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All of them? Maybe an international consortium that pays devs in their home currency.

kubernetes

Kubernetes isn’t just resource isolation, it encourages splitting services across hardware in a cluster. So you’ll get more latency than VMs, but you get to scale the hardware much more easily.

Those terms do mean something, but they’re a lot simpler than execs claim they are.

Idk, I explicitly set up Postgres, which took extra work since the default is SQLite. I use Postgres for my day job, so it makes sense to me to keep everything the same.

I use Postgres, because MySQL touched me inappropriately as a kid and MariaDB is too similar. Oh, and also because it’s what I use at work.

If you need to fix something, you should know what it is.

We also use waiter/waitress, maître d’, and sometimes steward/stewardess (esp. on airplanes). There’s technically a difference:

• waiter/waitress - brings food
• server - person the customer interacts with (i.e. takes orders)
• maître d’ (hotel) - head of wait staff
• steward/stewardess - serving customers is usually a secondary duty

I think “server” has become more popular because it’s gender neutral, but “waiter/waitress” is still quite common and most don’t make the distinction between the two.

I personally like the overlap between computer server and restaurant server because both exist to provide things upon request. The term “wait” that “waiter” comes from is pretty archaic.

Yeah, Windows isn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that’s impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren’t familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.

Don’t pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you’ll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.

What’s wrong with “server”? They serve you food, much like a computer server serves files.

Yup, that’s the form I’m familiar with. Most idioms avoid gender entirely.

Can’t you just send your link to them over SMS, IM, or email? Is the main difference that you can do this from the UI?

I guess entering a code on the TV is pretty cool though. Maybe I’ll poke around in the Jellyfin community to see what the interest is in such a feature, because it should be possible w/ minimal hosting costs.

I haven’t set up Kodi, but I would assume the go-to here would be a minidlna, samba, or nfs server w/ Kodi providing the FE.

Assuming they’re not salted hashes.

I haven’t used Plex, so I’m not exactly sure what it’s doing, but I’m guessing it presents you some sort of search to find the server? Isn’t that pretty much the same as a domain name, just w/ a search bar instead of a URL bar? If your domain is easy to remember, I guess I don’t see an issue. I’ve also heard you can connect to multiple servers, so maybe that’s what people are talking about.

Regardless, I think Jellyfin could handle both. Get some community-funded STUN relay servers to handle discovery and implement a way (if it doesn’t already) to have your client connect to multiple servers. There should also be a way to copy all the configs from one client to another (say, a QR code or UUID, settings copied over the same STUN server).

My main issue is that this could open up servers to more potential attack vectors, and Jellyfin already has some security weaknesses. But other than that, I’d be happy to help implement this sort of thing, a STUN server can be run on as little as a $5 VPS.

I’m considering it. Our storage needs are modest (8TB capacity, 2-3TB stored), our HDDs are getting long in the tooth, and I want to downsize so it can fit under my bed and plug directly into the router (it’s currently connecting over wifi). So something relatively inexpensive could convince me to switch.

PCIe 3.0 is 1 GB/s per lane. So nothing life changing, but still reasonably fast (way faster a HDD). If you rarely need swap, you should be fine for the few times you do.

Sure. I just don’t see myself needing more than 8GB RAM, especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap. It’s a simple NAS running Jellyfin (max 1-2 clients) and a handful of other services.

If I need more RAM, chances are I’ll also need more CPU as well, in which case a larger upgrade is in order. If I truly only need more RAM, I could pretty easily move some services to an SBC like a Raspberry Pi.

It’s certainly a bummer, but not a deal breaker. If the price is right and I can find inexpensive enough NVMe drives, I can compromise a bit on RAM.

Yeah, my NAS uses 3GB out of my 16GB total. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it use more than 5GB.

Eh, 12GB is plenty for me. I’m currently using ~3GB out of 16GB, so I’m nowhere close to that cap.

I’ve been on the lookout for a quiet, inexpensive NAS that I can put under my bed and forget about. I currently have 2x8TB in a mirror, and I’m only using 2-3TB.

