Donated again!

Maybe they are full of bullshit, maybe they aren’t. Google/Apple are way worse than this…

Kind of sad what f1 has become… All kinds of gimmicks to improve racing and when there is legitimate wheel to wheel racing their stance is: you were not in front of the other guy’s mirror, here is 10sec for you.

I was sorting somethingting similar some time ago with https://www.dwarmstrong.org/remote-unlock-dropbear/

Also there is https://github.com/latchset/tang and https://github.com/latchset/clevis

Then I changed it so my server boots and offers basic functionality like DNS and any encrypted data would wait until I unlock it. When I fiddle with it could be annoying, but otherwise works very well considering I need to unlock it just a few times a year.

Out of curiosity why?

It seems like the perfect thing for BFUs…

His party won, that was expected. They did not win by big enough margin and will need to negotiate with 2 other populist parties to have majority.

These 2 smaller parties have completely different programmes such as one is anti-NATO and anti-EU while the other has opposite ideology. Being populists, for either of the party this was one of the main topics and he will need BOTH make his government work.

Let’s see how this comment will age but right now it doesn’t seem so bad.

I’m running it for about a year and I never noticed any instability. To fair Android app did not always work well.

Nevertheless I never had a problem with updating it once every couple of months. Changlog and upgrade instructions always covered everything.

You are not the target audience and yet you will feel effects of it. See what (almost) happened in Romania with presidential elections this year.

At such volume it is difficult to come up a service that does not break a bank. Storage is expensive.

Perhaps immich + monthly backups to S3 glacier. That is if you don’t have a second and third site available

How about something sized as iPhone SE or smaller? This just looks like a mediocre brick that already exists on the market.

You don’t get a ticket for it in the Netherlands?

If my lab goes down, it sucks, but that’s it. I have no critical service running there.

I have some recoverability, but it requires for the main router to run. If it isn’t running it’s either a HW failure, which I will not fix remotely anyway or power is down. In which case, not much I can do about it neither.

I have router with OpenWRT with Wireguard and main server (NUC) on a smart plug. If the router runs and server is mishaving to the point where I cannot reboot it, I can power cycle it via the smart plug connected to the router.

You mentioned your brother lives 30mins away - well put some tiny server in his house. Having everything at your home is not build for redundancy at all. That’s just the risk management, if you absolutely need access to your server, then 1 site is not going to cut it.

Sure, it won’t beat high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but a decade ago is somewhere between 4-6th gen of Core CPUs.

That’s more than enough for an average user’s Facebook machine (or WeChat probably in this case)

I have been on the same boat a while ago. Of course it was a deployment that caught on and was serving longer than expected.

I don’t recall how many versions I skipped exactly (1-2 years worth of updates). Of course no backups set what so ever.

I looked at change log of I need something specific, there were changes in docker compose file. Did my best effort to make it succeed.

My worst case scenario was that I will have to import everything again and made sure I have all my labels, tags and settings backed up.

Nowadays I’ll just snapshot the whole VM in Proxmox.

Maybe it isn’t such a bad news. To get ppl hooked on any paid services, they need a good product first.

They can get lost with anything like Kerbal 2. That is if they relese something in pre-alpha state and ask $40 for it.

They have fairly good prices for small VPS, something like €1-2 and I cannot complain. Perfect for some small self hosting. I cannot comment on their more performant boxes.

1&1 is kind of typical telco, with all the shady stuff and contracts. DSL from them is without any issues. Mobile is kind of problematic, it was fine for past 3-4 years but with their “Fancy 5G net up to 300mbps” has pretty shit so far. Last week I was abroad and my sim would not connect at all. Contacted them via online chat and they said to call them… They fixed it after like 20h

It’s difficult to understand the move against custom ROMs. Especially considering the size of market for “weridos” that will spend hundreds of dollars on a device and first thing they do with it is unlocking bootloader.

Take that away and you go head to head against Samsung and Apple. And you will not win.

There is a hidden cost to every hobby and everybody is willing to tolerate a certain degree of shittyness.

I have a friends that has a rather old car and something on it is always broken. But he has no problem having 20 different apps for appliances, instead of deploying home assistants. Or having ads everywhere and even trying pihole or at least NextDNS.

On the other hand, I see my car as a transportation tool and when I need it I want to use it without worrying about some random part exploding. But I have no problem running Proxmox and hosting tons of services for my family.

That said, I would definitely not self-host something like NextCloud or any business critical component for my business and just paid somebody for the service.

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Well it’s nice not to have a speed limit, but every time I see one, it’s such a sigh of relief.

Story time:

Not so long ago, I was on that 4 or 5 lane autobahn before arriving to Munich. I was already dark, overtaking some car, leaving the most left line empty. Then these laser high beams basically illuminating the nearby Alps. I was thinking geez I’m doing 160, relax dude, you have a free lane here. I moved to the right, 2 lanes to my left are now free. Car flies by me, doing probably like 50-70 more than I, AND, AND this guy gets overtaken by another one with about the same speed difference relative to the guy doing 210-230.

Running 3 C7s V5 at home. First one I bought initially not intended for OpenWrt, however once I realized it works really well I got 2 more. Dirt cheap on local marketplace.

Archer C7 is perfectly good and fast router for vast majority of people.