Bristlerock

@Bristlerock@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just finished wiring the garage to the house - and find that the wire is damaged! Now what?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Searched "tdr" before replying, and was inexplicably happy. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you agree to algorithm-generated timelines if there were sufficient tools to check whether the timeline on an instance work as promised?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have zero problem with curated or algorithmic timelines. I have a 100% problem when there isn't a chronology timeline option.

  It's simple really: give me the permanent option of chronological with dark pattern fuckery of having to reset it periodically, or fuck off forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How safe is Bitwarden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a good question. A vault is only as strong as the credentials required to access it.

  Bitwarden does have MFA support, though. If you're using it without that enabled, you're asking for trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I be aware of something when buying a TV?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, I have an LG LED smart TV (2xHDMI, 1xDVB-S2, WiFi, NIC, etc) and it's only been connected to my network once, for a post-purchase firmware update through my AdGuard Home. WiFi and Ethernet is disabled, and I use it with my Nvidia ShieldTV (Plex*, Netflix, ChromeCast, etc).

  I won't let it go online as I expect it already phones home if you let it, and don't imagine LG will be able to resist ad injection into content, like Samsung and others do. So it's an excellent quality dumb TV, which meets my needs perfectly.

  *Plex Media Server runs on my NAS. The Shield and my mobile devices are Plex clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you exposing any ports on your home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exposed is the right term. Other than my Wireguard VPN port, everything I have exposed is HTTPS behind Authelia MFA and SWAG.

  I'm tempted to switch Wireguard for Tailscale, as the level of logging with WG has always bothered me. Maybe one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the current recommendation for a simple home NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When my old NetGear ReadyNAS Duo (2 bays, SPARC, 100Mb NIC) was reaching its EOL I looked into a purpose built server, a mini of some kind (NUC, etc), or a standard QNAP or Synology NAS. Eventually settled on a Synology DS 920+ (4 bays, x86_64, 1Gb NIC).

  It's been rock solid and amazing value for the 2.5 years I've had it. It's running the majority of my Docker containers, Plex Media Server, a Linux VM, and a few other things. It also has its own shell/CLI, which is useful. I don't use Synology's "phone home"/remote access stuff, but Synology Drive and Synology Photos are great - they provide the equivalents of Dropbox and Google Photos respectively, and it works across Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android (via VPN when outside the house). No regrets at all.