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I have one from Evatek, (Taiwanese company) that was less expensive but has lasted for my home PC and work laptop dock, but it seems they are no longer making anything, not sure if they finally died off or what, but even the photo on the Amazon page of the device I have shows different branding (Greathtek) though the particular one I have is out of stock. Not sure if Greathtek, which seems to be a Chinese company, bought their KVM product business or what but seems that’s all they make and the company seems to be deeply connected with Amazon somehow. So I’m definitely not convinced the quality will have transfered over.

I’ve been getting exe’s and such since I’ve been using the tech for a decade or more, though it does seem to be more common lately. I only wish sonarr would have an option to automatically blacklist and search. But at least now it does have an option to fail the download before even attempting to import it.

Even ignoring all of the functional issues with LLMs/"AI” related to their design to never admit to not knowing and preferring to make stuff up instead (hallucinate), I have an ethical qualms about the way they are trained. Two primary issues are that they aggressively scrape data from sources that explicitly do not consent to sharing their work and the data centers which have made hardware impossibly expensive for everyone but them and are so impactful to our underfunded electrical grids that they cause brown outs that keep people from heating their homes among other things, cause major spikes that cause house fires and destroy home appliances, and create an excuse to generate power using the worst polluting generators that we had finally gotten shut down to slow climate change (personally I’m tired of the wildfires and extreme storms from climate change).

So, I personally consider it extremely unethical to use the technology for that and several other reasons which are hard to touch on exhaustively in a post like this.

Pay for the unbranded version, or set it up and replace the image with whatever you want. It’s open source and is trivial just to replace the image. I see it with different images all the time on other sites. Name and other branding is a little more work to replace, but can be done and that’s what the paid version provides.

I mean, yeah, that’s what I was saying. I want a truly free and thus FOSS version of the apps. Vaultwarden is a FOSS version of Bitwarden back end, but there aren’t really any totally FOSS apps for it. That’s what I’d like to see more of.

Sure, it’s no change for self hosters currently, but it’s one more step in moving towards a more closed platform overall. I do hope more FOSS client apps end up getting made sometime soon. I’ve been using Keyguard on Android for some time, which means the recent several breaking changes in the Bitwarden apps to the Vaultwarden backend haven’t hit me as hard, but I do still use the official apps for my laptop and desktop and Keyguard isnt fully FOSS, of course. I’d love to see some forks or brand new apps one of these days that are actually fully FOSS for both mobile and browsers. I’ve thought about doing some myself, but I have too many other projects and I also don’t have a MAC or want to pay the fees to make an iPhone version. And I abandoned my Android Developer account when they started the identity nonsense, so none of my apps are on the official store anymore and Fdroid and similar may not be viable soon, so it would only really be for myself and a few others who use alternate Android OS’s.

Sucks that it requires a Reddit account which I’ve long since abandoned along with most other social media after most embraced harmful policies and hate speech in addition to the profit-seeking through tracking. But I suppose that’s how corporate blobs support eachother.

I don’t like the idea of a third party doing MitM type intercepts. I want control over anything that sees my unencrypted data whether it’s web services or chat services, etc. So for me the VPS is worth it. But I do also use my VPS for some other services that use apps or other APIs that don’t allow for presenting the Pangolin/SSO login step, and aren’t too risky to have a bit exposed rather than the responsiveness and battery cost of the separate VPN connection. One day I need to find a better way to handle those but for now it’s fine.

I use VPS’s for things that need to be more internet facing as well as Pangolin for then connecting to a few of my home based services securely. IMHO, it’s not as good for things that require storing lots of data like video, though, since storage costs have exploded. And any private data I prefer to only have on servers I own, not a VPS. Only encrypted backups of critical data go to online storage.

I use netcup for most things though I still have one server on Hetzner that I haven’t migrated. Hetzner’s prices went up and server responsiveness went down, so I started moving away, though I also still have the storage box server there for backups as well as the one VPS.

