Love is just a set of needs that another person meets for you. Sometimes those needs are deep and meaningful and let you be vulnerable and feel like someone really knows you and... sometimes it's just chemicals, comfort and staving off loneliness. Both can be love, both are pretty great, it's cheeseburgers vs fancy steak.
When they're that age, you don't have time to make good financial decisions unless you're killing it or one of you gets to be stay at home. Even then it's rough.
The worst thing he seems to do so far is collecting the fastest and largest version of every type of vehicle. Obviously, there are always downsides, but could be tremendously worse.
Recommend against getting one that is too expensive, avoid softener systems.
They will eventually break, when the softener specifically breaks it can be a very expensive water bill. I eventually got to throw it out and just install a filter system under the kitchen sink enabling a singular faucet for drinking water.
I have realized that my ability to navigate a conversation has gotten a bit scrambled since COVID. We still make it through, but we're going to have people calling me 'eccentric' when I get just a bit older.
Maybe just getting old and ready to enter my yelling at clouds phase, but feels like the younger generations are less and less open to the possibility of casual conversation. I can start a conversation with a 60 year old lady any day of the week anywhere about damn near anything.
I always wondered how we planned for dissipating heat in space to be comparable to dissipating heat on earth. Feels like whatever they're using to handle that heat is going to have to be huge and heavy.
Has to be great for avoiding any legal obligations on how you might handle the data though. Can do whatever you want as long as it stays in space.
I have comments about your first question, but they're mostly stupid on my end. I think the problem for most is related to your 2nd question. Google is doing it's google thing where they do a lot to force adoption with a goal of doing nothing to support it. Combine with a general distrust of Google.
I get the point that that's where the people are, but also kinda feel like the selfhosted community should act as a vanguard to a point. Sure, maybe you have a 'front door' on a corporate platform, but kinda feel like in the case of selfhosted sticking to your principles and purposefully rejecting platforms that don't fit the vision is kind of important especially when you're currently in the middle of finding out why.
You can get x variants for under 100 too but you got to be more patient. Larger resellers don't always understand the difference in models. Man, to be honest, I don't either. You don't have to go this in depth but look at the rear view for addons on the eBay listing. I usually don't worry about buying ones with warranty/etc and I've only been burned once (probably water damage).
In my experience, if you're wanting to use a USB Ethernet 2.5g or more, you may want to come up with at least a USB c port. I get that it should work with USB 3 but the speeds in practice just never worked out for me. I could have been facing those reliability issues you mentioned. Experiments in that area may eventually lead you back to scavenging for models that accommodate a riser card for 10g which is a very well weathered path. If you want Ceph, it's not absolutely required but you're probably going to end up there. I wouldn't do Ceph again.
Somewhat similar on the CPU, I only discovered problems when I started experimenting with mass video re-encoding which is probably similar to the workload on Frigate. With the top on, I can only really use about half the cpus consistently without facing slowdowns due to heat. CPU upgrades are also mostly out.
Minor segue: If you haven't checked out the servethehome forums, highly recommended. It's probably the best source of knowledge on these.
Love is just a set of needs that another person meets for you. Sometimes those needs are deep and meaningful and let you be vulnerable and feel like someone really knows you and... sometimes it's just chemicals, comfort and staving off loneliness. Both can be love, both are pretty great, it's cheeseburgers vs fancy steak.