Homelab: Learning the hard way
Spending the weekend with family, I took the chance to check whether I could still access my various sites and services from outside. Feeling pretty good after that success, I thought—why not set up rtorrent through ProtonVPN on the server? The Beginning of the Screw-ups Naturally, it wasn’t going to be straightforward. Natively, it’s already messy, but with NixOS? Utter chaos. So I turned to an AI, hoping for some explanations, and started blindly pasting random commands it spit out whenever an error showed up. Of course, nothing ever worked, and even worse, I had no clue what I was actually doing. In situations like that, you can smell disaster coming a mile away.
Restarting running at 44
After a week of hesitation, I finally stepped on the scale. Bam - 93 kilos over 1.73m. One foot inside obesity. Time to act. That came on May 12, 2025. A radical change in my diet, combined with more walking. The start wasn’t glorious — my knee gave out after 6 km. But the results came faster than expected: 20 kilos lost in 3 months, capped off with a 54 km bivouac trek over two days.
Goodbye Google
It’s done. Finally. For years I’d been meaning to do it. I thought suspending my account would eventually delete it on its own. But no. Thanks to Just Delete Me, I found the real page—the one that says loud and clear: Delete my account. And that was it. No more Google account. At last, a breath of fresh air. Self-hosting I won’t self-host everything. Especially not email. Too critical, too risky. The kind of service that fails at the worst moment—when you’re on holiday or waiting for something important.
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