CompactFlax
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- Comment on Apples in the Commons 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of juice from a single tree. Makes me think.
My Italian neighbour just presses his grapes and puts it in the cellar, and it turns out (after many rackings). 16 litres though, not a lot to play with. I would add Camden and commercial yeast. My preference is just to add ale yeast treat it like any beer.
- Comment on Is Authelia enough without fail2ban or crowdsec? 1 week ago:
I am not a fan of geoblocking as a first line defense but when I blocked everything outside of my country, fail2ban stopped firing, entirely.
- Comment on Last week, I posted a pic of my Vevor setup. I just finished my first brew and these are my thoughts so far 1 week ago:
I’m working hard to convince myself I don’t need this, I won’t use it, and I don’t have space, and extract brewing is just fine for what I need. Since the original post, that is. Good luck with the fermentation, I’m following along.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 2 weeks ago:
I think coral is not current and hard to get but I don’t watch too closely. Seems to still work! Reolink on camera detection is decent enough for me.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had a good experience with Reolink PoE cameras. They do RTSP and ONVIF and integrate well with Homeassistant.
- Comment on Issues with https certs locally 2 weeks ago:
I am neither stating TLS termination is wrong, nor providing instructions to cert pinning.
- Comment on Issues with https certs locally 2 weeks ago:
Firstly, wildcards are convenient but they break your functionality of authenticating the server to which you are connecting. That may or may not be inportant to you.
Doesn’t work without TLS? Start there, making sure dns and reverse proxy works, works, then add the certificate.
- Comment on Bought a new setup 2 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure they’re a white label company.
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got Pfsense installed on a device with 6 RJ45 ports. 0 is wan, 1 is lan0, 2 is lan1, etc up to 4. Why I have multiple lans is somewhat tangential.
One day it rebooted due to a power outage and WAN worked but lan1 and 2 and 3+ were messed up. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but the second physical Ethernet port was non responsive at boot and Pfsense just assigned the ports as if it never existed. I moved all the cables over one except LAN and it worked just fine. Except that of course in the troubleshooting i had moved all the assignments around and broke it thoroughly, so it took a while.
- Comment on Sometimes, when I am all alpne i like to fantasize... 1 month ago:
It’s still pretty much 2x. I managed to get ram bought before it went silly but I’m really short on storage.
- Comment on White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower 1 month ago:
The USA has the world’s oldest constitution and is the third oldest government in the world. China is a relatively young country.
- Comment on Help Fixing my Dishwasher -- It won't drain and is stop on sanitize mode 1 month ago:
Failed drain pump seems the most likely scenario, if you’re absolutely proven the pipes are clear - the drain pipe runs through the dishwasher and then cabinetry to the sink drain, and it can be a circuitous path that traps grease.
- Comment on And they didn’t have dragons 1 month ago:
It’s not like the artist wasn’t working hard to make Charles (that’s Charles II, right? There are a few generations that look similar) look absolutely gorgeous. This is the airbrushed photoshop rendition of the poor man.
- Comment on Any idea why those two drives are dramatically slower than the rest? 2 months ago:
Without googling the specs, are those two on a different channel?
- Comment on OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1 2 months ago:
I’m going on holidays tomorrow. Should I take a gamble?
- Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 2 months ago:
For a whole home system there needs to be an auto shutoff. It isolates the house.
- Comment on Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 2 months ago:
Unplug from the wall and you’re good to go. Otherwise you’re back feeding and could injure a worker.
- Comment on European-style plug-in solar could quickly cut soaring utility bills in Massachusetts 2 months ago:
For context, I’ve got experience with midsized solar and currently have a balcony-esque 500w array mounted for the correct angle for my latitude. My panels are free but the battery and inverter were about $600. I save 10-15 cents a day in summer. That’s a ridiculously long payback and it doesn’t give me enough for a backup. If I had 2-3kw solar it would be different, spreading the inverter cost more thinly.
It depends what your consumption is I suppose. If I am able to generate 20% of my consumption that’s a help, maybe I’m wrong, I feel the 500kw balcony vertical install won’t cover 20% of a household.
- Comment on European-style plug-in solar could quickly cut soaring utility bills in Massachusetts 2 months ago:
I’m thinking of the balcony solar, which seems to mostly be a couple small 200w kit panels vertically mounted. Even with south facing i don’t think it would run a refrigerator.
- Comment on European-style plug-in solar could quickly cut soaring utility bills in Massachusetts 2 months ago:
I think it’s great to invest in solar but I really question the ROI on this sort of thing. The panels aren’t optimally aligned and there’s not enough to do more than take a few cents off the bill every day.
- Comment on Now this is awkward 2 months ago:
Unit 731 was awful.
- Comment on "Bro, CLEARLY this is a sign from the gods to build our capital in a swamp!" 2 months ago:
DC is also a swamp, literally and figuratively
- Comment on Do I need a relay or something else entirely? 3 months ago:
AC and DC are different, and 230V is nearly TWENTY TIMES the rated voltage for the switch (and possibly the lamp you’re using).
I’m all for DIY and experimentation, but this is headed rapidly towards a large incendiary event which insurance may decide they are not going to pay for. Mains voltage is not to be fucked with. There are rules and regulations around how things are built to be allowed on to the market for a reason. I suggest you get a 12V transformer (certified, not from aliexpress) and work from there.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 8 months ago:
To me, docker is an abstraction layer I don’t need. VMs are good enough, and proxmox does a good job with LXCs so far.
Why would I spin up a VM and virtual network within that vm and then a container when I can just spin up a VM?
I’ve not spent time learning Docker or k8s; it seems very much a tool designed for a scale that most companies don’t operate at let alone my home lab.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 11 months ago:
Just want to add a note that flipping the main breaker de-energizes the rails but there will still be hot wires in the panel from the meter box. Exercise caution.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 11 months ago:
GFCI doesn’t change the fact that there is potentially no ground wire.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 11 months ago:
The short answer is that there’s a really strong chance that you’ve got 2 conductor wire with no ground going to the receptacles if they’ve not installed electrical outlets with a third prong. Fixing that would require running a ground cable to every outlet so configured which means cutting a lot of holes. All things considered I’d probably do a re-wire at that point. It brings into question the type of wire used and the safety of the electrical panel etc. These things age, and standards change.
I would personally want to check the receptacles that have a ground to make sure that the ground is actually hooked up to something and that it is not simply connected to the neutral, which are both bad things.
Given the variables, you’d be best to consult a professional.