Hah same here, core has been on my list for a while especially for the pi but i keep getting distracted :D

Some of the acme clients do, I don’t think certbot does though. I remember using acme.sh or something and I think it calls it a delegation domain if I remember correctly!

Tools mentioned here are good suggestions but the problem you are going to run into is that CloudFlare doesn’t support second or higher level dns zones (so a record of a.b.c.com should be in a zone of b.c.com and CF only allows c.com) on most account tiers and LE/certbot is expecting a zone to create the validation record using its plugin.

Yep this right here, I have used Ubuntu LTS for servers both my own and for work for years now and it works fine. I also don’t think snaps are as big of a deal as people make them out to be, the only snap I am actually forced to use is the mass snap and that is a canonical product so whatever. I even use it on some rpi4/5 even and it works great for use with workloads suited for a pi. Now, 10 years ago this was a different story, but these days Ubuntu LTS is a great OS overall.

Debian is also great though (and if I was building some sort of appliance OS I would prob start with that since it has the fewest customizations to start with) but after you use any of the deb based distros enough they are all basically start to look the same to operate so pick one you want to learn and use that until you have a reason to change, learn the tools not the distro and you will be fine.

All of that said though, every distro has idiosyncrasies but the Linux CLI skills you learn are definitely transferable so it’s not as big of a choice as it is made out to be sometimes, especially now that containers and systemd are everywhere. That is …unless you decide to pick Solaris or one of the BSDs but those are a whole other animal 😀

Yeah this is where I am at too, it’s more about who is responsible when it breaks for me and if Plex breaks I have to fix it no matter where it runs. This community is more about learning how to do it than what specific tools to use for me as well, all tools come and go over a long enough timeframe, this is a good place to learn about the next one.

Yep that’s the one, I don’t know where the extra characters in my link came from, thanks!

Okay my sister who uses an electric kettle constantly for tea said “anyone who uses it 20 times per day needs one of these: https://store.zojirushi.com/products/cdlfc and reports that her first one lasted more than 7 years!

Edit: fixed the broken link!

Okay so something to check that I am not sure if I saw between this and the other thread, have you made sure your Z axis is both straight and counting steps accurately? I remember my first bed slinger had a poorly assembled and bent torque coupling that I didn’t notice for a long while because it worked fine sometimes but I could never get it to print reliably until I replaced that. I think it was making it skip z steps or something because the bed leveling and first few layers were always fine. It might be worth printing a z test print or something to see.

Oh I have a very specific one for you buckle up haha. So one thing in macOS that gets progressively better and worse over time is actual multi-monitor support. It’s fine but I swear either no one at Apple uses multiple monitors or everyone actually has only cinema displays arranged in a horizontal line haha. I have used OSX/macOS for a long time and it was much worse for a long time but had gotten pretty workable then BAM around Tahoe or so arrangement is buried in some menu now and I’m not sure the function of the row of displays actually is now? Anyway, it’s mostly great, this is the one thing that apparently turns into a rant haha! Okay two things, bring back eGPUs on Apple Silicon :D

I am in the same boat, long time infrastructure automation engineer as well. Sometimes it’s faster to explain how terraform or whatever needs to act and then fix the issues rather than having to sift through the docs for every provider.

I also do a similar thing to you with code, I also have to read a lot of other people’s code in languages I don’t know to help troubleshoot things and while I can usually follow the logic it is such a time saver to have AI to read the docs for the libraries and languages for me to at least find the part of the docs I need to read faster than searching myself.

Overall, I also agree with the sentiment on AI most of the time and all of its criticisms are definitely valid but I think too many people try to use AI to do their work for them instead of using it more like a rubber duck you can program with normal language.

Something to consider, there is also a third category of “Combination” which is some of both. Also, hyperactive is not necessarily the classic “running around” and can be things like “interrupts people because the idea comes flying out” or “silent rooms sometimes make my brain fuzzy” (both of which describe me sometimes). It’s less about which one you “qualify for” as I thought for a long time and more about how many of them impact your life to the point that it is a problem for you and it has always changed over time for me at least!

Lots of good suggestions here already but what is your upstream DNS provider and is it your ISP DNS from DHCP?