I feel like some sort of duplication is the best way to go. Like, have a full stack at home, and have a small mini PC full of NVME that mirrors just the storage you want, and keep the local jellyfin stack up to date otherwise with like docker and watchtower. Then you can unplug and take it with you when you leave, no muss no fuss.

And here we have the reason why online psychological diagnosis is considered malpractice, especially over text in a single session

I’m a highly empathetic person, to the point it causes me difficulties in life, especially in male relationships. I did this specific prank because I knew he personally would love it and he was already highly stressed and needed a break. It worked out great, both for our friendship and his college career.

But thanks for the completely useless, unfounded, and insulting armchair diagnosis. Perhaps in the future your time might be better spent figuring out your compulsive need to prove yourself right and the best understander of a situation despite having almost no requisite knowledge

Or maybe I know my friends better than you do after reading a quick story.

Idk man, maybe if this was the first time we did anything in this realm I could see that, but it’s an established part of our relationship. We trust each other. And maybe some levity with no real stakes actually helped lighten his stress during a difficult time, and that was the whole point? He was spiraling a bit and wouldn’t take a break, so just a bit of fun helped him chill and refocus, IMHO.

He graduated cum laude so I think it all worked out pretty well. I think you need to chill a bit and not assume you know everything about everyone after like 3 lines of text

Maybe if afterwards I showed him the knife was made of painted wood, blunted completely, and I snuck a throat protector in his turtleneck.

I did more things like checking a windows install on my laptop first, and cloning his drive off before I pulled it.

We would regularly pull pranks on each other, the rule was it couldn’t cause lasting harm. This fit well within that, and he got me at least as good multiple times. One of my best friends, ever

Um, our relationship? Have you ever had friends where you prank each other? The trust it engenders when you show you can play in that space but still not cause any lasting harm pulls people closer. At least it has in my experience. He’s one of my best friends ever

It was so good because I could be as rotten as I wanted, there was zero lasting harm. He immediately forgave me and found it amazing once he booted up the original drive and made sure it was all good

So that meme reminds me of a prank.

There was once I had the same exact laptop as a buddy, but wasn’t using it anymore. He was finishing his degree and just about to turn in like 8 papers/assignments and had a ton of work saved on it. So I wiped my laptop and installed fresh Kubuntu, and then swapped the drives when he wasn’t looking. Then I pretended to have done him a favor since he had been having intermittent windows problems.

He was livid but was trying so hard to be kind, loool. Made it better when I could swap it right back and everything was there

Eh, it is what it is. I have a full family life and a job screwing with computers all week. I don’t want to deal with spinning up, troubleshooting, and maintaining a mini devops stack.

I don’t want to spend so much personal time to keep up with all the management and config, but I don’t think that means someone like me should have to live in a big tech world. If there’s a good framework that helps keep things easy to manage and secure for a minimal amount of input and time, even if I could run most of it myself manually with a lot more time investment, there’s no reason not to, IMHO.

Yeah, I know they’re different. I was just giving some background about what was going on, sorry if I confused.

Just wondering if anyone has used what seems to be their compose/swarm config tool “abra”, especially multiserver, and have any feedback about it. I like that it seems to be pretty agnostic after doing its work, they say you can backup and export the config and use it elsewhere mostly as-is. Just can’t see much anywhere else about it.