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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah,does not reflect the actual situation.

  Currently especially their SDN capable stuff (Omada) is far better than e.g. the Ubiquiti stuff - we are relatively surprised by the build quality for the bucks you pay,tbh. (And unlike Ubiquiti they can be run stand alone and SDN).

  Not defending their China-issues btw, we absolutely recommend to all our clients that they put a OPNsense in front of it. But it does it job and has it’s place in small businesses. (And tbh,their Wifi gear is good enough that I have seen it in fairly large deployments)

  Sadly there’s not too much alternative for that sector atm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, especially router wise I tend not to recommend them as well, but we widely use OPNsense as FWs now. Switching wise they are good and tbh, their track record got much better. (And everyone elses got worse, looking at you,Forti)

  We tend to recommend Omada for smaller clients that would otherwise use ubiquiti (their track record is…far worse) and simply put a OPNsense in front of it. These are small healthcare establishments - the alternative is often far worse (cousin John doing the network or some antique Zyxel the local IT shithead service sold them as new) and with the OPN we can do due dilligence IT security wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering they recently also complained about Mikrotik I would,well, not give to much merit on that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullshit.

  It depends on what you buy from them and always has been. Their Omada line is on par with Ubiquiti, some other gear is similar to other commercial grade gear.

  If you buy their cheap shit, yeah,it’s cheap. But they,as most manufacturers, have a broad spectrum…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly Affinity Studio isn’t one of them - it runs barely, if at all in emulators and believe me we tried. Especially for larger files it’s still unusable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I need a shrine saying “hail to the GDPR” soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to keep track of system temps and hardware health indicators via dashboard with a proxmox installation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I have given up on Proxmox Helper Scripts for more demanding things recently as I had similar issues.

  You can use the fully packed VM appliance or iso as well. Or Docker.

  Or,tbh,try the manual install,it’s somewhat straight forward. If you need help let me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to keep track of system temps and hardware health indicators via dashboard with a proxmox installation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another option: Zabbix.

  Sounds like overkill initially, but works fine and can be automated fairly well. Once installed (as a LXC/VM or on a seperats device if you want independent monitoring), you can setup a API acess for monitoring Proxmox (which will monitor all LXCs,etc. automatically) and then add the agent on top to monitor the underlying machine. There are dozens of ways to monitor Zabbix hosts temps, HDDs,etc. available online.

  In theory you could also let a zabbixproxy collect all your hosts data (e.g. your Proxmox Host, your switch,etc.) in your network and then send it to a VPS outside your network so you monitor offsite and can be alerted when not at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internal domain and reverse proxy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ZeroSSL has unpaid plans (for non wildcards) that have a few advantages that LE doesn’t:

  • No Ratelimits,
  • A WebDashboard
  • More ways to validate
  • They have a RestAPI

  And, first and foremost, they are European and it’s always good tk have an alternative ready.

  But as said before, I totally missed the wildcard issue, as I haven’t touched these for a long time and recently had more to do with my public services (which get a ACME single domain cert via zeroSSL)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internal domain and reverse proxy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, then proceed with LE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internal domain and reverse proxy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is absolutly possible, but oersonally I would highly recommend getting yourself a proper public domain for that,even if you won’t use it otherwise (it’s even somewhat saver if you use a designated one for it).

  To make it really easy get the domain with someome who also provides DNS with it (Hetzner is a solid choice, so are others, has to have an API). (E.g. “mydomain.casa”.)

  Now get an internal DNS server that can handle it’s own zones. I always recommend technitium, but there are other choices. Pihole is not a good choice here.

  Next thing is a reverse proxy,as you mentioned. If you want it easy, NginxProxyManager is a good choice, but limits what one can do later. But it kind of works out of the box. Traefik and caddy are both often named,but I found none of them as “fire and forget” as NPM is - and caddy can’t do a lot of things either. Traefik is what I currently use,but even using Manatrae or similar GUIs it’s sometimes a pain. But it’s absolutely powerful especially when you run a lot of docker container on the same host. Tbh, if I had not some special requirements I would still use NPM.

