This is the way. I grew up farther north (compared to now) with decent mounds from snow plows so it was just a matter of waiting for those and then tunneling into them.

These days I shovel the snow from a larger area to build my mound before tunneling. Kids love it regardless ☺️

I would like to do this with .com but has been held for several years so went with a newer TLD. It’s mostly been fine aside from occasional person whose mail provider sends me to spam or the very few who block me outright.

+1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi

I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their “Max” quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.

Proxmox for self-hosting game servers and pfSense for my firewall

I did an Uno Reverse one year where I had one of these ready to catch them off guard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSrPp40lHVY&pp=ygUYZnV6enkgd29ybSBvbiBzdHJpbmcgdG95

I had a few extras to give away if they chose trick. Was fun times especially the poor few kiddos that reacted more strongly to seeing it sudden slither out of my hand hahaha.

For CLI specifically mostly managing my home lab, yt-dlp and updates

DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

We share a single PC account and do exactly this to easily separate our profiles; here’s what I have for my launcher for example:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=David-Firefox
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=firefox %u -P David --class Davidfox
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/david/Launchers/Firefox/Firefox-David.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;ProfileManager;

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -new-window

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=firefox -P David --class Davidfox -private-window

[Desktop Action ProfileManager]
Name=Open the Profile Manager
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager --class Davidfox

Here I’m using a custom icon to help tell our profiles apart on our dock and use a custom window class so each profile’s windows will group with each other as well.

No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.

I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.

Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they’re included in the above.

Just picked up Ark Survival: Evolve and No Man’s Sky

Been playing a lot of survival craft games with my son in law lately which has been great fun

Just nabbed Necesse now that it’s out of early access; looking forward to playing with my kiddos :)

I worked a factory job for several years that had nearly unrestricted internet and the ability to install programs. There’s a LOT of options here depending on your technical skill and what you’re able to get away with. One of my favs was setting up a remote connection to my home network so I could work on project there without much fuss on the work computers and was easy to just close the connection if needed.

Also games. I played a lot of games… even designed some with all the time we had.

Learning web development was my most productive though; I was able to contribute to the company and got promoted to IT which launched my career to where I am now.

This was me. At first I automated some commonly used spreadsheets and then made some simple web tools to help our team which eventually led to getting to their IT department and now I work from home full time as a developer.

Emulators, whether installed locally or played via an online version, are great too - replayed Ocarina of Time over night shift and was awesome for getting through that time

Yeah my kiddos were born when I was 15 and 17. Wife and I dated all of high school and planned to marry anyways.

At 18 I was married with 2 kids. I skipped college to focus on work and providing for my family.

That was 2002. Since then we’ve adopted 6 more and are currently fostering 2 that we hope to adopt.

Agreed. For anything beyond the simplest setup membership is the way to go especially if near enough to some of the cheaper options; we had a Planet Fitness open near us that offers $10/month for lowest tier membership (prior it was YMCA at $70/month for the family).

Safety razor

Blades are extremely cheap and always gives a great shave.

Elliptical and dumbbells

Gym memberships add up quick so went with a cheaper elliptical and a nice set of adjustable dumbbells.

Kobo ereader

As I get more into reading I’ve come to appreciate that this one allows loading my own ebooks from my PC which can save a ton depending on use case.

This 100%

I do my own renovations and build some simple furniture etc.; my drill and miter saw in particular have been invaluable.