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We were finally able to build some raised beds this year and hopefully made a good solution to finally be able to get some compost going (will probably paint the tumbler black sometime in the near future). We're experimenting with square foot gardening and it's also my first time direct sowing.
There's going to be a wide variety of plants in the beds (maybe too many things, we got excited and seeds are so cheap lol 😅). Not everything is planted yet, but I've got probably about half of the things planned planted. It's been exciting seeing the new sprouts coming in (the second pic has the spinach and breakfast radish seedling that started sprouting yesterday showing off)! Also glad all of the plants came out of last night's sudden hail storm apparently unscathed 😬 A little frustrated that it seems like all of the perlite I mixed into my soil mix seems to have all come up to the top during the rain last night, but it's going to do what it's going to do.
I wish everyone a great year of gardening!

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Getting a sense of if BTC is overvalued or undervalued can provide a lot of insights, however, there are a lot of different ways to “value” BTC, and they don’t always agree. It’s often helpful to look at different on-chain metrics, or valuation metrics, that correspond to different components of the Bitcoin ecosystem. We developed a metric we call the Metcalfe Law Discount Premium indicator (MLDP) that’s based on Robert Metcalfe’s network theory. Metcalfe’s Law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the amount of network participants. By comparing a valuation of the network in dollars (Marketcap) to a valuation based on the number of participants (from Metcalfe’s Law while accounting for lost supply, non active members etc.), the MLDP indicates if BTC is being sold at a premium, or discount.
Taking the Z score of this indicator makes it an oscillator with minimal drift in time. It oscillates with the cycles of Bitcoin, and is very useful for confirming a trend. Historically, it’s particularly good at confirming when we are exiting a market bottom (the red zones in the graph).
The last few weeks saw this indicator sitting close to a value of 0, suggesting a healthy value for the network. However, the MLDP is currently on an up trend, and typically does not undergo a reversal if it's coming from an extremely discounted (negative) value, which has been the case from the last few months. Thus, we take it as a sign of a positive outlook for BTC.

Hey folks, a little context before we begin. This is a story from the same campaign of this debacle, but this isn't necessary reading for this post!
Before we jump in, I would like to amend a small part of that prior posting; at the time, I and the other players were still part of the campaign and in-case he ever found the post, I didn't wish to come off as too harsh. However, since then, the campaign ended in a rather sudden fashion. So, to amend; as players, we didn't enjoy this game much, and players from the DM's other games had expressed some similar issues to the ones we were facing.
Right, his other games - he ran all of his games in one server, allowing the parties to interact outside of the game. This is info for later! Without further adieu, let's jump in.
We were never the Heroes of this game. We were stated to be out-of-character, and the endless onslaught of world-ending threats that were piling up on our plate would certainly lead one to believe that we were meant to save the world.
However, we discovered very quickly that this would never come to fruition. Why?
In 40 Sessions, we hadn't killed a single NPC with a name. Random monsters? Sure. However, whenever anything had a name or true planning behind it, it was untouchable. This, of course, included any enemies we were meant to defeat as part of the plot- even their unimportant henchmen were untouchable for the most part.
The DM had a self-insert NPC in all three games, a teleporting, gun-slinging charmer that could evade any sort of divination and was capable of appearing wherever he wanted to in the world. Cast a spell on him? It doesn't work. Attack him? You singed his leg hairs. Wherever we went in the world, he was there- scouting an abandoned crime bosses base? He's sat in the dark in the basement. Sneaking through town to try and get out? He's in an alleyway and calls out to us. Fighting a goblin horde attacking a town? He's on a roof, staring at us. Using Detect Magic in the wilderness? 'Gun Guy' is now behind my character, a gun to the back of his head. He wasn't a NPC particularly connected to us, as he appeared in all of the DM's games- he just liked having an in-world presence.
An enemy group(that the DM had entirely copied from an online sourcebook- not the worst thing, but he pretended that it was his original creation) that opposed us would always conveniently escape. We see one walking around, we start to run after them- they never run away but the distance between us doesn't close until they slip into a building or a sewer, and then entirely vanish.
A man had attempted to blackmail us with the life of a party member's sister, so we attempted to sneak after him. High stealth rolls, invisibility, the works. As we followed him, doors began to swing open all throughout the building as an innumerable number of armed guards appeared. This, of course, after we had scouted with a number of good checks and ensured the man was alone.
A Changeling had taken the guise of the tavernkeeper, a fact we figured out. Somehow, he knew that we knew, and he began to flee. He casts the sleep spell and rolls around a 40; that's enough to take down the Sorcerer but no-one else with the residual HP. He claims that this is a 'special' sleep spell and the 40 would target all of us. Only two of us are still standing as we were outside of the spells range, but this individual powered through all of our spells and ran 90ft+ in a turn and simply disappeared. His ally, however, remained T-Posing in the room without attacking us or fleeing. The DM narrated this and asked me 'would you like to catch him'- in response, I used a spell that would bind him. Of course, after the NPC we wanted to catch escaped with 17+ on every roll- this one 'gets' a natural one. We captured this man and attempted to interrogate him for information which, of course, garnered us nothing.
I don't mind if the DM wants certain NPC's to keep kicking for the plot, but over almost a year of games, we hadn't been allowed to defeat a single thing that wasn't simply a stat block copied from D&D Beyond with no name or care as to what the creature actually was besides 'an enemy'.However, we thought our luck was changing. The DM had promised us that we would be leaving the City next session, as he had kept us there for the better part of five months without allowing us to really do anything. Next session rolls around and, of course, another plot hook inside the city landed on our laps. However, we didn't mind, as it meant we'd have a chance to progress some kind of plotline! A crime syndicate's leader is attempting to become God- a harsh task for a level six group, but we were ready to chew into an actually planned antagonist and finally get our win!
We didn't win, and it wasn't even close.
Our characters received a vision from the aptly-titled God of Visions. It told us that this Syndicate Leader would be attacking the King's brother during an important speech- or, rather, we saw him doing it! Amazing! We know exactly when that will be, in about a week of in-game time. So, we spent around 2~ real life months, or eight sessions, in preparation for fighting him. We gather allies, we interrupt the flow of these drugs that his people were intent on using to turn themselves into mindless berserkers. Then, the day of the speech arrives, aaaand..
The crime leader doesn't turn up- neither do our allies in fact. Instead, a hastily-made Rogue appeared and attempted to attack the King's brother and was very swiftly dealt with by the group alone. We tried to capture him alive for information, and he managed to kill himself because he would 'never betray the Syndicate'. That was the last straw for us, as we had wasted months of prep-time using information from a deity, and he changed it at the last moment while claiming 'I never said he would be there' - which the vision had shown, given all six of us had made a note of it at the time.
The six of us players privately have a discussion about things, and find that we all had similar feelings on how things had been going-- the named NPC's weren't the only problems. The DM refused to kill any of us- if we failed our death saves, NPC's would come in and heal us at the last moment, even if they weren't present in the scene. He would lie about rolls quite frequently, a fact that came up since he would always refuse to show the rolls after his NPC's with supposedly low Wisdom succeeded on the sixth save in a row, and enemies would consistently get 25+ Initiative despite not actually being dextrous. These rolls were, of course, never revealed either. He would change our character's backstories on the fly- I was told that my character had attended a Magic Academy for a few years, which wasn't part of his story. Another character remembered details of their life from when they were a mere few months old that changed the entire direction of their backstory. Another player, in the end, changed their character out entirely after the DM had ruined the first beyond recognition.
Other assorted issues came up as well and we decided it would be best to speak with him. So, I write up this message, and receive this response;
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From here, the DM ghosts all of us for three days. At that time, two players(including myself) decide to bow out of the campaign. Before doing so, we write up farewells to the players in his other campaigns in our shared-chat before exiting the server. We had become friends with quite a few of them during our stay, playing games and one-shot PVP battle royales organized by us players between the groups. Not five minutes later, he has banned everyone from our group from the server and deleted our farewell messages.
While this was a disaster of a game, but it allowed us folks to meet one-another and become friends, so I'm glad it happened even if the actual game fell through.The six of us players, including those that had only joined us a few sessions prior, decided to stay together and began playing a new campaign together!

