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- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 2 days ago:
I’d much prefer to have beige painted steel and some rail mounts on the side. Would totally swap one of my servers into that chassis.
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
Oh free lithium batteries. I’ve got a decent sized stash of cells salvaged from disposables. Some of their cases I want to use as project boxes for esp devices.
Will be sad once the supply dries up for us electronics folks.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 4 weeks ago:
They better stay away from .mom domains
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 7 months ago:
The volumes of cash that Microsoft throw at retailers (custom builders / big box) is astronomical. Worked for a relatively small retailer with some international buying power. EOFY “MDF” from Microsoft was an absurd figure.
Our builders would belt out 3 - 6 machines per day, depending on complexity of the custom build, the pre-built machines were in the 6+ per day range.
Considering the vast majority of those machines were running windows (some sold without an os), from a quick estimate after too many beers we were out of pocket 10% at most of the bulk buy price for licence keys after our “market development funds” came through.
It’s fucking crook.
- Comment on NUC, Proxmox and HA (a noob seeking for help) 7 months ago:
I’ve not tested the method linked but yeah it would seem like it’s possible via this method.
My lone VM doesn’t need a connection to those drives so I’ve not had a point to.
You could probably run OMV in an LXC and skip the overheads of a VM entirely. LXC are containers, you can just edit the config files for the containers on the host Proxmox and pass drives right through.
- Comment on NUC, Proxmox and HA (a noob seeking for help) 7 months ago:
Yeah there is a workaround for using bind-mounts in Proxmox VMs: gist.github.com/…/7e4a6f6f36610eeb0bbb5d011c8ca0b…
If you wanted, and your drives are mounted to the Proxmox host (and not to a VM), try an LXC for the services you are running, if you require a VM then the above workaround would be recommended after backing up your data.
I’ve got my drives mounted in a container as shown here: Image
Basicboi config, but it’s quick and gets the job done.
I’d originally gone down the same route as you had with VMs and shares, but it’s was all too much after a while.
I’m almost rid of all my VMs, home assistant is currently the last package I’ve yet to migrate. Migrated my frigate to a docker container under nixos, tailscale exit node under nixos too while the vast majority of other packages are already in LXC.
- Comment on NUC, Proxmox and HA (a noob seeking for help) 7 months ago:
Ahh the shouting from the rooftops wasn’t aimed at you, but the general group of people in similar threads. Lots of people shill tailscale as it’s a great service for nothing but there needs to be a level of caution with it too.
I’m quite new to the self hosting game myself, but services like tailscale which have so much insight / reach into our networks are something that in the end, should be self hosted.
If your using SMB locally between VMs maybe try proxmox, https//clan.lol/ is something I’m looking into to replace Proxmox down the line. I share bind-mounts currently between multiple LXC from the host Proxmox OS, configuration is pretty easy, and there are lots of tutorials online for getting started.
- Comment on NUC, Proxmox and HA (a noob seeking for help) 7 months ago:
I still use it, the service is very handy (and passes the wife test for ease of use)
Probably some tinfoil hat level of paranoia, but it’s one of those situations where you aren’t in control of a major component of your network.
- Comment on NUC, Proxmox and HA (a noob seeking for help) 7 months ago:
Tailscale is great, but it’s not something that should be shouted from the rooftops.
I use tailscale with nginx / pihole for my home services BUT there will be a point where the “free” tier of their service will be gutted / monetized and your once so free, private service won’t be so free.
Tailscale are SAAS (software as a service), once their venture capital funds look like their running dry, the funds will be coming from your data, limiting the service with a push to subscription models or a combination.
Nebula is one such alternative, headscale is another. Wire guard (which tailscale is based on) again is another.
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 8 months ago:
Discord is trash, had issues with a KBDFans product, something as simple as a search of a forum would have given me the solution. I had to talk to a human to get the required information. They sent me a link to a firmware to download and all was good.
If I was able to search a forum it would have been a 2 minute job, but I wasted someone else’s time, on the other side of the globe.
- Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems 8 months ago:
Gallagher were great at that, rubbish solution for “teaching” staff about phishing which would infuriate all staff caught in the net. Would come from internal email addresses too which, if one person’s email / credentials are compromised they’ve got bigger fish to fry.
- Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems 8 months ago:
I mean it’s not the worst. Is it still https? Or are they serving plain ol http? My internal services (at home) are mostly https, but the certs are self signed so browsers will flag them as “insecure”.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
Firefox is fine on mobile in my eyes.
At least the Android version, even on my 5 year old Exynos phone it does what I need / want from a browser. Allows (some) extensions, lets me zoom wherever I want to on any page, has a reader mode and is snappy enough on old hardware.
Chrome tries to be / do far too much for me, just fuck off and let me browse the web. I do like the dynamic colours that Chrome on mobile uses on different webpages, is hot.
However Chrome gives me dirty Microsoft vibes, and it’s pretty hard to shake that stank.
