Georgia (the country) and Turkey mostly.

Qualifying for the FEIE (stay out of America for 330 days per year) means you don’t pay taxes on the first $120k you earn. Maxing out the 401k ($22,500) will reduce taxable income as well so it’s really like the first $142,500 is tax free.

I work for an American company as a W2 employee.

I started working remotely and then left America. Now I live in a very low cost of living city and haven’t owed more than 1-2% taxes in years… It blows my mind that more people don’t do this.

Hotel restaurant. The HR lady was giving my brother shit for not wearing safety shoes in the kitchen. She was saying this while in the kitchen wearing heels.

She picked the wrong day. Bro wasn’t having it.

“What the FUCK are you doing in here then!? Get out of my FUCKING kitchen!”

Everyone had been feeling it… He spoke for all of us.

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?

Yep. I would LOVE one of these chips in a kubernetes node.

This is what it feels like to interact with the Linux/opensource/selfhost people sometimes.

“bUt ThEy CaN wAtCh YoU!!1!”

Certs are a waste of time tbh. If you have 8 years of experience, you should have more than enough to fill out a resume already.

An AWS cert is almost certainly even more useless for you specifically unless you wanted to get into devops/sre and do systems design. I have been in sre for a very long time and have never even heard of anyone writing tooling in Java. That section of the industry is entirely dominated by go, python, and (more often than anything else) bash for really quick automation.

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.

Compared to what?

Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks

When you have it built, throw it in a container and run it in Lambda. You’ll be able to run it anywhere if you package as a container.

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that “works on both Windows and Linux!”

“I don’t know what Linux is but it can’t be worse that Windows.”

I’ve been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.

I honestly don’t know how windows works… I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.

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.

• configuration
• an executable
• a communication mechanism (dbus, networking, web server, etc)
• something that decides if the application runs or not (systemd, monit, docker/docker compose, kubernetes scheduler, or you as the user)
• a way of accepting input (keyboard and mouse, web requests, database queries, etc)
• a way of delivering an output (logging to unique log files, through syslog, or to stdout/stderr, showing something on a screen, playing a sound, returning a message to the client, etc)
• storage (optional)
• some cpu and memory capacity

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.

I got a galaxy watch thinking I’d do all these cool things with it. Ultimately I only used it to set alarms to let me know my tea is ready…

I only really use the mechanical watch now.

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.

It’s fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation… We wouldn’t be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

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.

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