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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • In the 2000s and early 2010s, less of your life was lived on a cell phone or smartphone.

    For kids now, it’s 100% of their lives. Post-COVID, the majority of social interaction between peers is through a social media app.

    That means that close to 100% of kids are on their phones during the school day. If you aren’t, you run the risk of social isolation and FOMO.

    Administrators can’t send a kid to detention for using their phone because ALL kids would be in detention every day.

    Here’s one article that examines the problem









  • The problem with China’s real estate market is that it’s entirely built on false promises and leveraged debt.

    The government provides cheap loans to citizens to buy homes they will never live. All in an effort to drive the country’s GDP… but eventually you will either:

    1. Run out of capital to fuel this construction
    2. Rebase the value of these paper homes and the economy collapses on a scale 10x that of the 2008 housing crisis

    This article has nothing to do with unhoused people, nor an overvalued housing market pushing out middle class buyers. The economics of the Chinese market are completely dissimilar from the western (US particularly) markets.

    It’s entirely about how the Chinese government has an unsustainable market segment dedicated to building things that people don’t want or need… other than to have wealth on paper.






  • There are some options for Pis like unraid.

    Honestly though, just pick one problem you have and solve that with docker.

    Beat your head against the wall trying to figure out the virtualization, volume mapping, permissions and networking.

    Then start finding other problems to solve.

    I stood up a homelab for media storage and streaming… and it has now grown to 30-40 applications running in parallel.