I’d actually love a reason to try Ansible and get used to it. So if it’s well documented, maybe a good starter project.

I have actually looked at this one before but the main reason I hadn’t done it is no experience with Ansible. Would you say Ansible is easy enough to pick up just for rolling this out? I have a lot of networking experience, building docker compose files from scratch for projects, and am used to editing json and yml files. I have only set up a reverse proxy with caddy once and have never tried nginx although it seems more fully featured. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I also knoe of some good Ansible security hardening playbooks but once again just haven’t used Ansible so never rolled them out

I used to roll on the main matrix server, but I’ve been toying with the idea of rolling out a server for just myself here at home for a while now, since I can federate with other servers. Just disable making new accounts after I set up my own account and roll out.

Most underrated Coen Brothers film.

I don’t know if Verizon of AT&T offer these but T-Mobile used to have small cellular sites you could basically rent them to plug into your wired internet and it would piggyback off your internet to make a small cellular hotspot to give you good cell signal. I had one when I lived out in the boonies for a while.

EDIT: Looks like the ones T-Mobile used to offer are all End-of-Life and they don’t even want them back from customers because they were for 3G/4G and they’re moving all services to 5G.

https://tmo.report/2025/04/t-mobiles-infamous-cellspot-coverage-devices-are-now-end-of-life/

EDIT II: Looks like AT&T may offer some still though:

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1452148/

Also, depending on where you live its a pointless exercise. I ended up throwing mine away not because I didn’t want access to OTA television, but because I lived in a valley on the other side of mountains where all the broadcast antennae in Seattle are. So even being on the top floor of a building with my antenna as high as I could possibly mount it I still got exactly one channel total that came through and it was still glitchy a lot of the time. God the digital changeover ruined OTA broadcasts, because at least when you used to have weak signal you could tweak the antenna until the picture looked halfway decent, but no amount of tweaking fixes the digital glitching that happens from dropped packets.

Anyway, yeah, if you live in an unfortunately placed area, you need a 30 foot tall antennae pole on top of your building to even maybe have the opportunity to catch some broadcast channels. Stupid.

Let’s just cut the shit and admit that over-the-air broadcast television is effectively dead.

This is why Net Neutrality mattered, because the future isn’t in old tech (radio broadcast) being consumed by DRM in desperate plays to stay relevant and/or profitable.

The future was always in things like YouTube, Netflix, and other online content delivery services. Which is why strict regulation of Net Neutrality and strict regulation of such services was and continues to be so important.

No, the infrastructure isn’t “open” like broadcast airwaves, which technically anyone with a license and equipment can jump into using, whereas internet infrastructure is all privately owned wired networking. The fact that it is different isn’t an excuse for any and all governments to have just effectively given up on regulation of those spaces when they’re where the media-consuming public happen to be. That’s why we needed legislation of these things instead of a back and forth wankery of the FCC changing how the internet is classified over and over again in between warring political factions.

I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.

The real reason that this kind of change is happening to over-the-air broadcasting is because it doesn’t have enough viewers, and by extension, enough advertising, to sustain it as a model anymore.

I think the loss of over-the-air programming isn’t the best thing, but I also think it’s stupid to keep holding on to this idea like it matters very much in 2026 where if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”

But I mean we can’t even regulate shit like paid political speech online needing to say that it is paid political speech, so fat chance of any useful legislation coming anytime soon. US government in particular has been broken as fuck for three decades.

This is by far the dumbest fucking analogy I have ever had the misfortune to read.

You will, never, ever, understand what I am saying because you obviously do not even want to try. You are not a bucket, you are a human fucking being, and it’s a choice to hate others because you have had misfortune.

As I said in a previous post, I blame no one for the pain and agony my ex put me through except myself and her, and I would not want to make anyone else suffer such things ever because it doesn’t matter how hurt I am because of it, I know being a decent person that making others suffer will not fix what has been done to me. The only thing that can fix it is me trying to be better. You want to cook up every excuse in the book for why it’s not on you to ever be kind to others or consider others feelings like you want people to consider yours.

