You could also go to any point in time where you were already of the age of majority and purchase a large winning lottery ticket the drawing before our present history indicates that it won.
That would get you plenty of money and then being a rich lottery winner and purchasing a million dollars worth of Apple computer or something I would not be that particularly noteworthy.
Just go and spend the rest of the 10 or 12 million dollars that you have living conspicuously and wait out the 20 or 30 years until that initial million dollar investment makes you nearly a trillionaire.
It's not so much the fire in Alexandria that you have to worry about although that is what is remembered, it's the people who are setting fire to the library of Alexandria that you have to worry about. A single fire extinguisher won't necessarily stop people from killing you and then burning everything down anyway.
My suggestion would be to also include a machine gun and a couple of hundred rounds of ammo so that you can kill them first and stop the fire from ever being started in the first place.
I probably go to the late 1400s American east coast, wherever it was that Columbus landed and bring a couple of machine guns and a few grenades and claymores alongside an electric ATV and tow cart filled with a solar power recharging station, a shit ton of medical equipment, food, and hardy seeds.
That bastard Columbus would not survive setting foot on this soil, and his failure to return from his world-changing exploration mission would delay European expansion at least for the remainder of my life likely.
I would then make the mid country journey to my home tribe and use the information and technology that I brought with me to accelerate their advancement and development so that whenever the Europeans finally made landfall, assuming I didn't break down or get killed in the process they would encounter a developed society fully prepared to fight a home team advantage war against them.
Find a job you're interested in and then tell them that you have the experience needed to do that job. Make shit up if you have to. Get the job and then learn how to do it as you go.
I'm probably going to get down voted for this. I don't fucking care. It's the truth. If you're telling recruiters the absolute Rock solid truth then you're giving them all of the cards and they are going to try to get you to underbid your abilities and skills but if you'll put the effort in and just reach a little bit you'll be fine.
Like, I wouldn't say apply to be a doctor when you don't have a medical degree or anything but apply for that senior position when you only have a Junior's skill. Go for executive vice administrator or senior associate programmer or sysdmin Ii or whatever the fuck is a step above your actual capabilities and then do your God damnedest to grow into the role in the first six to eight weeks of the job and more than likely you'll be fine.
Back in the day I did very similar and it has worked out swimmingly for me and I believe you're a smart person and that you're capable and that you can succeed if you're given the opportunity and if you have to lie to get your foot in the door then fucking lie and go for it, and once they let you in turn that fucking lie into the goddamned truth.
My dad had the same issue when my mom became pregnant with me.
I don't think it was quite as severe as yours but long after the fact he looked back on it as something funny that happened.
Thank you for sharing this information to people and talking about it and bringing awareness of it to light.
I understand a tiny little bit of how you feel and all I can say is my dad afterwards was able to get his weight mostly back under control and absolute worst case you can always consider getting some liposuction to tame it.
Per user costs for a website is on the number of pennies a month and most of that is for electricity.
I can plug in a $750 second-hand server with a xeon processor, 40 TB of storage and 128gb of ram and easily serve all of the needs of several thousand users on essentially any website type for $1.50 a day.
Sure, if you throw in video and a lot of bandwidth then the number would go up, but for pictures and text and website interaction on the par of bluesky or twitter or mbin sans hosted video it would work very well.
If I reached the point where I needed to expand for the raw processing I can just throw another $1,000 and $45/month in electricity at it and double how much I can handle.
Computers are stupid cheap. Internet services are stupid cheap. Asking for more than a dollar a person per month for anything that doesn't have licensing fees on it (like tv/movies) or very high bandwidth usage (like YouTube) is a greedy rip off.
That being said, at those prices I would not make anything for running the service, and that also would not cover additional development costs for any new features that needed to be added, but even so, unless your goal is to disenfranchise users you should not charge more than a buck a month or hell, $10 a year per person for all of their access to your service.
The maintainer Ernest had some life issues come up and he was not able to maintain it anymore. When it hit a snag he just did not have the energy left to keep it going.
This information is third or fourth hand so there may be something else going on that I'm not aware of but that's what I was told.
I tend to remember what I need when I need it, to the point where it's creeped out my friends.
In high school I was talking to my friend and over the phone I hear his dad asking where his favorite cup is and I remember that 2 weeks prior when I was over I briefly saw it in the top left cabinet over their stove, so I told him.
It was still there.
Kind of bit me in the butt though because his dad became uncomfortable and didn't let him invite me over anymore, lol.
We don't choose not to speak ill of the dead because we're going to like offend the Dead or that we're going to invoke some sort of spiritual curse on ourselves.
We choose not to speak ill of the Dead so that the people who still miss them and love them and care for them won't live in a world where the people that they care about are being slandered.
It just saves everybody a whole lot of grief if you let the dead be the dead and move on.
Sure, if you have a personal grudge against the person then that's a different story but if you did not ever interact with that person and they are a bad person then just let them be dead and let them fuck off into non-existence.
You could also go to any point in time where you were already of the age of majority and purchase a large winning lottery ticket the drawing before our present history indicates that it won.
That would get you plenty of money and then being a rich lottery winner and purchasing a million dollars worth of Apple computer or something I would not be that particularly noteworthy.
Just go and spend the rest of the 10 or 12 million dollars that you have living conspicuously and wait out the 20 or 30 years until that initial million dollar investment makes you nearly a trillionaire.