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MigratingtoLemmy ,

People already talked about hosting your own DNS, let me add that a reverse proxy would be used for something like mapping myhome.local:8000 to myhome.local/jellyfin.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I wonder if mpd in a container with a front-end can solve your problems

Anyone using a BananaPi r2 /r3 for your router?

My family needs a new router to replace the old (though not old enough that it should be dying) netgear router that is slowly dying. I want to do something with good foss firmware like opnsense or openwrt. I was thinking that the BananaPi options look good, but had some concerns. I would like to install the firmware myself,...

MigratingtoLemmy ,

UART to USB adapter, use a terminal multiplexer on your laptop

MigratingtoLemmy ,

With how cheap they are, people will and should buy from TEMU. Aliexpress as a general store never had much of a competition for English speakers outside of Banggood for select electronics. Taoboa is good but it's harder to use

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'm happy because it's competition for Aliexpress.

Arguments against carbon emissions and carbon footprints against corporations isn't very helpful unless you can do something about it. This is somehow a very unpopular opinion here, for some reason people don't like being told that they don't have much power. Boycotting it by yourself won't work either, because even if the west gives up on it, the East will not. Carbon emissions will remain unless strict regulations are maintained, and we know who buys politicians these days. If I can do nothing about the climate, then yes I'd rather pay less. And I'm not explicitly anti-China like some people here because America is just as hypocritical.

Yes there are really bad products and their QC is horrible. I'll say the same for Aliexpress, Taobao, Amazon, Walmart and Bestbuy. Unfortunately for everyone here, we're going to have to choose between shit options, so yes I'd rather pay less if it's shit I'm going to get anyway. Besides, I'm smart enough to not make bigger purchases on these sites because I know of their QC situation.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

What I do not understand is why people are biased against certain companies in such a discussion. If your arguments are correct, then Amazon is a horrendous beast that should have been killed by now with "viral boycotting". And here we are. Is anyone demotivated by knowing that people still buy from Amazon and make them billions? Why all the hate against TEMU specifically, when they're trying to undercut Amazon and other stores? Let's not pretend that Amazon and Best Buy and Walmart are a collective bunch of saints and can mean no harm. Where is the action in this case?

Let me speak the bitter truth for you: the majority of the population here is American, with an inherent anti-chinese mentality when it comes to capitalistic ventures/operations. That is the reason for the hate. Alibaba faced the same issues, and in case someone wants to bring up Huawei for their actions, remember that AT&T runs an NSA spy-mission in Manhattan. Where is the outcry in this case?

I might have veered off-topic, but bad QC and cheap deals aren't inherently a Chinese thing. Hence, I do not follow the propaganda against Chinese shops who are beating American companies at their own game.

Edit: since I've been called guilty of waiving away untoward actions, please enlighten me on how the general American population has stayed "responsible" and managed to put any dent in other non-Chinese companies that have their ethics in the dumpster and actively harm the environment and people (I'm looking at you Nestle, Spotify and OpenAI)

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Well, at least you're consistent with your views. Being anti-consumption is a fine stand. In my case, I usually go to these sites for cheap deals on microcontrollers, tit-bits like USB adapters, metal stands, IEM cables etc. I'm not buying expensive/essential stuff from them.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

After coming back from a break, I realised I might have leaned too hard into "protecting Chinese companies". I will say this right now for everyone reading: I have no love for the nationality of said companies. I don't care if Aliexpress or a clone of theirs was Chinese, Korean, Brazilian, Swiss, Russian, Iranian, Australian or Japanese (incidentally I spend time on buyee.jp because the cheap deals on CDs sometimes). What I care about is providing competition to the bigger mammoths here. If I find a USB adapter for a quarter of the price with free shipping and refunds from a Chinese shop with a decent reputation (Aliexpress, Banggood, TaoBao and now TEMU), I'll take it. I hope this forces big American retailers to maybe give better, fairer prices to their customers.

I'm not quite convinced that Amazon is no longer the giant with worms as we knew it. Can you explain?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Depends on what you buy. You shouldn't be buying PSUs or TVs or something of the sort from there, but try finding cheap clothes, accessories, electronics like that on Amazon

MigratingtoLemmy ,

And where am I getting such cheap clothes if I don't have a thrift store near me? I'd happily take them for free.