Like, think about that for a minute, you want others to consider your feelings, but you consistently have made clear you’re actually content to not think about theirs, going back to the very beginning of this thread where you callously said that my ex “married the wrong man” and waxed poetic about how you think women are coddled for such choices. Why should anyone give a fuck about your feelings when you consistently have made clear this whole thread you have no consideration for anyone else’s? That despite all you’ve been through, you haven’t learned “gosh I never want to make anyone feel the way I have felt, it’s so awful!” you instead learned “FUCKING EVERYONE DESERVES TO FEEL EVEN WORSE THAN I HAVE FELT BECAUSE I AM THE SPECIALIST LITTLE SNOWFLAKE BITCH ALIVE! BLEARGH!”

It really says a lot about how fucked in the head you are, how you don’t actually understand how empathy works, how you never actually worked on yourself like you keep claiming you did (I promise you, people who have worked on themselves don’t think like you do), and are possibly one the most selfish and petulant people I have had the displeasure to interact with on this site. You have no intentions of actually hearing what anyone else has said, continuing to repeat your “woe is me” horseshit that everyone is tired of hearing because to everyone else it is painfully clearly and obviously nothing but selfish horseshit.

You will never have the amount of self reflection needed to understand what I and others have bothered trying to posit to you today, and yet you persist in trying to convince us that no you’re just a sad sad widdle boy who needs to be fucking coddled like you apparently think everyone else is. Bitch, you have no idea what that woman I was speaking of in the beginning of this thread had gone through when you decided to slander her for no fucking good reason and whine about how bad you had it in comparison. You are the one who came in and slandered a person who I have compassion for because you’re a whiny little fucking bitch who can’t handle seeing people who are emotionally mature without deciding you need to shit all over it.

I’m done trying to explain it to you. You have no intention to hear it, you have every intention to repeat your selfish bullshit in desperate attempts to manipulate people into feeling sorry for you. Fucking suck it, loser. Eat shit. Nobody with a compassionate and empathetic bone in their body has time to waste on people like you and I regret spending the latter half of my day wasting my time trying to get you to see your own fucked up priorities, because you clearly want to be a victim so god damned badly you’ll Donald Trump it to the end of your life.

I mean seriously dude in your second message to me you said “Don’t be a cuck.” Like what kind of clueless and fucking dickless wonder who admits he never gets laid says that to a fat fucking loser like me who has had endless pussy simply because he’s a nice person? I’m being a cuck because I fucked a bunch of women and some of them moved on in their lives? And you’re not an incel? Fuck me, you’re an incel, a moron and a liar because if you had cared about anyone’s feelings at any point that wouldn’t have been one of the first things you said to me. Yet despite that, for a while, I tried to give your stupid worthless victimhood desiring ass the benefit of the doubt. You took my kindness even after you had already attempted to insult me and went “WAHH NOT GOOD ENOUGH BECAUSE I’M A LITTLE BITCH!” Well, fine, go be a little bitch, then.

I love this one specifically because I have always wondered: Is the guy with the hook hand into amputee porn because he is an amputee, or is his interest in it independent of that?

I’m sorry but you clearly didn’t care about me or anyone else’s feelings in this conversation long before I resorted to rightfully insulting you.

The world has never taken responsibility for its role in making me what I am. I had potential, but they’d rather see me fail and suffer than live in a world where I had the satisfaction of making the world a better place. They wouldn’t tolerate me being compassionate. They chose suffering, and then they complain when the suffering envelops them too. They thought I would be the only one who suffered, a convenient and well-behaved scapegoat. Well, I’m not so docile, and I don’t have sympathy for a world that had no sympathy for me.