That sucks. It was one of the few GUIs that did a good job with most aspects of Docker Swarm. I knew it was heading in a shitty direction, but I was hoping something else would come along to fill the gap in the mean time.

Yeah, but you can also use file level technology like par files for rar compressed files or file system level or hardware level tech that allows for repairing some level of corruption. This often uses a little more space depending on how much corruption you want it to be tolerant of, but again, unless you have a ton of data, even using 1.25x the space needed for the data itself might still be cost effective for most home users.

If the tape drive attaches with SATA like a regular DVD drive or HDD then just get an adapter that connects USB to SATA. USB is unlikely to be a bottleneck with how slow tape is anyway, so having it internal isn’t that important.

But tape drives are only worth it if you need a heck of a lot of cartridges or absolutely need 30 year storage rather than maybe 10 years for an offline physical hard drive (assuming they’re both stored properly). Though I have drives decades old that still have readable data. But even if you copy out the data every 5-10 years to a new HDD, you’re likely to spend less than just the tape drive itself. And drives get larger over time so you’ll need fewer of them whereas the tape drive will have a set maximum storage space. And what if the tape drive dies and the company is out of business? You may end up not being able to read your tapes. SATA on HHDs has continued backward compatibility for decades.

Anwyay, for a home user with a few hundred TB to store, I’d be surprised if the cost would be better for tape. It’s really useful for places that store a few hundred TB per day, though. That’s where tape can be a boon. The primary advantages are it takes up a lot less physical space per TB and lasts longer. And once you do get past the cost of the drives, it does eventually start to be cheaper.

Also, remember it’s way slower than a physical HDD much less an SSD. Even an HDD connected via USB.

Should specify, I need it exposed to the internet as well so I can sync it to those multiple devices when I’m at my partner’s place or traveling and so my partner can use it from her place.

And I’d prefer something that allows some type of SSO or external authentication mechanism so it can handle multiple logins with different calendars and I can put some layers of security in front of it. Radicale requires addon applications to do that and most aren’t maintained.

Supposedly Radicale can do it with a WSGI server, but I never found one I got working.

Only one that came close was Baikal, but it had some issues and development has been really slow on it. It’s been quite a few years though, maybe I will try that one again.

Definitely easy, but not really a relevant response given the community we’re in. Plus there’s a lot of use in having your calendar synced to multiple places, not just your phone.

I never found an easy solution to set up for caldav and carddav yet personally. Most are either very complex to set up or they are no longer maintained which is bad for security vulnerabilities. So, I’m still stuck with Google because I need my reminders everywhere I go…ADHD.

Yeah getting rid of windows solves many issues, LOL. I have always refused to run any server with windows, outside of being forced to at work. 😁

True, I was oversimplifying a bit. It’s not a full VM, but often it is a full OS depending on how the container was created. I’ve seen crappy containers that start with a full desktop version of Ubuntu for instance. They are often optimized installations for running virtually, but more for things like the base for VDIs, not individual application containers.

Based on a quick read it sounds like the issue will be that the bad actors won’t get dropped immediately. Meaning whatever servers and services are in front of the firewall that fail2ban configures, will still receive the performance hits. But your backend services will still be protected.

I have a server specifically set up as the ingress server. That runs fail2ban and Traefik and I have crowdsec set up with a Traefik bouncer plugin. So fail2ban runs in front of everything to catch the worst, most obviously bad stuff and drop the traffic very quickly and efficiently so it doesn’t get any further including things trying to access services other than the web services. Then crowdsec is focused on more complex threats as they flow through the reverse proxy. Seems to work the most efficiently for me, but I haven’t had a chance tondo any real analysis on how much improvement it might be over any other configuration.

