A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
Linux Mint is quite popular amongst beginners. But the main thing I want to say is: I recommend you to try the KDE desktop if you’re used to MS Windows. It has a tray, start menu, icons, scortcuts and everything. And it looks kind of familiar to Windows users.
Sure. I think that’s a valid use case. Maybe use one of the community fine-tunes for that… 😆
Instruct it to be your dungeon master and do some roleplay.
It depends on your exact requirements and your definition of “secure”. Lots of people like software like Tailscale. And it’s relatively secure as it doesn’t expose the services to the public but instead is an VPN. I personally don’t like Cloudflare at all, but that’s also a popular solution to get services exposed to the public internet. What I do is just use NGinx or NginxProxyManager, open up a port in my firewall and be done with it. No extra tunnel providers required and no Cloudflare that could be able to snoop on my connections. It also opens up connections to everyone else, so your software needs to be properly protected with passwords. But yeah, I can see how you get a bazillion different recommendations. I’d say if you prioritize security and it’s just your devices connecting, and they can all install a special client, go for something like Tailscale.
Yeah, but at that point you’d have to be prepared to fight it to the end. And pay your own lawyer upfront. The final decision on who’s going to pay is settled either in arbitration or by the court. And you need to win. And trademark law isn’t super easy to understand, you definitely need to invest in a lawyer and optimally get that money back. The time and effort is kinda wasted, though. You won’t get that back.
Though, fighting it takes time and effort. And you’d need to make sure to know the exact point when to pay a lawyer, when ignoring it gets you in an unfavourable situation or triggers some default ruling.
I think Alibaba and Aliexpress are less tightly connected with the Chinese government. They also ship stuff from China, but they aren’t specialized in the cheapest of the cheapest. Plus as far as I know they’re more a marketplace platform. They handle the money and connect you with an individual seller in China. The platforms are a bit less convenient to use. I think it’s a bit like eBay vs Amazon, if you want to compare it to western companies.
Because people like cheap stuff. Need a phone case? Harry Potter merchandise knockoffs, socks, a brush for your arts project? TEMU has that for $0.61, delivered to your door.
And as far as I know it’s sponsored by the Chinese government. They chip in with forced labor camps. And they also invested massively in advertising and making it a thing.
I wouldn’t buy from them. As far as I know the app is also spying on the users etc. But yeah, enough people seem to buy stuff there. I suppose it’s cheap and convenient and people don’t care. It’s kind of depressing. I agree.
Just read the government is currently also on a VPN banning spree. I guess that list is going to change frequently now, if people continue with watching Youtube, Instagram and Twitter.
My top apps are all shopping apps, discount apps, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, TEMU, video streaming and TikTok is there, too. VPN comes further down along with dating apps and then it gets quite random. Guess in Germany our biggest worry is to save some money when grocery shopping…
Is that because of the political situation? Like repression, internet censorship… Or an unrelated trend?
That’s kind of what happens when somebody re-uses already assigned namespaces for a different purpose. Same with other domains, or if you mess with IP addresses or MAC addresses. The internet is filled with RFCs and old standards that need to be factored in. And I don’t really see Google at fault here. Seems they’ve implemented this to specification. So technically they’re “right”. Question is: Is the RFC any good? Or do we have any other RFCs contradicting it? Usually these things are well-written. If everything is okay, it’s the network administrators fault for configuring something wrong… I’m not saying that’s bad… It’s just that computers and the internet are very complicated. And sometimes you’re not aware of all the consequences of the technical debt… And we have a lot of technical debt. Still, I don’t see any way around implementing a technology and an RFC to specification. We’d run into far worse issues if everyone were to do random things because they think they know something better. It has to be predictable and a specification has to be followed to the letter. Or the specification has to go altogether.
Issue here is that second “may” clause. That should be prohibited from the beginning, because it just causes issues like this. That’s kind of what Google is doing now, though. If you ask me, they probably wrote that paragraph because it’s default behaviour anyways (to look up previously unknown TLDs via DNS). And they can’t really prevent that. But that’s what ultimately causes issues. So they wrote that warning. Only proper solution is to be strict and break it intentionally, so no-one gets the idea to re-use .local… But judging from your post, that hasn’t happened until now.
Linux, MacOS etc are also technically “right” if they choose to adopt that “may” clause. It just leads to the consequences lined out in the sentence. They’re going to confuse users.
Any DNS query for a name ending with “.local.” MUST be sent to the
mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast […]
Implementers MAY choose to look up such names concurrently via other
mechanisms (e.g., Unicast DNS) and coalesce the results in some
fashion. Implementers choosing to do this should be aware of the
potential for user confusion when a given name can produce different
results depending on external network conditions […]
The RFC warns about these exact issues. You MAY do something else, but then the blame is on you…
Sure, I don’t really judge. Asking tech support questions is hard. You need to find the correct place. Volunteer some information, while you probably don’t even know which details are relevant… It’s rarely ill intent even if someone doesn’t get it exactly right. And your question seemed genuine to me. I’m not a mod here, though. I can’t really comment on if it’s been the right place or not. I’d say maybe find another community to ask support questions about networking. And if it’s just this one time, just attribute this as a mild overreaction by the mods. Oftentimes the lines are a bit blurry when making those kind of decisions. I still think you deserve an answer to your question, but yet again I don’t know the details…
I can only speculate. Either you didn’t give them enough time, or you weren’t polite and they ignore you, or you didn’t message the one who dealt with you. Or the mods just aren’t nice or transparent to people. Idk. I can just say your removed post looked a bit low quality since it included no useful information to help you, and it was about networking issues, not selfhosting. Also this post is probably again in violation of rule 3. Since it’s not about selfhosting in general, but your issue with the mods.
Usually, write them a direct message.
But terminal access also kind of invalidates the WebUI requirement. If you have a terminal open anyways, you could as well just do eject -t && handbrake-cli ... && eject and skip all the switching to the browser and clicking on things… That’d close the tray, rip the DVD and spit it out when finished, all in one line. At least that’s what I would do.
Well, the usual way I’ve seen people deal with this is either open up the case and leave the extra drives dangling to the side, or just lay them on the bottom of the case (or on top) and don’t move it any more.
That works. Though, if you want to imitate that… Pay attention to the temperature of the harddisks. There is no air circulation if you just lay them flat on the floor and they might take damage from getting too warm.
But you can’t really beat the price of that solution. 25 bucks for a SATA card and some old shoe rack with holes in the shelves, and you’re set. Ready to accomodate 4 more harddisks.
Large drives. 1-2TB are dysproportionally expensive, you need an expensive mainboard to connect a bunch of them. More drives means more failures…
About half a terabyte per month. My router doesn’t write the logs to disk so I don’t have any detailed statistics.
Blocky is another nice AdBlocker and DNS proxy. I’ve been using it for quite a while. Seems to be pretty efficient, too. If you’re looking at community DNS servers, have a look at https://opennic.org/ that’s a democratic DNS root.
And by the way, take care not to expose your DNS server to the public internet, or some people will start using it for DNS amplification attacks. But that shouldn’t be any concern if you run it on a Raspberry Pi at home.