Same boat here, 4 years now. There’s excellent decaf beans out there finally, and it’s improving every year!

Have any of these actions had a measurable positive impact on the crime rates of the cities where it happens…? Oh… Its just performative, like always. Great.

I’d recommend a solid backup client. This isn’t something you want to find broken when you need it.

Kopia is what I use, and it supports local (LAN) targets, as well as cloud storage if you want 3:2:1 for some or all of your data. Good luck!

Theres a Romm app in ports you can use for this.

Usually Mississippi. But under Desantis…

If they actually partnered with framework that’s an instabuy for me.

We need like 8 more people in the second panel

I was interested until I saw the crypto stakes to vote on changes baked in.

Is there a place accepting bets on his BAC%?

Use of a private key.

Similarly, why not put your journals into a lockbox? Very old school, but exactly what your grandparents did with their checkbooks and ledgers for the same reason.

Similar setup here with a 7900xtx, works great and the 20-30b models are honestly pretty good these days. Magistral, Qwen 3 Coder, GPT-OSS are most of what I use

No lies detected

I mean, I’m a cis/straight male, but that’s a beautiful man.

Yeah, similar sized environments here too, but had good experiences with Ansible. Saw Chef struggle at even smaller scales. And Puppet. And Saltstack. But I’ve also seen all of them succeed too. Like most things it depends on how you run it. Nothing is a perfect solution. But I think Ansible has few game breaking tradeoffs for it’s advantages.

Wow, huge disagree on saltstack and chef being ahead of Ansible. I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

Ansible is just so much lower overhead and so much easier to understand and make changes to. It’s dominating the configuration management space for a reason. And nearly all of the self hosted/homelab space is active in Ansible and have tons of well baked playbooks.

This simply isn’t true. Crime rates have fallen significantly, including violent crime. In addition, car accidents and pedestrian deaths have also decreased significantly per capita compared to 30+ years ago, though has been on the rise in the last decade or two depending on the study.

This is entirely being driven by changing perceptions in America due to the 24h news cycle and sensationalized national news.

Of course, and this is why the new hotness is a Mixture of Experts for one model that is effectively a bunch of experts arguing over the answer, or else on a different scale there’s the Combination of Agents where different specialized agents perform specialized tasks.

Main Rotation

• Ceremony
• Merit
• Littlewolf
• Onyx

For variety

• S&W Roasting (availability varies)
• Hatch Crafted (availability varies)
• Dogwood (best local)

It’s a cool idea, I will look into roasting some of my own.

I’m not trying to be a hater, but nearly all of the decaf there is using Swiss water process, which I’ve never had a good cup of. I do see one EA decaf, but it’s Columbia and I think I’ve drank enough decaf Columbia to last me a few lifetimes.

This isn’t “name and shame”, but more a general complaint. And that is “specialty decaf”.

Due to a heart condition, all I can drink these days is decaf.

And the predominant bean for this, due to the economies of scale, is the same bland Swiss water decaf Columbia used by roasters from Starbucks to many many specialty coffee roasters. And the result is the bland, ashy, muddy decaf we all lothe.

Thankfully, some specialty roasters have started switching away from the awful water process to EA and CO2, though still mostly using the same tired Columbia strains.

Of the two newer decaffination methods, EA is significantly better at keeping the flavors faithful to the original bean (tested with several blind tastings), but roasters still tend to roast the results to medium / medium dark to bow to the greater market, which is really a shame.

There are a handful of roasters that have been attempting EA decaf at a light/medium-light roast level and the results are finally something I’d classify as “specialty decaf”, but my rotation is still only about 5 total bean/roast/roasters combos.

Hopefully the new caffine-free coffee cherry strains gets to market soon, I really really want to explore specialty coffee like I used to.