I didn’t look too closely at details, but generally that’s relatively normal the more individual applications you have running, especially with the overhead of them all being virtualized. Often the overhead of running that many virtualized operating systems can be problematic depending on how the container author chose and configured the container’s OS. A lot of people seem to just randomly pick an OS for their containers just so they can distribute their application with docker as easily as possible, without considering the consequences.

Here are the options off the top of my head if disk wear is your primary concern:

1. Turn swap off at the host level. Note, though, that you may end up in bottlenecks if multiple of them do very memory intensive tasks at the same time, like image and video processing, and docker can’t swap out the VMs that are idle to the disk and be able to use the RAM fully for those active tasks. For some of those apps you can configure when they do maintenance tasks and reduce the likelihood.

2. Look at each individual VM in docker and see which are using the most swap and force docker to limit their allowed resources. You can even tell docker to make an application not use swap by setting the memory and memory-swap values to the same value or reduce their swap usage by setting memory-swapiness to a low number, or you can install those applications to the host system and configure the host to reduce swap or disallow swap usage through systemd or whatever rather than running them in docker. You may also find one of the applications you’re running has a memory leak issue. Good OSs often handle that, but who knows what IS the container is running and the docker layer is concealing from the host kernel and not handling quite as well as it being installed on “bare metal” might. Virtualization adds a lot of variables for these kinds of low level resource control scenarios. So just trying it on the host directly might reveal something if you’re interested in digging like I usually am, lol.

3. Get a second, small, inexpensive drive and set that up as the swap partition for the host.

4. Look into what database systems these are using. Often if they each are running their own separate DBMS containers, the DBMS maintenance overhead can cause some additional churn. I have a single instance of PostgreSQL and one of MariaDB running on a separate server that all of my applications connect to. Some of these applications may be not only spinning up a whole VM for the application, but an entirely other VM for their database server. Though I think some of these probably use sqlite which is just a file, I think manynof these use PostgreSQL and/or MySQL/MariaDB by default. This also helps because I only need a single backup for all of my databases. The negative is that if that DB server goes down, then all the apps go down too, but if you already have everything on one server that might not be as big of a deal. I have a lot of smaller servers running smaller subsets of applications based on their resource needs. Helps me conserve electricity rather than running one or two big servers that are almost always highly active. But I enjoy optimizing that kind of stuff, it’s tedious.

Yeah, thanks for the clarification. I know I infodumped a bit, but when it comes to safety I tend to like to make sure to mention the worst case scenarios.

If you will have additional support and a shelf below it, it might be ok to use, but yeah without a drill to make some new holes in some ears meant for another device it’s hard to say if they’d be compatible. Hole patters like that which attach on the device as opposed to the rack or standard components can really be any pattern. They have to account for both the structural integrity of the case of the device as well as what is underneath and thus would be exposed by the holes.

I just did a quick search on the model and looked at the first spec sheet that popped up, so not sure my info is correct, but its says it’s 1U and about 50lbs. That seems like it’s pushing the ability to use front ears alone. I saw something that mentioned a lot that came with adjustable depth rails, not ears. But again could be a slightly different model or different battery configuration or something.

Anyway, I’ve seen 2U ears rated for like 60lbs or so. And those are sometimes pushing it IMHO. But 1U at 50lbs would have to be extra thick and hardened to stand the torque with how narrow they’d be just based on some head physics/math, but I could be wrong.

But anyway of use use something not rated for it you might get away with it for a bit, but it would likely be really fatigued over time, especially as the rack is, bumped, shake, or moved, not to mention in an earthquake. Of it would snap and fall onto whatever is directly under it. And if there’s more than an inch or so of space there, that could be disastrous. Like what if normally you have a shelf directly under it which might be providing structural integrity to the rails to not move much. But you remove the shelf while reconfiguring, the rails flex slightly as they do, and put just enough extra torque on the ears to snap them. Now whatever was under that shelf might be a few inches lower and just that distance with 50lbs could easily destroy an unshielded component or 10. Or badly damage sheilded ones. I always think worst case whenever I’m going to exceed rated standadards even if the at may never happen. But it’s definitely not unlikely.

