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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Think of self-hosting as - instead of depending on cloud services from other entities (google/apple/whoever), you host those services yourself by running them on your own pc or maybe your secondary pc running 24/7 (usually locally, in your own home).

    Some common services might be automatic photo backup and storage (like immich), or running an adblocker for your home network, or streaming movie/music from your hard drive to your phone/TV (like jellyfin).





  • As far as I understand, all the money/asset value that goes into funding an organization is owed back to the investors, whether it’s as services bck to taxpayers, or dividends back to stock investors. Any start to an organization involves people/ other organizations seeding it with money

    Taking on a loan gives you both money (pretty liquid assets) and debt (liabilities). If you just use that money to pay back the debt, you’re back to no liquidity - no leverage to do the things that cost money to get kickstarted or keep maintaining.

    So the idea is that, if an organization uses too much in funds/all the assets to pay back the debt, they may not have enough left over to maintain/grow operations.

    Source: I’m taking accounting, am struggling, and hate how evrything seems absolutely bonkers at first. But also, it all makes sense. Because real accounting accounts for goddamn evrything.


  • I didn’t know any better about how to listen for flaws or get a feel for ergonomics, so I ended up buying the“traveller guitar bass for $200. I kinda regret it.

    I love how it just sounds different and thumpy, but the piezo pickup it has - it’s sounds so bad on my headphone amp. I can hear my fingers sliding over every millimeter of string, but it isn’t outrageously bad on a regular amp. On a regular amp, I couldn’t tell you why, but I like the sound of my Ibanez mikro bass so much better.

    Also, the ergonomics. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to rest the travel bass on a leg sitting down, even with the detachable bar to extend the side of the guitar for lap resting. It’s hard for me to find a comfortable position sitting/atanding

    I couldn’t hear the tuning either to judge quality. I found that when you pull backwards on the neck, it bring the string enough out of tune to tell, even by my hearing skills