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@Hal @nik282000 Some private trackers function as recommendation systems, too. It's sort of like having a netflix account where you can see what they're recommending (or what's popular), but instead it's your fellow pirates talking about how much they loved or hated a show or movie.

You use them long enough, you also learn which users prefer absolute garbage and which ones have solid recommendations. Much better than paid ads or some easily-gamed algorithm, imo.

@EmilieEasie I have two physical devices, both running OpenWRT. One is a Linksys MR7350. It is only doing wifi; no dhcp server or dns or anything. The other is an old Rock64 board with a usb ethernet adapter plugged in; that's the router connected to my ISP and handles dhcp, dns (w/ adblock), and so on.

At one point I had set up two raspberry pi 4s to act as wifi access points running debian (with hostapd manually configured, and various wifi usb adapters plugged in), but I got sick of Pis.

@cadey @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Normally I'd frown at AI usage/vibecoding, but this is delightful trolling of the OP and I absolutely love it.

@Zwuzelmaus @Cyber Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Even when they are, you've still got smart self test log and error log histories. So Power_On_Hours might be "0", but also might show a short offline test completed at 33,000 hours giving you a hint as to the drive's true age.

Anyways, I buy used/refurbished ones w/ 5yr warranties from goharddrive, and when one failed this year they honored the warranty and sent me a replacement despite current drive prices.. so I'm a happy customer.

@toddestan @SpatchyIsOnline If it does run warm, and since the display is dead, there's nothing keeping you from removing the motherboard from the case and setting up your own cooling. If the crappy little laptop fan isn't up to the task, put the motherboard in a larger box and hook up a few USB-powered CPU fans to move a lot more air over the CPU/GPU's heatsink.

@Fenyx @gaiety Are Kitchen Aids dooming us to levels of climate change that will doom society?

@Joelk111 @drive_desaster I don't own any cars, but I kind of want try this out for my bikes and ebikes 😂

@curbstickle @Epzillon What's the "overly expensive video switcher" that you're using? I have an android TV with broken CEC (a Pi running Libreelec works fine one my other tv, but not this one).

@BarHocker How are you powering the fans? It almost looks like they're plugged into the 12V/5V sata power converter, but there's no 3/4pin connectors there obviously.

@mlg @leanleft otoh, it could be argued that widespread usage of NATs kept people from actually hardening their software stacks. For servers, admins moved from hole-ridden garbage like sendmail to stuff that was designed with security in mind like postfix. However, for desktop software and home stuff, there was never much of a need, so a lot of the biggest companies have cultures of extremely sloppy security practices in shipped software. And it's slated to get worse with AI adoption...

@carmo55 Copyparty's great. The UI is a bit janky, but if it's just you using it then it's imo your best option. https://github.com/9001/copyparty

Filebrowser's also pretty great (with a much better UI), but is now unmaintained. Try that if you have multiple non-technical users, but be cautious exposing it to the full internet. https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser

@runwisp_com @lime Psst... it's not a "him", it's a piece of software. 😏

@KingDingbat I don't have a good answer for you (I'm in a similar situation, with my wife stuck using both google calendar and microsoft's extremely shitty calendar, while I use radicale). However, depending upon your goals for self-hosting your calendar, I'd ask whether you really *want* google seeing your calendar entries. If your goal is independence, then fine. If one of your goals is privacy, then sharing your calendar entries w/ google messes that up.

@TheRedSpade @pineapplelover Linode got acquired by Akamai and their service (or at least, *my* VPS) has really gone downhill over the past few years.

@chronicledmonocle @irmadlad The irony is that when Ubuntu was created in '04, one of the first features they worked on (after the initial 4.10 release) was fast booting. Debian at the time used sysvinit and booted pretty slowly. And in addition, long-term support.

Those things eventually made their way into Debian through various means; I haven't messed with Ubuntu in years, but it's very amusing to me to hear that Debian might boot faster than Ubuntu.

@wilo108 @Cyber For your kids' friends, are you using a web interface like movim or something? Or are they installing their own clients?

@anakin78z I still have to use Matrix for work. The clients suck (literally every single one I've tried, and I even briefly maintained Neochat for debian) and I routinely get key errors.

@anakin78z We use xmpp (prosody on the server; a mix of conversations/cheogram/dino/snikket on our phones and laptops). We've got a family chat where the kids share the latest memes, and we message back and forth. We do also have signal (or in my case, Molly) installed, but don't use it that much. My wife just switched phones and signal was unable to transfer stuff from phone phone to the other - in general I find signal annoying to use.

@somegeek @jobbies This is a good read. I was rather amused by your "TODO: How to use Git offline? Offline merge requests?" section, though. Git was written by people who literally email each other patches. It's offline-first, with online stuff tacked on there. You can copy a cloned git repo to a usb stick and give it to someone, and now they have the entire history. Of course merge requests and bug tracking are separate (I understand what you meant w/ the TODO), but git itself is already there.

@h333d @Holytimes Oh no, I write the same way! I can't wait to be accused of being an AI the next time I publish something. 😂

@rimu @Dust0741 Also, even if openwrt stops supporting it.. If you have a router or firewall or something in front of your access point, then running an old version of openwrt isn't really that much of a risk if we're talking about residential wifi w/out a lot of coverage.

And that's assuming you'd want to stick with a model that openwrt has dropped support for. If they do drop support in a few years, you could buy a newer (better supported) older model again for $40.

@kiol Syncthing? Restic? All packaged nicely in Debian, no need for containers. I do use Ansible (rather than backups) for ensuring if a drive dies, I can reproduce the configuration. That's still very much a work-in-progress though, as there's stuff I set up before I started using Ansible...

@kiol And then there's the stuff that's not packaged in Debian, like navidrome. I use a container for that for simplicity, and because if it breaks it's not a big deal - temporary downtime of email is bad, temporary downtime of my streaming flac server means I just re-listen to the stuff that my subsonic clients have cached locally.

@kiol On the other hand, for doing builds (debian packages and random other stuff), I'll use podman containers. I've got a self-built build environment that I trust (debootstrap'd), and it's pretty simple to create a new build env container for some package, and wipe it when it gets too messy over time and create a new one. And for building larger packages I've got ccache, which doesn't get wiped by each different build; I've got multiple chromium build containers w/ ccache, llvm build env, etc

@kiol I mean, I use both. If something has a Debian package and is well-maintained, I'll happily use that. For example, prosody is packaged nicely, there's no need for a container there. I also don't want to upgrade to the latest version all the time. Or Dovecot, which just had a nasty cache bug in the latest version that allows people to view other peoples' mailboxes. Since I'm still on Debian 12 on my mail server, I remain unaffected and I can let the bugs be shaken out before I upgrade.

@MimicJar @moseschrute *touches finger to earpiece*

...hang on, I'm getting word that the most recent edition of this book will crash your nvram's firmware