Personally, I’d either use side rails like the original kit said it came with, a shelf rated for the weight, or possibly both front and back ears if you have a shallow depth rack that fits it.

I hate to mention really bad options, but If you’re set on ears, it’s possible you could find some and maybe line one or two holes and drill out any that don’t line up. But make sure to take into account your compromising the weight rating if you drill. I have also seen setups with a 1U device attached to 2U ears. They attached the device at the top and then had two custom rails/beams angled up from the bottom of the ears attached where the bottom 2U device hole would have been and angled up to the rear bottom of the 1U device and somehow attached there, drilled holes and bent the ends flat or around the back I think. That gave her the additional stability to reduce the torque put on the ears when the rack moved or was bumped. Seemed like more work than it was worth, but she also had another narrow component under the UPS and these rails were positioned outside the width of that, so she didn’t lose the extra 1U from the too tall ears. But I think she might have gotten a lot of stuff free or super low cost from “dumpster diving” and she did have mad skills like that.

But I don’t do custom stuff like that on my own, expensive devices. Might add some extra support if something looks too wobbly but is still in spec, but I’d never compromise a support part, much less add my own part not intended for that use without some serious math I’m probably not interested in doing, LOL.

I know that’s a lot and I wrote quickly and didn’t have time to clean up my thoughts or double check specs, but I like to show options and consequences of choices. Usually the “right way” is more expensive initially, but saves hundreds or thousands of times as much money over the “wrong way” failing. 🙂

So find verified specs for the device, or just measure and weigh it on a bathroom scale. Then find similar parts and see what they’re rated for and don’t use parts for 2U on 1U thst doesn’t give you the support or rating listed since your attachment footprint is only half on the device, unless you’re confident enough in your metalworking skills, geometry and materials science to do what “that girl” did with the support beams, lol.

No need to have an external domain. And you can set up an internal DNS to route any domain name to any IP address. Just be sure not to point anything to your external IP address from your ISP or any globally addressable IPv6 addresses.

Issue is that it might confuse your devices that jump between internal access and external access like your phone if you use a domain name that’s owned by someone else, like example.com. I have two domains, one for my VPSs and one for internal stuff. So when my devices are outside the network they can’t resolve any of the DNS addresses that are set up inside and can’t access any of the IP addresses. That is unless I connect with vpn. I also have pangolin for a few things that are accessible externally, but that’s rare since apps can’t use those kinds of authentication systems, just web front ends.

What are the differences? I always wish forms would state how they are different, but this one pretty much just says it “diverged substantially”. Is it significant features were missing? Is it a different ethical or licensing model or different views on “vibe coding”? I’m always turned off by a project with a long AGENTS.md. It usually means “AI” is not well controlled if that much guidance is needed just for preferred coding style. And that typically means usually poor efficiency, stability, and security in exchange for fast feature implementation.

This would be the 3rd time since I’ve been using it that it has broken compatibility with Vaultwarden, but Vaultwarden always fixes it pretty quickly. But usually browser plugins end up updating before I get around to updating Vaultwarden.

Yeah it has both onetime and subscription. I got the one time for around $15.

And yeah the app is available in multiple places. For Android, I get it from a custom Fdroid repo but Obtanium would work as well. I use that for a few apps.

Yes they can both be used at the same time, though KeyPass stuff is new and beta. I’ve never used it.

There is both a subscription model and a one time payment model. I bought it with the one-time payment. I believe it was $15. But don’t quote me.

Keyguard. It’s not perfect and makes money from the paid version for syncing changes back to the server as well as offline editing that will then sync when you’re back online. But it was worth it back when I bought it, and it has never broken so far.

Thanks, probably saved me a lot of headache on my laptop browsers. Fortunately, I don’t use the official Bitwarden client on android partly because this seems to keep happening.