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- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 9 months ago:
In grad school I picked up a free used HP LaserJet. It had Ethernet, and could use generic/off brand cartridges. Yeah it was big and noisy but it was an awesome workhorse and it Just Worked (with out-of-the-way box CUPS/Linux support too, IIRC).
How the mighty have fallen.
- Comment on What should I use my RPi4 9 months ago:
Immich! It’s an amazing self hosted Google Photos replacement.
Zigbee definitely fun with HomeAssistant. I have an SLZB-06M adapter which has PoE (important for me) and is a fairly “open” product (don’t need to jump through hoops to flash firmware). I read somewhere that it may offer Thread support at some point but wouldn’t count on that.
- Comment on Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming 9 months ago:
When I was in college, working for Google was a dream job for a lot of my friends. I have to think that hiring from that position is awesome — lots of really smart, motivated, enthusiastic grads, and you get to pick the best. I wonder if all that has changed?
Old article, and yes, “corporations are not friends” yada yada: businessinsider.com/tech-companines-that-havent-h…
If I’m ever in the market for another job and have the luxury of choice, the layoff question will be pretty high up.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn’t risk it were I the dev, but just curious.
It’s pathetic that I’ll happily recommend my Emporia Vue2 energy monitor to folks running HA — not because it works out of the box, but because the company is aware of the community integration projects and seems ok with it, even if they don’t actually support it. (ESPHome Firmware flash gives you local control — It’s been pretty great!)
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn’t risk it were I the dev, but just curious.
- Comment on VPN to home network options 10 months ago:
As others have said, I’d play with routing/IP forwarding such that being VPN’d to one machine gives you access to everything — basically I would set it up as a “road warrior” VPN (but possibly split tunnel on the client [yes I know, WireGuard doesn’t have servers or clients but you know what I mean]).
Alternately, I think you could do some reverse proxy magic such that everything goes through the WireGuard box — a.lan goes to service A, b.lan to service B, etc., but if you have non-http services this may be a little more cumbersome.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 10 months ago:
I’m really liking my orange pi 5 Plus. Wasn’t able to get the 32GB version, but 16GB is realistically more than I need anyway.
Main bonus for me over RPi is the RAM and storage — SD, eMMC, and NVME. The dual NICs and extra efficiency cores are a nice perk, too.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
Cannot recommend Immich enough as a self-hosted Photos alternative. Obviously not a drop in replacement, and if you don’t want to self-host it’s not really feasible. But it is just awesome.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 10 months ago:
On the other hand, a completely open ecosystem works well too — ARM for Linux feels exactly like ARM on x86/64 in my experience. Granted this is for headless stuff on an (RPi and Orange Pi, both ARM, both running Debian), but really the only difference is the bootloader situation.
- Comment on Duderon 10 months ago:
Shut the fuck up, Alexander! You’re out of your element.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 10 months ago:
Important to note though that air resistance is nonlinear — it uses less energy to get from A to B slowly than quickly.
- Comment on Friday night plans? 10 months ago:
Toss up between VOY and DS9 for me (VOY catchier but a little more saccharin). TNG just a bit too…exuberant.
VOY fun to really ham it up on the piano though.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
Big difference for me between the RPi 5 and orange pi 5 Plus is more RAM and m.2 NVME support on board. It also has four additional efficiency cores and dual 2.5G NICs, but that’s less important to me.
Downside is it has a less polished ecosystem.
Overall though I’ve been happy! But I also love my collection of raspberry pis, so it’s a matter of taste I guess.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
I’m fortunate enough to not be in a position where money is tight for food, but re: beans and rice, I absolutely love my instant pot!
Mexican-style beans are, IMHO, delicious, easy to make, and dirt cheap. I love them, our toddler loves them, and it’s easy on the wallet. Dry beans are really affordable, and a 25lb bag of rice is great to have in the pantry (note: careful with bulk brown rice as I think it can go rancid). A stove and a pot can do both, but an instant pot and a rice cooker makes it so easy.
I also drink a fair amount of coffee, but again, bulk or even just “make coffee at home” is very affordable. A few cups at Starbucks costs the same as a pound of beans (which yields many cups).
- Comment on Male Loneliness 10 months ago:
Prohibitively expensive for many though. Long distance, and especially international, could be super pricey.
- Comment on In The Eagles song "Take It Easy" the first verse states he has 7 women on his mind, later he is admiring a girl in Winslow, Arizona...maybe another girl isn't what this guy needs. 10 months ago:
Fuck you, man! If you don’t like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab!