TL:DR.. need advice and have questions about upgrading my home's networking system to a future proof set up with an ass [NAS].
I have an appointment later this week for a network installation company to come out and assess what's going on at the house with what is currently set up. I want to be prepared and have my questions lined out for this guy so that I can be somewhat knowledgeable and know what I'm asking for and what I'm talking about.
What would be great is to have a future proof home network when I'm all done. Whether that is cat5e, or cat6, or cat8. I'd like to have one to two access points per room, for hooking up televisions or computers.
I have a latest and greatest multi gig Netgear modem (supporting up to 2.5 GB), and a Netgear nighthawk 6G router with a 2.5 GB port.
Somewhere in there I'd like to set up an NAS from which anyone at any of the access points could stream a movie or TV show or connect for gaming.
And I'm also trying to figure out the pros and cons of power over ethernet PoE, and if that's something that has to be set up with an electrician to supply the power to the network.
Are there special guidelines for cabling a house with power over ethernet? Is there a certain rated cable that can handle power like that? Does there need to be conduit that the cables run through through the house? From what I've read so far, PoE is the way to go in the future I want to add security cameras, etc.
Also, somewhere I want to set up my router in a central point from an access point in order to provide good Wi-Fi coverage throughout the house (approx 3750 sq'.).
I'm quite capable of doing a lot of the things myself, and I'm also sure that there's a good chunk of the work that should be done by an electrician or someone trained to do these things. Of course I'm figuring whatever labor I can do myself would save me enough money that it would allow me to upgrade to a higher quality of ethernet cable (i.e. Cat8).
I'm aware that using Cat8 could be a little bit of overkill, but I'm willing to spend an extra $500 to $1,000 for the better future-proofing.
Some thoughts and questions:
The initial line coming in from the network interface device is what, cat 3? I would like to make sure that there's no daisy chaining going on anywhere in the network.
From there, I guess the line coming into the house would ideally be hooked up to a switch? And from there would I run a Cat5-Cat8 Ethernet cable to the modem?
Currently the modem sets in the main level office. The wall panel for connections is in the wall of the upstairs closet from the bedroom.
With the initial line go from the NID to the panel upstairs, then a line to the modem in the office downstairs? And then a line from the modem back up to the panel upstairs which would hook into a 16-port switch, from which ethernet cables could be run to all the outlets through the house?
If you all have any answers to these things, please share. Also if there's any questions I'm not asking, what questions do I need to be also asking?