tburkhol

@tburkhol@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simplify home hardware for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used a retired desktop for my home server since 1999. It doesn’t have the fancy web-UI management of commercial NAS, but I’m comfortable with command line and config files.

  At some point, I realized I could use its wifi card and hostapd to replace my WAP. That was a bit of an adventure initially finding a card that really supports AP mode and setting up hostapd, but has now allowed me to migrate from 802.11g to n to ac much cheaper than buying whole new devices,

  Recently converted to an N100 with 4x ethernet ports, which let me unplug my little 5-port switch.

  Managing this doesn’t feel like a second job: it’s stable and just works. Automatic updates, with kernel blacklisted; periodically log in, update kernel & reboot. It does give me the opportunity, when I get inspired, for a weekend project, like adding hostapd or a new service, either via docker or bare metal. I like that I have one device doing “NAS,” WAP, and router jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That drive averages 900 hours between power cycles? In Windows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of those 45+ are in two-earner households. They might be ok independent of each other, but not at the same level. Then the whole retiree population…is someone on social security ‘financially supporting themself?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of my pet peeves with containerized services, like why would I want to run three or four instances of mariadb? I get it, from the perspective of the packagers, who want a ‘just works’ solution to distribute, but if I’m trying to run simple services on a 4 GB RPi or a 2 GB VPS, then replicating dbs makes a difference. It took a while, but I did, eventually, get those dockers configured to use a single db backend, but I feel like that completely negated the ‘easy to set up and maintain’ rationale for containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that tech management & executive culture has learned & become accustomed to exploit the mental health of their employees. Software and tech are stereotypically jobs well suited to neurodiversity and ADHD, and those people are prone to hyperfocus & long hours and may benefit from tight timelines. If management just gets used to recruiting for autism/adhd, then develops management strategies that work well with that population, it’s going to be difficult as the field matures and attracts more neurotypical people.

  I used to tell my mentees that no one was going to explicitly tell them that 10, 12, 14 hour days were mandatory. That long hours were not a metric for success. It was that they would be competing for jobs with people who really did want their life to be their job and would happily spend that much time working, because that’s all they want to do. It’s only when the pool of available jobs grows beyond the number of those obsessive workaholics that they have to start hiring people who have any interest in work-life balance or collective bargaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spawning my own enclave of ‘glitter bat’ users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will accept either intelligence or stupidity. They will pay for a flattering sycophant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting out with Selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The services you’ve mentioned are all pretty low compute impact, just bandwidth, so I’d expect your MBP to be fine. Transcoding for jellyfin is the only real wildcard, and that depends on your media and client setups. I run pihole, homeassistant, immich, and kodi on a raspberry pi 4 with plenty of overhead for more services. NAS is nice if your library outgrows a single disk and your storage bandwidth gets choked by USB multiplexing.

  My suggestion is to consider a cheap VPS and vanity domain for external access. Domains cheap as $5/year; fair VPSs cheap as $30/year. Use SSH to forward localhost ports on the VPS to container ports on the MBP, then nginx on thee VPS to reverse-proxy to those forwarded ports. You get unique names for every service, LetsEncrypt certificates, and an offsite location for critical backups. Make sure you are the one paying for VPS & DNS so they don’t get surprise-cancelled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was worth $80 to a few pre-orderers, but not enough for the market analysts to project a profitable launch.

  In monopoly capitalism, the prices are all made up numbers, especially for digital goods, with very little to do with what they cost. If they don’t get enough preorders at $70, they’ll either drop it to $60 or cancel it altogether to maintain “$70 market conditions.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨set up local DNS using Pi-hole + nginx + audiobookshelf⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Second not using local.com If OP doesn’t want a real domain, use an unresolvable TLD, like “private” (so, pihole.private, audiobookshelf.private), but a real domain will just work better, will let them use real TLS certs, and prevent problems from apps bypassing system DNS. Even if it’s not as pretty or memorable as the hijacked domain name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spent my entire career so far working with bosses that tell me I’m family, but treat me like dirt and discard me at the very first sign of an economic downturn.

  They say ‘family’ hoping you’ll think Ward & June Cleaver, but there’s a lot of families out there I want nothing to do with. Come in drunk & beat the shit out of the partner. Lose the rent money on DraftKings. Little hanky-panky with the kid. When the boss wants to be family, that’s what you should think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I feel like their “close friends” in 1990 were probably just the guys at the Lodge or the bowling league. I’m not sure those relationships are any deeper than the parasocial relationships we form online. Just a bunch of guys with nothing else to do on Wednesday nights, so they just go down to some social club and roleplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law only gets you compensation after the abuse and destruction ends. If anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think my server might nit be a fan of the upcoming heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My Pi spends all of its time around 55°C in a 20-25°C room. Main server idles at 47°C. Those aren’t worrying temps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer ‘smart lock.’ Half of them can be opened with a magnet. Maybe commercial grade is better, but I’ve been locked out of my job after every power failure for the last 10 years, until someone comes along with a physical key.

