i think my mother was much more concerned about all the ways I could potentially embarrass her than she was about doing what was right for me, and that wasn't her fault or anything but looking back it's how it was
I think the most life-changing conversation my dad and I ever had was when I was 16, and he explained to me when to hit the stink and when not to. And if she's complaining too much about not going hard enough you stick your thumb in to shut her up.
he's a pretty funny guy though, I love going out with him to dinner and stuff, he just wasn't there to raise me, and I think I'm pretty okay now.
I think my problem was my mom just let me do whatever. The only time she told me not to do something was if it was severe consequence that wasn't just "it's better for them to learn the hard way". Like getting electrocuted or kidnapped.
ah damn, looks like AWS does support the pSQL thing I need, but they charge something weird by the hour, and according to the dev of that software it'll rack up the bill pretty high pretty fast.
He did give me some links to other hosts though, should only come out to about 10 or $20/month for something stable.
the linux kernel is a fucking leviathan now, back in the days of 2.4 you could compile it in 10 minutes, you can't do that now unless you have ... a lot more cores than I have available