thirdBreakfast
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- Comment on How to get a phone notification if my VPS goes offline? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for Uptime Kuma, I use it with ntfy. If OP doesn’t want a self hosted solution, there’s UptimeRobot - essentially SAAS Uptime Kuma, but with a free tier.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 2 weeks ago:
This. When your mass is so small, you live in a very different world than we do - momentum and gravity are tiny forces on you, but others such as air resistance and static are huge. Additionally they don’t have the sort of inner-ear positioning system we do - so no real sense of “up” and “down” that would be recognizable to us - so probably the inevitable tumbling motion as you are sucked out of the window would not be disorientating to the fly the way it would be to a big animal.
So the answer is they will likely be fine. From their point of view the blob of air they are flying around in gets sucked out the window and they are just traveling in it. I imagine they would notice the acceleration, but it’s a tiny force on them. The sudden distortion to the block of air (being stretched out to fill the sudden low pressure zone outside of the car window) would be a big deal to the fly, but I don’t think enough to damage them.
Source: idle speculation, and a long standing interest in cats surviving huge falls.
- Comment on It would be crazy if someone died of a heart attack while crowd surfing and hundreds of people just unwittingly pushed a corpse around. 3 weeks ago:
Coming soon to self-driving cars: Grandad comes to visit from Kansas, but he’s been dead for five hours.
- Comment on Considering self hosting my own git repositories. What are some options? 4 weeks ago:
Forgejo + Tailscale. Forgejo is the app behind Codeberg so it’s battle tested. I switched to it from Gitea after the controversy.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
Yes - Electron makes some sense in a world where developer effort is expensive and memory is cheap. Perhaps the inverse of that situation will encourage more interest native apps.
- Comment on High-speed rail link between Sydney and Newcastle could be ‘shovel-ready’ in two years, Albanese government says 1 month ago:
Not enough people have watched Utopia
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 3 months ago:
Yep - I feel that, especially after the branded hard disk carry on last year.
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 3 months ago:
I’m a +1 on this. A secondhand Synology set up with some RAID will delay this decision for a few years and give you time to build your expertise on the other aspects without worrying much about data security. It’s a pity that you’re nearly at the limit of 8TB - otherwise I would have suggested a two bay NAS with 2x8TB, but if you’re going to use second hand drives (I do because I’m confident of my backup systems) maybe 4x6TB is better. Bigger drives are harder to come by 2nd hand - and plenty of people will not be comfortable with secondhand spinning rust anyway - if that’s you, then a 2 bay with 2x12TB might be a good choice.
The main downside (according to me) of a Synology is no ZFS, but that didn’t bother me until I was two years in and the owner of three of them.
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 3 months ago:
Proxmox on the metal, then every service as a docker container inside an LXC or VM. Proxmox does nice snapshots (to my NAS) making it a breeze to move them from machine to machine or blow away the Proxmox install and reimport them. All the docker compose files are in git, and the things I apply to every LXC/VM (my monitoring endpoint, apt cache setup etc) are all applied with ansible playbooks also in git. All the LXC’s are cloned from a golden image that has my keys, tailscale setup etc.
- Comment on Thousands Sign Petition Calling For Man Who Tackled Bondi Shooting Gunman To Be Australian Of The Year 3 months ago:
- Comment on Hugh White's Notes on Australia's Strategic Circumstances (1993) 4 months ago:
Thanks for posting, I’d never heard of the Joe Walker Podcast, but will be checking it out.
For anyone interested in an Australian focused take on international relations who hasn’t discovered the “Australia in the World” podcast yet, I highly recommend that as well.
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 4 months ago:
Batocera surely?
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 5 months ago:
100% this. And Lenovos and HPs designed for the business market generally are a pleasure to work on (in the hardware sense) if you need, with good manuals and secondhand spare parts.
- Comment on Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false 5 months ago:
the easier a statement is to disprove, the more of a power move it is to say it, as it symbolizes how far you’re willing to go. - ie “faith” in religion.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 5 months ago:
To stray even further from OP’s question (because books), I loved the dialect in Riddley Walker and the slang in A Clockwork Orange.
- Comment on Ideas 6 months ago:
I’m local first - stuff I’m testing, playing with, or “production” stuff like Jellyfin, Forgeo, AudioBookshelf, Kavita etc etc. Local is faster, more secure, and storage is cheap. But then some of my other stuff that needs 24/7 access from the internet - websites and web apps - they go on the VPS.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 6 months ago:
I just do one Docker container per LXC. All the convenience of compose, plus those sweet Proxmox snapshots.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 7 months ago:
Sorry to have nostalgia in a post about games not needing it, but wow - the enjoyable hours I put into LocoRoco! Totally agree though - unique mechanic, and chef’s kiss execution.
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 7 months ago:
Doki Doki Literature Club is a fun dating sim, but it has slightly more emotional breadth than that, so it might pass this test.
- Comment on Help setting up a selfhosted VPN at home 7 months ago:
Is there a reason not to use Tailscale for this?
- Comment on Aus Music - A place to find out about tours, hear new songs, and love classics. 7 months ago:
Great job on the banner - I could hear the theme in my head.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 8 months ago:
Forgejo - actively developed open source. It’s what powers Codeberg. Easy to set up and manage with Docker. I moved to it from Gogs and skipped Gitea after reading about the forks.
- Comment on [Recommendation request] Simple monitoring? 8 months ago:
+1 for Uptime Kuma. I use it in conjunction with a tiny Go endpoint that exposes memory, disk and cpu. And, like @iii I use ntfy for notifications. I went down the Grafana/Influx etc route - and had a heap of fun making a dashboard, but then never looked at it. With my two Kuma instances (one on a VPS and one in my homelab) in browser tabs, and ntfy for notifications on my watch, I feel confidently across the regular things that can go wrong.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese names his top 10 Australian songs of all time – and there’s one big surprise 9 months ago:
Also disappointing to see such a click-bait-y headline from the Guardian.
- Comment on Tailscale MagicDNS issues since 1.84.1 mac? 9 months ago:
It is only resolving for devices in the Tailnet. Kuma is checking they are all up, and this Ansible playbook is checking they have all their updates. I wouldn’t have thought that was an unusual arrangement - and it’s worked perfectly for about a year till about three weeks ago.
- Submitted 9 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 10 months ago:
Yes, this.
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 10 months ago:
Thanks yes - that’s exactly what I needed.
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 10 months ago:
Thanks - this is exactly what I needed.
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 10 months ago:
Yes - we’re “I’ll let you use my electricity for your computer thing” friends, not “I’m okay with seeing your printer on my home network friends”.