How fucking insulated from reality must a person be to be that delusional?

Why can’t I find an obvious way to follow you and everything you post

lol that’s fine, gtfo out of Ohio and go sue small businesses in truly red states.

Funny you mention that. It occurred to me that the handful of things that would really make me sad to lose if I just bailed on YouTube were all things I could indeed support on Patreon. So now I’m doing that haha. I don’t think my current Patreon load costs me anything more than I used to pay for Premium.

Yeah what a fucking joke. The one and only feature they’re selling (especially since they bailed on original content like 2 years after they started) is ad-free viewing. You need a price hike every 18 months to ensure the “don’t show this guy ads” line in my profile config stays set to True? Fuck off.

Paid for Premium for ten years. Then, moved to a family plan since my brother offered and my wife had moved in with me; it saved me a little money and got her Premium. Then they did the thing they’re all doing where they said “you don’t live in the same house so you’re not a family” and I said, “there’s no way in fucking hell this household is paying $25+ for fucking YouTube, a thing we watch too much of anyway because it’s algorithmically mind-fucking us everyday,” and then we just let it lapse. We’ve got SmarTube on the Android TV for the occasional ad-free video, and it’s clunky enough that we don’t get sucked in, and I’ve got uBlockOrigin on my browser because obviously, and they’ve gone from getting some money out of me to never getting a penny again.

Tired. Tired, tired.

A little minor struggle with Immich. It happens sometimes that I cannot upload MOV files. Not all, just some. I’ve tended to circumvent its making big refusals by switching between my reverse proxied address and my local IP address for it but that didn’t work today, and since these are videos of my baby, I’m a little frustrated. I don’t really have the time to dig into that though.

I wonder whether it’s possible to split tunnel traffic bound for the app from web traffic so I can serve it to my family members without exposing it to the web. Right now I don’t trust its security—the authors even state you really shouldn’t—so I have it behind a Cloudflare Zero Trust MFA prompt. But I get comments sometimes from family that it feels like a hoop to jump through since the longest CF will let them stay authorized is 30 days. Not a real ‘today’ thing, but just a general thing. It’s the app I use the most besides Jellyfin, both to free myself from Microsoft, Google and Apple’s monthly subscriptions, but also, to share privately my baby photos with the family so I can protect the kid’s privacy and all that. I wish it was smoother for my end users but I’ve done what I can for now.

I tried migrating to new hardware recently because I wanted to virtualize most everything. I thought there was sense in being able to get snapshots in proxmox for rollback and ease of backup purposes. It ended up that only about half my servers made it over, and Immich and Jellyfin didn’t make the cut because they need a Quadro T400 that lives in the original machine. Chatbot led me to think passing that GPU through virtualization was going to be a major complicating factor.

I’ve got a backup NAS off-site at my parent’s house ~20 miles away but it has been offline since I changed ISPs because my silly ass hard-coded my public IP address into WireGuard’s config (it auto-launches WG on boot) rather than a DNS address that gets dynamic DNS updating and resolves to whatever my home IP is. I should get to make it out to fix that on Thursday, finally. I went to all this trouble to buy and set up a backup NAS and it has been totally without backups for probably two months now.

Back to the subject of Cloudflare, I know they have a laundry list of security things I need to look at and I want to take those things seriously. With the new baby, and with how demoralized I have felt from work, and with of course all the normal obligations of life, I haven’t ever had the time or felt like dealing with it, but I have a degree in cybersecurity and I want to take my home network / home lab security seriously. For protecting myself of course, but also because I think it’ll be a big growing opportunity technically; maybe some stuff I learn can end up on the résumé. I desperately need to get out of my current role and anything that would help the résumé would be good. But there never seems to be time. Or if there is time there is no will.

I had a Cisco 2960x in my basement that I never did much with because I was suspicious it was drawing a lot of power (likely coincidence but it seemed like the electric bill went up every month I tried plugging it in), and it didn’t seem to have enough memory to run without constantly causing me issues. I wanted to learn Cisco switches with it since I don’t get enough hands-on time at work but it just didn’t seem to work out. I was going to sell it on Facebook but never made time to do that either, so today I just put it back in the rack to have one less thing on the floor. Ironically, now we’ve upgraded to 3Gbps Internet and none of my home network stuff supports it. If I’d thought about that I would have likely let the ISP install their own mesh APs but I had put so much money and time into my own setup, I thought, surely I don’t need them putting their hardware in my home. Well, here we are, and neither my little baby switch, nor my Cisco switch, nor even my OPNsense router support 3Gbps and there’s no money to upgrade any of it 🥲

That’s about all I can think of for today. Check in next Sunday, and I bet the update would be precisely the same :p

Can somebody remind me what this content creator / series name is? There’s one I want to dig up on YouTube but I can’t remember what to search.

