TedZanzibar
@TedZanzibar@feddit.uk
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 1 week ago:
First one, on the 3DO. Small selection of exotics and sports cars, realistic (for the time) point-to-point road races with no music to obscure the engine noise, and an annoyingly/amusingly sarcastic rival racer that was obviously just one of the devs.
Each car had its own showcase video followed by a detailed specs sheet with a very enthusiastic voiceover explaining why you should be excited to drive this car. Even the courses had the voiceover treatment.
It truly was a love letter to cars and driving that has never been equalled, and is very telling that it’s the only one to have had Road & Track branding. Every subsequent NFS game has been so in name only.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Better than using what? All I see is a bunch of stars.
- Comment on How do I redirect to a /path with Nginx Proxy Manager? 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s exactly what I’d done but it was insisting on trying to redirect me to the site on port 4443 for some reason.
Fixed it in the end by reverting the NPM config to default (no advanced settings) and instead using Pihole’s
VIRTUAL_HOST=pihole.mydomain.internalenvironment variable in the Docker compose file.Cheers for your help anyway!
- Comment on How do I redirect to a /path with Nginx Proxy Manager? 1 month ago:
Just tried this myself and mine does the same thing but I don’t have anything set in the custom locations tab. What did you do to resolve it?
- Comment on Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf? 1 month ago:
Yeah, OP didn’t say how long they’d been together but if it’s a new relationship after 3 years of being friends, especially if they’re young and/or there’s been lingering feelings for some time before becoming “official”, then anxiety and nervous excitement is likely to be high!
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 2 months ago:
Yeah this. Shortly before he left the church, a friend of mine’s pastor told him not to recycle because it delays the end times. These people want Armageddon and think they’re doing god’s work by hurrying it along.
- Comment on [What If?] Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun? 2 months ago:
Yeah I’d have been interested to know how long it would take to suitably warm up from the surface. I guess we’ll never know.
- Comment on xkcd #2979: Sky Alarm 2 months ago:
I have an app called Star Walk 2 that does something very similar. Notifications about cool shit happening and then helps you to look in the right direction for it, including ISS fly-bys.
- Comment on I'm at a loss on what server to buy 3 months ago:
To be fair the Synology lineup is confusing, but if you get the right model - one with a Ryzen processor and support for 32GB memory (officially; they can take more) - then you’ve got yourself a proper little workhorse with low power consumption, a stable, reliable OS, and super easy expansion thanks to the hot-swap drive bays and their Hybrid RAID option. My 8 bay model is running a couple of full-blown VMs and what must be two dozen or so docker containers while barely breaking a sweat. The DS723+ is the equivalent 2 bay model.
For things that need some acceleration like Plex and Immich I’ve added a little N100 box (a Beelink S12 Pro) with Ubuntu Server and another Docker instance, and mounted the NAS storage via SMB. This also sips power even when transcoding 4x Plex streams at once.
All of which is to say you don’t need to do a complex, potentially power hungry and difficult to expand self build to do what you want.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 3 months ago:
Neither does the BBC’s couch to 5k app, for who knows what reason.
- Comment on Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children 3 months ago:
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, making indecent images can have a wide definition in the law and can include receiving them via social media.
Edwards’s barrister Philip Evans KC told the court: “There’s no suggestion in this case that Mr Edwards has… in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.”
I suppose the facts that he a) retained some of the images, b) didn’t report having received them and c) continued talking to the man has some bearing on his charges.
- Comment on Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API 3 months ago:
This is excellent but alas I can’t get it to work in nginx-proxy-manager. Keen to see if anyone else can figure it out.
- Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back 3 months ago:
Make an offer of $0.01. Assuming the responses aren’t automated, every time they reject it, raise the offer by 1c. Keep doing it till you hit the $15 mark and then just stop. It could waste literal years of their time.
- Comment on Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options? 5 months ago:
Very useful insights, thanks.
I do currently have external stuff running via a Cloudflare tunnel (which is why I need DNS based LE certs for the internal proxy) but I don’t know if it’s setup correctly (beyond doing basic reverse proxying) and the admin backend for it feels like massive overkill for a home setup. Plus with Immich I run into the issue of a) dire warnings about it being in active dev and potentially insecure and b) filesize limits making away-from-home backups difficult.
I could well be over thinking the whole thing.
- Comment on Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options? 5 months ago:
Yeah I’m running a Cloudflare tunnel for external access (which is why I need DNS based LE certs), but that’s another thing that I don’t really know what it’s doing beyond basic reverse proxying.
