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  • It’s a studied phenomenon called “denning instinct”. Basically, they’re sniffing around to find a place where, ideally, they’ve gone before, other dogs haven’t gone before, and not near where they live or play.

    Texture preference is also a factor; most dogs prefer grass, some prefer gravel, it’s mostly determined by training and upbringing. A shelter dog that was trained to go on gravel will probably continue to prefer it, but it can also change over time.





  • In general, shared accounts/credentials aren’t recommended; each user should have their own account. Even in a homelab setting, the audit trail may prove useful in ways that are difficult to foresee.

    In general, separation of privileges is recommended. However, the granularity should be informed by the risks mitigated. In an enterprise setting, more risks are generally mitigated by more granularity. In a homelab setting, there are diminishing returns. A risk assessment will determine the appropriate configuration in your environment, but in general, if the scope or severity of an incident wouldn’t be substantially lessened, it is better to accept the risk than to mitigate it.








  • Those videos aren’t made by real people telling you what it’s really like to live that way; they’re made by trustafarians and roleplayers trying to sell you an idea so you’ll keep watching their videos so you’ll keep seeing ads.

    There are many, significant drawbacks to living in a homestead, tiny house, or off-grid cabin, to the point that it’s something that isn’t even possible, and most of the time not worth the trouble, for many people simply due to zoning laws. Any channel that doesn’t address those realities is glamorizing a difficult lifestyle and not being honest about what it’s really like to live that lifestyle.




  • As long as your soil will percolate, a septic system isn’t difficult to build. You just dig a trench leading to a hole, fill the hole with plastic buckets or 55-gallon plastic drums cut up and arranged correctly, then run a correctly sloped PVC pipe to the septic tank you just built. From there, you connect to your fixtures to the drain pipe as needed.

    The difficult part is getting the tools and equipment to do all that out to your location. The bigger the tools you use, the faster and easier the work will be, the it will also be more challenging to get it in and out. Basically, a shovel is a lot easier to carry than a backhoe, but a lot less pleasant to dig with. Same deal with a reciprocating saw, battery, charger, and solar setup, versus a hacksaw.