What I hate is when they want you to store “secret” information like your mother’s maiden name/ first pet name for later verifications. You know these are stored in plain text of course. My own damn government does this stupid shit, and they’ve had several hacks of PII including gun registrations because as far as I can tell, nobody competent works in government IT.
Just get a virtual DID number from something like Voip.ms or virtualphone. There may be other providers out there that use crypto for payment for added privacy, but if all you want to do is be able to keep your real phone # off the grid, these work.
I’ll just use Tailscale until they fuck it up, which I’m sure they will, eventually. It’s not very hard to rebuild using something else for the 40 or 50 nodes I’m likely to have. I’ve done it before and I’m sure I’ll do it again.
This is what I’m afraid of happening if Linux got popular. I remember people saying the internet wouldn’t go to shit because it was decentralized and open.
I know I’ll get attacked mercilessly for this, but humanity has a way of fucking up the nicest things.
The only streamer I’ve ever paid for was Netflix but I only got a few years out of that before it became easier to pirate again. Frankly, the Arr suite is a pain in the ass compared to the above method.
Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I’ve ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I’m ready to watch it, but I’ve rarely had to do that.
Please, could we move to Known Space?
True. I’ve done that command for so long that I’ve kinda gotten gzip hardwired into my fingers.
They have what, 2 models? And in the GPU market, they aren’t even a pimple on the fly on the ass of nVidia or AMD
Who wants to get in bed with Elon so he drives the brand into the ground? How much has Fidelity written down their investment in Twitter, 80%?
I’ve hosted NC for a decade, and the AIO was the first method that doesn’t make me dread updates. And I’ve used pretty much every method of installing it over the years, everything sucked.
I snapshotted every time before and update because I knew it was a crapshoot whether the update was going to crater the system, and I’d roll back and wait for a working update to come out. Before snapshotting, I had to fix borked updates about every second time.
Brassicas have entered the chat.
and I’m dumb
This is an acceptable excuse. Carry on.
I don’t think potash will help.
braking in to you’re house
Should I call 911?
Awesome Open Source youtube channel isn’t bad. He’s fairly good at explaining a lot of the concepts. I wouldn’t say I’d use everything he recommends but he gives you enough info to make some judgement calls.
I’d also highly recommend the Selfhosted podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting. Alex, the main host is with Tailscale these days, but don’t let that put you off, he’s been doing the podcast (and recommending Tailscale) since long before he started working with them. I imagine there’s a YT channel for the show, but I’ve only ever listened to the podcast.
Also, 2.5 Admins from Late Night Linux group of podcasts has Jim Salter and Alan Jude, both long time sysadmins and developers that have a lot to talk about that’s of interest to self-hosters and professionals alike.
I’d also highly recommend getting boned up on basic Docker usage, and would point you towards starting right from the beginning to use docker compose with local bind mounts, and ignore these one-line docker commands to start containers. There are helper apps like Lazydocker to assist using Docker from the command line. While you can use GUI apps like Portainer, honestly you’ll just end up more confused than pasting stuff into a compose file and watching it with Lazydocker.
And feel free to ping me if you get confused, I’ve helped a few people sort out what they want to accomplish and point them the least-effort direction, or at least what I consider such.
Jesus, spelling mistake in the first sentence of the complaint. Fire the legal aide.
Try to stay away from exposing applications via proxy or port forwarding. Learn how to use Tailscale and use applications via VPN instead. It installs on any pretty much any device, so it’s not difficult to keep everyone behind the walls and not leave any backdoors for the barbarians.
Hitler had his faults, but spouting the baby talk shit this jackass does every day wasn’t one of them.