u/Aniform

It's strange, but I remember when my doctor prescribed, I was kind of combative. Change my eating habits? Hell no!

But from day 1 I completely shifted my eating habits, food prep, started up my diet again. And on the 1.5mg for 10 days now and I'm absolutely killing it. Food noise is gone! Hunger gone! Bored eating, gone! I remember my very first day I ordered a chicken from a local place and just thinking ahead, I ordered their small rather than their large and even halfway thru the small I was completely full. The firstt 4 days after that though were forced a bit with willpower because I'd find a desire to eat sometimes when I didn't need to. But then it evened out and now it just shuts everything down.

A part of me hopes that because I did a lot of heavy lifting in resuming my diet, exercise, and completely changing my meals and habits that I won't need 9mg. Maybe not even the 4mg.

But for those out there who have been on it longer, did it change?

I'm talking like this: antiques xmas renn

It's just so compelling to me and I don't see it a lot, most booths in fact just stick to a typical white tent and standard layout. I always wanted my place to feel like a store from the jump, but I held back on the impulse to go absolutely bananas. One fear of mine was that my brand is more high-end and making it too themed would take away from the products and cheapen the brand.

I think another thing I do think about is how "minimal" we've become. There's been a draining of color from our society, with every place going with neutral tones. I often want to rebuke that.

I suppose the one thing is, setup could easily become a massive chore. I've got it down to about 45-60mins. Adding also adds time. And then there's the logistics. Suddenly I need a trailer.

The reason I'm thinking about this is because there's massive Christmas Markets in my area. These are no joke and cost 10's of thousands of dollars to get into and I've read that many places hire professional services to decorate their booths. I've been to Christmas Markets in Europe and it's so charming.

And I'm not going for these expensive venues anytime soon, but I hearing they have people decorate their booths, it makes me want to lean in and really create something grand.

I've done a lot of smaller shows in the past, I might have 1 or 2 vendors in my category. But this year I'm doing tons of massive crowd events, 15-30k attendees. And I might have 5 other vendors in my category. Part of me thinks, I need to make customers go (more than they have already) "I need to be in that booth". And maybe that means making my place the only place at those fairs that looks like an old village shop entirely.

Any thoughts on this or experience? If you went this way, did you find it worth your time?

I have been running for the last 7yrs on 3 separate NUCs. I love the small electric bill. But running 24/7 for 7yrs they're starting to give up on me. I decided that rather than 3 NUCs I'd consolidate and do it all on one powerful device. My choice was to buy a minisforum ms-01.

Here's what I'm coming from.

Server 1: Jellyfin, Kavita, Audiobookshelf. Jellyfin ran bare metal, everything else dockers.

Server 2: *arrstack, nicotine, sabnzbd, transmission, pinchflat. Furthermore, VPN running specifically for this server for obfuscation.

Server 3: This one was just an i3 with 8gb ram. It was my admin and personal apps server. Wiki, mealie, karakeep, server monitoring, webnut, cups server, etc. it was the place if I wanted to spin up vikunja I could and didn't need to worry about bothering other servers.

Technically, I could just run it all on the one server, but I think specifically for the server 2 setup, the VPN arrangement could add complications hence why I originally started splitting tasks between devices.

Proxmox seems cool, but I've never used it and I'm leary of doing setups with lxc and quicksync pass thru. However, it would let me create a vm for say, server 2. And I've heard that jellyfin is better in lxc because easier hardware usage.

I'm just not sure, but I'm most comfortable with Linux administration, I spent 7yrs with headless Ubuntu servers and it's hard for me to imagine proxmox.

Any thoughts or advice so I can get setup right from the beginning?