And clothes are just one part of it, which I don't really purchase that often (I mentioned them because I bought a few boxers to wear around the house but that's it)

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Bustybats

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Jerboa here but same

MigratingtoLemmy ,

That's not been my experience, but YMMV

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I see. Well, my point still stands; we're choosing amongst shit anyway

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I don't see much of a "fuck corporate greed" around me. And there are some things are much better overseas, like cheap IOT gizmos. Purchasing a cheap relay is much easier from the bigger brands on Aliexpress than from a local manufacturer

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Has worked mostly fine for me, YMMV

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'm assuming you don't own a smartphone, because many of those materials are extracted by exploiting the local populace in Africa

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Other than torrenting what else do you use port-forwarding for?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Why not a seedbox?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

And that is exactly the reason to use a seedbox. You can leave it in the cloud to seed at gigabit speeds whilst you can download at your leisure and not worry about tormenting at all on your computer. Also it's less expensive than Mullvad but you likely can't pay with XMR/cash if that's a deal breaker

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Your situation is really unique. Yeah, you're probably better off with a VPN and torrenting directly. Which VPN do you have in mind?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

How about a 100*million*million dollars? Put them out of business and T-Mobile will be frightened enough to not try this shit any longer.

If they can slap fines with whatever amounts, why don't they just ask enough to finance the country and make the company bankrupt? It's not like the CEO is indispensable

Should I stick with Docker Swarm for self-hosting?

Hi! I'm starting out with self-hosting. I was setting up Grafana for system monitoring of my mini-PC. However, I ran into issue of keeping credentials secure in my Docker Compose file. I ended up using Docker Swarm since it was the path of least resistance. I've managed to set up Grafana/Prometheus/Node stack and it's working...

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'm using k8s at work and am planning to set up k3s at home, because even though PVCs and Ingresses are not the easiest to grasp and write in templates, I think the way I want to do storage is beyond the capabilities of podman which I used earlier. Also, Kubernetes on either end so knowledge transfer is ready

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Is RIAA wanting full control over the AU tech or do they want AI to be banned from music completely? Their stance will dictate who I support between two massive evils

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I guess my support goes to AI companies this time, even though I don't like it.

Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

MigratingtoLemmy ,

How do you reach into your server with SSH disabled without lugging a monitor and keyboard around?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Sorry, I'm too stupid to heed warnings

MigratingtoLemmy ,

It's actually better privacy since it talks directly to the root servers instead of cloudflare knowing all of your DNS traffic. Quad9 is a good alternative with better data policies

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'd like a blog please

MigratingtoLemmy ,

You can run a VPN and tunnel your outbound DNS queries over that. Heck, you could tunnel your DNS queries over TOR

MigratingtoLemmy ,

You might want to study more about SNI. Your ISP knows anyway

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'm pissed off because he didn't limit it to just being an init and made it into a much bigger mess

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I didn't know much about Linux when Systemd was adopted by Debian. And how would I make myself loud enough for people to notice? I still don't have the technical knowledge to completely grasp the operating reasons why people chose it, all I know is that systemd was meant to be an init system, and now it is no longer just an init system. It's in things it shouldn't be in. I'm sure people worked hard on it but one program edging out general alternatives shouldn't have been the way of development

MigratingtoLemmy ,

All I'm saying is that it shouldn't have gone beyond being an init system. Is it so hard to understand that one might want one application to do one thing and do it well?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Your opinion is that systemd is objectively better being more than an init system?

I prefer my software to work as single units which can communicate using standard, agnostic technologies to one another, not be a gigantic binary blob which is too hard for even some of the most brilliant people in the community to understand

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Time to create some torrents? Let's see them fight with the Netherlands on what's seeding in Europe lol

MigratingtoLemmy ,

K3s is an embedded Kubernetes distribution by a Californian company called Rancher, which is owned by the Enterprise Linux Giant SUSE.

Kubernetes works on the idea of masters and workers. I.e. you usually cannot bring up ("schedule") containers (pods) on the master nodes (control nodes for brevity). K3s does away with such limitations, meaning you can just run one VM with k3s and run containers on top.

Although if Kubernetes is too hard I would push you towards Podman.

I do not know the extrapolation for CSI but Longhorn is a storage backend of Kubernetes for persistent storage across nodes

MigratingtoLemmy ,

How many PBs you got and how many clients (humans)?

How much traffic across your network in terms of a daily average?

Do you have a local recommendation system running? For example I found a last.fm clone, self-hosted hut I haven't found much for video

MigratingtoLemmy ,

All the more reason to find the friendly neighbourhood blackhat gang

MigratingtoLemmy ,

*wink wink

MigratingtoLemmy ,

We got lucky this time. Won't be the case next time.

Also, even if it's entire governments voting, there must be a way to find politicians who are pro and against this, yes? Pretty sure governments had an internal vote and they came up with their decision based on said vote

MigratingtoLemmy ,

What would the Chinese like then?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I thought that was more Korean, but I suppose that'll work for them too

MigratingtoLemmy ,

You're right about that, I commented without thinking. Thanks

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I'd prefer XMR

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Had never heard of it, thanks. I prefer DEXes for crypto (XMR only now)

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Whom did you buy your seedbox from?

MigratingtoLemmy OP ,

Thanks, I'll take a look!

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