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Yeah that’s the proper way to do it.

There’s a guy at work constantly asking AI everything on his second screen. He came to me after failing to figure out an issue using it. I said “oh yeah let’s look at the documentation, I bet there’s an example for this exact scenario” and sure enough there was. Made the change, tested and working.

On the other hand, any time I want to do something with Ansible, I start off reading the docs, can’t find what I need, scour a bunch of search results, and when that fails somehow AI can produce a working example of what I need in a few tries.

No, most public ones are fine. Always have been. I’ve never used a private tracker and have had very few issues. Especially after using Radarr, etc. to pick out good and bad torrents.

Why not run just the VPN on the VPS instead of opening everything directly?

Opnsense on whatever. Plus pihole for DNS/adblock.

it’s really easy to set up secondary nameservers as a mirror

You assume a resolver will actually proceed to the secondary ns and not just give up when the first one is down. There is a lot of badly-behaved software out there.

Yes.

Anubis provides a non-cutesy version. The only one dying on a hill here is you guys refusing to consider it.

Excellently corporate, I can already hear the MBAs salivating over how blandly cookie-cutter it is.

Then what’s the point of this post?

I need to convince others to want to use the tool.

Why? They asked for options, you gave them the best one, they dismissed it. Let them pay through the nose for the big corporate system if that’s what they want to do.

Use whatever channel the developer provides.

Everyone deserves to be paid for their labor, since we don’t live in a post-scarcity world.

There are no available seeders on that torrent. Pick a different one.

I certainly wouldn’t give people admin. Too much risk of them accidentally breaking stuff.

Setting up the newfangled security thing. TLS, DKIM, DMARC, SPF are the big ones over the years. Finding out you’ve been silently blackisted by a provider and hoping and praying they’ll answer your request to unblock. Managing your own spam filter.

I pay a group of schoolchildren to refresh a group of browser tabs and yell if anything isn’t responding.

There are plenty of previous threads with recent answers if you search.

Yes. My stuff is only for me, so the only way I find out something isn’t working is when I go to use it. But that almost never happens.

The only actual notifications I get is for updates.

I buy all of mine used from random people via ebay. I’ve had a few DOA, and a few start throwing errors after a few years. No issues getting replacements or refunds from sellers within the warranty period. Never had one outright fail, nor have I lost any data from this.

I just checked and it turns out two of my drives are over 95,000 hours, that’s nearly 11 years! And they’re still going strong with no errors!

Yeah I’d use it as a media PC, but that’s because that’s what I need right now. Otherwise I’d just fuck around with it.

What has that got to do with it? I’m still going to run stuff on my own hardware regardless of what AI companies are doing.

No, there is not one resource for all of these things. Any guide that takes you end to end setting up one service is going to omit a lot of important context. I would research each step individually.

What are you running on your router? If you use opnsense, I’m pretty sure it has a GUI for DNS stuff. Been a while since I’ve used it.

If you use pihole for DNS, you can set it up in there too, but it’s not the same process as most other systems.

A router shouldn’t be sending that traffic outside. It should already have routes to send it right back, either regular or NAT rules.

Why not just grant the permission to the apps?

Something weird is going on with votes. Idk if it’s just me or a federation problem.

No more than any other electrical device.

At least you have logging!

It’s something about how the charging circuitry is constructed. I’ve asked a handful of electrical engineers about it but they’ve never given me a good answer. My guess is that it’s easier/cheaper to design and build a circuit that only powers the phone off the battery, and only uses DC to charge the battery.

If it promotes the project, it’s a promotion, and falls under the rules about AI.

You should put a webcam showing the server log scrolling on the phone screen. Sanitized of any sensitive info, of course.

What router? 12v5a is 60w max, which is not an unreasonable amount of power. A 1500va UPS should power it for like two hours or more.

You could easily wire it up to something like that. Take the power cable, cut off the wall wart, connect the positive wire (usually red, could be white) to the positive terminal, the negative to the ground terminal. Cut off the head of a power lead, connect the live, neutral, and ground to their terminals on the AC side. Plug your battery in, the power lead into the wall, and you’re done. Check everything with your multimeter before actually wiring it up if you’re not sure. You do have one and know how to use it, right?