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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does university email give you any free server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloud options:

  • Microsoft Azure offers credits for edu emails I think, and I think you can renew it annually. Also check their B1 servers. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students
  • Google free tiers: docs.cloud.google.com/free/…/free-cloud-features#…
  • AWS | Not sure on this one, their website is confusing, but look into it: aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
  • GitHub “student developer pack” education.github.com/pack
  • Oracle cloud “always free” options, bottom of this page: www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
  • InterServer(never heard of them before) offers 1 year of web hosting: my.interserver.net/student_signup.php

  Self-Host locally options:

  Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.

  If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  3 arm Tux, nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why anyone is still using Verizon.

  US Mobile has access to their networks and it’s cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.

  Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.

  People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we’re in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

  I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

  That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

  I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

  And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post and I agree 100%!

  something new shows up

  Doesn’t even have to be a new thing either. Video games are still used as a scapegoat. Same as with music, and TV shows, and movies.

  The “internet” is still killing teenagers because of social media bullying.

  I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And new computers can break.

  Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where I’m at. I’m selling off some old DDR3 RAM I have and I’m hanging onto my DDR4 stuff and systems.

  Just bought a 3700X to replace an aging Ryzen 1700X. $100 on eBay, so not bad.

  For your 5800X if it does die(*knock on wood) then at least you can snag a 5700X or 5800X on eBay for $200. Hopefully that stays consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like someone used that shadify url generator lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and the e-waste centers will clean up the hardware and resell it.

  It’ll be a flood into the market. Supply and demand and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a Self-Hosted Music Server with Discovery & Recommendation Features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised to not see this suggestion, but Plex does music pretty well and they have an app dedicated for music/audio called “Plexamp”. Though I don’t think this app is on things like AppleTV/Roku(haven’t looked).

  It’s so-so when it comes to playlist building…but the app on mobile works and I use it for audiobooks mainly, but I am starting to plan to use it switch off Spotify here soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosted Document & Budgeting Automation: Paperless-ngx, Firefly III, and n8n – Good Idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or should I consider other software?

  Unfortunately I had similar thoughts and plans that you outline here(receipt scanning into budgeting), but the amount of work involved was…too much for my liking.

  I instead opted for a paid solution, which is Monarch: www.monarch.com

  It’s $100 a year, but they have a promotion(they always run promotions), where you can do your first year for 50% off with code: NEWYEAR2026

  So far my wife and I have been loving Monarch. We linked our bank accounts and other financial institutions(401k, brokerages, IRAs, etc.) and everything mostly “just works”. There is an odd time or two where a bank account needs to be re-signed into to re-auth because token/api expired/changed, but again, the app works and does things well.

  I’d suggest looking into it. I’m usually a huge proponent of self-hosting everything, but this is one of the few things I caved on…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ukraine isn’t a civil war.

  And OP is describing the purge one minute and then a normal Monday morning the next.

  Again, no one in the US would be going to work if it was going purge style once the shit hits the fan. I have everyone of all walks of life around me(Dems, conservatives, white people, Mexicans, Asians, etc). Someone, somewhere, will be crazy enough to start driving around in giant pickup trucks and start shooting anyone that is “too brown”.

  I’m not risking that happening to me or my family. I will force everyone to be home for a week before things calm down.

  We’ve already had domestic terrorists hit our power grids and Jan 6th happened. You don’t think once a “civil war” happens things aren’t going to get worse immediately?

  “But everyone has bills to pay” cool, and there are more guns than people in the US, something Ukraine didn’t have to deal with because they’re a sane country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So everyone will be killing everyone, but you still think people are going to go to their jobs to pay bills?

  If a civil war happens, no one is going to work. Anyone that does will get gunned down.

  If anything pops off, my first priority is protecting my family, which means staying home and barricading and waiting a few days before leaving to do recon.

  From there either we’ll know if police, national guard, and/or the military will be involved. What states are doing what, and you’ll have local families/communities forming.

  Money won’t be a thing, no one is going to work.

  Which is why a civil war won’t happen, it’ll crash the economy globally and the 1% can’t have that, so all of this is moot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked for me? Not sure if OP changed it, but it goes to the latest repo just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire internet? Whatever problem you had on windows you can just Google it and there’s either a YouTube video, reddit thread, or some obscure forum post that fixes your exact issue by copy and pasting some Powershell commands or a random bat file or GitHub project.

  Linux? It’s gotten better, but the community side can get quite toxic or outright ignorant of how to troubleshoot any kind of issues tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, Steam Deck + EmuDeck and using the “Eden” switch emulator. I have the same or better performance than when I did with Yuzu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would appreciate some type of custom attributes, but the notes section works fine as-is, so definitely not a huge “need” IMO.

  I have used Monica/other CRMs in the past, but they all felt a bit too corporate or “sales” driven like you said in your OP.

  I spun up a quick docker instance in my test environment and I’m using it right now, it’s been quite solid! I do have some confusion with how relationships get applied(from/to in regards to child/parent), but I believe I just need to use it a bit more to get used to the “flow” of how it is supposed to work.

  My biggest want/need is being able to select multiple people at once to add to another person, so I guess a “bulk” edit or multi-select. Like adding 10 “child” to one “parent” at once if all of the children have already been created. Or if some logic can be applied where if one parent(dad) has three children, then you add a spouse(mom) to dad, then nametag can auto-add or offer to bulk edit the three children to add the new spouse(mom) as a parent too? Just quicker/better/fluid workflow.

  Again, the site as-is is already solid. Just some fine-tuning IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks great. I’m running a Teable instance, but sometimes it feels like it is “too much” sometimes.

  I think I’ll deploy this for fun to check out. I don’t see anything specific here for things like gift ideas or favorite flowers/colors?

