Chaos Server

It takes one person to paint a portrait. One hundred people are only good to paint a fence. - Steve Jobs SixColors does an annual Apple report card , and while I'm not a member of the panel, as a card-carrying Apple fanboy I felt inspired to run through the list myself and do my own report card based purely on my experiences ignoring that other's experiences may different from mine. Mac: B+ I'm in the market for a new headless macOS server at home and the new 2018 Mac mini seems the perfect fit. One of the main things my Mac server does is re-encode video and even though the graphics card is terrible, it uses the T2 coprocessor for extremely fast H265 encoding so I think it's good? The only thing that stopped me from buying a Mac mini is that I'm pretty confident an ARM-based Mac is coming in the next 1-2 years and since I keep my servers for 5-10 years I'll be sad to have the last great Intel Mac mini instead of the first great ARM Mac mini. Mrs.Chaos' ol...

People have outsized reactions because they don’t think anyone notices a rational one. - Brett Terpstra Following people on social media that are aggressive about blocking bullies has enabled me to improve how I choose to interact with people. I follow a select number of minor celebrities on social media of varying histories both trying to combat and activate the illusory truth effect (where hearing something repeatedly makes you believe it). Many of the people I follow are minorities who receive the worst of the internet and are aggressive about blocking people that badger them in any way. I want to interact with them by sending quips, jokes, and other positive things their way and because I know they block so aggressively it makes me think very hard before I hit that send button if what I'm saying is 100% funny without any hint of being sarcastic, mean, unkind, etc. There have been so many times I’ve thought, “this is really funny, but there is just a bit of edge to it that coul...

Based on the evidence of the past 5-10 years, you shouldn’t be doing business with GoDaddy. - Greg Ferro It was quite a few years ago when I migrated away from my hosting company (Lycos) to GoDaddy, because GoDaddy was a primary advertiser on EVERY podcast I listened to, and somewhat foolishly, I think my podcasts are boutique enough that they only let the good companies advertise (which is sort of true). Getting my website up and going with GoDaddy was easy, but ya know, every few months I received a notice from GoDaddy about all the Malware they removed from my site for me. I *think* they're sending it to show me how awesome they are and try an upsell me on a premium security package which could protect me from all the malware the free package didn’t detect. All I'm wondering is how this crud got on there. It probably wasn’t by cracking my random 64-digit password, right? So I did the internet walk of shame away from GoDaddy. I realized I don’t need much. All of my content i...

Quote - Citation Living the iPad life has been great. In addition to my iPad I have a server running at home I use for needs the iPad Pro can't meet. My home server has become legacy and since it can't run Mojave or support iOS 12 development it needs to be replaced. I was extremely excited by the new Mac Mini and was on the verge of buying one, except I convinced myself I wanted to wait for the Mac Mini running on Apple silicon which is going to come soon, right? In 2013, my company sold off some old computers and I scored a nice MacBook Air mid-2011 which replaced my older server, a 2004 PowerBook G4. My home computer serves as media/file server and doesn't do much: 1) host my local iTunes library, 2) re-encode media to MP4 for me so it can be that library, 3) run HomeBridge server, 4) do random simple things my iPad cannot. The server has been getting more use the iPad life. I use Screens to connect into this machine to do the things I can't do directly on iPad. Not...