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mereo@piefed.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Temporary becomes permanent. When I was experiencing severe long-term symptoms of Covid, I bought a refurbished computer to use as a NAS with Jellyfin, Sonarr, and indexers. I kept the installed Windows 10 because I simply did not have the energy to do more. Then, when I felt better, I told myself, “Let me add more services.”

Now, it’s a Frankenstein computer where Windows 10 acts as the hypervisor, running Caddy as my reverse proxy. Crowdsec protects my services, and my Flint 2’s firewall acts as the Crowdsec bouncer. A VirtualBox VM runs in Windows 10 and hosts most of my Docker containers. Stablebits DrivePool manages my drive pool.

I’ve been running this setup for over a year, and I haven’t had any issues. I know I should switch to Linux, but since it’s been working great and I’m busy, I’ve been procrastinating.

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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have seen the temporary->permanent happen so many times even in enterprise IT.

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- PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s only temporary, unless it works.
  
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  - eodur@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Exactly why prototypes should always bake in limitations and problems. Otherwise management will just say “good enough”
    
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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

severe long-term symptoms of Covid

Sure hope you’re doing better now, and no ‘long Covid’ after effects.

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- mereo@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I had long covid for 3 years after that. But I’m feeling better nowadays, thanks.
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’ve never had Covid, but my lady friend has. She contracted it at the hospital working as a medical professional of 40 years. There were circumstances surrounding how she contracted Covid that I will not go in to, but basically a lack of stocked PPE on the part of the medical facility. She now has long Covid and will for the rest of her life. Getting up in the morning to make herself some breakfast is exhausting for her, and they really are no closer to understanding why these symptoms persist in certain people. She had to retire, which really broke her.
    
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