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- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
Well, until you get that one that’s randomly hotter than the sun and turns your eyes and nose into gushing torrents, while you try not to cough it out in front of everyone else.
Always when you least expect it
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
I have got a mental picture of a Linux super nerd trying to browse through a text only browser on their oven’s display now though 😁
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
What? Nobody’s using their browser on an appliance (except for a handful of masochists with Samsung fridges). I said to most people their browser is on an appliance, as in they treat computers, phones, and laptops like appliances, in that they’re mysterious boxes that do a particular job.
Hardly anyone is trying to hack their appliances, and the majority of people just lump their computing devices into the same category - it does what it was designed for and nothing else
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
Don’t forget that most people don’t know that blocking ads is possible. To most people, their browser is on an appliance, like a washing machine or fridge. They know how to do the basics, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
It depends on what you’re doing. I’ve got Mint on my laptop and main PC, and the experience is different on both. On the laptop I tend to play Minecraft and do some basic tasks like taking notes and browsing the web. There’s nothing in Mint that really affects that, so it doesn’t hold me back at all.
On the PC though, I’ve got all of my important software, and some of it has had to be installed manually because the Mint repos are outdated. It’s nothing that’s particularly difficult to fix, but I know my way around computers. For your average user, it would be too much.
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 3 weeks ago:
Is it just me or is Tom’s Hardware getting really shit lately? This is the third article I’ve seen where one person has been ripped off and their story is ‘The state of the industry! Scams everywhere! 😱’
One of the others was someone who bought memory that had been swapped for metal weights, and Tom’s Hardware tried to claim that it was a new industry scam because of the price increases, and not a one off
- Comment on Wildlife cam setups? 3 weeks ago:
Most of the cameras like this that I’ve seen have an app that lets you transfer the photos too. The issue is that you need to connect to the camera with Bluetooth, which then turns on the camera’s wifi for the full connection. The apps do this automatically.
I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to run the app from a computer, and connect to the camera through that, but I don’t know how you’d get it to wake the camera to allow the wifi connection.
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 1 month ago:
I’ve had to post to Instagram for a music festival that I’m involved with, so I used Bluestacks on Windows to run the mobile app, or the Meta Business Suite in either a separate portable browser, or in a VM. I found that I rarely used the app, as I was posting information as opposed to proper photos, and just answering the occasional questions.
As much as it pains me to say it, Meta Business Suite is pretty good for this, and allows you to post to Instagram and Facebook at the same time, or schedule a post to one or both of them from the same interface. e.g. if it turns out that you get more views at 12 on Facebook and 1 on Instagram, you can schedule the same post to go to each service at separate times.
I mainly use it from the desktop, but it’s available on mobile too with at least the same basic features. I don’t tend to use anything more advanced than scheduling, so I don’t know what that’s like in the app.
Another reason I prefer the desktop over a separate phone is the data collection. I can set up ad blockers and VPNs more easily than on mobile, and there’s no location data other than where I keep my desktop, I’m not carrying my desktop with me when I’m out and about :)
- Comment on Ulefone Armor 27T Pro - And why I'm not using after 3 months 1 month ago:
Ah, that’s a shame. Thanks for letting me know :)
- Comment on Ulefone Armor 27T Pro - And why I'm not using after 3 months 1 month ago:
Maybe a daft question, but have you tried a factory reset? I’ve got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g that’s having a lot of the same sort of problems, but a reboot tends to fix them temporarily. I’m hoping that once I get my new phone at Christmas, I can completely wipe this one, including the cache, and see if that helps.
- Comment on Black Friday, more like buy stupid shit day. 2 months ago:
While it’s nothing like the same degree, as nobody was hurt, we already had black Friday in the UK too. It’s the last Friday before Christmas, when the factories would close for the holidays and the workers would typically hit the pubs to celebrate.
Now we’ve got black Friday, black Friday season, and even black week being advertised to us, all based on an American holiday in November 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Sorry, I didn’t get a notification for your reply until this morning.
Thanks for the offer, I’d be happy for any notes or advice :)
I managed to get Navidrome and Immich set up last night through subdomains, like music.domain.com and photos.domain.com, using the existing Cloudflare tunnel. They seem to be working properly, but I’m going to check them when I’m out later to make sure that nothing was cached rather than being served live.
One thing I want to look at in the future is local domain names, so music.local etc. and possibly set up certificates to get rid of any warnings about insecure sites. I might switch from AdGuard to PiHole to help with that.
