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- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Plex wants us to log into their servers to watch content we're hosting ourselves.
I hate Plex as much as the next Jellyfin user but you can just whitelist your local network, although people who understand that aren't the target audience are they? ...
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I would buy a G5 every few years until the end of time if they still made them. Profit clearly isn't the driving motivator of the post capitalist world we inhabit.
And what exactly will you replace your logitech stuff with? they're all going down this path now.
honestly if they still make the only mice that don't look like a gaming router they might still have me ... on the second hand market at least.
- Comment on Upcoming Win10 EOL Options to buy old Office PCs 2 weeks ago:
Talk to e-waste recyclers and see if they have contact details for anyone buying their office PCs. Businesses don't give a fuck, these things are going straight in the bin.
You could attempt to buy from them directly but there's a solid chance they already have someone buying in bulk and don't want to sell single items to the public.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 3 weeks ago:
Driving a car is only dangerous when you die in a traffic accident.
your logic doesn't check out.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 3 weeks ago:
reminds me of the dude with a PDP 11 in his basement
- Comment on Managing memes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I have a collection of 8 Nintendo Game and Watches from my childhood. What’s the best way to sell them? 4 weeks ago:
protip: if you still have the battery door it's worth like double the price.
- Comment on Frankenbeans 5 weeks ago:
Knowledge is understanding that Frankenstein isn't the monster.
Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein is the monster.
- Comment on Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube" 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 1 month ago:
no, the auth to use it at all ... internet goes down and you can't watch your own movies on your own network. peak self hosting.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 1 month ago:
the hero we deserve.
my physical collection is mostly thrift store finds
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 month ago:
it's a spreadsheet right?
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 1 month ago:
yeah, this is just child abuse
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 1 month ago:
Depending on your location in the world, you can buy land, pay nothing monthly and own and use it for ever.
what the fuck guys, why is anyone paying council rates or land tax when there is any free land left out there. I'll run the network cables; let's fuckin' go.
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 1 month ago:
we ran out of IPv4 address space a long fucking time ago, you are infinity more likely to have a static IP address now because you'll be behind a carrier grade NAT sharing it's IP. you don't really pay for a static IP anymore but the ability to directly address you're own network.
- Comment on SMS Forwarding 1 month ago:
having a hotspot you can turn on in an emergency is different from just leaving it on all the time, and even then decoupling the baseband system from your device is still worthwhile.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 2 months ago:
they claim 3% overhead, I bet you could get pretty deep before noticing.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 2 months ago:
and run Proxmox inside that VM
- Comment on New project, new energy 2 months ago:
The most successful people don't have goals they have constraints.
Here's a really good one, don't start another project until you've finished the last one UNLESS it directly relates to it. in this way even without a clear goal you are always building towards something and with a narrower field you're more likely to accidentally finish something as different projects converge.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
it's just a meme ... with a kernel of truth.
when running as your main OS windows very quickly gets bogged down with everything you want to run on it.
in a VM you're only running the 1 thing you need on a fresh install, potentially a screenshot of that fresh install so it's always running at peak.
does this make up for the host overhead? maybe ... Linux has never struggled under base load for me like windows has.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Win 10 IoT LTSC 2021 is supported until 2032. the ESU is literally just security updates they will be doing anyway.
if you have any windows software that can't be replaced and needs to be online ruinning IoT is one solution.
protip: Windows runs faster under a VM in Linux than on bare metal. True facts.
- Comment on Lanthanum 2 months ago:
tip: if you log in your AI will be built into your account.
- Comment on Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time? 2 months ago:
I prefer security vulnerabilities I can manage to privacy ones I cannot.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 months ago:
I'm sure they would have mentioned if they needed a cellular router
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 months ago:
didn't know you could still get a dial up plan.
j/k, but damn I'm so sorry, it should be illegal to call VDSL broadband.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 2 months ago:
Check routers at a pawn shops and see which ones can run openwrt.
I have a 10GbE switch and haven't hit 500mb/s. Network capacity likely won't be your bottleneck.
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 2 months ago:
datahoarders
the only bad time to buy more capacity is when you run out
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 2 months ago:
I mentioned a cheap dedicated server because I'm not sure when quicksync was introduced, if you need to do any transcoding at all an intel macbook will probably catch fire.
and if you haven't already then change the thermal paste. I have a 2015 pro as well and it gets real hot, factory paste can be a crap shoot if it's even making contact in the first place much less after a decade and new paste actually makes a bigger difference in performance than I expected.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 2 months ago:
There's nothing wrong with just running a laptop as a server until you have specific requirements it can't meet.
Like maybe running a pi hole over wifi doesn't fill you with confidence and you really need something plugged into your router.
in which case I'd get a cheap mini-pc. even something as cheap as an N95 will handle everything you want to do here easily but you can also go the 2nd hand 1L route which can be fun too.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 2 months ago:
finally picked up a bunch of cheap 2.5" sas drives to turn my dumpster server (Proliant DL380 G7 with 16 hot swap bays) into a backup server.
still trying to work out the specifics but the idea is because it's a power hog and LOUD I want to use wake on lan to run a backup task and turn it off automatically.
I can turn it on via lan so I'm halfway there right? ......
