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Linux & Azure cloud engineer. Sometimes a wolf, or a fuzzy dragon.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 5 days ago:
Proton existed long before the Steam Deck, and before that as DXVK.
This is a battle between closed proprietary OS and open source. Proton enables translating DirectX/Windows APIs not only to Vulkan/Linux x86, but even to ARM and others.
- Comment on Immich server is not reachable 2 weeks ago:
Same as the other reply here, if you’re on your local network most likely be a 192. address. You can find this on the host server by the “ip a” command.
Personally immich is pretty advanced for someone new to homelab, you might find starting with homeassistant or something might be easier to get started. Also immich is super beta right now and prone to drastic breaking changes with each update.
- Comment on Immich server is not reachable 2 weeks ago:
From the little bit I can see in the screenshot I see a 5 starting the IP, assuming that’s a public IP.
Need to know, are you trying to access at home on the same WiFi network or outside your house on cellular?
Have you set up a reverse proxy or done any port forwarding?
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 3 weeks ago:
The case was that Google paid apps to not be on competing stores and only be on the Play store. It’s not a lawsuit around Android sideloading.
Still ironic though that Epic games is the main proponent, but yet they do the exact same thing on their store paying for exclusives.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
We should ban phones as well because people get scam calls.
- Comment on datacenter liquid cooling solution 4 weeks ago:
There’s basically no reason ever to do water cooling on a home system unless you’re trying to do overclocking.
Air is cheaper, more reliable, and typically quieter because you don’t need pumps.
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 4 weeks ago:
Adding many GUIs are available for 7zip format on Linux, most popular is probably Ark.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 1 month ago:
At least where I work, our cloud team is ~35 people who manage the whole thing.
The datacenter team? In the hundreds.
Cloud is not the answer to every infra problem, but the flexibility, time to market, and lifecycle burden are easily beneficial weighed against finops. I’m an Azure engineer myself, it’s no comparison the benefits to a managed solution vs rolling your own DC for a lot of regular business workloads and solutions. Beyond that personally I’ve been able to skill up in areas I wouldn’t be able to otherwise if I was stuck troubleshooting bad cables, rebuilding a dead RAID array, or planning VMWare scaling nonsense.
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 2 months ago:
This is still a struggle today.
Want to put a file on your iPhone or iPad from a non-mac? Good luck without some 3rd party app.
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 2 months ago:
Your reverse proxy should have a cert with HTTPS.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 2 months ago:
A valid point, the main issue at hand is that the iPhone is locked down to Apple’s approved store - you can’t just install things like a regular computer. That’s really the core of the lawsuit regarding the insane 30% cut Apple forces on their mobile computing platform.
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 3 months ago:
Jellyfin equivalent which doesn’t require a subscription for your own media library.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 months ago:
Steam isn’t a monopoly.
The PC is an open platform, you can use any game store or launcher you want - unlike the iPhone, Android (without sideloading), PlayStation, switch, or Xbox.
- Comment on Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics” 4 months ago:
And costs a yearly subscription, also random features get removed every month.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 4 months ago:
Use SwiftFin app instead on Apple TV, but better than the Jellyfin app.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 4 months ago:
This ^
Simple, no ads, and handles HDR super well
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 4 months ago:
I’m sure google will fix that in chrome, like killing adblocker functionality.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 4 months ago:
Less HTTPS = easier government & advertiser data collection
- Comment on Issues with Immich 5 months ago:
Corporate nets use 802.1X authentication, risk of a DHCP hijack is very low.
As someone who works in large corporate networks, we absolutely don’t assign static IPs outside of core network gear, it’s impossible to manage a fleet of servers in this way with scaling in mind.
- Comment on Issues with Immich 5 months ago:
Instead of doing a manual action in two different places and having to keep them in sync, just do it once on the DHCP server. Setting a static IP on the server is superfluous.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 5 months ago:
good general advice until you have to try to explain to your SO the VPN is required on their smart TV to access Jellyfin.
- Comment on Issues with Immich 5 months ago:
don’t do this, use DHCP reservations instead so you actually have a list of what all your servers are and most routers register hostnames in DNS for you which is even better.