Thank you for the link. Good read

Yes and yes.

However I don’t use these solutions for mobiles. I use standard wireguard for that

There are loads of alternatives now so it’s a good time to have a look.

I’ve setup netmaker at home, and netbird at work They are both good solutions.

I think if I had to redo home I would swap to netbird. Both of these are fully self hosted.

Neither are as easy to setup as tailscale, but once you get over that hurdle it’s fine.

Ah okay.

Probably ai slop then?

I installed LTSC on a device recently. Very little effort for bloat free Windows.

I hear you. I worked for an msp where some customers would refuse to invest in backup solutions and we either declined to renew their contract or they suffered an event and we were then setting up backups.

I was in the middle of a migration from OVH to Hetzner. I knew I had good backups at home so the plan was to blow away OVH and restore from backup to Hetzner. This was the mistake.

Mid migration I get an alert from the raid system that a drive has failed and had been marked as offline. I had a spare disk ready, as I planned for this type of event. So I swapped the disk. Mistake number 2.

I pulled the wrong disk. The Adaptec card shit a brick, kicked the whole array out. Couldn’t bring it back together. I was too poor to afford recovery. This was my lesson.

Now I only use ZFS or MDRAID, and have multiple copies of data at all times.

I’m lucky enough to run a business that needs a datacenter presence. So most my home-lab (including Lemmy) is actually hosted on a Dell PowerEdge R740xd in the DC. I can then use the small rack I have at home as off-site backups and some local services.

I treat the entirety of /var/lib/docker as expendable. When creating containers, I make sure any persistent data is mounted from a directory made just to host the persistent data. It means docker compose down --rmi all --volumes isn’t destructive.

When a container needs a database, I make sure to add an extra read-only user. And all databases have their container and persistent volume directory named so scripts can identify them.

The backup strategy is then to backup all non-database persistent directories and dump all SQL databases, including permissions and user accounts. This gets run 4 times a day and the backup target is an NFS share elsewhere.

This is on top of daily backuppc backups of critical folders, automated Proxmox snapshots for docker hosts every 20 minutes, daily VM backups via Proxmox Backup Server and replication to another PBS at home.

I also try and use S3 where possible (seafile and lemmy are the 2 main uses) which is hosted in a container on a Synology RS2423RP+. Synology HyperBackup then performs a backup overnight to the Synology RS822+ I have at home.

Years ago I fucked up, didn’t have backups, and lost all the photos of my sons early years. Backups are super important.

Really?! Okay. I think your troll radar is well off, but it’s your opinion so you do you I suppose.

Maybe you are the troll. Like 4D chess level of troll. =D

Your post history and mod logs are also quite weird.

Lol what does that mean

The entire article seems like an attack. The author finds a unique identifier and adds “Russia bad” throughout.

States the information is in cleartext but then explains how everything is encrypted (in transit).

What will the author do if they intercepted any single online stores transfer of credit card details. Also encrypted in transit but Is that also deemed as cleartext? Or is that okay?

I don’t think much new is learnt here. WhatsApp also sends metadata in “cleartext” (not really, as it’s encrypted in transit, but this article called that “cleartext”).

Yeah exactly this. But the bandwagon has left the station at this point.

God damn it. I chose minio for my S3 implementation. I wonder if there is a migration path to garage…

Seeing steam at the top makes me question the list. Likely a hate of DRM rather than privacy

1U form factor, 4 disks, using 7w whilst idle, decent enough CPU to run 1 Linux VM

I bought an RS822+ for as a veeam Linux repo.

I can’t make that myself, or I don’t know how.

It was stupid expensive and if it wasn’t the business paying I would have probably put a bunch of disks into an HP elite desk.

Ain’t nobody owning these libs

Ah okay. When I used Plex it had hardware acceleration. But I’d been a Plex Pass lifetime pass user for years so forgot the distinction between that and non pass. Thanks

no local hardware accel

What do you mean by this?

If you want free, there are alternatives. Plex is a business, with employees. Plex pass is their business model.

I think locking remote play is entirely enshitification however, but I get it. Plex model has them provide authentication and relay services. They are now trying to push their own streaming services which I expect is a real money sink.

This is more about familiarity than difference in ease of use. I’ve used both, they are both super easy.