If you really believe this about the world, let me repeat myself as I have over and over again and you clearly still don’t get it: if you really believe this, you never actually experienced any real growth at all nor do you have real empathy for others. You can lie to yourself and say you “gave up” on it all you want, but the reality is anyone who actually had experienced real growth would have never, ever come to these conclusions to begin with, ergo, you have not actually grown or used any of the skills you claim to have. You never did. It’s a convenient lie you tell yourself to justify being a shiftless piece of shit who loves being hated because it fulfills your victimhood complex.

You’ve clearly misinterpreted what I said.

No, no, you’ve just not been aware of how much of yourself you’ve really revealed with all you’ve said here today, and it isn’t anywhere near a misinterpretation, it’s a lunatic who will never have enough self reflection to really see themselves and understand their own failings instead of blaming the entire world for every single little slight they have ever experienced. Like I said, you’re a fucking loser like Donald Trump, a fucking whinger and whiner who takes no responsibility for themselves, their actions, or what they’ve said. You’ve made that exceedingly clear, even if you’re too oblivious to realize how you’ve done so. You are what you hate so much about the world, wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder you want others to hate you so badly, because deep down you must hate yourself something awful because somewhere inside you recognize this in yourself and hate yourself for it. Yet, like Trump, you want to make others suffer for your own personal failings more than you want to do better an atone for any of it. And that is what makes you worthy of derisive words.

Like I said, it’s clear you get off on trying to be so terrible that people hate you. Don’t worry, if and when you do that, all those people you force to see it will have very, very justifiable reasons to fucking hate you and be glad you’re dead. Mostly because you had so little empathy as to think they deserved to suffer simply because you suffered people being big meanies to you. Once again, wanting to make others suffer because you have suffered speaks to something being deeply wrong with you, instead of you not wanting others to suffer as you have. As I said before, your attitude and beliefs make this a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your unwillingness to learn and try to change is your choice alone. You have zero desire to do better or grow, as much as you like to pretend you do.

Man you really just want to prove how genuinely unhinged you are and how little you’ve done to grow, huh?

No one who has actually had serious self-growth would ever in a fucking million years want to force other people to want to watch them commit suicide to punish them.

Seriously, my ex did that shit to me. Why? Because we were in an argument about how I had cancer and was working full-time, did all the cooking, cleaning, shopping, and life planning and she sat on her butt at home. So she decided to tell me I never really loved her and tried to force me watch her kill herself because I had the fucking audacity to ask for help after I had been struggling with cancer for a year already. It has left me all fucked up, but the only people I blame for that is her and me specifically. Her for being so petty as to try to force me to watch her kill herself (by trying to swallow all my cancer meds no less) after over a decade of basically being her caretaker, and myself for not having the balls to make a boundary earlier before she tried to do this fucked up thing to me. Anyway, good job, you successfully triggered me over some fucked up shit I’ve been through.

No one who has ever done the work and experienced real growth would ever do that to another person, especially not just random people as you seem to be implying you would do it to. You are deeply fucked up, and you have made no growth as much as you lie to yourself that you have. If you ever had any real serious personal growth, you wouldn’t ever be saying shit like that you fucking sociopath. Like that’s the whole thing, you’ve said an unimaginable amount of selfish fucked up things here today, shifted goalposts from “there’s a double standard” to “well she grew past her trauma but not everyone grows past their trauma like me for example”, and have generally been one of the biggest fucking whiners I have ever encountered, but even when you admitted that you purposefully push people away because it’s easier to be an angry angsty asshole who feels sorry for themselves than it is to actually be a decent human being, you still haven’t put two and two together that you haven’t actually grown at all and you’re the actual fucking problem here and maybe, just maybe, that you are the reason people don’t like you, not the cruel cruel world.

I mean, even if humans didn’t destroy themselves, it’s not like the heat death of the universe isn’t inescapable. Yawn, what a load of existential crisis bollocks. You’re pathetic.

All I hear is the equivalent of a Republican saying “well Democrats said I’m a racist so I guess that means I should be mega racist Nazi.”

