Somehow, good critic reviews returned

forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”

Look on the bright side, it’s only 3,5 days of downtime a year.

https://uptime.is/98.98

Well, normally I’d agree but in this case I’d guess that more people have watched the video than read the blog. That’s the order in which I stumbled on it too.

Edit: Also:

I’m working more with older SBCs and microcontrollers now, and I think that’s the direction many in the hobbyist space are going.

In the embedded video he talks about it from 4:40-5, then talks about microcontrollers and mentions used hardware (though says it’s also affected by price hike).

Switched to self-hosted Forgejo already so now I’m just waiting for my dependencies to switch.

10 minutes ago my forgejo test failed because github returned a 502 for the home-manager repo •-•

For even more context: That means that 89% of the time all parts that make up github work without issue. 11% of the time at least one component has issues/downtime.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ shows the breakdown, git push/pull operations for example have 98.98% uptime.

The thing that these complaints about RPi pricing complaints always seems to miss is that that was talked about in the blog.

Use a VPN, it’s not ideal but it’s secure.

Pro tip: If you’re using openwrt or other managed network components don’t forget to automatically back those up too. I almost had to reset my openwrt router and having to reconfigure that from scratch sucks.

Infrastructure diagram? No! In this homelab we refer to the infrastructure hyperdodecahedron.

And all that’s left is your fully trackable browser fingerprint.

Google protecting Google from FOSS.

They’re right too, after using Immich I don’t want to go back.