Tippon

@Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Friday, more like buy stupid shit day.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.

  That’s a disturbing place for a comma 🤨🫣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got banned from a local music night.

  Apparently ‘Come On Eileen’ was a song request…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have a look at that, thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have a look at Calibre Web Automated, thanks :)

  I’ve set up wireless access to my Windows Calibre library but I thought the device needed to be physically connected first? I’m realising that I might be thinking of a different program though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much with the server, as I’m finally finishing my switch to Mint on my main PC, now that I’ve finished the things I was stuck with Windows for.

  I’m debating whether to put Calibre Web on my PC or media server, as the PC is easier to access, but the server is always on.

  I’m also trying to figure out the best way to host a family Minecraft server. I’ve currently got two running at home and one remotely, but have managed to get a decent free tier Oracle server running too.

  One of the Minecraft servers is staying local, as it’s just for the immediate family for our gaming sessions, but the other is for the kid’s cousins to join in too. Typically though, they haven’t wanted to play since I got the servers running, so I can’t tell which is best for them 🙈

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Immich, but with my photos as external media. That lets me keep my directory structure too, but with the Immich features 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never Lupus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft, bloody kids… 😂

  I should have a look, I’ve got a load of old floppies here, so might have one I’ve punched 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t need to flip it, 3.5" readers could already read both sides, but the hole or lack of is what told them whether both sides were available. I’ve done it myself.

  webcommand.net/…/does-anyone-remember-the-floppy-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you guys using to sort and name music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful with Mediamonkey. I’ve got it on my phone and PC, and my music is getting quieter and quieter on the phone. I think it’s something to do with the volume leveling on the Android version, but haven’t had a chance to figure it out yet.

  I can put a song on full volume, and it’s quiet enough that it’s difficult to hear. I’ve tried the same tracks through youtube, and the volume is fine, so it’s not the phone speakers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the generic tablets with made up Asian sounding names that you see on the big marketplaces could work? They could have slightly larger or smaller screens if they’re cheaper than current phone screens, and could have Linux with something like Signal on them for calling.

  They’d probably be lower quality to begin with, but could potentially get better if people start to buy them. They seem to have generic hardware, so might be able to offer the drivers and unlockable bootloaders too :)