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You’re ISP probably provides some overpriced really crap hardware that they probably have a back door to, that I’m also not about to screw around with. I’ve always had a router behind their modem/router combo for many reasons, the first being that I have had a 100 ft Ethernet cable since 2005 that let’s me put my router where I want, I can place my wifi where it works best, not just within 6-10 feet of wherever someone 20 years ago decided to drill a hole. Second is because a ddwrt router is so much better than anything you’ll get from your provider, and you can find pretty good compatible ones on eBay or at your local thrift store for cheap.

I’ve always begrudgingly purchased rather than rented from my provider because after a year or so it is usually paid for. So far I’ve purchased four modems over almost 20 years so it’s worked out for me. As for the device itself, I don’t trust it, but I’ll still set some firewall rules just because. I have my router behind it where I do the real stuff. If I’m ever given a device that I need to connect for some sort of monitoring, like my solar panels or something like that, it can connect to my ISPs crap and do whatever sketchy shit it’s gonna do.

XMPP is ancient. So is email, the internet, and the wheel.

I’ve moved my homelab twice because it became stable, I really liked the services it was running, and I didn’t want to disturb the last lab**cough**prod server.

My current homelab will be moar containers. I’m sure I’ll push it to prod instead of changing the IP address and swapping name tags this time.

Hmmm. My pi{VPN,hole,dhcp,HA} has a little bit of overhead left…

Saturday morning: “Incus and podman seem interesting. I bet I could swap everything over while the family is out this afternoon”

Sunday evening: “Dad, when will the lights work again?”

“Damn, I’ve got this Debian server shit down. I wonder how an opensuse server would work out”

*installs tumbleweed*

True story

And yet I need 2GB of free ram and a 4 core processor to browse the web.

They said taxi, not uber.

Connect her computer to the theater system or TV. Give thumb drive.

Alternatively, get am HDMI to rca output adapter if things are real bad for the theater system

… So, the robots won’t tell you how sorry they are before they shoot you? They’ll just like, do it? Unacceptable.

Our tax dollars being used to shoot down our tax dollars being operated by our tax dollars with our tax dollars

Lawyers are most definitely not under oath in the courtroom. They are under scrutiny of the bar association if they get way out of line, but lawyers can pretty much say whatever they want. It’s up to the opposing counsel to object and the judge to keep shit from going off the rails.

You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.

I’ve found that around 70% of my connection’s max upload speed is the sweet spot for keeping things speedy, but I only do that if I want something fast and there aren’t many seeders. I typically download at 20% of my bandwidth and upload at 10% so when it’s rocking I don’t affect anyone else on my network. I don’t have symmetrical up-down so my upload limit is a little above 10% of my download limit.

For Linux ISOs, of course.

Meanwhile, my 10 year old dog struggles with “sit”

They could have easily quoted something for a proper x-pass data wipe, or cost a of a new drive and destruction service, plus a cyber security consulting fee. I would be surprised if it wouldn’t hold up at least a little bit in court (I know very little in the way of dutch courts) but if your response is “this is the proper way to destroy data, if you actually want it securely wiped I’ll need you to foot this bill, otherwise it’s hitting my recycle bin”. But there’s probably some details missing of this guy being a complete dick to get an officer to want to do paperwork over it.

…“We don’t just dump production applications in $HOME like crazy people”

Hey, I don’t dump them in home, I test them in home and never move them.

It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.

This is 95% of my use case for VMs. Want to check out opensuse? Set up a VM and try to do something in it.

Which is what makes it an excellent server distro. And also why I don’t tend to use it on anything with a screen.

The most messing around I’ve done with my server after setting it up is update to trixie. I think I might have had to reset it two or three times in the past 6 months for the reason of “I didn’t feel like actually troubleshooting”

I can agree with this. My internet is trash, and I refuse to go with the faster provider in the area on principle (they took municipal funds to bring faster internet in the mid 2000s and didn’t do a thing until over a decade later), so I can’t feasibly share anything outside of my household users. I’m seriously considering setting up some hosted services if I can’t get fiber when I’ve nailed down my setup. I’d rather host everything at home, but I’d much rather offer my relatives access to something that isn’t selling their info to anyone with a checkbook. If I’m maintaining it and I’m the one who can accidentally lose everyone’s stuff with a bad command, I’m self-hosting it.