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- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 5 hours ago:
“Easier“, no. Not for the average person on the street.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve built several NAS over the years (dropped OMV for just Arch and the packages I want) and loaded OpenWRT (etc) on routers
But, building my own NAS, servicing my own car, repairing my own house, felling my own trees, at some point I’ll just lack knowledge and buy something simple / pay someone to do it… and that’s where cheap consumer electronics fits (unfortunately)
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 1 day ago:
I love to see professionals in action.
That’s craft(wo)manship right there.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 1 day ago:
Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond… I don’t have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 2 days ago:
It’s just not quite yellow enough, esp. on 1 side where’s it’s been too close to a window… otherwise, yeah, bring back beige
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 days ago:
Just a casual bystander with no clue what’s going on… why’s change.org a problem?
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 days ago:
I’ve done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power…
But… automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there’s a random issue where HA doesn’t see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%… to turn the power back on again 😉
- Comment on TTeck (Proxmox Helper Scripts) has passed away. R.I.P. 5 days ago:
It’s so sad when we all find these critical components are maintained by someone we’d just pass in the street… and then they’re gone.
Lovely to see the contributions on ko-fi
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 6 days ago:
I never even had an account…
- Comment on Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" 2 weeks ago:
Good point about the default video source. I had to use “hotel mode” on 1 TV to get that to work… I’ll check what this one does
thanks
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
Wha?! I didn’t know this was happening… Damn, that was my solution to multiple applications
- Comment on Follow up on supporting Immich announcement - change of wording 3 months ago:
I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.
Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.
- Comment on Application like Simple Booth 4 months ago:
What kinda thing are you thinking of? An actual photobooth kinda box?
You could usr an Android tablet, install Open Camera (from F-Droid) and that has the ability to take (for example) 4 photos with a 10 sec delay… videos too…
Then use syncthing to copy those photos to something else (your phone, a NAS, etc) before it gets trashed / accidentally wiped, etc…
- Comment on Monolithic setup vs dedicated devices 4 months ago:
This is the way.
There’s nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it’s a VM / container running inside a server that can’t start because it doesn’t have an IP address and you can’t resolve names to get the thing started.
Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.
I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.
I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there’s no internet, for example)
Then I have everything else in a single server.
Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 4 months ago:
Yes, because the CLI command is
poweroff, so I do agree with you 🙂(Please Wait… comments about alternative CLI commands will arrive soon…)
- Comment on Is Backblaze a reliable provider? 4 months ago:
Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.
- Comment on Is Backblaze a reliable provider? 4 months ago:
No, you can jusy restore to a second location…it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.
I prefer backing up specific folders rather than “everything”, so it’s easier to test. (I’d just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)
Let’s say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it’s been accidentally deleted… then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.
- Comment on Is Backblaze a reliable provider? 4 months ago:
I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)
That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
:) you don’t have to use containers, but they do simplify the install.
I don’t use containers.
There’s also no Setup.exe to download run where you just Next, Next, Finish.
So, instead, I have to install separate packages, configure them, deal with conflicting requirements, etc…
Did I have to learn Docker? No. Did I have to learn something else? Yes.
As someone else mentioned, spending some time learning what / how / why you’re doing will help massively later on. Probably why you’re getting Docker answers, they’re auto-suggesting it to start you off with something simpler…
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Yeah, good summary - I’m not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we’re not really channel hopping either.
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend…
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Glad we helped you :)
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?
I’m lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Ah, ok, you’re a bit of a contributor… I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)
TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.
And yeah, Myth’s not ideal for external streaming…
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I was kinda thinking about a combined Myth Backend / *arr box and then see whether Myth Frontend or Jellyfin worked “better” (for my use case)… just need a spare weekend to try it all out.
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
That’s me… Jedi Advert Avoider
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Yep, still alive 🙂
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Not heard of Tablo… I’ll take a look
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Yeah, now it’s charity shops… walk in, pay almost nothing, rip the disk, take ot to another charity shop.
Better business model than Blockbuster 😉
- Comment on Any MythTV Users Here? 4 months ago:
Yeah, Myth’s built-in internet browser is pretty dire - I have a 2nd virtual desktop to open a browser if I want to watch something via the internet, but I don’t bother with Netflix, etc…