ThorrJo

Agree - PayPal screwed me out of over $200 in overdraft fees by spamming a transaction to an external account when I told them to pay from balance, refused to make it right, and it took months of battling my credit union to get half of the fees forgiven.

I hate PayPal with the fury of a thousand burning suns, and there are endless horror stories like this out there, as well as them just arbitrarily stealing people’s money. I’m forced to keep an account but these days I keep an entirely separate bank account with an entirely separate bank to link to it, just to prevent the contagion from potentially spreading to anywhere where I actually keep a balance. FUCK PayPal.

Thanks SDF! If I wasn’t desperately broke I’d already be a member!

I dunno but I’m fixin’ to find out. currently provisioning a couple Proxmox hosts.

although… I might choose Piefed.

original blog post:

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html

Very easy to find good deals (and parts) on these 1L business PCs!

some electronics on messy shelves

Testing an image post from Voyager client…

I only own the gear marked A and B, which lives above the couch I call home.

A is my web services 24/7 Proxmox box, an Intel 8500T; 2 routers; an 8TB HDD; and a Back-UPS Pro so old its ethernet surge protection is rated for 100bT, with a brand new LFP battery in it. The UPS powers both A and B.

B is my personal Proxmox box which I use for development and running desktop OSes which I remote into, plus a GL.iNet Slate AX router. These come with me if I stay someplace other than the couch (not pictured). That’s why they’re on different shelves. Also, there’s a USB wifi dongle w/antenna connected to B which I used when some stupid website demands I drop my VPN (all traffic from everything pictured is routed thru 24/7 private VPN endpoints, aka a $2/mo VPS or three).