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Cake day: July 21st, 2025

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  • I’ve done a fair amount of customer service jobs so heard my fair share of complaints. Like once, an alcoholic threatened to bottle me if I didn’t sell him vodka. He wasn’t evil or even a bad guy. Just a good guy having a bad day.

    There was this one guy however - another completely different job - who complained the wifi wasn’t working. Instantly gave me the heeby jeebys. Shouting, threatening without actually threatening violence, dead eyed, just gave off really psychotic vibes. He was a bully but there was something else going on there.

    Turns out he was a successful local businessman who was known for his psychotic behaviour and being someone you don’t cross. He’d obviously gotten to where he was because everyone was terrified of him.

    Edit: another guy I encountered while he was drunk - made really creepy jokes about sexual things, one being ‘incest is the game the whole family can play’. I’m 100% sure they weren’t jokes - he meant what he was saying.


  • Next thing after that is redundant servers with failover and all that

    I’ve been thinking about this one. I have everything on one Proxmox machine, and I could potentially have a second machine offsite for backups. If I did that I could go whole hog and just mirror my whole machine offsite for failover. Some kind of Proxmox cluster but with geographic separation.