I just finished moving one of my projects from Digital Ocean to a leased server. Even with a second host for backups, it’s a lot cheaper and leaves me with plenty of excess capacity.
It takes a little more time for maintenance but it’s not too bad.
If it were, “Share your stuffies and go out for ice cream”, it would be far from the worst marriage advice I’ve ever heard.
Me: Get obliterated because I suck
Nephew #1: “Ha ha!”
Nephew #2: “What a fucking noob.”
Wife: Appears seemingly from nowhere “Excuse me!? Do I need to talk to your mom about your language?”
Nephews 1&2: “No ma’am.”
Me: 😏
“Lets use Oracle DB for that.”
Statements made by the utterly deranged.
No. But there are a number of advantages of using PostgreSQL over the others.
Thankfully that was a long time ago. I’ve had a chance to heal and I learned a lot from that experience, especially about myself. I’m doing good now. I appreciate the good vibes though.
Same for my ex wife! Except I would never send her this message because I never want to see her miserable face again for as long as I live.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“No.”
OK, Art Vandelay.
The Mormons are really going to extreme lengths anymore.
In some ways, yes. At 36, I have a wife and kids whom I love and enjoy. I’m a very lucky man in that respect. During my 20’s and my first (God awful) marriage, I resigned myself to the idea that I would never have a family.
My job is not particularly fulfilling. In fact, when asked in interviews which parts of my career I’ve enjoyed most my answer is, without hesitation, “the jobs I didn’t get paid for.” Volunteering for things that had a meaningful impact on people’s lives has always been very satisfying. Sadly, I haven’t had time to do much of that in recent years. In my experience, there is a lot of truth in the statement, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” I hope to get back to doing more volunteer work when my younger kids are a little bigger.
Voluptuous Lauren Delivers Lettuce
“Why is your fridge full of lettuce?”
“I’m trying to eat healthier.”
Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream…
Joseph: “Holy mother of God!!”
Angel: “Yeah, funny you should say that…”
Those Protectli Vaults are neat little devices.
It definitely makes it more difficult to switch endpoints manually. I have multiple VPN connections with different exit nodes configured for failover in case one (or more) of them is unreachable. I don’t run into geoblocking issues very often but I also don’t route all my WAN traffic over VPN. Just some of it.
What you can automate depends on your routers capabilities. Mine is a Mikrotik which does have fairly extensive support for custom scripts. However, detecting Geoblocking is probably going to involve parsing HTTP responses which is beyond the capabilities of almost all consumer grade routers. You would have to effectively do a MITM attack (aka deep packet inspection) in order to accomplish that on something other than the client device.
TLDR: I manually change routes to a different VPN if needed but I very rarely run into Geoblocking issues.
Relegated to a random shared drive, never to be opened again.
I exclusively use my router as the VPN client for a few reasons. There are multiple services on my network that use the VPN. I’ve got static routes configured which effectively act as a kill switch and I can use QOS to prioritize traffic. It’s pretty much set it and forget it. You can use any VPN service as long at they offer a protocol your router supports. I use Proton via WireGuard and have for years.
You guys have jobs??