SayCyberOnceMore

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Ansible is an automation tool to setup systems to a known desirable end state.

    TBH, for a single device, it’s overkill, but you seem like someone who keeps good notes and has some custom files to copy across… you could convert your setup note into an Ansible file, and it will also copy over your custom config files.

    For Ansible you define the desired outcome and it does “all” (kinda) the work for you… so… say you want Apache, MariaDB and PHP, it doesn’t matter if half are installed already, or not, or their dependencies - you just say:

    Do an update Install packages: A B C Copy my config files over Start the services Relax

    Yep, it’ll take 10 times as long to get it working up front, but the day you want to duplicate it / start on a fresh Pi / VM, it’s all there for you.

    I use it to setup all my Pi Zeros thr same way (they’re doing BLE presence detection) and for their regular updates

    I’ve also got some VMs setup that way

    But… I tried it on a laptop and as it’s a single device I just ended up setting it up manually and now the ansible script is woefully out of date… just some balanced feedback.






  • I commented elsewhere here, but E2E encryption is just between the server and the end user (ie a VPN)

    You’re thinking about encryption at rest, on the storage.

    Immich would have to setup a whole new design to be able to store all the metadata on a per-user basis… but… you could have multiple Immich instances if you were to host it for your friends, but I think we’re drifting into “why bother” now…














  • MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It’s designed to work with the 10’ interface

    Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don’t think the others can do?

    We don’t stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc… video files from various sources, and music…

    We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.

    I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.

    MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you’d need to pick a distro and install it yourself.

    It’s a very mature application, so you won’t need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.


  • Yes. And No.

    I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

    That was it.

    Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

    Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)