Onomatopoeia

“If everyone were on the same page”

Yea, like that could ever happen. This is a denial of fundamental human nature.

Even worse is your hubris in assuming the priorities you believe are “right” everyone else should agree with you.

Hahahahahaha, holy fuck is that accurate!

I have a lot of stuff self-hosted.

Just no outside access. Well, that’s not quite true, I do have a Tailscale VPN for remote management, but only certain machines are allowed to join, joins require my authorization, and access to the account is via two-factor.

The big thing with external access is to never permit it directly through your local connection. Do it though a Virtual Private Server (VPS) - let it get hit with access attempts. And then only allow specific traffic from the VPS to a specific service in your network using a VPN of some sort.

Two approaches:

Network isolation/DNS blocking - put the TV on a VLAN and only permit specific ports through to a media server (whatever the TV will support). If you lack VLAN capability, run PiHole as your DNS server (it works best as DNS and DHCP, but that’s just my opinion for things I like, such as proper name resolution for all devices).

Second option: disconnect TV from network entirely, then run something like Kodi (or whatever media center you prefer) on an old laptop, mini-PC, whatever, and have that device connect via HDMI. HDMI can passthrough the navigation controls from the TV remote (not giantess, but it’s part of the standard).

Even my POS Samsung passes through enough of the controls to navigate Kodi on a 2017 laptop, while retaining power, volume, settings, etc for the TV itself.

My current setup is a Jellyfin server and Jellyfin client on the TV. I run PiHole with a blocklist for all the Samsung BS which has had the side effect of making the TV menus faster as it doesn’t retrieve any “what’s new” info from Samsung. Its actually kind of fun to monitor the FNS log and see the domains the TV hits, click Deny and see what breaks in the TV. On average about 30% of all DNS requests on my network get denied, and nothing of value has been lost. That’s how much crap is being sent all the time.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

Ah, you luddites amuse me.

The horses left the building a long time ago, and here you just now noticed and decide to play Don Quixote.

Yep.

The elders in my family have always said each kid was who they were at 2. These are people who’ve watched multiple generations grow up.

Yea, we change, but some core personality stuff is obvious that early.

I mean it’s a commercial product - if stability issues were a common thing, that would be well known and published.

It’s a mesh VPN so it generally has the same stability challenges as any other: Hamachi, Nord, Meshnet, Wireguard (which is the underlying protocol that Tailscale uses).

If the Tailscale client is running on the NAS itself, I’d consider that the first thing to troubleshoot.

NAS’s generally don’t have much extra processing power, and in my experience apps designed to run on them aren’t the most robust.

I have an ancient NAS on my network that could probably run the TS client, Injyst don’t bother. TD runs on all desktops and servers (for general access), but connectivity to non-TS devices goes through the server running as a TS router. That can be run on any device running TS - it’s just a feature to enable and configure.

I can’t imagine not using a proper internal DNS with split anymore.

I’m a big fan of Pihole (currently running it on a DietPi VM).

Being able to manage DHCP and DNS in a single place makes for much better control than the crappy DHCP from consumer routers. And almost any real DNS/DHCP server combo is better than those things.

Just rebuilt my PiHole over the last couple days, and it’s currently blocking 45% of DNS requests with no ill effects on any system - it’s a lot of Android app nonsense and a smart TV.

I’ve lost the Samsung TV on the TV, but I never used it anyway, and the TV is so much more responsive now.

Yea, smart TV… Bad news. It’s next on the list to get a Kodi box on it.

Guess what, ED drugs (really BP drugs because they were developed as vasidilators tor blood pressure management) aren’t legally available without a prescription.

I’m not - that’s a used price.

I don’t have a problem with used - all my drives are used, and they typically last 5-10 years. I have some drives from 2010 that are still running.

New drives fail too, so relying on drives being new to prevent failures is foolish. The only defense against failures is duplication (which 3-2-1 backup falls under).

Whats just as important is to use a file system that can detect and repair data errors (such as ZFS).

LTO tapes are 18TB today, raw - 48TB compressed.

How much data you got?

At that size I can probably build 2 Proxmox boxes with drives and compete very well on the costs.

A single 14TB disk is about $270 today - that’s in the same realm as a tape.

But tape also requires a drive, and that gets pricey fast.

This is the answer.

