Drat, and I was happy I finally finished all I could find. I already missed TAS earlier.

Sure they are. Why do some humans think they are better then other animals and not part of nature?

This. TVs without connectivity are dumb. Buying a big monitor is way to expensive, just don’t let the gremlins out of the TV and onto internet.

I’m glad I have webservers myself, great spot for those images.

Openvpn to connect to the network, 80 and 443 for static websites, that’s it.

Email gets delivered by a VPS via a different port, ssh acces via vps as well. No initial connections from an ip not from the my country as well.

There is a list of fediverse apps available, not yet for projects in start up. (Or I haven’t found it yet)

Same here, nagios4 from the debian distro.

I really need to check if it still works. ;)

Now I’m curious, anybody working on a discogs alternative?

Main reason I still have the 215j is that it runs the logitech media server. I still need to find a way to use my squeezebox with other software, as Logitech quit supporting the useful stuff they make.

The simplest answer: one you enjoy to play and can afford.

Keyboard / piano: pretty easy to start with, can’t do much wrong when you hit the right keys. Guitar: portable (especially acoustic), can start playing with tab notation, but to get something descent out of it requires practice en knowledge of several techniques, including muting the un-played strings. (this one eluded me a long time, I knew I did something wrong, just not how to solve this)

I’d say look around in thrift stores, garage sales, flee markets,… any place that has used items in abundance and see what fits the budget and sparks interest. (or go over to a store and test a few to see what feels good to mess about with).

Here the collection of instruments consists of:

• several keyboards (fixed sounds) and synthesizers (adjustable sounds) I started with piano/keyboard
• guitars (2 acoustic, 1 electric, 1 electric bass) I started with 1 acoustic as I wanted to learn it without having to spend loads on equipment 1st. Now messing about with the bass. Now actively trying to get to grips with it with teh help of BassBuzz on youtube. (how to setup the instrument helped a lot making the use a lot more enjoyable)
• french horn Saw it as challenge when found as a garage sale cheap, it still is. I wanted to get sound out of it, never managed that.
• trumpet again, garage sale find, managed to get it functioning correctly and get sound out of it. Not sure if I could call it a note though.
• clarinet Guess what, garage sale. The case caught my interest, was curious, bought it cheap, but the mouthpiece is damaged. Need to think about either fixing it and accepting the challenge or keep it as decoration.
• small violin Looks like a decoration item, looked like the real thing, never managed to have it working without getting the idea the strings would snap. (one already snapped)
• harmonica and flute 1st was given, latter bought, but a cheap one, so it sounds off key. (both almost never used, no fun with them… yet)

I have to admit, most was collected pre internet-explosion, so prior to the craze to 1st check what others ask for items before prizing. (pushing prizes up a lot)

I’m running with 2 2 bay Synology ‘j’ models. As the do nothjng more then store data, the js are good enough. When you want to stream of of the NAS units I’d pick more powerful units.

For me, 2 bays was more then enough, as I don’t have that much important data, the 1st is the 215j with 2 2TB disks. They filled up in 5y, so I added a 220j with 4TB disks. Both mirrored and with external USB disk for backup which is 1 TB larger then internal nett storage.

When you need more space then that, more bays and raid 5 is more economical. It depends on storage needs and disk prizes. (Next to budget) It’s good to know you can mirror on a share basis between Synologie nasses. (So you can even think of a multi nas setup)

At work I had a run-in with qnap and couldn’t recover that device easily after power failure, never had that issue with synology, as they use a simple setup that can be accessed in plain Linux as well.

I started on lemmy.ml, as I code a lot. I got a lemmy.world account when I found a lot of communities there I wanted to join and a lemmy.studio account for music communities. That was a few min before I learned how to subscribe cross-instance. (I couldn’t find the communities) I could clean up teh accounts, but nah, couldn’t think of a reason why.

Now lemmy.world is my main instance with lemmy.ml as 1st backup and lemmy.studio as special interest. (and I found a Dutch instance)

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. consign yourself to not having any of the modern QoL features being forced to buy/be locked into products everyone enjoys hates. ;)

Everything is a choice, for me, “one size fits somebody, hopefully, and the rest has to adapt” doesn’t work at all. I started with MSX, then Atari ST, used a PC 1 game, went via OS/2 (BBS) to Linux in '94 and stayed there after a clash with Windows 95 during an internship. My current employer gave me an iPhone to use and after running rooted Android and Cyanogenmod/Lineage since 2012 I hate it with a passion, to restricted for me.