But I did :'(

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: remote connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: Connection refused

Similar situation here. R5 5600X, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4, and absolutely no incentive to upgrade. I wouldn’t give a shit to upgrade even if we lived in a pre-AI, pre-COVID scalping market and everything was priced fairly like it was in the GTX 10-series days. But I certainly will not be paying $700 for a fucking M.2 drive or RAM kit. Fuck alllllll the way off.

I wonder about the timing of this. I just got a backup NAS out at my mom’s house some miles away and for one or two beautiful days I was sending Rsync differential backup jobs through the vendor interface for backups over Wireguard. The NAS is still on my network over WG, comes back up in that way after a reboot…but for the last week, those backup jobs just break with a useless error. I haven’t had the time to look under the hood at logs but I’ve been assuming this was slopping config on my part cause I’m new at it. But it would almost be a relief if it was just a bad update (before the graver implications of the situation set in on my mind). I wish I had enough background in this stuff to be useful, but I’m just a bystander and a grateful, useless end user.

Dayton represent.

I love looking at big cats for this reason. There’s something so cute about them having people-ish (or dog-ish, as you please) eyes.

Jesus. Thanks for posting this.

Does it have any emailing functionality? Like will a reminder come remind me through email, or is it only as valuable as I am checking it often?

I think this is terrific. How much experience do you have programming, and what languages/frameworks did you use for this? I’m asking as a beginner who never knows where or how to really get started hobby programming, but really admires people who are out there doing cool shit.

AT&T fiber does allow IP passthrough mode though so if you want to run your own hardware you can.

If you’ve got a geeky power user strain in you, try Pop_OS! with their new COSMIC desktop. The blend of traditional window manager and tiling is an absolute delight. But if you’re just trying to stay in your comfort zone as you explore the unfamiliar waters of Linux, I heartily recommend Linux Mint.

I’ve installed Mint on my own gaming desktop, and it’s invariably what I install for customers who can’t afford a PC upgrade to deal with Microslop’s Windows 11 bullshit. They all do fine on it, no one even appreciates the difference from Windows except that they all recognize their old hardware is suddenly much snappier than it was. And as for Pop_OS! COSMIC, I’m running that on the laptop from which I’m typing this comment now. I like them both, but Linux Mint is definitely more battle-tested.

Ubuntu’s GNOME layout isn’t really for me, but if you’re looking for something that’s…I don’t know, a little Mac-ier than Windows-y, then Ubuntu isn’t a bad way to go. I tried Kubuntu (that’s Ubuntu with KDE instead of GNOME) recently and I had a lot of trouble with it for some reason so I just fell back on Linux Mint (which is how it became my desktop computer’s OS).

Don’t over-think it. The joy of live ISOs is that you can put them on USB disks and try various interfaces out. At the end of the day though, it’s like human DNA…99% the same product under the hood, and you can typically change things around after the fact.

Actually, I have a good example of that: I put Linux Mint XFCE on my grandma’s machine because it was especially under-powered. XFCE is just about the lightestweight traditional desktop environment around. I was worried Linux Mint’s typical Cinnamon environment might be a little heavier and therefore leaving some performance on the table. Well, I spent hours trying to troubleshoot why I couldn’t use RustDesk to remotely connect to her computer for support, and it finally occurred to me that XFCE might be the problem. I didn’t have to reinstall the entire OS! I just installed the Cinnamon package (one single line of a command in the terminal), then I logged out, chose Cinnamon on the login screen, logged back in under this different desktop environment, and was able to use RustDesk successfully! No fuss, no muss. I’m not going to say you won’t have occasional headaches with Linux but you tell me what comparable options I have when Windows 11’s heavy fucker of an interface with a taskbar I can’t move around the screen is ruining my day, or macOS replaces a tried and true GUI aesthetic with a batshit broken liquid glass one? I certainly can’t swap in the older GUIs I liked, but in Linux, it’s totally an option, like changing the exhaust on a car or whatever.

Have fun :)