downhomechunk

@downhomechunk@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else notice the moment the election was over the swell of spam calls have almost vanished?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. I’m about to change my number because I get so many spam calls and texts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took fell into the 7 million sites blocked trap!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take an old PC or laptop out of the box-o-crap, install Ubuntu server, give it a fixed IP address, install pi hole with the one line command from their website, tell your regular PC that the laptop IP is your DNS server.

  This is the easiest way to play around before rolling out to your whole network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t installed it direct on my router. I used to have it running in a container on my little proxmox server (aka old PC repurposed). I really liked the interface.

  Then I was practically gifted a really nice Asus router. I flashed merlin-wrt to it and read some guide on how to install a different ad blocker. It’s really good whatever it is. I haven’t had to touch it in months, and I never see an ad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You and me both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZimaBoard 2 is a single-board server with Intel N150, dual SATA interfaces, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d get myself banned this way. I forget the -p flag at least once per week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had good luck with these guys: cloudfanatic.net/pricing/

  I think they would fall in the less resources category. But they offer unlimited data transfer, and you can use any distro you want. I run slackware btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the best advice. Heed it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll probably finally get around to standing up an arr stack. RD is just too easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was worried when I saw the news, but it’s had next to no impact on me. I think I only found 1 or 2 streams removed, but the 720p versions were still up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the service is worth it for me. I need the easiest process possible for my luddite wife and kindergartener’s Amazon fire tablet. I put my mom on the account too.

  But for everything else, yarrrrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disc failure is the verbatim I remember, but I’m glad they’re still around. My 2008 car has a 6 disc CD changer, and I have a few retro PCs which rely on CDs too. Yes, I know I can get adapters for CF cards and the like, but doing things the old way is the whole point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am hooked on the music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicagon here. Indiana is 100% the south.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.

  docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a delusion of grandeur.