I haven’t done the math, but even SMB’s dontnuse tape today.

They may do a local replica and then some kind of local-hardware-based cloud backup solution, because cost and capability.

I think you just said what I was trying to say, only you said it more clearly. Haha

As best I can find, there’s no logo/mark to indicate compliance with PD3.0, nor for PPS.

If it’s compliant with those, I suspect it’ll be in the documentation.

You’re probably on the right track - they designed this for their devices, will publish what it can do but not claim compliance with a spec they didn’t build specifically too.

In the High Level Design meetings (or equivalent), they probably laid out charging time/performance requirements which included using exsiting commodity tech and general conformance to USB C.

This so any PD compliant charger could charge the laptop, but their own charger would follow it’s own specs.

I’m uovoting for your openness and directness about your approach, what you will and won’t do.

You built this for you and are sharing, for us to do with it as we will.

It’s an interesting idea for basic printing.

Someone else mentioned just using a calendar client that can connect to different calendars.

I use Fossify to connect to calendars through Davx, which includes my Google calendar (configured it through DavX).

This way all entries remain independent. And I can filter my calendar view based on source calendar, and all entries are color coded (automatically) by which calendar they’re on.

I know it’s not exactly what you were asking for, buy it’s one way to approach it.

Or, just completely bypass any config by simply not using IP6 for an environment where it offers no advantage

So I have an adsptrt that goes from battel to USB-C

That’s joy part of USB spec as there’s no way to communcate requirements through the barrel. Hard to blame USB for when we side-step it’s design.

I do stuff like this too, but only for devices that just need power, nothing like a laptop or with circuitry that could get fried by the wrong voltage.

Well put.

Though I’ve had little trouble using other power supplies across brands, so I wonder of this is a single HP line.

I’ve never run across this in business models - if the barrel fits it works, but each brand used their own barrel design, whether that was a different size or a pin in the middle.

And I’ve worked with many brands since the mid 90’s - I’ve deployed thousands of machines over the years - not to say I’ve seen all of them, but a lot of the major brand’s business models.

Consumer models are just garbage, so if this happens there I’m neither surprised nor concerned. I never buy consumer models - they’re garbage, and cheaper for that reason.

And now C is resolving the issue.

But you don’t know of it’ll even power up, or if the data is valid.

Printing should be relatively easy nowadays

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Meh, those designs were to ensure you got the right power supply and didn’t fry the mobo.

It’s a little of asshole design, but it also prevented warranty issues from people using the wrong PSU.

Having been on teams depliying thousands of laptops and desktops, knowing everyone had the right power supply was important - this helped us too. End users can be oblivious and will just plug in shit willy-nilly. We only had a few spare machines, and no spare time. Imagine of using a different PSU could cause problems - we could be chasing a few rogue power supplies for days.

I’m ok with this choice, even with the bit of asshole design.

Fortunately USB C adoption is making this problem go away.

No.

Cold storage is really “no storage”. A cold drive can’t tell you when an area of disk fails, or when the controller itself fails.

May as well just throw away the data, because you have no idea how much will be there when you try to power it on.

I have 8TB of data, and I get bit flips - if the drive were cold, I’d never know.

There’s no 'wearing it down" - age is age.

If anything, unpowered drives die faster because lubricants slowly harden over time.

Everything I’ve read (and from my own anecdotal experience) drives on a shelf die every bit as frequently as running drives, of not more often.

Laws may be “made up” but we all operate by them (by greater/lesser degrees) nonetheless.

Especially social laws which we all follow to get along.

So not sure what your rant is about. We all conform to varying degrees, and there are consequences to how much we choose to conform.

Speed of light, expansion of universe. The end.

Ok? And?

Are you me?

This is the exact argument I make about updating.

Without knowing, you’re just trading known risks for unknown risks.

Known risks can be managed.

Are you going to pay for a feature you’ll never use?

Engineering for 220v/50hz requires completely different wiring and componentry than for 110v/60hz.

True.

It really depends on a lot of “what ifs”.

I’ve been through the cabling thing in multiple places since 1996…

Today I run cable as-needed. If wi-fingers it done, I’m not putting in the effort for cable.

If wifi isn’t getting it done, I’ll run a single cable for the location with issues, and drop in a gigabit switch (if needed).

The days of running cable “just in case” are in the past, for me.