You know this user and that corvid of the night user are the same person, right?

You seem to have a lot of anger. I hope you find a positive way to manage that.

Not mention there are millennials that have been over 35 for the last 7 years.

Dónde está Santa Claus by Augie Rio

I hate Christmas music from years working in retail but this one really jams!

No thanks! I’ll take housing that only costs me property taxes. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed so I’d take that certainty today.

I totally agree and understand the use case. That plays into that more in depth type of self hosting most here do. All I have is storage via Synology, and Pi-hole, smart home controls and a media server in separate containers.

My use case is strictly QoL improvements that my wife would either just live without or switch to a more conventional, easy to use setup for her.

$208,063.88

This would pay off our mortgage and we could dump that monthly payment into saving for retirement.

However, if the question was how much do we need then it would be $0. We are far more fortunate than many.

If there was a line of all the people in this comment section waiting to get whatever amount they need I’d be one of those continuously moving to the back to let others go first.

I hope you all find improved quality of life, even if it’s not through some financial windfall!

I don’t self host to the extent many here seem too but I have had the same thought and joked with my wife about it.

Ultimately everything I’ve setup I’ve done in part because it’s my hobby and it interests me. When I’m gone my family will revert to whatever they’d normally be doing without me, because they don’t have interest in it like I do.

For sure! The only reason I upgraded is because the OptiPlex costs a lot to run in terms of electricity.

For stuff I pretty much run 24/7 I really wanted better power efficiency.

I’m on board with this. I did something similar putting a Synology 920+ and an Asus NUC style machine running Ubuntu in place of my old OptiPlex and WD MyCloud setup.

I’m now the primary content provider for a bunch of my family!

I’ve been struggling with gout in my knee and ankle off and on. When it gets bad I’m almost immobile and I broke down and finally bought a cane to help me hobble around when it’s at its worst.

Mine also came from Ukraine and like you I wanted something with personality. I got an oak, ball top style stained cherry and I love it!

And hardware stores specifically, especially the local mom and pop ones, seem to attract the older semi-retired crowd that is looking for something to do where they can share their knowledge.

At least this is how it is where I live.

Good thing you read more of it than I did. I just searched the document for the word “salt”!

I was surprised to hear the claim too. I thought I had read years ago that it was metal fatigue at the welds. Akin to a paper clip being bent to many times some of the welds fatigued to failure due to years of flexing.

Edit: As plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world pointed out, the below is not, in fact, for the I35W bridge.

Page 96: “ The investigation identified the source of the failure as corrosion of the L8’ gusset plates, which had resulted in significant section loss and had penetrated completely through the plates at some locations. It was determined that a leaking joint above panel point U9’ had allowed salt-contaminated water to run down diagonal U9-L8’ to the lower chord gusset plates. The years of corrosive runoff had resulted in crevice corrosion, the byproduct of which had manifested itself as thin sheets of layered rust. Additionally, oxygen-rich corrosion cells had started to take root along the vertical faces at the insides of the gusset plates. The result was a line of section loss that rendered the gusset plates incapable of handling the additional loads created by the maintenance project on the day of the incident. The investigation revealed that the blooms of oxidation concealed perforations in the base metal such that the extent of corrosion could not be, and had not been, adequately assessed through visual bridge inspections.

The hexbear and lemmygrad users/posts I run across in All mostly remind me of those street corner preachers. I don’t care one way or another about their ideologies but it’s tiring that they always feel the need to shout it in your face.

I don’t hate them but find them to be obnoxious and mostly cult-like.

Maybe they’re just bad at math and don’t understand how averages work.

And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

They call it Royale with Cheese.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin

Right idea, wrong application. We need this kind of solidarity for the workers. Pretty sure the CEO with hundreds of millions of dollars will be okay.

Right idea, wrong application. We need this kind of solidarity for the workers. Pretty sure the CEO with hundreds of millions of dollars will be okay.