TedZanzibar

@TedZanzibar@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know that, though unless we’ve got a real dodgy doctor somewhere I doubt the entire town has a prescription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes I forgot about Canada. I tried to be unambiguous but I am in the UK, and I just meant that the people in my town seem to believe that since the laws have largely changed over there then that somehow also applies to us. Everybody’s so blasé about using it and the cops don’t care so we should just tax the stuff already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody in my town seems to think it’s legal ever since most of the US legalised it. The smell of weed is everywhere and I’ve seen numerous people casually smoke it in the street. The police don’t seem to care, so they may as well just make it official and start reaping the tax benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Confidential CPU?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work at a games studio that would get these delivered fairly regularly, usually paired with a particular motherboard and presumably a custom BIOS.

  I think we were technically supposed to return them but the manufacturers never enforced it, so once the chip was actually released to the public - and assuming the sample was stable enough for general use - the PC would rotate into normal stock and eventually get sold for cheap to staff or end up in the spare parts bin.

  While it was cool at first to get pre-production chips before anyone else, it became pretty mundane and I’m not at all surprised to see them out in the wild decades later. Interesting piece of history though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it !⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My workplace ran off DL360s (the 1U variant of this) of various generations for 20 or 30 years. I remember getting the first G5 in and being really impressed by the way the components all slotted in so easily and pretty much everything was hot-swappable. And the no-nut rail system was a revalation.

  They were great systems for their time but that power consumption is crazy by today’s standards!

  As for feedback, you have a very confusing sentence about 2.5" and 3.5" drives being the same size. Took me far too long to realise you meant capacity and not physical dimensions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One fine day at the bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, do people actually say that as “is bin” rather than “eye ess bee en”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a PSA for anybody reading the thread, though it doesn’t really help with the question at hand… On the very slim chance that your workplace uses Bitwarden Enterprise it’s worth knowing that every licensed user gets a free family plan that can be tied to an existing personal account, provided it’s hosted in the same region.

  We do use it but very few of our own users are even aware of the perk so I like to spread it around when I get the chance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an 8 bay unit with six drives that are a mix of WD Red and Seagate Ironwolf, all NAS grade drives, basically. The other two slots have SSDs for hosting the aforementioned containers and VMs.

  The largest drives I have are 4TB though, so maybe the larger capacity ones are louder? I also ran the fan profile in whatever the quietest setting is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a tech oriented person, I work in IT, and a Syno ticks the boxes in many respects.

  • Low power draw. Power efficiency is very important to me, especially for something that runs 24/7. I don’t know how efficient self-build options are these days, but 10 years ago I couldn’t get close to the efficiency of a good NAS.

  • Set and forget. I maintain enough systems at work so I don’t really want to spend all of my free time maintaining my own. A Syno “just works”, it can run for months or years without a reboot (and when it does need one, it does it by itself overnight), and I can easily upgrade or swap a dead drive in a couple of minutes. When the entire NAS dies I can stick the drives in a new one and be up and running almost instantly.

  • Size and noise. I don’t have a massive house, so I need something that can sit on a shelf and be unobtrusive. In our last house it was literally sat in the living room, spinning drives constantly, and nobody was bothered by it.

  The Syno I have is plenty good enough to run a bunch of Docker containers and a few VMs for all of my self hosted stuff, and it just does the job efficiently, quietly, and without complaining or needing constant maintenance.

  I don’t like this creep towards requiring branded drives and memory, though I’m pretty sure it’s not legal in the EU. Regardless there are ways around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you own a domain, which you do, you can get wildcard certs from Let’s Encrypt using a DNS challenge. Most (all?) popular reverse proxies can do this either natively or via an addon/module, you just need to use a supported DNS provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to scroll way too far to find this. For Karl!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Libraries were simple enough, sure, but have you delved into the full settings? Trying to figure out the correct settings for QuickSync hardware acceleration was a mission in and of itself and there’s very little guidance on what any of the options mean or do. I don’t have the container running right now or I’d provide examples, but In Plex it’s a single checkbox.

  I’m sure Jellyfin will get there and it’s a cool project, but it’s fairly obvious that it’s written by hobbyists, for hobbyists. Meanwhile Plex excels at just working straight out of the box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the rest of the thread I’m going to get downvoted for this, but what the hell:

  I’m sure I’ll switch to Jellyfin eventually but I tried it out a few weeks ago to see what all the hype was about and it just… wasn’t great. It was difficult to setup, with way too many overly-complicated settings, and then it refused to play one of the two test files I tried. Like it or not there’s a reason that Plex is the dominant player in the game, and a large part of that reason is that it verges on plug-and-play for simplicity of both setup and use.

  Yes, it sucks that they’re removing remote streaming for free users, but I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies for their streams (which happens entirely in the background), and those aren’t going to be cheap to run. Maybe putting them behind a paywall will provide the resources to make them faster.

  I did buy a lifetime pass last time they announced a price hike; it’s honestly paid for itself many times over, and I’ve been encouraging other users I know to do the same before this next one, because yes, it is a significant hike this time around. That said, while I wouldn’t pay monthly for it, I do still feel like the lifetime pass is tremendous value for such a polished product. It’s a shame they’ve had to do it at all, but I don’t begrudge them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HACS installs community integrations whereas addons are like external programs that hook in HA. You can do the same thing with HA in Docker by installing the addon containers separately and then hooking them in manually but HA OS makes it much simpler.

  For example I’m running the Mosquitto broker, Z2M, a Visual Studio Code server, diyhue, and Music Assistant as addons.

  Docco page about it is here: www.home-assistant.io/addons/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to give Home Assistant a try like others are suggesting, save yourself some time and hassle and install Home Assistant OS in a virtual machine. While you absolutely can run it in Docker you lose out on some neat quality of life improvements like add ons (which, funnily enough, are Docker containers pre-configured to hook in HA).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. Also it annoys me that Namecheap tries to automatically “top up funds” over a month before renewals are due. I think they’ve always done it but it wound me up enough this year to move to Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, everything that’s already been said, except that I specifically chose an off-the-shelf Synology NAS with Docker support to run my core setup for this exact reason. It needs a reboot maybe once or twice a year for critical updates but is otherwise rock solid.

  I have since added a small N100 box for things that need a little extra grunt (Plex mainly) but I run Ubuntu Server LTS with Docker on that and do maintenance on it about as often as I reboot the NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it doesn’t have an arrow then the correct side is denoted by whether the fuel icon itself has the hose on the left or right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.internal environment variable in the Docker compose file.

  Cheers for your help anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I redirect to a /path with Nginx Proxy Manager?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!