I have a country-based whitelist for where my Immich instance can be accessed from but I find the Zero Trust admin backend to be massive overkill for my needs, and it doesn’t help that they’ve recently moved everything around so none of the guides out there point to the right places anymore!
- Comment on Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options? 5 months ago:
Ah, that’s useful thanks!
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- Comment on Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade 5 months ago:
it will either be underpowered or power hungry.
Or both!
- Comment on Vermont just passed a 100% renewable electricity mandate 6 months ago:
I read that as “Voldemort” and was both confused and impressed.
- Comment on XPipe 9 comes with VNC, RDP, and SSH X11 support, a better SSH integration, terminal improvements, and many bug fixes 6 months ago:
This looks neat, will definitely give it a go, cheers!
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 6 months ago:
I just recently put in an N100 mini PC to run as a Plex server. Cost me about £160, pulls all of 6W when idle, and it doesn’t break a sweat when transcoding no matter what I throw at it. As a media server I can’t recommend them highly enough.
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 6 months ago:
Very little. I have enough redundancy through regular snapshots and offsite backups that I’m confident enough to let Watchtower auto-update most of my containers once a week - the exceptions being pihole and Home Assistant. Pihole gets very few updates anyway, and I tend to skip the mid-month Home Assistant updates so that’s just a once a month thing to check for breaking changes before pushing the button.
Meanwhile my servers’ host OSes are stable LTS distros that require very little maintenance in and of themselves.
Ultimately I like to tinker, but once I’m done tinkering I want things to just work with very little input from me.
- Comment on My take on selfhosted photo management 8 months ago:
It’s decent with some caveats.
My use case is to have a shared backup repository with my wife. I could’ve (should’ve) used a shared account but I set us both up with individual accounts and used the library sharing feature as that seemed to be the “correct” way to do it. Except that face and other useful data isn’t shared between libraries so it works very differently to how Syno Photos works when uploading directly to a shared space.
The app also doesn’t have separate settings for internal and external URLs, so while I use cloudflare tunnels for most things and call it a day, the data limits they impose meant that I had to setup a reverse proxy internally to make it work over HTTPS while on my home WiFi.
Development is moving at a hell of a pace though, so I’d be surprised if these things weren’t fixed in short order. Meanwhile automatic backups have been working flawlessly.
- Comment on My take on selfhosted photo management 8 months ago:
Maybe it’s just something funky with my setup (using 2FA maybe?) but I never could figure it out. I’ve since switched to Immich anyway, was just curious if it affected anyone else!
- Comment on My take on selfhosted photo management 8 months ago:
I really liked Synology Photos except for the fact that the mobile app would log itself out, presumably after a fixed time, and neglect to tell me that my photos were no longer being backed up as a result. It was infuriating and I couldn’t find a fix so I had to ditch it.
Presumably you don’t have that issue?
- Comment on Public domain and self-sealing 10 months ago:
Remind me? I have a vague recollection of it being a series of ever more bizarre trades but nothing beyond that.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yes, I always called them catapults as a kid and I guess it stuck!
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I don’t know if this counts but I was always disappointed that real life pea shooters and water pistols were nothing like their comic representations, that worked like machine guns and hoses respectively. I suppose the closest we ever got was the Super Soaker.
Oh, and I’ve never seen a catapult made from a Y shaped stick.
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 10 months ago:
I didn’t say you’re wrong, I said you’re not wrong. My point was that it’s easy for us who are already used to home charging to preach about how cheap and easy it is, but it flies over the heads of the average joe who seem to only think about it in terms of the public infrastructure - like petrol stations.
Hence, ignoring or downplaying the price of public charging because, in reality, it’s a rare occurrence to actually need them does nothing to convince non-EV drivers to switch.
That was what I was getting at, but ultimately we’re in agreement. If you’re able to charge at home it’s super cheap and super convenient, but the cost of public charging needs to come down drastically if we’re going to convince ICE drivers to make the switch.
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 10 months ago:
I mean you’re not wrong but at the same time it’s foolish to write off the cost of public charging as a non-issue. People who are used to having to drive somewhere to fill up with fossil fuels are already wary of charging times and charger availability, so the fact that it currently costs more than petrol is another reason for them to just buy another new combustion car while they’re still available.
We went electric a smidge under 5 years ago and in that time the cost of a rapid charge has more than doubled. If that had happened to petrol or diesel there would’ve been riots in the streets!
It’s a ridiculous state of affairs but nothing’s likely to change while the government is beholden to the oil industry. This is exactly what they want.