Louis Rossman, a strong advocate for the right to self-repair, has an extensive, bottom to top guide on self hosting your own services. It starts from introducing what a modem is and what role it plays, and it ends with an entirely self hosted cloud. It comes in article as well as 13 hour video form. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to get started self hosting - it doesn’t just introduce software you should learn, but it also shows you how to configure it.

Internet Shaquille is probably one of my favorite content producers period. He’s just so…real with all of his content haha.

Awesome! I’ve definitely been there before haha, there’s only so much pizzaz you can add to a sandwich :)

FWIW, my main concern with cooking was time. Meal prep is good, but I personally prefer more variety. I’ve found that this book has a great approach - you do one meal prep cook, and get 3 different meals that use the same core ingredients. During the weekday, since all your proteins and vegetables are prepped, it typically just needs to be thrown together and put into the oven. 10 minutes max of human time, and maybe 20 minutes in the oven.

She has a few free recipes that follow the same format so you can try a cycle of meals before buying the book.

You’re definitely doing the right thing by asking these questions first!

If you’re not comfortable cooking by yourselves yet, I’d suggest focusing on that before moving out. The alternative is to eat out a lot, which is bad for your body and wallet. Once you do cook regularly, you’ll have a good sense of how much groceries cost for you.

I finally got link warden up and running, but I’m chasing down some failures on a few websites.

Also realized that me biting the bullet for unlimited bandwidth (screw you Comcast!) means I can run archive team warrior, so that’s been going.

And equally important, how do you do your backups? What system and to where?