In fact, I might even feel comfortable eliminating the RAID w/ SSDs once I clean up our backup strategy (yes, RAID isn’t a backup, I know and I feel bad).

Never point your DNS at two different IP addresses like this. It will only cause you pain and unexpected behaviour.

Why?

I have a similar setup, but to add to the problem, I’m also behind CGNAT. Here’s my setup:

• LAN - 192.168… addresses
• WAN - 10… address from ISP
• VPS - public address

To access my LAN from outside, I have a WireGuard tunnel to my VPS.

The address my DNS resolves to is absolutely unrelated to any addresses my router understands. So to prevent traffic to my locally hosted resources from leaving my LAN, I need my DNS to resolve to local addresses. So I configured static DNS entries on my router to point to local addresses, and I have DHCP provide my router as the primary DNS source and something else as a backup.

This works really well, and TLS works as expected both on my LAN and from outside my LAN. The issue OP is seeing is probably with a non-configured device somewhere that’s not querying the local DNS server.

I think it’s a chicken and egg problem. A FOSS Roku-replacement needs apps to make get popular, and manufacturers won’t port their apps until it’s popular. Basically, manufacturers need someone with a big marketing budget to help them feel comfortable investing in a platform, but that’s not going to happen with a nice FOSS platform.

Maybe if we collectively raise like $100M or something, we could put together a big enough marketing budget to convince some of the bigger names (Netflix, HBO, etc) to take the risk, and the rest will follow if it’s popular enough. Maybe.

Far more than I can reasonably support:

• self hosted things I use - caddy, the document foundation, Jellyfin, Forgejo, etc
• Android apps - F-Droid, NewPipe, Signal, RethinkDNS, etc
• desktop apps - flatpak, For, Godot, etc
• infrastructure stuff - let’s encrypt, openssh, Linux distros (mine doesn’t accept donations unfortunately), etc

But the short list for now is:

• Let’s Encrypt
• Signal
• F-Droid

And I’ll probably run a Tor relay or something as well.

I like to estimate by cost per congressperson, which is ~$7.5M/year. So the whole of OTF is about 3 congresspeople (and their staff), that sounds fair.

Fortunately, those projects still exist and we all have an opportunity to financially support them.

Same. I’ve been thinking about who to donate to this year, and it looks like they’re making the cut. I’ll probably also throw some money at my Lemmy instance and a handful of projects I use, including Tor, because apparently they got caught in the dragnet too.

Let’s put some numbers on all of this. The OTF’s total budget slowly raised from ~$10M in 2019 to a grand total of $40M in 2023, almost half of all allocated funds by Congress to promote Internet freedom globally.

That’s an incredibly tiny amount of money.

More recently, Congress had directed that - for both the fiscal years of 2024 and 2025 - the funding should be “not less than $43,500,000”, which guaranteed an income stream for 2025 too.

Looks like some spicy legal action will suck up a lot of those cuts…

My top 10 on Steam:

1. Europa Universalis 4
2. Risk
3. Cities Skylines
4. Magic: Arena
5. Yakuza 3
6. Yakuza 0
7. Yakuza Kiwami 2
8. LEGO Marvel Superheroes (with my kids)
9. FTL
10. Yakuza Kiwami

It turns out Yakuza games have a lot of side content…

Maybe make a separate post for it?

Europa Universalis Ultimate

It’s my favorite game, but you really need to put in a ton of time to really get much out of it.

That said, EU5 is probably going to be announced sometime next year given the dev diaries we’ve had, which means this will probably get another steep discount (and maybe a Humble Bundle or something) and you may want to just get the next game after a year or so. It’s a good price IMO, but I only recommend getting it if you’ll play it in the next few months.

Bummer, I missed the sale. Now it’s infinitely more expensive at $0.99, $1.99 if you get the orange box bundle.

Jk, I’ve had the game for years. If you haven’t played it, $0.99 is well worth the price of admission.