the pi’s serving me very well for now, load average at idle 0.01 and when doing stuff it hovers at around 50, temps under 40°C even under load and an extremely low noise level (not to mention the almost non-existent power draw)

if one day I decide to go full homelab with proxmox and stuff i might buy a dedicated tower but I don’t see the appeal atm

docker-ify everything, my nginx, nextcloud, pihole, jellyfin, and basically everything else is a nightmare and I can’t even begin to understand how to modify the shit that 2023 me did 2023 chatgpt spat out, so having everything in some neat docker composes is gonna help immensly

also making the Pi that everything’s hosted on boot of an SSD instead of a cheap chinese SD card, but that requires money and I’m all out

Double it and give it to the next person

Iodine is readily available at every drug store in liquid form.

You’re referring to a solution of elemental iodine in water of about 5% (or more likely, iodine-povidone, as the iodine alone doesn’t like being dissolved in water) that is used for disinfection

The iodide (IDE, not INE) tablets, where the iodine is in it’s ionized form (I^- , usually with potassium as the cation K⁺) are what you want for radiation treatment, you take them orally and the dosage is in the milligrams, much lower then the iodine solutions.

The solution also doesn’t absorb at all through the skin, but you don’t see the iodine anymore because it vaporizes rather quickly

they also would never add that funny phrase " this is not a drill"

meh, radiations not yummy, but you would be safe from immediate danger

we’re in the same boat, but it does the job and stays under 45°C even under load, so I’m not complaining