Lifebandit666

@Lifebandit666@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think they’re useful for one thing and one thing only, a gig/night out. When you don’t want to have some kind of battery pack to recharge your vape so you have a couple disposables in your pocket, and if you lose it, shrug, it cost a couple quid.

  That said, I back this ban wholeheartedly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC Weather app bug forecasts hurricane force winds in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere you go

  Always take the weather with you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  34 people from the UK according to the Torygraph. Loads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I know, I use Gluetun now, I was just answering OPs question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either way you’re paying lots of money to watch a man sing that can’t sing. At least with NOFX he wears a tutu too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kick back, watch it crumble

  See the drowning

  Watch the fall

  I feel just terrible about it

  That’s sarcasm, let it burn

  I’m gonna make a toast when it falls apart

  I’m gonna raise my glass above my heart

  Then someone shouts, “That’s what they get”

  For all the years of hit-and-run

  For all the piss broke bands on VH-1

  Where did all their money go?

  Don’t we all know?

  Parasitic music industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid "things going wrong" and immutable distros?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.

  The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.

  Great comment btw, it’s a good idea to have a list of the services you’d like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.

  I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid "things going wrong" and immutable distros?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a lot of posts like this and it’s always people overthinking something they haven’t tried to do yet.

  So my advice is to just do it.

  You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you’ve actually done it, you can do it again.

  Now, because you’re just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you’ve not gone out and done it yet.

  As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.

  Just do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair it IS their job to take the piss. It is just that they should be processing it instead of pumping it into rivers and such

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is It Worthwhile to Serve Video off a Server separate from my NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commenting just to add “nofail” to the fstab.

  I didn’t do this in Proxmox and then the drive stopped working and so did Proxmox. As a noob I ended up starting fresh and losing lots.

  After adding nofail the services start up, just without the NAS attached. Without nofail it just doesn’t boot.

  Nofail for the win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's first drugs consumption room to open in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About fucking time a positive step was made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get “Can I talk like a pirate” from Jake and the Neverland Pirates appear in my mind.

  “I’ve been talking this way, since my birthdays began”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just Google “Booting a pi from an SSD” and follow the steps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember the steps (they were simple though) but when my Home Assistant raspi SD card died, I bought a 128gb SSD from AliExpress and a usb-sata cable.

  I then did something to the pi that meant it can boot from the SSD, and flashed the SSD using Balenetcher or RUFUS or whatever (same program I was using to flash my SD cards basically).

  Then it was just a case of plugging in and turning it on.

  Runs exactly the same as with an SD card with less dying because SD cards aren’t meant for a lot of read/write but SSDs do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think my neighbor is hacking into my wifi so he can try to steal my beer wtf should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you manage to stop the WiFi hack he can still get in to your network through the ethernet ports. He could train an army of ants to pull a wire through a small hole in your wall and attach it to your router.

  Just in case, fill all your unused ports with yoghurt. This will drown the ants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …can you tell I didn’t read it? Thanks for that. 9% is fuck all really innit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When they tell you a number is so you go “HOW MUCH? WOW” when they should be telling you the number as a percentage of profits.

  0.5% of yearly profits doesn’t sound as big does it? I mean I’ve made that number up, but the point stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow the Left Hand Path

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if it will be friends with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Love it. I bought a sign saying “Beware of the Leopard” for my toilet door yeaterday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank You!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you notice this notice you will notice that the notice is not worth noticing, so why did you notice it?

  I remember seeing this when I was a kid, I’m old as fuck now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer to selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, except it’s Adguard for me.

  Came in handy yesterday actually. I have a friend who works for a University which was recycling some Chromebooks.

  He managed to grab 3 for me, one for myself and one for my kids.

  Problem is that one of my kids is being supervised through Google Family Link which means for some reason the Play Store won’t work.

  So he is now unsupervised in Family Link just to get the Chromebook working.

  So I’ve just given both my kids static IPs and pointed their Chromebooks at Adguard, then turned on Safe Search and adult content blocking.

  Now I’m fairly confident they’re protected from a lot of the bad shit on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a kind of yellow?

  Listen to the song, see how it sounds to.you, it’s doggy do, and they were all BEIGE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Design patterns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I die my friends will miss me like usual. Then the Plex server will go down and they’ll miss me all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve passed my display through to a VM in Proxmox for transcoding and now I can’t get the GUI for that VM.

  Is this something that would allow me to connect to that VM on another PC and use a virtual desktop?

  If so, I may have to have a play with it. I mean I’m happy away using SSH but why not have UI if I can?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing music collection easily?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know, I’ll turn it off when I get home from work, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help setting up OpenWRT for extra router⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a top of the range one from 7 years ago for £25 on eBay.

  How much are pis nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing music collection easily?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I don’t port forward, my friends that I’ve shared with can’t see the instance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing music collection easily?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imho easy mode is just throwing it on Plex and making sure your port is set up on your router for external access, then just sharing your music folder in Plex.

  No need for a domain or anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selectively chaining a VPN to another while allowing split tunnelling on clients?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem with this solution was that I have signed in to Tailscale via my Google account, and I have to buy Mullvad through Tailscale, linking my Google account to the Mullvad account.

  What I wanted to do was have my own Mullvad account and route Tailscale through it, but that wasn’t possible, I had to have Tailscale manage Mullvad, which just didn’t sit right with me.