot of other things.
The only things I find value in self hosting are functional things for the home… A bittorrent client with web front end, plex server, file server for the plex server, a home automation stack, or as a cheap sandbox for testing new software…
You’d save a lot of time and energy just using web or mobile based apps where appropriate. The day to day reliability of those kind of apps will be better as well.
If someone is doing this for a hobby, great. Enjoy. It’s not practical for the overwhelming majority of people though. I say this as someone who’s literal job is ensuring reliability of web services… I am more than capable of doing all this but I’m also practical about seeing when it’s a net benefit vs a time/energy suck.
Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks
It’s easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.
That’s really it. If something isn’t working, it’s pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.
Don’t know about the UK but I’ve been doing this for ~8 years… I make an American salary and live in places that have a MUCH lower cost of living.
It’s been my experience that my colleagues never care. However, HR is a nightmare to deal with. It’s literally their job to find out how to pay employees less. Every time HR has found out what I’m doing it’s been a problem. This is the main thing I have to be aware of when interviewing for new positions… I keep my mouth shut until after onboarding is finished and I never have to talk to them again.
On the tax front, the Americans have an exemption you qualify for if you are out of the country for 330 days or more per year… Basically the first $120k of your income is not taxed and anything you make above that amount begins to be taxed at the lowest tax rate. I don’t have to mention this to the employer at all because it’s part of the paperwork I file with the government at tax time… It has nothing to do with the job really… My tax rate has been 1% or less for nearly a decade now.
You should talk to a tax strategist. They may be expensive up front but they will save you MUCH more than whatever they charge in the long run.
EDIT: If someone knows a good place for finding contract work, I’m looking for SRE gigs.
120sqm is not large. Any WiFi6 router will be plenty. Worst case scenario you’ll need to put it in a central location but I doubt it.
My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the “cool” distros, I’ve settled on Mint and don’t really have any motivation to do anything else… I have real work I need to do and can’t be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.
TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling… I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.
How is the nas different from an rpi? Presumably they’d both run Linux or Docker… Whatever software you decide to run should function in generally similar ways.
Pocket?
It’s just Scott’s Cheap Flights with a rebrand? It wasn’t that great ~10 years ago… Back in those days I used airfare watch dog pretty often.
It doesn’t really matter where you get fare notifications… You just need to watch the prices often enough to know what a normal price is so you can recognize a good price when it comes around.
Way back when I was finding round trip flights from NYC to Tokyo, Hanoi, etc… I wouldn’t pay more than $400 round trip. These days I’m only travelling to see friends or family so I don’t track it as closely.
Those days gave me a career so I can’t really complain.
Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.
In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.
Ok so I’ve been doing the nomad thing for years and I’ve spent ~4-5 years in Japan. Basically you have two options in front of you.
They charge a fee to the foreign company to do all this of course and I only learned about this after leaving Japan so wasn’t able to test it for myself. I don’t know how viable it is as an option but I haven’t been able to find anything specifically telling me it’s not possible.
As far as the costs to do this, consider your salary minus the cost of contracting an EoR company. If that total is equal to or higher than the average income levels for a local person, working for a Japanese company and earning a Japanese salary, you don’t actually lose anything… You’re still coming out on top.
You’d have the salary without having to deal with mandatory overtime or minimum N2 Japanese for professional level jobs or needing $100k for the business manager visa.
Solenoid valve is the quick and dirty answer.
The right answer is to get your water heater serviced to figure out what’s wrong with it.
Agreed.
With that $230k/year you’d have to hire more engineers to maintain the servers in addition to the normal day to day stuff they would be doing more quickly in AWS.
You’d also have to simply find engineers who are willing to work on that platform. I personally would not. If someone else out there is willing to figure out the details on pxe booting or the ipmi differences across vendors or hacking snmp data from a switch into a modern monitoring stack, good luck to them. Those days are behind me though. I’m never going back.
To start, move the database to a different machine that has a fast ssd and lots of mem. If you’re workload is mostly doing reads from the db, consider breaking it into a single writer with one or more replicas.
As a counter balance to that though, interviewers need to understand what they are hiring for and tailor the questions asked to those requirements.
For example, there is genuinely very little coding required of an SRE these days but EVERY job interview wants you to do some leetcode style algorithm design… Since containers took over, the times I have used anything beyond relatively unremarkable bash scripts is exceptionally small. It’s extremely unlikely that I will be responsible for a task that is so dependent on performance that I need to design a perfect O(1) algorithm. On terraform though, I’m a fucking surgeon.
SRE specifically should HEAVILY focus on system design and almost all other things should have much much less priority… I’ve failed plenty of skill assessments just because of the code though.
Containerization (even for small things) makes modern infrastructure a LOT easier.
Maybe a controversial take… I like Snyder’s ending better than the book.
Ozymandius tricking Dr Manhattan into building a bomb that blows up NYC is a lot more grounded in possibility that a giant psychic squid.