Seriously if that’s your takeaway, that your self improvement was for nothing because you didn’t get what you wanted out of it instead of self improvement being for its own sake, then you’re doing the same thing. You’re choosing to be worse because you’re too weak to stand up and be better. Sorry not sorry.

Just like Nazis, if people being not nice to you and saying you’re being racist means you should go as deeply Nazi as possible: something is seriously wrong with you that not even trauma can explain or justify.

Being a bad bitter person blaming everyone else isn’t ever justified. Hopefully you learn that some day. If not oh well one less loser in the world.

Saying “people were mean to me so I need to double down and be worse about the things they said were bad about me” isn’t the flex you think it is

Fuck you too, buddy. Fuck you, too.

My ex grew and changed. You haven’t. That’s the part you’ve conveniently ignored this whole time. I literally explained that in an earlier post, but you’re more than happy to ignore information that conflicts with your fake ass worldview. I’m not some shmuck who thinks she is irredeemable because she didn’t choose me, and instead eventually found someone else who really treated her right, after struggling with her trauma for a while. If she had kept doing dumb shit and getting with abusive men her whole life maybe your argument would have a leg to stand on, but right now your argument is a fucking quadriplegic.

As I said before, she eventually got divorced and broke free from her traumatic past and is now happily married to a good man and has kids. But sure, the fact that she grew and changed means nothing and means she’s to blame! No, losers like you you refuse to grow are the only people to blame.

It’s not a double standard if it’s bullshit you made up in your own head that doesn’t match the facts of the situation.

Don’t worry, I don’t think I have any superpowers.

I don’t know, you’re the biggest fucking clown I’ve ever encountered, so that seems like a superpower.

You get to be compared to him, because I spent an afternoon trying to be nice and having you bitch and moan and make excuses for yourself at me. Just like he does. Get over it.

Also, it’s weird how much you obviously get off on this. It’s clear you want people to not like you so you can be bitter about it, otherwise why would you try so fucking hard to make it happen?

I drive them away because it’s easier than building something on potential only to inevitably see it come crashing down.

So you finally admit that you’re the problem here. Glad you recognized it. Now shut the fuck up.

You aren’t your cognitive conditioning, you can make a choice to be different. You don’t want to make that choice, ergo, you can fuck off. That’s me setting a boundary with someone who obviously isn’t worth the effort.

Geeze, and you say I blame others for my bitterness.

Called it.

I don’t need to hear it anymore, because you’ll just use this as justification for why you’re a fucking angry shitty loser instead of having an ounce of self reflection over anything you’ve said here in this giant fuck off thread of you being a whiny little bitch.

Also, if you actually had a thick skin, you wouldn’t be a such a fucking whiner about all the times you’ve been mistreated. You’re like that dipshit Donald Trump. Says he’s a big strong man but can’t shut the fuck up about all the perceived slights he’s ever received. Strong people with thick skin don’t spend several hours writing full on screeds about how awful their life is because everyone else is a big meanie. They especially don’t compare people not liking them because they’re a bitter assholes to people’s human rights being violated. Seriously, grow the fuck up. Although I know you won’t because then you won’t have the satisfaction of being able to say it’s everyone else’s fault.

I don’t know man, I was excluded from it for a long time and I made myself a better person and then had a happier life. You seem pretty dedicated to being an angry bitter asshole who blames everything on everyone but yourself, so like I said, you do you. Go ahead and be a fucking asshole who no one likes. I did my bit, walk away and stop being an annoying loser, please and thank you.

You got what you wanted, I’m sick of your loser shit, so piss off please. I don’t need to hear it anymore, because you’ll just use this as justification for why you’re a fucking angry shitty loser instead of having an ounce of self reflection over anything you’ve said here in this giant fuck off thread of you being a whiny little bitch. Good, I hope you feel justified and I hope you stay the sad sack loser you are, because if you’re really this much of a twerp who can’t listen to positive re-enforcement you probably deserve it.