I am a basic bitch when it comes to hosting -> Nothing exotic, but I have messed with somewhat exotic things before. It is fun, but time consuming, and as I get older the time becomes more precious than money.

Fedora w/ KDE on Workstations, user platforms - every day browsing, gaming, etc. The installations have lasted since fedora 34, and have had very few hiccups (Framework 13, Dell T5820)

Proxmox as Hypervisor hosts (Basically Debian) - been rock solid stable since PVE5.4, and while not perfect has been pretty easy to work with. I am a ZFS evangelist, and ZFS support is excellent.

Debian 11/12 for most vm guests - again, easy to use, straightforward, seems to “just work”

Centos/fedora server for Podman host - IDK, seems that podman has worked the best for me on Redhats own platforms, but this could very well be just personal experience.

OPNsense for firewall/router - Was a longtime pfsense user, but the way the company approaches their userbase started to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

NIXOS for experimentation - its a trip, and loads of fun, but because it drives the tinkering in me I tend not to use it for daily driving.

As I said, its pretty basic, nothing exotic or crazy. I have about 10 machines in my household (5 user facing, 4 servers, firewall)

Its the small things, not anything massive.

For example, most toilet paper holders in Japan have this floating lid that sits on the toilet paper, which allows you to cleanly rip a sheet off every time, and prevent tearing a corner off.

The suica or iccoca cards (trains and subway cards) can be used to tap to pay near everywhere, including vending machines and such. Quite convienent.

You can pay many of your utility bills, in cash, at most main convienence stores. It allows for more methods of payment outside of everything tracked by credit card.

Many shower rooms ( Japanese bathrooms tend to have a full wet room for bathing) often have an advanced fan system, with a dehumidify option for drying clothes you hang in that room.

Many bathtubs have a water recirculate option, which reheats the same bathwater keeping it warm without needing to refill or add water to the tub.

Ah, one of my favorites is in many bedrooms there is a small square panel on an outside wall, and if you click it it vents to the outside, providing outside fresh air without needing to crack a full window. They often have filters built in as well.

Its becoming more common in the US now, but minisplit AC systems are ubiquitous in Japan. Its nice being able to control each bedroom separately.

I could go on. I lived there for a bit with my wife, in Osaka and in her hometown ( in Nagano).

Not really familiar with Doge, so someone else will have to help. Best to think of BTC not as each individual BTC, but as Satoshis, or SATs. When you get rid of the decimal, it makes everything easier. So 1btc = 100mil SATs. Since 1usd is 2200 SATs at the moment, you just do some basic math.

Hopefully you find someone knowledgeable about Doge. Good luck in your transaction

What crypto are you trying to pay in? If BTC, probably cashapp or strike (if available in your country) is probably the most straightforward. Be forewarned: both of these are KYC (know your customer) apps, so if you are purchasing anything that could be nefarious or illegal, you WILL get caught. BTC is very traceable unless you go through WAY more hoops and steps.

If you are looking for anonymous transactions and trust the seller, sending cash is probably the most anonymous without a ton of steps.

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$sudo sgdisk --zap-all /dev/SD{x}

$sudo wipefs -a /dev/SD{x}

The first wipes any existing partitions or data that exist.

The second wipes any data in the table headers if anything is left?

Those have worked for most times I needed it

I think eventually they will. They wish to put up their walled garden.

As for Their current RSS feed, it only grabs the post, right? Not the comments as well. That limits its usefulness a bit, depending on what you use reddit for.

APC makes good hardware, just their software route is going down the dark road. If you do not need the software aspects/use it as a standalone device, then APC still makes good quality UPSes.

That being said, the value:dollar ratio I still think cyberpower wins, especially for home use. My current design is Cyberpower (homeuse) || Eaton (Server/critical infra use)

Completely agree. It is sad, but with the current marketplace of “SaaS all the things” it is not really surprising.

I want my UPS to be in my OOB network - It should not even be accessable by users in the network. Its completely isolated off.

So, Eaton, Liebert/Vertiv are your premium UPSes, and while they offer all sorts of quality and features, they are pricy.

APC was in this group, until they started going with their subscription model. Now you have to be wary.

Cyberpower is perfectly fine for home use - Costco sells one that has been pretty reliable for me (I have purchased 3 of them now). I do not use for my main server, but for all my desktops and HTPC that is what I use.

I use a Eaton P5X for my main, but my wattage is a bit higher than yours.

Yeah, i had to clear my pfblockerng and reload, before my network could see it again. I guess it refreshed right when dns was down.

How do you like Actual? I set up Fireflyiii as well, but once I read that there is no way to share a ledger, so to speak, it turned me off a bit.

My wife has bookkeeping experience, so something that is a bit closer to double entry bookkeeping would be awesome, since it should fit easily into her quickbooks experience.

Currently looking at akaunting, which seems like it may work, if it is truly self hosted