Starting doing something you’ve never done before? Getting back into something you used to do? Is it fun and exciting? Is it challenging?

I recently starting to learn roller skating (quad skating). It is so thrilling! I can’t do a lot yet, I can barely stop, can’t skate backwards, and definitely no transitions. I can skate forward, scissor, scooter push, and I am getting tight with turns.

I take classes on the weekends, which are an hour, and then I skate 3 more hours in the regular session.

I am inching my way through the fundamentals, and I am not falling as often as I did just a week ago. I am wearing a helmet, because I care about my head, but I have become comfortable enough to take it off since it is not required, just wrist guards.

I own my own skates, Riedell R3s with Sonar Caymans (indoors), and Sketchers 4 Wheelers (outdoors), which I modified by replacing the plastic plates and trucks with Sure-Grip Super X. Now they are not so scary.

ALSO! I just got my first skate board! I walked into a local skate shop I had no idea existed until someone mentioned it, and only went in to see what offerings they had for roller skates so I would not have to order online. They got wheels and bearings, plus tools and protective gear, which is all I need and expected.

I walked out with an 8.5 Real deck (recycled), Ventura trucks, Slime Balls 78a wheels, Bones Reds bearings, and black tape. Assembly was free in-house and the dude got it together under 10.

I have yet to ride it, but I learned there is a skate park near me, so I have a lot to look forward to!

Edit: fixed details

  • @PatrickYaaEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I have started to set up a homeserver, since I wanted a NAS and a bit extra… Currently running TrueNAS Scale baremetal. I have a HomeAssistant Docker setup on a Pi and am feeding that data into an Influx DB on the NAS (hosted as a container from TrueNas).

    I also host Jellyfin and Nextcloud from the NAS. Now I want to open my nextcloud instance to family and friends and there’s ssoooooo much debate over what the best way is (tailscale, reverse proxy, vpn service, etc.)

    All of which is a) probably too much hassle for non-technically savvy people to implement on their own on their devices and b) is probably really complicated or not viable with my current setup.

    I will probably wipe the server, set up VMs with proxmox and have dedicated VMs for the NAS software, a docker host, etc.

    Now I just need to figure out how I can backup the data from the containerized InfluxDB and re-feed it into the new instance once I set it up. Because somehow I can’t touch those files even as root. sigh it’s a fun hobby.

    • @barbedbeardEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yes it’s better to have the services in containers or VM’s.

      Beware of hosting nextcloud for family and friends, if something goes wrong you would be responsible for any lost data.

      But if you want todo so, I opened the port for it and created a DDNS pointing to my IP. I used duckdns.org. it’s easy, has instructions on how to use it.