I’m over here giving a standing ovation for this. Sure, I probably look a bit silly standing alone in my office in the middle of the night, clapping and whistling at my computer in reaction to an article on blog monetization while my kids are in the other room trying to sleep for school tomorrow. But bravo!

This honestly feels like a preview of what the Internet should have βεζσΜε if it hadn’t fallen to the sterilization of corporatism and the lowest common denominator.

I am absolutely overwhelmed by what I don’t know. Every tutorial I read gives me more questions than answers.

I felt that in the very core of my being.

Looking at my setup, sometimes I look back and wonder how tf I’ve made it this far. Dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of searching, reading, watching YouTube tutorials, and I feel like little has stuck with me. If the boot drive in my proxmox server takes a shit on me before I manage to figure out how to properly back everything up before that inevitable failure occurs, I’ll be back at square one (as in, still clueless and destined to spend dozens/hundreds of hours getting things set back up and configured).

I can say that I am a bit more familiar with the linux terminal now than I was a couple years ago when I first started, so there is some learning and growth taking place. But I’m still just a wee lad still trying to figure out how to simply stand up on my own. And heaven help me if an actual problem arises.