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Couple caveats about buying a house

  1. Make sure you have some money saved to deal with surprise expenses before you buy so you can handle things like appliances dying randomly.
  2. Don't buy a house unless you plan on keeping it for at least 7 years. Selling a house is pain since you have to act like you don't live in your home and usually real estate commissions and closing costs Eat up all the appreciation if you sell too soon

My favorite solo exercise is rucking since all I have to is put on my vest or a pack with sand bags in it and start walking. BJJ is my favorite sport to participate in the only challenge is making it to a specific place and specific time

on Do you use vim? · c/linux · 5 pts · 125d

Yes I love using neovim it feels better having an editor, agent, and cli in separate terminal tabs instead of having one program for all three

on Antiviruses? · c/linux · 5 pts · 341d

Clamav is ok to use for scanning files for malware. If you want something to detect behavior you can use Falco or tetragon to log events on your system. Those systems are best used if you send them to centralized log system but that's complete overkill for personal use

on Discuss · c/lemmyshitpost · 24 pts · 343d

This and avoiding taxes are the reasons why your tea is in the harbor

The reasons I moved from a town of 3,500 people to around 100,000 people after 2 years are

More dating options: most of the women in the small town I lived in were already in relationships or weren't compatible. I started dating my wife a few months after I moved

Better access to services: if I wanted to get groceries on Sunday I would have to drive 30 minutes to the next town over and banks would be closed before 5. The local restaurants were good but there were only a few.

Better access to fun stuff: I train jiu jitsu and the closest gym to where I lived was a 50 minute drive 1 way and the closest 10+ mile bike trail was 30 minutes away. I would stay at my friend's house overnight or get a hotel so I could have a decent night on the town since it was also 50 minutes away from home

There are opportunities to have fun and build a happy life in small towns but if you have niche interests then it can be a little lonely. Plus some of the activities are private so it can be harder to find them and access them.

The upside was the people there are really nice and it was really cheap to live there so I paid off a ton of debt.

The closest thing to foss LinkedIn would be the repos, forums, and chats for open source projects. Some of them have other dedicated channels for jobs other times it's you know this person and they see you are looking for work and they tell their friends. There is not a drop in replacement for LinkedIn that is open source. The biggest value of LinkedIn is a network effect so even if it did exist not using LinkedIn would make finding a new job harder since you couldn't find opportunities that are only posted on LinkedIn.

Side note LinkedIn is gross they serve ads in your dms and notifications

on Email client for Linux · c/linux · 8 pts · 1y

I use evolution and it works well for everything besides my work Gmail but that has more to do with security policies than evolution

on How do you backup? · c/linux · 1 pts · 1y

All my configs are in gitlab or a self hosted forgejo server and all files are in seafile or a self hosted service running on proxmox. Then I use proxmox backup server on a storage VPS for off-site backup

I have miniflux setup for RSS feeds, and I'll doom scroll lemmy. For games I emulate old pokemon games. You can also just get lost in your thoughts for a bit too. It can really be good for your brain to just sit with your thoughts for a while.