  Now, what to do? (Not a full manual, more like a ovrview that it’s not that complicated)

  1. Install all of the above on docker.
  2. Setup NPM with a wildcard certificate, register with zerossl.com (has advantages over LetsEncrypt), add them as a provider and get a wildcard(!) certificate. (*.yourdomain.casa).
  3. Setup a proxy host. You simply add the domainname (nextcloud.mydomain.casa),point it to the actual container ("192.168.1.10:3000) and choose the wildcard certificate as a SSL and switch on “force SSL”.
  4. Go to the DNS server, create a DNS zone “mydomain.casa” and then simply add “nextcloud.mydomain.casa” and point it to the Reverse proxy IP. Done.

  For good practice I would recommend to also keep a zone that links directly to the services so you can use that whenever necessary. (mydomain.internal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an allergy test. Banana allergies (even though that doesn’t necessarily sound like one) are associated with other allergies,including some medications.

  So…you might want to know in advance.

  If it is not that then try biobananas once. A lot of people are sensitive to the pesticides used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would avoid a Raspi/ARM at all costs. But there is a third alternative: A x86 SBC like a Zima Board or blade might be exactly what you are looking for. Small, powerful enough and far easier than an ARM to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a sight to behold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. I’ve seen worse. Wait. I was hit by worse in worse areas and stool is by far not the worst thing that hit me.

  …starts sobbing

  I know why by now I prefer my desk and only ocassionally venture back into patient facing work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Pi-Hole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have expanded my setup over the years. And tbh, I reached so many stages where I read up how pi-hole or adguard achieved this and that. And every time it was like “damn,if you want more than the basics they are actually more complicated. I just have to look up this and this and Technitium does it by the book.”. That’s so refreshing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Pi-Hole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, came here to write about Technitium. It is rock solid. Absolutely. It looks intimidating at first but you soon figure out you hardly need 10% of the options in the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Duplicati is probably one of the easier options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Wiki.js⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik bluestack is the best option for that but I might be mistaken

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Wiki.js⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh: I haven’t found a really good replacement yet (we are simultaneously coming off confluence as well and that is even harder)

  What we tried:

  • Bookstack: I.can.not.understand.what.people.like.about It.Period. From my point of view it’s one of the worst systems on the market. Why? The fact that it only allows three different levels of hierarchy, the fact that by default all your images are public and their recommended solution is security by obscurity instead of proper handling it(which it can do) or their absolutely abhorent permission handling.

  • Xwiki: It’s… Clumsy. Possibly the most capable one, but it’s Java and munshes resources like they are free and it’s bothersome to setup/get working. Once it works it’s extremely capable,especially from a business point of view. It’s one of the close contenders for my confluence customers atm.

  • DokuWiki has become pretty capable,but takes a good theme and a few modules to be “up to modern standards”. The second close contender.

  • Last but not least outline is also an idea. Currently looking into that.

  • For my personal reference,especially for everything self hosted I used to maintain a fairly extensive Wiki.js,but I have found it more and more bothersome as a split between the configuration assets and the wiki was always there. So nowadays it’s often more integrated and stringent to use my GIT repository (forgejo) to keep my documentation as well.

  • The same approach is also a nice one for my work and we still discuss if we might “make it work” with our project management (Redmine) and it’s wiki component.

  • Lastly for a personal wiki Tiddly might be enough, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Wiki.js⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as many said: It’s dead. I was heavily invested into Wiki.JS but cannot recommend it to anyone anymore due to the antics of the developer. Even if the mysterious new major version that should fix every issue comes out at some point, as long as the development policies don’t change it’s not worth it.

  I am currently actively moving everything away from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good results so far with Elegoo Rapid PETG⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, I had problems with exactly one brand repeatedly: eSun Of all the brands the one most people consider a safe bet gave me the most hazzle.

