The moment when you suddenly pulled your lower back out and you instantly feel 30 years older than you are. 🤦🏻♂️
You certainly are reminded how much you take your back for granted.
Caleb McDonald
caleb@mcfamily.social
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I don't trust the cloud. My server doesn't take orders. Follow Jesus, raise kids, collect discs, run nodes, keep keys. That's the stack.
Afternoon movie time.
Can anyone guess what it is?
Friday late night comedy + MakeMKV ripping FTW 💿
I feel 2026 is the year I'll post more.
Next week I’m upgrading my network to WIFI7 and 10Gbps to support our new 2Gbps ISP speeds. Can’t wait to set it all up.
NAS 10GbE
MacMini M4 10GbE
My Plex server is gonna fly.
New DCA setup is 💵 into @npub1ex7m...vyt9 ⚡️to @Alby Hub, and it’s ⚡️fast and worked flawlessly. Very happy.
Another physical media pickup this week for a MakeMKV rip into Plex is LOTR, both theatrical and extended editions. 
Today’s physical media pickup for a MakeMKV rip into Plex is the Hobbit, both theatrical and extended editions. 
My children love listening to [on their own accord] The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis, The Beach Boys etc.
I consider that a parenting win.
The extra day off today for a long weekend was a nice way to recover from all the political nonsense.
The illusion of democracy wears thin as the years go on. #auspol
Hey @Alby a small suggestion for your new macOS hub application is allowing it to continue running in the background when you close the window (rather than closing the node).
Workaround is simply using CMD+H to hide the app works well in the mean time.
Just migrated my Alby Hub from Start9 (that was running via a VM on macOS) to the native macOS Alby Hub app and the process was flawless.
Well done @Alby, and thank you 👏🏻 🙏🏻
I’ve started noticing that ProtonVPN has started sponsoring YouTube videos.
This is great two fold;
- supporting YouTubers
- viewers being exposed to a legit VPN
Winning a crown 👑 with your kid is priceless memories made 🙏🏻 
Rumble enabling its creators to receive BTC is going to be a complete game changer.
Ok. 3rd day into holiday break.
It’s staring to feel like a holiday.
A theme park does help with this. 🎢🎡
Tis the season for many B grade Christmas “Hallmark” movies. They’re always so predictable.
I hear Master Chief is coming back to Fortnite. It may need to finally purchase some V bucks. 😏
I’ve never spent money on it.
But I’m a big Halo fan. 🤷🏻♂️
So, finally got around to playing with @Alby Hub. Installed it via StartOS on macOS using UTM.
Now it appears there’s an outage on Alby’s end? Wallet connection appears to be failing via Alby Go and the browser extension.
Hoping it’s a known issue…
Does Alby have a status page?
Can’t find it #asknostr
Since introducing the kids to BTTF I and II, they now love it (no surprises there) and they are already re-watching it.
Curious to see their reactions to BTTF III when we watch it in the near future... 😏