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
I think this is hard to answer because there’s no “one way” to do this.
Do you want it accessible only in your house, and you’re running something like a raspberry pi? That’s one set of instructions.
Do you want it accessible from anywhere in the world, with proper TLS? That’s a little more complicated, and there are a million ways to do this — do you want to self host and expose public IP? Self host using a VPN as the entry point? Host on a VPS?
I would recommend playing around with it first. This is easiest if you can get a well-supported environment, so something like a raspberry pi is best IMHO if you want to play around with minimal frustration.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
It really is. I absolutely love the shared link functionality, with the ability to easily set an expiration date and manage existing shared links.
It’s made taking pictures a lot more fun for me.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
How many photos? It’s a very good user experience for me, with 123GB library (23k+ photos, 1k+ videos). Fairly entry-level Samsung phone and iPhone 13, both work great.
Running on an Orange Pi 5 Plus.
Absolutely love Immich. Was previously running on an RPi 4 w/4GB RAM, but with the other services I had on there I needed to disable ML. Orange Pi 5 Plus (16GB RAM) and it’s just a dream. Kicked off ML/facial recognition before bed and it was done in the morning. Migration from RPi to OPi was straightforward.
- Comment on What can I do with an old laptop? 10 months ago:
Oracle. Philosophical issues aside I’ve been happy, and can’t beat the price. Bandwidth is pretty limited, but that’s not a huge problem for me right now.
- Comment on Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects 10 months ago:
+1 for the Oracle solution. I use one for my public IP, and port forward over WireGuard to my home. They claim something like 480Mbps, but it’s nowhere near that, at least for external traffic. But in any event I’ve been using it for a few months with no real complaints.
And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host services to get away from big corporations, but relying on Oracle to do so.
- Comment on NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations 10 months ago:
Cool! I just got an Orange Pi 5 Plus, 16GB RAM**, but haven’t set it up yet so can’t give any recommendations. On paper though it looks great — significantly beefier than a RPi 4 (my current server), and supports M.2 NVME as well. Might be worth looking into for your use too, but the emphasis here is kinda on computing with a very low power budget, so I’m sure you could get more horsepower with e.g. an x64 NUC or similar.
Here’s a review, and note that this is without extra heatsink so it was probably thermally throttling (as was the RPi?): www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-5
**I first ordered the 32GB version but it got seized for counterfeit postage, and then some shenanigans ensued. If buying from Amazon I would suggest only buying units in stock and shipped from Amazon. May only apply to US though…
- Comment on NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations 10 months ago:
How much do you care about power/energy usage?
Also, how important is having one do-it-all server vs. a few separate servers? Sounds like you’re ok with at least two servers (Pi turns into HA OS, and you get a new one for everything else).
- Comment on Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threads 10 months ago:
Yeah all the EEE/“Threads will kill us” talk reminds me of how Slack killed IRC by first offering an IRC gateway, and then killing off support. And after that IRC literally died.
/s
I saw a post here about how Threads’ biggest enemy at this point is antitrust, and a federated approach is a clever way around that. I think that makes much more sense than the EEE narrative.
- Comment on Danke meme 10 months ago:
I think I saw this earlier on Lemmy, but without the red text spelling it out. I think I prefer that ever-so-slightly more subtle version.
- Comment on What can I do with an old laptop? 10 months ago:
I did that — free VPS w/public IP, WG to my router. Works great!
- Comment on VPN on TMobile home 5G internet calyx 10 months ago:
Never used TailScale but I know it’s WireGuard based. Does it do keepalive by default? I was having issues with VPS (WireGuard peer with static IP) not being able to ping my network (router as WireGuard peer with dynamic IP and no port forwards). Sounds like this isn’t what’s going on here but just in case…
- Comment on Access control for selfhosted services via VPS? 10 months ago:
Thanks! So, for local (not VPN) traffic I like to access the local IP for bandwidth reasons — would you then just set up SSL on both the local server and the VPS?
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 10 months ago:
After setting up my own network, and trying to (kinda sorta) do it the right way (multiple SSIDs, vlan segregation, restrictive firewalls for iot, VPN to a VPS, etc.) — I have so much respect for network engineers. First month with my new router, felt like I “broke the Internet” every other day.
- Comment on Access control for selfhosted services via VPS? 10 months ago:
So in order to access from local network (useful for e.g. photo uploading as it is way faster) would you just handle SSL locally too? So, SSL on VPS+SSL on local server (with only one being used per client of course)?