Something that might make you laugh, I got stuck for an hour or so last night trying to connect to Navidrome through the domain name. I could get to the login page, but couldn’t get it to accept my credentials. Substreamer wouldn’t log in either. I looked through pages and pages of search results, forum posts, and manuals, but couldn’t find an answer. Just before I gave up, I copied the address from Firefox to try in another browser, and realised that I’d forgotten the s in https 😫
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Please don’t apologise, you and the other commenters have been a massive help :)
It’s sod’s law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they’ve turned out to be two of the busiest days I’ve had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself :D
I’m going to spend an hour or two now playing around with Cloudflare and Navidrome and see if I can get a better grip on it all.
Thanks again for the help :)
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
That’s great thanks :)
The fact that it can be always on is really helpful, there’s less chance of her forgetting to use it then.
Tailscale only responds to the range of connections that it’s in charge of, so it doesn’t interfere with connecting to normal internet, etc.
This is the other thing that I was concerned about, that everything else would be diverted. Someone else said that it can selectively route apps, and that’s put my mind at ease. I don’t know why, but anything to do with networking gets me mixed up >.<
Thanks for your help, I’m going to have a play with some settings :D
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Ah, that’s cool. I’ll give it a try once I’ve had some sleep, it’s been a long day. Thanks for the help :)
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
I’m a bit dubious about running Tailscale on the family’s devices, as they’re not particularly techy, and will forget to launch it if it isn’t running for whatever reason, and then I get the blame.
Wouldn’t all traffic go through it when it’s running too, or can you select which apps now? They’d mostly be using Android devices.
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
I thought that Sunshine and Moonlight were for screen sharing? I’ve only ever seen them used for gaming.
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
I’m still a bit confused with all of this so I might be getting things completely wrong. I thought that I needed to get certificates for anything that I wanted to make public with an URL, and that’s where I thought Caddy came in, but a few of the other replies have said that I can use the Cloudflare tunnel and let them sort out the encryption. That seems like it should be easier for me, as I’ve dealt with it already.
IPv6 isn’t available through my ISP as far as I can tell, they only enable it locally through their router at the moment.
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
I just replied to your other comment before I saw this one, but I’ll post the reply here too for anyone who’s following the thread :)
The main thing I’m still not sure of is Tailscale. I don’t know if I can just put my services behind an URL for my wife to add to her devices, as she’s unlikely to remember to run Tailscale before she listens to her music, for example.
Sorry, I’ve just replied to another comment before I saw yours. I didn’t realise that Cloudflare could deal with encryption on its own, I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates. I found out after seeing the other comment that one of my services running through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted, but I couldn’t get it to work in the past. I’m not sure what’s changed, but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.
There’s something about the networking side of things that just throws me, and I struggle to get my head around it. If I can get things running through Cloudflare, I’ll be very happy :)
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’ve just replied to another comment before I saw yours. I didn’t realise that Cloudflare could deal with encryption on its own, I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates. I found out after seeing the other comment that one of my services running through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted, but I couldn’t get it to work in the past. I’m not sure what’s changed, but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.
There’s something about the networking side of things that just throws me, and I struggle to get my head around it. If I can get things running through Cloudflare, I’ll be very happy :)
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Huh, I didn’t know that! I’ve had the Cloudflare tunnel running for quite a while now, and tried getting something set up on https a few years ago, but couldn’t get it to work. I’ve just checked my Ombi service and it is encrypted. I don’t know what’s changed, but I’m going to have another look, thanks :)
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Sorry about the slow reply.
This is where I get confused with Tailscale. Doesn’t everything then go through Tailscale, like when you run a VPN? Ideally I just want to be able to connect with a link and save that in the remote app / program, and also avoid having my wife forget to start Tailscale and shout at me >.<
- Comment on Need some help with remote access please. 2 months ago:
Sorry about the slow reply. Don’t I need to be running Tailscale on the remote device then though? Ideally I want to be able to put a link into whichever app / program and be able to share that link with my wife and kid
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- Comment on Is it too late to post something spooky? 3 months ago:
Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.
That’s a disturbing place for a comma 🤨🫣
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
One journalist writing a book doesn’t make something true. Chav is not a slur for the working class.
I’m a working class man from a working class area in the UK, and the vast majority of people here have never been described as chavs and never would.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 3 months ago:
No worries 🙂
I’ve just tried again on mobile data, and it’s working properly. The weather here has been a bit shit, so it might just have been that earlier 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 3 months ago:
Working for me in South Wales on Plusnet, but not on mobile data from Smarty.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 3 months ago:
I got banned from a local music night.
Apparently ‘Come On Eileen’ was a song request…
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 months ago:
That’s how I’ve currently got my phone and Fire tablet working, KOReader to Calibre over wifi, it’s the initial setup that I couldn’t remember.
I meant to check last night, but didn’t get a chance. More playing and tweaking needed tonight 😁