Looks great, thanks for the write up!

Racknerd.com has their Black Friday deals page still active and I've had good experience with their shared hosting and support!

This is cool, thanks for sharing. I saw your pugs piece, very cool! Are you using it make jigs or forms too?

This person is trying to create a self hosting team to work with hosting fedi services, might be a good fit: https://wirebase.org/post/23321

Left a comment there pointing here.

Yeah, great call on having nice things that will actually work and last. Just a bit of sticker shock not directed at you. Hope the patio brings you years of joy!

Not what you're asking for and others have provided a lot of options... but if you still want to support authors and get DRM-free audio books, check out https://libro.fm. It works like Audibe credits and easy to pause and resume membership (more cost effective than buying books retail and you can buy extra credits). They also support a local brick and mortar book store of your choice with your purchase.

Looks great OP, very clean! Did you angle the backrest at all or is it all square?

Definitely a reality check about pillow prices! Especially with outdoor pillows I imagined that the fabric would be pricey but not $750 pricey.

An used Pixel 6 is probably the best bang for your buck. I got lucky and found one for $185 in good condition on backmarket.com. I've also bought used phones from swappa.com and have had a great experience.

That's amazing!! This stuff always breaks my brain, I can barely cut a 2x4 square.

Hi, I'm your designated cider taster, please let me know where I pick up my growler! Looks awesome, cheers!

I also think that comment trees are much easier to follow than forum posts. The way Lemmy is right now is pretty great: communities (sub-topics) with threads (posts) which can be sorted but with comment trees that aren't sorted based on "algo"/votes.