Some will be totally happy to dump all their photo’s on photobucket, google photo’s,… it just doesn’t work for me, as for one, my photos come from DLSR, compacts, scanned analog photos and a few from the phone. I have 24y worth of photo’s on local disk (229G), I make almost no photos with the phone and when I do I usually want to put them online for own reference pretty quickly. For me, with almost no photo’s on the phone (max 10), this works like a charm. (and once I made a few scripts, it costs me less time then trying to get my photo’s back from all those apps)

I suspect we’re all a tad weary of companies offering ‘free’ storage for your data and then use it for other means or charge you when you want your data back. It’s an option that works, but requires a tad more knowledge and time to setup. That free storage feels more like ‘legal ransom ware’ then anything else. When your not paying, you’re the product being sold. (which doesn’t guarantee that when you are paying you’re not sold as well)

When you want something you either have to:

1. find the perfect product
2. adapt the product to make it perfect for you
3. adapt yourself to make you perfect for the product
4. create something yourself

The 1st is near impossible, 2nd costs time, sometimes to much, 3rd is most of the times a no-go here and that leaves 4. When you have the skills, 4 will become the option you use more and more. (Especially when you enjoy making your own solutions)

Oh, 1st of all, I have to make a small correction, I use an odt as base document.

You run this in the directory with the odt file and a temp directory t

cd t
unzip ../${document_template}.odt
sed -i "s/ReplaceThis/${var1}/g" content.xml
sed -i "s/ReplaceThisToo/${var2}/g" content.xml
zip -r ../${document_target}.odt .
cd ../
libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export ${document_target}.odt

The file content.xml is the actual text of the document, the rest is just the dressing (formatting). What you need to do is make sure the text you want to replace (ReplaceThis in the example) is unique apart from the spots where you want the text to be replaced. Check the content.xml to be sure, but be warned, the content.xml is a 2 line file with line 1 being the xml header. (it’s a terrible layout of the xml) Use an file editor you know well to find the words you want to replace. Also, be warned, correcting small typos in the odt results in garbage in the content.xml. You need to replace the whole word as 1 action. (Editing history has it’s uses, but is an issue here)

Instead of converting it to file you can print it as well. (DDG result)

libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --printer-name the_printer_name --outdir /tmp ${document_target}.odt
lpr -U username /tmp/filename.ps -P the_printer_name
rm /tmp/filename.ps

Ok, will post it tomorrow.

I open ‘settings’ or ‘show more’ and disable all I can on most aitea, as that’s usually enough. Some sites ar such a nousanse I either avoid them or just open a private window, accept all, read what I want to read and close the window, thus wiping all cookies.

Pretty simple here, directory with my phpto’s, which I renamed to show the subject, date and an id for that day. Simple script to show the images when on a website, manual viewing from disk when archived.

I pull them off the phone via a cable and adb pull command. All photo’s are read only for my wife. (And by default for all when on the website)

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. ;)

I was messing up with my community, added the description pretty early, just completed the whole shebang with rules, game season info, links,…

Yes, it’s a continuation attampt of the reddit variant, as it looks like the other mods have left that sub as well. I’m still there, lurking, but it’s dying after a vote to stay. The main contributers went silent there and moved to the community discord server.

I managed to find the format of docx files and setup an automated invoice generation for my customers. A docx file is actually a zip file, which you can unzip, change fields in the text with sed, zip to a new file and then convert to pdf (libreoffice plugin) before sending/printing. That’s on Linux though.

When you want I can dig up that code. Querying the database and sending to a printer shouldn’t be Yhe main issue I guess.

I’m an apache user myself. It’s used for static websites as well as other services bia reverse proxying. Letsencrypt for the certs and ssl termination in apache. I’m even considering doing all ipv6 only.

Any webserver or reverse proxy will do though.

No problems here.

BTW every program has at least 1 bug and can be 1 line of code shorter. ;)

I went the lazy route with 1st a 215J with 2 2TB disks (mirrored for important data) and en external 3TB disk (backup/expendable data) and it got company from a 220j with 4TB disks internal and a 5TB external (same use as the 215j)

However, those are just for local data storage for me and my wife (picture), music library and a few static websites. Nothing fancy or demanding.

As I work in IT and mess about with more interesting environments, I wanted something simple at home. (next to my RPis that make up the rest of the server park, which we access via laptops) Main laptop here is a 14th gen i9 with 64 GB mem, so enough power to mess about when I’m behind it, but it’s off when I’m not.

I’d go for DIY with expensive/demanding requirements, pick an entry level when you just want to dump data and access it once in a while.

Users: Lack of knowledge

Companies: We can’t bleed the users dry

1. As already stated, yes, you’ll make life harder, as most (probably all) instances run on Linux. More help there.
2. Bind is the reference implementation of dns, powerdns is easy as well.