If your on iOS welcome to the walled garden. Hope you live in the EU.
- Comment on Fully working 270€ Nest Dropcam will no longer be supported. 8 months ago:
I’ve got 3 cameras running on a vlan, with no access to the internet.
Frigate / Home Assistant + tail scale (want to move away from this service) let me see my cameras remotely, receive notifications from events and even look at events / stills on my watch.
I have some cheap 5mp Reolink camseras, not the best for frigate but get the job done.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 8 months ago:
I’ve started using Geddit, a 3rd party app that doesn’t use the Reddit API. And it’s still better than the app they develop in-house.
I rarely visit Reddit, but when searching for something niche there always seems to be a few threads over there sadly.
- Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 8 months ago:
ChatGPT 9 to be trained on R9K posts. Won’t be able to distinguish fake free text from real.
- Comment on YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol 8 months ago:
Mentioning clients LibreTube or PipePipe on android tick the boxes for me. Piped.video let me import my subs and gives me my subscription feed back, same login on LibreTube keeps things cross-platform which is nice
After paying for YTP Family for a number of years, their recent price increase was too much to warrant. I was happy paying ~$25 for multiple people but increasing to ~$35 was a massive jump.
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 9 months ago:
Company I worked for was the only importer of Corsair chairs into Australia, we were told by Corsair (on a chair by chair basis) to have end users destroy faulty chairs if no replacement parts were available.
Same thing with Lian Li, we had a batch of white cases with a paint defect, they were never sold onto end-users but our warehouse teams destroyed every case, sent images to Lian Li of the destruction and we were sent another shipment.
Cooler-master had some bad mITX PSUs, same deal, sent the boys out with a hammer and safety squints.
At the end of the day it’s cheaper for everyone involved to not have a faulty product that is too costly to repair shipped across the ocean or to a local disty. Sucks for the environment, sucks for the end user having to dispose of a faulty product but it makes for some interesting emails sent out to customers :D
- Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules 9 months ago:
But they do freely allow it, grab an APK from F-Droid and install it.
- Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules 9 months ago:
You posted a question about Google policing sideloading, then posted an article that has nothing to do with google policing side loading.
🤷♂️
- Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules 9 months ago:
My takeaway from that article is they don’t, and haven’t.
The splash screen for installing a package not from the play store is there to protect the end user. Without it there would probably be a much worse unwanted software issue on android.
I’ve been “side loading” or just “installing” applications on my android devices since the nexus one, without the help of the play store.
- Comment on Looking for a Calendar-Syncing Solution with support for subscribing to external Ical Calendars. 10 months ago:
I’ve recently (in the last week) added my contacts and manage my calendar via nextcloud locally. Davx synchs to my android devices, nextcloud is synched to my haos VM to help me remember bin nights / other appointments. For someone with ASD + ADHD it’s a godsend.
- Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 10 months ago:
Minimum for me would be 120hz, i’ve been using 120hz since 2012 (12 years… man) and anything less feels like a massive step backwards. My old S10+ and my cheapie laptop feel sluggish in any animated / transmission scenario.
- Comment on what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ? 10 months ago:
But man, I’ll be able to amend all those TODO items that have been accumulating of the last 12 months and fix all those issues while rebuilding my raid.
I mean that’s only if my GITs aren’t hijacked during the ransomware attack.
And I mean, I’ll probably just push the same config to my server and let it on its merry way again.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 10 months ago:
It’s not law in VIC iirc, it’s a common courtesy but not a requirement. Like when indicating to jump in a lane, giving the driver who let you in a wave. Or blinking your headlights when there is a copper in the direction you came from.
- Comment on Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US 10 months ago:
Yeah that’s funded by the brand, Logitech and other big brands would give me MDF and scanback on every product sold during a promotion (that was pushed by said brand). We would not make as much margins per unit sold but we would move bulk product.
MDF would go to the internal marketing team for producing assets / promoting on our socials.
Grey market importers would have products at a cheaper buy price but would not qualify for scanback.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 10 months ago:
Me waiting for solar underground highways.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Tuta (in my eyes) is a step in the right direction, using a client like thunderbird or enigmail and managing PGP yourself would be more secure as the message is decrypted by the recipient and not a company owned server.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
wired.com/…/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving…
cldc.org/does-protonmail-snitch/
In addition protonmail do not protect your metadata (from memory), it’s not encrypted in transit.
Protonmail also keep your public and private keys on their servers, it’s PGP however they don’t want the end users to have to manage their own keys. That to me isn’t ideal.
Receiving from another provider you’ll get TLS encryption until it hits protonmail servers but protonmail will then decrypt your email and again encrypt your email using your PGP stored on their servers.
Sending an email from proton to another provider will be encrypted on protonmail servers but that’s where it ends. TLS will take care of the in-transit and again may not be stored securely on the receiving end.