  I absolutly used cheap brands as well and had no/less isues than with them.

  Currenly heavily using Sunlu/Jayo (same brand) for PLA, extrudr , formfutura and black forest filaments for ASA, extrudr for the remaining technical stuff. Whatever’s cheapest for PETG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another Healthcare Professional here: I second this healthcare professionals advice.

  Don’t get strangers opinions through the internet who’s credentials you can’t verify. See a healthcare professional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please see my edit in case you haven’t before.

  And your ancestors were omnivores unless you have a lot of sudden body hair growth on a full moon.

  Seriously dude. I know mania feels great. But it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filament won't adhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As you have already dried it(which is the most common issue. How did you dry it?) another issue can indeed be your heatsink. Do you have any other filament and does that have the same issue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Filament won't adhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. That’s not a good idea. Dish soap is actually often putting a limited greasy lawyer on things to protect skin,etc. Isopropanol for the win. A very very small amount is enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, okay. I know it’s a cliche right now, but can we please please please get this guy a brain scan? This sounds like a really good case for a few parasites.

  Seriously. You either had a massive massive anemia (red meat can temporarily (!) help then), you are a top shitposter or you have a major issue.

  Source: Healthcare professional. Not your HCP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do ambulances do with patients cars?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Here cops are generally the “end of the food chain” legally. Whenever none else is responsible for something or the responsible department is not available they are the ones who sort it out.

  Health department outside of office hours? Call the cops.

  Building is in a possibly insecure state out of office hours? Call the cops.

  They can of course get other departments like ambos,firies,etc. to help,but in the end, it’s their job.

  Public safety officer is very much part of their job description here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do ambulances do with patients cars?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paramedic and former ambulance service director here: In my jurisdiction the car is the sole responsibility of the police - in theory. So basically we call the police and let them handle it. They will decide if it’s safe to leave it where it is (e.g. if it’s on a highway, post accident or otherwise a traffic hazard). They will usually ask the patient if they should call a specific company or,if the car is still roadworthy, if they should call someone like a relative to get it - within certain limits of course, they won’t do that on a highway and if the relative is two hours away the patient is also SOL.

  If the car is stationary as in a safe and legal parking spot it’s a bit different, then in theory we could still call the cops,but they would hate us for it when the patient is conscious. In these cases most crews simply lock down the car and give the key to the patient - the same way we lock down an apartment when we leave with a patient.

  The only case when we might leave a car unlocked and unattended is an unresponsive patient that has a transport priority,aka we need to go NOW. We will still call the cops (and they will either find a way to secure the car or tow it),but we sure as hell won’t wait. While I might have a minute to spare waiting for the cops for an average unconscious patient e.g. post seizure there are a lot of reasons where I don’t have that - and might not have the time in some awake cases as well. In these cases a car might be left unlocked - especially in times when the key rarely is still required in the ignition anymore where I can easily find it. But in these cases the life of the patient takes priority over any material assets.

  (To give you a more practical example: The last guy I left the car unlocked was a gentleman with sudden onset of massive pain between the shoulder blades and a large difference in blood pressure values between the arms - a good sign of a thoracic aortic aneurysm, a very deadly condition. That’s a “fuckfuckfuck we need to go now” condition. I looked for the car key once for around 5 seconds,the car was a mess, I couldn’t find it. Dispatch sends the cops,but they often take a long time here once they know we are no longer on scene. Sadly he didn’t even make it to the hospital alive. But we tried).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 extended security updates in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Nobara as a live system or on a small boot disc you have lying around (ssds go for cheap these days) not that I would recommend it anymore as a distribution (nowadays Fedora is a better choice), but it helps you figure out if your setup will cause issues. (If it works on Nobara it likely will work on fedora)

  Personally from a gaming perspective I would advise against Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich mobile app sync V2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Layer 7 storage servers might be what you are looking for.