Also, fwiw, I was a big Star Wars EU (now Legends) and Halo book reader as a kid. I find that the Alien books fit the same niche, easy reads by talented authors that fill out a universe. I use the Alien books as a little breezy break between the larger hard sci-fi I usually read. It's either these lately, or some random horror book I find on the shelves at the library.

Yes! They have a thriving transmedia franchise going back to the 90s. Lots of comics and books. Honestly I kinda just judged a book by its cover and grabbed one at the library and now I'm 8 or 9 books deep. I mostly reference the wiki page to find associated novels.

Some that I've enjoyed are Into Charybdis, The Cold Forge, Colony War, and Cult. Honestly even the bad ones are nice, easy reads. Basically anything associated with Amanda Ripley, Zula Hendricks, or Dr. Blue Marsalis is great. I'm wrapping up Inferno's Fall now, which touches on the engineers and black goo a bit. Novelization of Isolation is good. They're all rad!

I'm finishing Alien: Inferno's Fall before I get started with Revelation Space. Super excited. Also the Alien books are all pretty fantastic cannot recommend them enough.

Ya this is a huge deal for a line item in a patch notes. HDR being (relatively) simple was the only thing really making me miss Windows as an Nvidia user.

These are huge! Thank you for the suggestions I will get to implementing all of these. The only thing I've done so far similar to what's in this list is backing up to my git repo, which is very nice. Every setting change gets committed. Is that different than snapshotting?

I believe it was the realtek NIC and some settings offloading to the hardware I set during troubleshooting. Installed the Realtek driver in the plugins and changed those settings and so far no instability! Thank you for the tunable suggestion though I will also be checking that out!

The downside is OPNsense is it's information light, and a bit inscrutable lol I'm having an issue with my WAN dhcp going offline, seems to be happening on a cadence. My modem is fine, connection is valid. Rebooting the OPNsense box fixes it. Losing my mind a bit but I'll figure it out 🙃

Just moved to an OPNsense network. Setting up unbound was so nice and simple. Much preferred over pihole.

Always been an issue on wireless AA for most VPNs. Just exclude the Android Auto app or put an exclusion for the IP range mentioned in this thread.

I've been trying to tell all my friends who are self-hosting curious when they see my setup that the feeling of reconnecting with your library is worth all the work alone. It's like having your old iPod with YOUR library. Adding more to it, reassessing what's serving you or what can be trimmed, making sick playlists that mean something to you. It's all so intentional. Algorithmic music is incredible for discovery and that's about it.

Escape from Butcher Bay ruled 🤘