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I had been talking about getting fed up with my (circa 2021) Windows 10 machine for months, and I finally turned it into a Linux self-hosting machine! This has been my hobby over the last few weeks.

• Step 1: I bought an 8TB NAS drive to put into it.
• Step 2: Installed Kubuntu. Easy-peasy. Probably easier than Windows.
• Step 3: Installed Docker and Jellyfin. Super easy. Now I'm seeing my library inside my house.
• • In the process of dumping all my old DVDs to my archive. Since I'm Gen-X, I have a horde of DVDs and Blurays (and CDs) just sitting around.
• Step 4: It's passed the wife test. "This is pretty wild without commercials."
• Step 5: I also installed NextCloud. OK, that just works, too!
• Step 6: I wanted NextCloud outside of my house to take notes and stuff. So, I set up a tunnel and I'm using CloudFlare Zero Trust and basically setting up whitelisted devices because I'm paranoid about someone doing something with my server.
• Step 7: Happily surprised that most of my Steam library still works. Installed Steam.

And, I'm happy. I'm surprised how easy it was! But I have some to-do items.

• I need to set up some sort of offsite backup that's automatic. Previous to this server I had been saving things to Koofr. I might up my plan with them to set up an automatic backup, but I'd very much be interested in what all of you do.
• I want something to stream music and make a Pandora replacement for my wife. Cloudflare doesn't like streaming, so I'd need some other solution than through my JellyFin/Cloudflare path.
• I'm just now discovering all the cool things that can be done with a self-hosted server. Baby steps, though! Suggestions on easy low-hanging fruit for next steps to install?

I wish I would have taken the leap years ago. My resistance came from not being able to play my games. However Linux has come so far in the last 2 years on that front. The only game I "miss" is League of Legends. But maybe that's a good thing.

In the early 1970s, the developers of the yet-to-be-built mall gave the land for the tower to the city, stipulating that the words "Florence Mall" be painted on it in view of interstate motorists. The giant advertisement immediately raised legal concerns. In July 1974, state Bureau of Highways officials told the city that the tower's sign was illegal because it advertised something which did not yet exist.

With time running out to comply with the law, civil staff met for a brainstorming session at the Stringtown Restaurant with C.M. "Hop" Ewing, then mayor of Florence, who "sketched different ideas on a napkin". Ewing ultimately devised the idea of removing the vertical lines at the sides of the M in MALL, adding a stem to make it a Y and adding an apostrophe; resulting in "Y'all". Ewing called it a "corny solution, but cost-effective", because the minor alteration would cost one-third of a full repainting. The city paid $472 to the W.T. Marx Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, to make the changes.

Protospiel Michigan is about a month away, July 11-13th at the Marriott Detroit Metro Airport.

Protospiel is an event where people can bring prototypes of board or card games to play with other designers, play testers, and publishers. It's a great way to break your game and to fix it. It doesn't matter what level of polish your game has. Many games are made right on the spot (like mine last year) at Protospiel! But there are also many games there that are just doing final testing just before they are published or put out on Kickstarter.

If you like designing games or are intrigued by playing "games from the future," then this event is for you!

The Reverse of a Framed Painting (in Danish: Bagsiden af et indrammet maleri) is a still life trompe-l'œil painting by Flemish painter Cornelius Norbertus Gysbrechts, made in 1670, when the artist was working as the official painter of the Danish royal court. The painting is commonly considered a masterpiece of trompe-l'œil painting for its deceptively sculptural representation of the back of a framed painting in a canvas.

I’m a journalist. My job is asking smart people smart questions. Why not try “cheating” with Cluely to become a better interviewer? Who better to test this hypothesis on than Lee himself?

Hopping onto a Zoom call with Lee, Cluely doesn’t work like I’d imagined.

Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump). Once the operators of the scheme "dump" (sell) their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money. [...]

While fraudsters in the past relied on cold calls, the Internet now offers a cheaper and easier way of reaching large numbers of potential investors through spam email, investment research websites, social media, and misinformation

As President Trump imposes tariffs on products from countries around the world, foreign governments are answering back with tariffs of their own.

China has targeted corn farmers and carmakers. Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants and air-conditioning manufacturers, while Europe will hit American steel mills and slaughter houses.

The retaliatory tariffs are an attempt to put pressure on the president to relent. And they have been carefully designed to hit Mr. Trump where it hurts: Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows.

The figures underscore the dramatic impact that a trade war could have on American workers, potentially causing Mr. Trump’s economic strategy to backfire. Mr. Trump has argued that tariffs will help boost American jobs. But economists say that retaliatory tariffs can cancel out that effect.

Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. And if you prefix transactional data as trans_ Copilot will refuse to help you. 😑