  I’m using Teable to track things like that, but I love the visualization here, reminds me of my obsidian mind map lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah classic IPoAC!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run my webservers behind a pfsense firewall with ssl offloading(using a wildcard cert) with a static IP and use Haproxy to have sub-domain’s go to individual servers. Even though I’d seen my fair share of scans, I only ever expose port 443 and keep things updated.

  Recently though someone on here mentioned routing everything over Tailscale via a VPS. I didn’t want to pay for a VPS and frankly can’t even find one that is reasonably priced in the US(bandwidth limits mainly), so I threw Tailscale onto my pfsense, setup split-dns on Tailscale’s admin panel with my domain name, and then reconfigured Haproxy to listen on my Tailscale interface. Even got IPv6 working(huge pain due to a bug it seems). Oh and setup pfblocker.

  My current plan is I’m going to run my webservers behind Tailscale and keep my game servers public and probably segment those servers to a different vlan/subnet/dmz/whatever. And maybe just have a www/blog landing page that is read only on 443 and have it’s config/admin panel accessible via my tailscale only.

  Anyway, back on topic. I run my game servers and I don’t advertise them out anywhere(wildcard cert) and do whitelist only, yet I still see my minecraft servers get hit constantly on port 25565.

  So not much you can do except minimize exposure as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reverse proxy over vpn without docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked, I guess USA servers only include 1TB of bandwidth, EU gets 20TB included.

  Absolutely wild lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reverse proxy over vpn without docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I’ll have to look into this then…gotta find a VPS that will hopefully have a Los Angeles location and have decent traffic bandwidth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reverse proxy over vpn without docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly never thought to use a VPS like that before. We’ve all seen using a VPS as a VPN exit node. Do you run into quota limits on the VPS or Tailscale side? Too many requests/data?

  I’m gonna have to look into this for fun lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reverse proxy over vpn without docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you explain your setup a bit more? Because my understanding is:

  Let’s say you have a blog website in your homelab. To access the blog you have to: you go to your VPS’s hostname/IP, from there the VPS forwards your request over tailscale to your homelab which then responds with your blog website?

  If that’s the case, why even have the VPS and instead just use tailscale to access your homelab directly?

  Unless you intend to have the VPS be a load balancer in some way? Or a filter/firewall? Or you can’t do a static IP for your homelab but you want it to be publicly accessible?

  Just trying to understand why you’re doing it this way. I love seeing all the crazy ways people can set things up like this lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL there is a whole ass mediawiki for explaining XKCD comics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox with arr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proxmox recommends to not install anything directly on the proxmox host/baremetal.

  Personally I would set this up as:

  Proxmox installed on whatever single disk or raid 1 array.

  Create a TrueNAS(or whatever OS you want) VM inside Proxmox. Mount the rest of the drives directly to the TrueNAS VM via Proxmox’s interface.

  In the TrueNAS VM take the drives that were mounted directly to it and setup your array and pool(s) to your preference.

  Now, I’d say you have two paths from this point:

  • Inside the TrueNAS VM use their tools to create a VM within TrueNAS and use that for your arr stack.

  OR

  • Go back to Proxmox and create another VM or container and setup your arr stack in that container and point it to your TrueNAS via network mounts using internal networking from within proxmox(virtual bridge with a virtual LAN).

  Either option has pros and cons. Doing everything inside TrueNAS will be a bit more simple, but you do complicate your TrueNAS setup and you’re at the mercy of how TrueNAS manages VMs(backups, restores, etc.). On the reverse with Proxmox, setting up the vmbridge and doing the network mounts is more work initially, but keeping the arr stack in a Proxmox VM/container lets you do direct snapshots and backups of the arr stack, and if you ever need to rebuild it or change it to another arr style set of tools then you can blow away the Proxmox VM and start fresh and resetup the network mounts.

  Or don’t do any of the above and just install TrueNAS on the box directly as the baremetal OS and do everything inside TrueNAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0 bytes free is a broken environment. So that requires a fix during moratorium IMO.

  Mint 21 still has support until 2027, so not exactly needed…but I get it when you only see certain family members during specific times of the year.

  I’m just saying doing a full migration from ESXI to Proxmox and having to backup all VMs and import them or recreate and doing this during the holidays…I’d rather just sit on the couch and enjoy family time than be stuck in my garage or glued to my laptop.

  Upgrading a family member’s laptop while shooting the shit with everyone while drinking a beer or something is just fine. Don’t need 100% focus, you’re good there man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At work we have a nearly 2 week moratorium that covers Christmas and New Years. We do zero changes unless something breaks on its own. So everyone can take time off without worrying too much.

  So I do the same for my homelab. I’ll spin up new stuff for fun(new docker containers to try out new apps), but I don’t touch my stable stuff. No reboots, no updates, no image pulls, nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder where they got 100hr?

  I wonder if there’s some metric they’re going off of where the majority of the subscriber base only plays less than 100hrs and the “abusers” or whales play over the 100hr mark.

  100hr / 30 days is 3.3 hours a day. Which as a father of two… I’d be lucky to get that much in a day.

  100hr / 20 days(5 days a week) is 5 hours a day.

  100hr / 8 days (weekends only gaming) is 12.5 hours a day.

  None of these are outrageous and probably are the “average” user of the service.

  Now if you’re doing 8 or 12 hours a day for 30 days, that’s 240-360 hours a month. Which is pretty much gaming full time.

  I think 100 hours is a weird number to land on. I think 120 hours makes more sense (4 hours a day over 30 days).

  I do expect Nvidia to lower the hours over time. Expect to see 80 hours or 50 hours soon IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already trying out LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile.

  So far everything is working, probably another week of testing/using and then I’ll just uninstall Firefox.