MonkeMischief
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- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 days ago:
How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?
It really depends on what you want out of it. I personally installed ProxMox on an old gaming machine (DDR3 RAM old lol) and have an Open Media Vault virtual machine running on it with access to my ZFS mirrored pair of storage drives.
Enabling Samba support in Open Media Vault gives you a nice little NAS. I believe it’s okay to install bare metal if you really want to also.
It also has a nice Docker interface, so although I should probably not bundle services together so tightly, it runs things like Jellyfin for media, Paperless NGX for document storage, and NextCloud AIO for a convenient (if slightly resource-hungry) interface.
ProxMox lets me do fun things though, like back up the VMs, spin up virtual machines for PiHole ad blocking and Klipper for controlling my 3D printer.
My most important data gets synced to a subscription to a service called iDrive as my offsite. Pretty affordable for 5TB and my own encryption keys. :)
I want to stress that I’m not an IT professional or anything either. If you’re reasonably comfortable with Linux and understand some basic networking, I’d say at least getting Proxmox and/or Open Media Vault up and running so you can access it on your home network isn’t too hard.
Outside of that, and if you want HTTPS and stuff? There’s lots of guides but I would recommend using TailScale instead of opening any ports to the web.
Sorry if this post was meandering but hope it gave you a little bit to go on! :)
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 weeks ago:
More studies are required before we come to any certain conclusions. We require concrete evidence…and rebar evidence…maybe carbon fiber evidence…or…
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
That was my thought…
“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”
Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat. 😂
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
“error: hostname must not be left blank.” lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
I just read this as:
you’re sat in front of a CEO the fun stops.
Agreed. Lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
“Have you been to the cloud
districtlately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven’t!” - Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Ha! Clever and humerus!
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or…?
Lol just had a funny thought:
“What’s the server’s name?”
“Max”
T800@localhost: ping Wolfie PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms --- Wolfie ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms
“Your server is pwned…”
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Slightly unrelated but when my family was remodeling our kitchen in the home I grew up in, we pulled the oven out and found the side of the cabinet had an interesting scrawl on it that must’ve been from one of the builders:
“When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.”
I found it so amusing wondering the motive behind that was. Lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things
[monke, chimp, peanut]monke would be
[0]chimp would be
[1]peanut would be
[2]Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes with code. :p
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Lol your arr stack.
"Jen what did you do?! I told you never open that door!"
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
“Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don’t you mean
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- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
That’s hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.
“LG Dishwasher”.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
Not gonna lie, from what I’ve heard from the trenches, “insanity” and “madness” sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.
So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf (“You shall not pass!” Heehee eventually he’ll have OPNSense too…)
If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that’ll be Samwise!
My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.
For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It’s intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.
So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.
Phones and tablets I don’t really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
This is the most solar punk answer ever! XD Love it. That’s really neat. I struggle so much with naming schemes.
- Comment on Random people started sharing child pornography on my matrix server, what are my options? 1 month ago:
Lots of good responses here. That’d be a really scary find, OP, and I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. :(
As much as I also long for justice, I also totally understand the inclination towards just nuking and paving the whole thing and moving on. Some factors that occurred to me:
Those posting it might be outside your nation’s jurisdiction.
They might just be bots.
The above, plus they might be using “zombie” machines to bounce this material around unguarded servers wherever they can. It could be very difficult to ascertain who is behind this.
I agree with others that you should only move forward under the guidance of a good lawyer, because you don’t want to be the most convenient potential suspect they have access to.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 1 month ago:
And I think it was Blair before that. XD
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 1 month ago:
Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while…
…then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers’ rights…
…Then we stopped joking so much…
…and now they’re not doing so hot again.
I think there’s a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue to spur them to greatness once more, if only out of spite?
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
Because of course now they’d start just quote-pulling from a book there’s no way they’ve read. Can we go back to when they were just pseudo-scientific?
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 1 month ago:
I was gonna say Star Ocean: Second Story, because it’s incredible.
But “Second Story R”, the recent remake, is incredibly good and clearly made by people who understand and love the original. I’d go so far as to say “objectively superior version.”
Even the soundtrack I’d call “enhanced” instead of “changed.” I’m continually impressed and loving every minute of it. Especially since I got really stuck on the PS1 version and never beat it.
So here’s one I’m not sure I’ve seen here yet!
Dragon Valor. It was a really neat fantasy beat 'em up by Namco, with some cool ideas and presentation, fun combat, really slick aesthetic, and a Castlevania-esque storyline of playing various characters through a family legacy.
It was really neat. And when I had trouble with a gimmick to beat the final boss, Namco’s support email kindly replied to me back in the day with a hint. That was pretty cool. :D
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud 1 month ago:
Sounds like Syncthing for syncing and something like…is it… croc or Wormhole…? To drop files and send things.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding haha.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
If only it didn’t fund more of it. Wish they could spend it on mental health or education instead. :(
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
That’s always the struggle, just like marching up to the manager’s office to demand better. Yeah you all get fired up and heated in the break room, but when you actually hit the stairs, can you trust them to follow? Or do they just want to complain and keep the status quo?
This irritating effect of individualism and mistrust is why we struggle to cooperate. There’s so few unifying ideals anymore.
The other problem is a simple matter of logistics. How do you actually make your stand to do something good, and not just be a group of easily snuffed rabblerousers that get easily snuffed out, or worse, hurt the people you’re fighting for?
Idiot fascist movements seem far easier to motivate because you simply need to ask “Hate something? Hate everything? Blaming someone else? Show up and scream something to feel like you matter! Violence not guaranteed but encouraged.”
True, we’re collectively against President Musk and his weird little orange purse poodle, but nobody understands practical tactical leadership to actually gain any kind of momentum. Everybody’s just trying to simultaneously shout over the crowd or worse, infighting each other over superficial ideals.
It’s bleak.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.
He may, he may not, but the brain worm does, and he’s given to its will.
- Comment on I disagree. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
I’m a bit biased as I started with Jellyfin, but the Roku app works flawlessly on the family TV.
I’d advise at least becoming mildly familiar with how you’d go about it, since corpos suddenly rug-pulling existing users and forcing subscriptions is pretty common, basically expected, behavior of American business now.
That way you have an “out” and your service can have minimal downtime. :)
On the other hand, you might just find you like how sleek and functional Jellyfin is. I can only see wins for you here. :p
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
I really miss the early mobile games days, when they were still experimenting with the format and you had games like Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Peggle, and various Marble Madness or Monkey Ball clones, just for starters.
People were making games designed to be fun, and if they were addictive, it was because you were enjoying yourself. If you bought the game they didn’t care how addicted you got or not, only that you didn’t tell all your friends it sucked! Lol
Once it started taking notes from the casino industry, that was it. I don’t even open the Play Store anymore.
Just now had a thought: If places like Newgrounds or ArmorGames were pay to play for developers like the mainline mobile stores are, I bet we would have seen a lot more of that nonsense a lot sooner. (kongregate seems to serve a perfect example of this.)
