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Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.

Process sugar (diabeetus)

It does not whip the llamas ass.

Here’s a link to the Tesla story, there’s plenty more if you search on google. I don’t know 100% how it works, looks similar to your issue where voltage irregularities cause odd behaviour.

As for the power supply vs charger thing. I have not looked around that hard to determine if using a charger like this is a super bad thing to do. I suppose low quality chargers and power supplies could be delivering dirty power which could cause issues or shorten the lifespan of the device. Power supplies are also more designed to run for long periods of time. It depends on how much you want to spend.,

To add to this. If you have more than one rpi, swap the power supplies and cables around in different combinations, see if the issue follows a particular part.

Electronics can get weird when they have voltage irregularities, you even see this as a hacking method on occasion, but it’s not exactly consistent from what I understand. I saw an article where people started messing with voltage to a Tesla’s CPU and managed to unlock premium features.

I am currently powering two rpi’s with a 40w USB dual port charger, has been going well.

Nothing, those are just links to those websites.

Losing things is one of the risks of any setup. With paid for services you are putting trust that the provider has put in place methods to prevent downtime/data loss. Self-hosting means the onus is on you. Make sure you document things, make sure you have some kind of backup in place, and update things regularly (but maybe not straight away, just in case).

Also expect to occasionally run into weird issues that you need to figure out a fix for. I am 99% sure it was for my NextCloud-AIO setup a year or so ago, but there was an update to it that broke the setup if you had created the containers previousy at a certian time. You needed to run a particular command inside one of the containers to fix it up.

There was also the time where I migrated things off a physical server to a VM, but missed the script that was doing my certbot DNS challenge renewal. I had not documented things back then and a few months later all my services stopped working, that took a bit to re-do.

I do make sure to keep backups of my VM’s, and for the VPS I run I pay a bit extra for vultr to keep backups/snapshots there. Along with actual documentation of how I did the setup, I’ve got things stable for the most part.

Here’s my Heimdall homepage to give an example of different services I run, as well as some links to other websites. Blanked out a few things for privacy and eyepatch reasons (not sure if that’s allowed here).

I use vaultwarden (open source implementation of bitwarden server). Yes it’s a seperate service to manage, but it’s a dedicated password/secrets manager that can do otp codes.

I’ve been running the docker container for a few years now and it’s been rock solid.

Amount of content in the form of posted items I think is good. But the lack of comments/discussion is disappointing at times. That being said, I do not miss the lack of useless comments like “first”, or ones that were just “r/relatedsub”, etc.

IT WAS YOU!

While I don’t claim to understand how the AI function, this makes sense. Think along the lines of making a copy of a copy of a copy, etc, using a photocopier instead of copying a file. Because they are reinterpreting the works every time more and more errors accumulate in the results. This may be because there’s a difference between recognising and understanding.