I have strongly debated getting some of their coffee for my very racist father in law, just to see his head explode when he reads the back.

Hey! Those are better than mine which just end up looking like dicks.

Get better coffee. Not grocery store brand or Starbucks. Check the roast date - keep it within the past two weeks. Grind your own, don’t buy pre-ground.

Try to go with things like light roast, washed processed - more “speciality”.

I highly recommend cxffeeblack - I use their Guji Mane for espresso and it’s amazing.

I would get multiple drives and do RAID. Here’s a helpful calculator to figure out drive quantity, size, and configuration. The reason to do RAID is redundancy. Hard drives will fail (even NAS branded drives). You do not want your photos, media, etc to be lost in that case. I personally do not go with anything below RAID5 (and for super sensitive things, I’ll even go RAID6 - despite the hit on overall capacity. If the optiplex has drive capacity for multiple drives, I strongly recommend you go this route.

If you’re in the states, check out cxffoeeblack: https://cxffeeblack.com/

Black owned supply chain, makes excellent decaf that doesn’t taste burned.

Okay, then I’m thinking your router/NAT maybe causing the problem. Typically, your ISP won’t block subdomains for dns, they may outright block Source NAT (SNAT), but if you could get through via the IP, you should be good to go.

An easy way to check is to visit a site like this and check for port 443: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/. You don’t need to be on the server that’s hosting your portfolio, just any thing that’s on the same network as your portfolio (something behind your external router)

Just to make sure.

1. When on your home network, doing nslookup (or similar), your fqdn resolves to your public IP
2. When on a hotspot, if you go to https://fqdn/ it does not connect (probably with the ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT that you mentioned below)
3. When on hotspot, if you to telnet to port 443 on 206.x.x.x, it connects

What happens if you, on the hotspot, try browsing to https://206.x.x.x? When you are on the same network as the portfolio, can you reach https://[internal ip]?

What I’m leaning towards is a router/firewall that may be causing some issues. To help with troubleshooting, does your website server have any local firewalls (for ubuntu that would typically be ufw, but it could be iptables or firewalld)?

Try this command from a terminal on the system from which you’re attempting to connect:

nslookup <yourfqdn>

It should come back with something like this:

~ ❯ nslookup stronk.bond
Server:         127.0.0.53
Address:        127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   stronk.bond
Address: 172.67.174.80

If it says something like “can’t find” that means that your dns isn’t configured appropriately. Does your IP address start with 192.168, 10., or 172.? That would be a private IP address (something which isn’t accessible from the internet.

Oh! And where is everything - is your workstation/laptop on the same network as your portfolio? Is the portfolio on a different network? That could effect things as well.

What does your nginx config look like for ssl? It should specify a certificate and key file - that certificate subject needs to match your fully qualified domain name (fqdn). Certificate can have subject alternative names (SAN) for other names and even IP addresses.

For instance, you could have a single certificate for foo.bar with a SAN for just foo and an IP SAN for 192.168.1.30.

Certificates also need to be signed by a certificate authority (CA), and in order for your browser to visit https://foo.bar/ without a warning your browser must trust that CA.

If you did a self signed cert, this is most likely the problem you’re running into.

It’s important to know that your communication is still encrypted because of SSL, but since your browser doesn’t trust the CA (or the subject doesn’t match the FQDN) the browser will say it’s not secure.

2 BOOBS, 2 FURIOUS.

Get in losers, we’re stealing combo vcrs.

I’m confused - what was here before the domain expired? The only thing I’m finding for AZA is the association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Sometimes when I sneeze, my arm hurts.

I’m fairly certain it’s not a heart attack.

I’ve been trying to find some good blogs that offer some fact driven counters to the insanity. So far I just have Where’s Your Ed At, I would love to add other ones to my list.

Heck, African American! That’s all you had to say!

Hooooboy. Their comment gets worse the further you read.

Nope. It looks like it may be my instance - infosec.pub 😟

Man, Voyager has been having issues with images lately. This didn’t load with a message:

{"code":"validate-width","msg":"Too wide"}

Ah, this is a gif - I would have thought that worked across instances, maybe not?

If you haven’t yet, check out the latest steamos update - they finally added battery charge limits it won’t help a dying battery get better, but it may stave off the demise.

I love my steam deck. It’s the reason why I finally ditched Windows for Linux on my gaming PC.

This past week I got into emulation on it and have been shocked at how well it has been performing.

We were visiting for about a week and I think it took three separate days, about 20 minutes each day before she felt comfortable doing the VPN stuff herself.

It was definitely painful, but if you’re patient, it’s doable.

Good luck with whichever option you choose!