With bind you can setup an internal zone on a 2nd instance so you can test before changing the external zone to point to your instances. It’s a tad extra work, but you can mess around without bothering others.

It’s not easy, but there are loads of examples online. (And once you’ve gotten used to the commandline way of administering, it’s not hard)

They haven’t made a decision, as it’s no issue as there is no federation to threads and won’t be for the forseeable future.

Making a fuss about it now is as usefull as making a fuss over the sun dying in several million years.

Same here. I have several domains, one is used for servers and email, 2nd for websites, 3rd for messing around (test setups) and a 4th is almost unused now, but with the demise of twitter and reddit I’m thinking of using that one for the fediverse (it’s my username in national tld).

BTW internal and external dns run on different systems and all private zones are dnssec signed. (Loved the challenge on setting that up correctly)

When that’s the case, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to migrate communities, so when an adminndecides to quit an instance, those communities that want to move can arrange that move.

In most fonts the uppercase U has no extra line, most don’t write one in upper case as well when handwriting.

Must be thought off in the US, as they have space on the road for U turns though. Most other countries are stuck with 3 point turns. (Or in my case, a lot more, my car has a turningcircle of a battleship)

Depends on how attached you are on your data, if you have a backup, if you can do without the data created between backup cycles and how long you can wait for the restore to finish.

Everything will fail. For me, everything on single disk is expendable or backupped and can be done without when I loose a day/week of data. Everything else is on raid 1 (hdd) and in a backup schedule (external hdd).

Maybe it’s an US thing?

I guess it’s because the U is drawn in 1 fluent motion, a u and an n have the extra line, compared to the U.

Yep, just like I tell my wife I love work (I can watch hours at it being performed).

The best way to show appreciation of you girlfriend/wife is helping with chores. (And thus limiting her time doing them, which results in more time together, win-win ;) )

Yep, it’s worse, but minimal. I drive a heavy car (Volvo S80) on LPG and the mileage is tad worse, less then 10%. The best mileage I get on highway trips at 20C or just below that.

Click on your account (top right), select settings, scroll down and click ‘delete account’ (big red button at the bottom left)

Same here, 2 instances, 1 in Germany, 1 in Finland. Both small vps’es (one smallest, 1 1 size bigger) work like a charm now I added swap.

Depends on what you want to do and how technical you are.

Main advantage of hosting on your own hardware from home are cost and ease of access. Main drawback is that you need to give acces to your home network when you want to provide services. When you know what you do and your connection is fast enough, that isn’t a problem.

The main advantage of a VPS, which you rent instead of buy, is the flexibility and keeping security threats out of your home network. You can activate one for the service you like to provide, keep it alive until you don’t need it and have it detstroyed. Security issues may exist, but they are out of your home network. In the long run they are more expensive.

You can also combine both, host some services locally (RPi or a nuc) and some remote on a vps.

Here I run several personal websites local, but the DNS of my domains, incoming email and business websites are hosted on a set of VPS’es (set as you need 2 for dns). All websites are static, no management software what so ever, as most are (huge) security risks. For email I use the main VPS as 1st line of defence. Spam and virus scanning is done there.

I could use my RPis to do all locally, but I prefer to have DNS and email externally. Also, my only surviving client would be leaving when I run everything from home. (He’s basically paying for the servers, I just keep them running, pay for them and send the bill ;) )

When just ‘messing around’ a VPS is advisable, as you can trow it away and try again when you mess up. ;)

Good one, interested in the answer. I already found a way to include one from a webserver. !(a text)[url of image].

I’m glad I don’t need computing power then. It just runs a webserver, 2 databases, mail environment, puppet master, icr client and some random stuff I just start and forget.

It does the trick here and it and it’s predecessor Rpi3 and 2 managed, are quiet and enough for here. Both 3s boot from microsd and run from USB SSD for the OS, data is on nas. All are stock, no extentions, apart from an extra USB nic on my firewall. (Somehow having 2 different physical interfaces sounded preferable to me for a firewall)

The old 3s are now interface for my smart meter and a domoticz system.

BTW I see the Thinkcenter you mention for €250 online, My RPi4 cost me as kit €108 (8GB version). That was before all prizes went trough the roof though, as I see the separate board now for €125.

I quess it’ll be Lemmy/Kbin, or at least for me. What is voat? ;) (never heard of it until this post)

My RPi4s and 3s will out perform my older laptops, apart from the just retired P50 (gpu nearly died). That one is 6y, the others are 11y old HPs and a 16y 32 bit Xxodd (wierd brand). tje RPis are sufficient for normal server use, the nwew laptop (last gen i9 with 64G mem) can host (nested) kvm clients, so no need for extra hardware. (And still I save them, just in case ;) )