  Re homeassistant on a Pi: homeassistant does a lot of database transactions, so you may want to have db storage on something other than an SD card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t really have taxes at that income level. In the US, ACA pays full insurancne premium (currently, that will change if the billionaire tax cut passes), and ‘wellness checkups’ are $0 out-of-pocket by law. Most of my dinner recipes are around $2.50/serving at 900 calories. I’m able to walk most places I go, but car insurance is $100/month. Don’t feel like dating, raising kids, or making big vacations. I average something around $7-800/month on ‘entertainment’ like video games & hobby materials, which leaves $300-400 savings. $350/month is 10%, which is around 2x the US average savings rate (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT). Savings for emergencies like insurance deductible and for retirement.

  But that’s my point: my housing probably isn’t everyone’s idea of ‘comfortable,’ my diet is pretty carb-heavy and probably not everyone’s idea of ‘comfortable.’ I like it, though. It feels comfortable to me; I don’t consciously restrict any of my spending - all the numbers I’ve given you are post hoc analysis. I’ve been doing it for a decade.

  I don’t dispute people feeling like they need $150k to live comfortably. Lots of people want kids. Lots of people want to take a nice vacation time-to-time. There’s a massive propaganda machine out there trying to convince everyone that they need just a little more than they have right now to feel good about themselves, and I believe that propaganda starts wearing thin by the time you get to $150k, $200k. They’ve got to live their life; I can only live mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I said: “Comfortable” depends on feelings. Once you know what feels comfortable, then you can quantify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, then I can say that $40k is definitely “comfortable.” That’s $1500 rent, $300/month food, another $200 gas/elec/internet, a thousand left over for odds & ends and another couple hundred saved.

  Pretty much my budget in a MCOL major metro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t define “comfortably” without feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVE Frontier Goes Public Today with Founder Access: New Era⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep trying to find new ways to monetize the Eve lore, but no one plays Eve for the lore. And the people who are into Eve’s unique kind of economy-battle simulator don’t seem like they’re particularly interested in first-person-view type alternatives. I suspect it will dribble about for a while, then go the way of Dust 514 and Valkyrie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can only spin drives down if they’re idle. If you have a service that touches it - say, homeassistant logging data, tvheadend updating EPG - then they’re going to keep spinning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched from an I3-530, nominal TDP 73W, to an N-100, nominal TDP 7W, and power from the wall didn’t change at all. Even the i3 ran around 0.1 CPU load, except when transcoding, and I’m left with the impression that most of the power goes into HDDs, RAM, maybe fans, and PS losses. My sense is that the best way to decrease homelab power use is to minimize the number of devices. Start with your seyrver at 60W, add a WAP at 10-15W, maybe a switch at 10-15W… Not because of the CPUs, necessarily, but because every CPU every CPU comes with systems to keep the CPU going, keep the power regulated, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The american crypto mafia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from a Molly White doot. I don’t see it on her website www.citationneeded.news but she’s definitely been all over Trump’s crypto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason for his post was that a provider shut down his access on the accusation of CSAM, without (according to him) much if any investigation. Cloud providers have all manner of automated systems for reporting CSAM, copyright, and other potential abuses, and generally seem to take a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach. They may or may not even be responsive to defense or explanation. Colo isolates you from abuse of those systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ISP seems to use just normal DHCP for assigning addresses and honors re-use requests. The only times my IP addresses have changed has been I’ve changed the MAC or UUID that connects. I’ve been off-line for a week, come back, and been given the same address. Both IPv4 and v6.

  If one really wants their home systems to be publicly accessible, it’s easy enough to get a cheap vanity domain and point it at whatever address. rDNS won’t work, which would probably interfere with email, but most services don’t really need it. It’s a bit more complicated to detect when your IP changes and script a DNS update, but certainly do-able, if (like OP) one is hell bent on avoiding any off-site hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Daniel Stenberg claims that the curl bug reporting system is effectively DDOSed by AI wrongly reporting various issues. Doesn’t seem like a good feature in a code auditor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I, for one, would rather just see them use a couple of 2/0 AWG welding cables, bolted onto a 5mm copper plate on the board. If you need 200 amps, make it look like 200 amps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS input load⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The UPS needs some power to keep its batteries full. Could be that it’s triggering off some threshold to do a charge cycle instead of just running a constant trickle. I’ve noticed that my laptop and phone charge that way, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …hanging from their cables…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on what your data is and how hard it would be to recreate. I keep a spare HD in a $40/year bank box & rotate it every 3 months. Most of the content is media - pictures, movies, music. Financial records would be annoying to recreate, but if there’s a big enough disaster to force me to go to the off-site backups, I think that’ll be the least of my troubles. Some data logging has a replica database on a VPS.

  My upload speed is terrible, so I don’t want to put a media library in the cloud. If I did any important daily content creation, I’d probably keep that mirrored offsite with rsync, but I feel like the spirit of an offsite backup is offline and asynchronous, so things like ransomware don’t destroy your backups, too.