Yeah, IRQ7 was also pretty common for sound cards as long as you didn’t need to print at the same time. For DOS games, that wasn’t a big deal but if you were running Windows and multitasking with something that played sound (I was an early adopter of MP3s), you couldn’t use both at the same time.

My first Pentium PC was all kinds of awful because it used that IBM Mwave combo sound card /modem. You couldn’t use the modem and play sound at the same time or it would lock the PC up. It was also configured by default to use IRQ7, so if you were online, you couldn’t print either. At least I was able to work around the latter by setting it to IRQ5.

Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend’s Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.

IRQ 5, I/O 220, DMA 01 🤘🏻

I was poor, so mine was typically running the “or SoundBlaster compatible” card.

Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.

BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.

Tang gets used quite often in my mixes 😆

Had friends over, and one asked if I could make a mimosa (I can, provided I have the ingredients - which I did not because we had already agreed on margaritas). Was like 😬 and looked around the kitchen. Improvised a white trash mimosa with Tang, lemon lime sparkling water, and vodka. It was deemed acceptable lol.

Not gonna lie. I may not go out and buy that, but I have made similar cocktails at home, and they were pretty tasty.

If you don’t get any other answers:

I run OpenWRT on my router (x86 hardware), and have Adguard Home and Wireguard installed on it.

AdGuard has its own webUI, and Wireguard peers can be managed through LuCI in OpenWRT. It also supports OpenVPN as well as other VPN types.

So you could run a VM with OpenWRT and get all that.

Well, I would never settle for a proprietary software solution, even though I wouldn’t mind the least paying for software if it was FOSS.

I wonder if this would be too complicated and if I would be better off settling on setting up a QEMU Windows virtual machine with the drivers

Those two statements seem to contradict each other. Honestly, I’d go with the proprietary Linux driver rather than running a full blown proprietary OS in a VM. That, or just sell that printer and replace it with one that does support Linux properly.

I’m not even a vegan (nor fully vegetarian), but this is just so far off the mark. There’s many sources of protein besides meat, and even more if you’re an lacto-ovo vegetarian.

Yeah? That was the intention, lol. I self-host not because I’m a tinfoil hatter but because I want to be in charge of my own data.

I’m under no illusion that my public submissions can’t/won’t be scraped. My goal is simply to not give surveillance capitalists a mainline to my personal data nor allow myself to be turned into or used as a product to be mined and sold; I choose what I want to share. I put it out into the world, and whatever comes of it does (or doesn’t).

The difference is that only what I choose to share can be mined and not everything.

Holy crap. That upscaling…wow.

I felt that lol.

Not really, though there’s probably something like that out there. It’s more a collection of skills that build on each other, finding a problem to solve, and then solving it (with occasional detours along the way to fill in any knowledge gaps).

Basically, just stack these on top of each other:

1. Learn basic Linux skills (I can’t in good conscious recommend hosting or even using Windows)
2. Familiarize yourself with web standards. Don’t have to be an expert, just understand the basic concepts (web traffic is HTTP based, HTTP usually runs on port 80, HTTPS is secure/encrypted HTTP, don’t send passwords over HTTP, etc).
3. Find a self-hosted project you’d like to play with. Usually you can just google “self hosted {thing}” such as “Self hosted trello”
4. The previous step will typically land you on a Github or other project page. Review the docs for getting started on those.
5. You’ll likely encounter terms or things you don’t understand. Detour to familiarize yourself with them.
6. Follow the steps to get your first service up and running.
7. Enjoy!
8. Once you’re past that, you can fine tune, re-deploy in a better way, or otherwise optimize.

The next thing you decide to deploy will usually be easier and will further extend and cement the skills you’ve just used.

It’s definitely a process and collection of skills rather than just one monolithic thing, but each one builds off the other. There’s a learning curve, sure, but just reading the docs for different things will usually get you going or provide a “jumping off” point. e.g. Many services utilize Docker, so you’ll see that in a lot in the docs and probably end up detouring to learn the basics of working with it.

Some self-hostable applications do have easy deploy scripts which can definitely be good for beginners, but I tend to not like those as if/when something goes wrong, you’re ill-equipped to do any meaningful troubleshooting.

Members of various selfhosted communities are usually happy to help as long as you’re willing to learn; we typically don’t like to just do it for you lol.

I’m !selfhosted@lemmy.world all the way (even my email).

Highly recommend it, even if you start small with like just your calendar or something.

Even if you can’t self-host, maybe one of your friends can/does and would set you up on their stuff. I’ve got a handful of friends and family hooked into my stack (email, Nextcloud, Matrix, Lemmy, AdGuard DNS, etc).

I’m not even a systemd hater, but Lennart Poettering needs to stay in his lane.

Does nextcloud deck have recurring tasks yet? I didn’t think it did.

Just checked, and no, it doesn’t appear to.

Back when I had roommates, we used a Kanban board. Trello is the “name brand” you may be familiar with, but there’s lots of self-hostable alternatives:

Nextcloud has Decks if you’re running that. If not, there’s also Wekan, Tagia, Planka, or Vikunja.

Awesome! That community seems like it hasn’t had much activity since it was created, so glad to see some new posts.

TIL there’s a community for Obvious Plant: !obviousplant@lemmy.world

Used to be sub’d to that on Reddit and kinda forgot about it after leaving.

I guess it was less "today I learned’ and more “today I bothered to look” 😆

Supportive and savage.