Trainguyrom
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- Comment on The Circle of iLife 51 minutes ago:
You could also just get a Tangara
- Comment on Hardware recommendations 1 day ago:
Why CUDA? I don’t see any services listed that would benefit at all from a GPU, and even if they later spun up a Jellyfin or similar that can always be mapped to the integrated GPU.
Better to start with something cheap and imperfect to learn what you actually need then upgrade from there
- Comment on In heat 3 days ago:
Except Google has been optimizing for natural language questions for the last decade or so. Try it sometime, it’s really wild
- Comment on Nice try 6 days ago:
This picture just makes me want an apple so badly
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 2 weeks ago:
Y’know what that was terrible writing on my part. Where I put “physical vlan” I just meant specifying each port be a specific vlan rather than a trunk port that has multiple clans on in
I should probably proofread more and write less when tired
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 2 weeks ago:
Physical wire tapping would be mostly mitigated by setting every port on the switch to be a physical vlan, especially if the switch does the VLAN routing. Sure someone could splice an ethernet cable, which would really only be mitigated by 802.1x like you already said, but every part of this threat model makes zero sense. You ultimately have to trust something (and apparently in OP’s case that’s a third party VPN provider that charges extra to not block LAN access while connected and they remain entirely on the free tier of)
But at the very least, not trusting everything on the network is a very enterprise kind of threat model, so using standard enterprise practices of network segmentation, firewalling, and potentially MAC-binding and 802.1x if so desired isn’t a bad idea, if for no other reason than it might lead to a career in network administration. And honestly I mostly want to get OP to not think of VPNs like a magical silver bullet and see what other tools exist in the toolbox
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 2 weeks ago:
Wait you’re seriously using a free VPN?
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds far more likely that either someone misunderstood that residential IPs change frequently/may be shared by multiple subscribers or the ISP made an error when responding to a subpeana and provided the incorrect IP. Unfortunately both are all too common with privacy enforcement
If you really think the ISP router is snooping and can’t by bypassed you could simply double-NAT your network with a trusted router and call it a day. Much less VPNing and much less unusual decisions of trust and threat model involved then
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 2 weeks ago:
But supposing you absolutely do not want to tack on additional costs, then the only solution I see that remains is to set up a private VPN network, one which only connects your trusted devices. This would be secure when on your I trusted LAN, but would be unavailable when awat from home.
Traditionally this would be performed by creating a dedicated network of trusted devices. Most commonly via a VLAN for ease of configuration. Set the switch ports that the trusted devices are connected to to use that vlan and badabing badaboom you’re there. For external access using Tailscale or one of the many similar services/solutions (such as headscale, netbird, etc.) with either the client on every device or using subnet routing features to access your trusted network, and of course configure firewalls as desired
- Comment on Hotel prices 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that a screengrab from one of the muppets films?
- Comment on This is unfair! 2 weeks ago:
Link for anyone like me who’s one of today’s lucky 10,000
- Comment on I do this all the time when both my hands are full and I'm a bit excited in my pants 2 weeks ago:
I give that a 50/50 chance that the sign is a prank vs the sign is actually necessary
- Comment on Release the kraken 2 weeks ago:
It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.
Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right
Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
LLMs have been trained so heavily on Linux documentation that you can even have it hallucinate a Linux terminal at you!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
The “support” most importantly includes security updates. You better bet every hacking group has been working at finding fresh zero days for Windows 10 and is stockpiling them to start hammering any PCs that can’t be upgraded this October
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They’re more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it’s closer to a plane than a boat
- Comment on Late 1900s 4 weeks ago:
My local classic rock station classifies “classic rock” as released >25 years ago. They play Green Day fairly regularly now
- Comment on You're* 5 weeks ago:
I believe getting fucked is in fact the intention
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 weeks ago:
The sad thing is Roku’s UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
That’s literally what the representative from the charity said they did in the linked article
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
My last go-around with Linux gaming was pre-steam deck. I think it ended around 2018ish? So it’s been long enough I should probably give Linux a real try again sometime
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
However, Linux still lacks some popular applications, such as Microsoft Office and Slack, though alternatives are available.
Lol nice bait. Real talk though, just toss shortcuts to word.office.com, excel.office.com and outlook.office.com on the desktop and nobody will be any wiser
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Generally the best option is for all property taxes for education to go into one pot to by divided up fairly across all school districts in the state, that way wealthy areas don’t end up with over funded schools while rural areas and poor areas get poorly funded schools
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
It’s more like a tax, you choose to purchase land from the city, and in exchange you must pay the city annually for the privilege of owning the land, and if you don’t for long enough the city might seize the land from you. Could even call it a property tax…
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 1 month ago:
You’re right! I finished Sourcery like 6 months ago and have read a bunch of other books since then so my memory was kinda foggy. But that’s exactly it, the magic exists and can be powerful but it’s simply more trouble than it’s worth
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 1 month ago:
I think you might have responded to the wrong comment?
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 1 month ago:
This is the one thing I really appreciated about the Discworld books on a recent re-read. The wizards are hilariously incapable of doing anything useful. Terry Pratchett doesn’t give a super clear series of rules for the magic system but it’s abundantly clear that the wizards are incapable of actually useful magic, and mostly just get too tired up in internal power struggles to ever do anything. And in the book Sourcery, the first sourcerer (one who can create new spells) to grace the disc takes over the world, realizes running the entire world is too stressful and tedious then creates his own pocket dimension to play with magic in instead (I’m oversimplifiing here, skipping over a bunch of interpersonal stuff related to a sentient wizard’s staff run by a dead guy who tricked Death among other details but that’s the general gist)
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Honestly asking: what other way would anyone suggest to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?
The bigger question is “do Americans actually want these jobs?” According to the JOLTS surveys for the last several quarters there’s about 100,000 open manufacturing jobs that are not getting filled, in a labor market sized about 500,000. Simply put, it’s abundantly clear that people don’t want the manufacturong jobs that do exist
I also saw this from the inside when I worked my last job with a company that does contract cleaning services for industrial facilities. Nobody wants to work industrial sanitation, and they end up primarily hiring immigrants and ex-convicts as they’re the only people desperate enough to take these industrial sanitation jobs. And it’s not for lack of pay or benefits, the fact is the nature of the work sucks!
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll
This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 1 month ago:
That’s more than I can afford to be donating right now