open source proxy / DNS blocker don’t (or shouldn’t) have commercial agendas & obligations that commercial OS & Browsers may impose.
open source proxy / DNS blocker don’t (or shouldn’t) have commercial agendas & obligations that commercial OS & Browsers may impose.
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GOP lost a good one imo. He did a great job despite internal / external challenges. It is a mistake—to what end??? Crazy.
Awesome, go for it! ansible (more or less) is directed ssh. inventory, role, playbooks + templates, etc; for learning, definitely go for it! if you were to roll your own automation framework, you’d end up w/ansible.
how many devices do you need to update?
ansible wants to have a home base and an inventory of devices to manage. for example, if you have a flock of Rasberry Pi’s and a server stashed under a desk somewhere, yes, ansible is 100% going to simplify your life.
ansible mgmt from a device to that same device… It might be just as easy to make backups and track your file deltas. the temptation is to use ansible so you remember what changes you made, but it can be a pia when you need to do a quick shift and have to go thru the playbook (unless you have playbooks on the ready).
what you are attempting is called high availability; it might not be worth it; usually would need three different physical devices (in a homelab situation)…a load balancer to route traffic, and two nodes to handle said traffic. to perform your storage upgrade, you pull one device out of the load balancer, do your upgrade, and then add it back in. then, you do the same for the other load balancer. this would have 100% service availability…but this is a lot of work for a one-person show!
do that for fun - you do you. however, if you can handle a few hours of downtime and don’t want to burden yourself with the long time care+feeding the above setup will require…
remember you can use USB boot, mount both your drives, and then if you are lucky, your distro (on USB) will have a disk management/cloning utility.
click click click, boom…you have bit perfect copy of small M2 on to large M2.
Do not change your small M2! power down, swap 'em, and power on! if it doesn’t work, you still have your OG M2 to boot from.
there are backup/restore utilities and other ways, each taking more and more time…but M2 is pretty quick.
For sure.
My point was more … first time, ever, you boot a raw device, a display can be handy unless you know what you are doing. Once it survives a reboot…
After that, if you need a GUI — just run an x windows server on your main rig; interact with your remote server as the client without the need of a display.
Nothing wrong with that, right? As Bob Dylan says, everyone serves someone.
if OP doesn’t have the passion or time for DIY, the reality is an ecosystem awaits.
Sometimes you just want to pop a QR code, screw your light in and then have your smart speaker / phone just so it’s thing.
the key is who will offer what OP needs without farming data for resale, or, worse, criminal enterprise.
Apple home kit is the way to go imo for those who don’t want to DIY
Usually it’s handy to have a display during initial setup and cfg. Also, with x windows port forwarding … you access your server gui over a network like god intended :)
A NAS serves data to clients; I know this is tilting conventional wisdom on it’s head but hear me out: go for the most inexpensive, lowest power storge-only-NAS that you can tolerate, and instead…put your money into your data transport (network) and into your clients..
As much as possible, simplify your life - move processing out of middle tiers, into client tiers.
you could probably roll your own pretty easily, just prowl around /proc etc
https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/proc.html
Actually…for a NAS, your network link is your limit.
You could have 4xPCIe5 M.2’s in full-raid, saturating your bus w/64Gb/s of glory, but if you are on 1Gb/s wifi, that’s what you’ll actually get.
Still, would be fun to ssh in and dupe 1TB in seconds, just for the giggles. Do it for the fun!
Remember, it is almost always cheaper and fast enough to use a Thunderbolt / high-speed USB4/40Gbs flash drive for a quick backup.
Honestly, I think it boils down to our ecosystems. There are other mail + calendar providers out there. When children are involved, I think it’s worth a few bucks to get a custom DNS, a privacy-focused email/calendar provider, and give children the space to grow up in a world that collects as little metadata as possible.
Yes. the you that is most valuable to others, is you, as you are today, so right now is a perfectly fine time to embrace privacy focused practices!
I agree.
I feel like certain providers are better than others. It is worth investigating imo.
Some providers use in memory security devices so that if the device was stolen, it would be useless.
Some offer 100% in country services designed to meet in country security & privacy needs , albeit at a higher price.
All privacy and security is a risk / reward scenario. What is the risk of an event, what is the personal reward for mitigating that event, what is the cost to do so.
Personally, I think the most important thing to do is try, and not gatekeep.
A bad actor is a bad actor and no amount of privacy practice is going to stop them.
Also worth asking genuine questions as it’s not like Google is going to roll out step by step avoidance practices to escape the various metadata machines, both theirs and their competitors.
I like privacy based practices because it is form of self reliance, one that requires a community to succeed!
Or, this is our best universe and the rest just get even shittier. That’s my rainbow and unicorn fantasy / no kink shaming pls.
Or, what if hell is simply consciousness during all the shitty outcomes: the teacher runs out candy when it’s your turn, the bus drives off just when you show up, etc.
It would mean as we approach the hellspawn timeline, each one of us made it into the angel timeline too.
Odds are very high we only have one universe because multiple dimensions can be reduced via transformation, but it is progressively more difficult to transform from a lower dimension to a higher dimension: that straight 2d line is probably a straight 2d line in 3d and 4d space.
Also le boobies in class were always fun I am not sure what the hubbub is all about.
Is it something you can address with your ISP?
Changing ISP is just not an option for most people. Sometimes a different class of service will Improve link reliability.
The other thing you could consider is some kind of mobile hotspot.
from a diagramming pov, remember to document the link speed at each end as well as the ethernet cable type. if your cable modem supports 10GB I would really really look at 10GB network devices pretty closely, budget allowing. I would steer cleared of managed, it’s just a PIA for your setup.
You might want to experiment with modem <-> switch <-> wifi vs (modem <-> wifi <-> switch). remember wifi is just ethernet. so the order may or may not matter as much (vendor gets a vote). there does not appear to be a reason to march ethernet cable traffic thru the wifi router, but maybe there is???
def agree an 8 port switch might be better for you, use a 5 to split a single cable at a single location (say, tv + game console + speaker combo)
Remember if you need a WiFi mesh (multi access-point) to connect your devices, if possible, link the mesh backplane together via ethernet cable so that you don’t chew half the speed with wi-fi backplane chatter.