OminousOrange

OminousOrange , 11 days ago

I had a set of four for getting ethernet around the few places I rented. There was maybe the odd quality decrease when there was a lot of electrical load, but they worked great otherwise.

OminousOrange , 11 days ago

Sorry, four of the power to ethernet plugs. You put one near your router to essentially supply internet to your house's electrical circuits, then distribute the others where you need them, such as office, living room if you want to connect a TV or console, etc.

OminousOrange , 29 days ago

Oh man, I remember a Philips mp3 player I had for the longest time as a kid. You could hear the little clicks of the hard drive. Lost it on a hike, unfortunately.

OminousOrange , 1 month ago

It might not be original quality, but this should be fairly straightforward with a tunnel or VPN connection to your parent's house. You'd also lose quality in having a WiFi camera instead of wired.

OminousOrange , 1 month ago

And also that many contracts to improve on IT are performed by the lowest bidder.

OminousOrange , 2 months ago

I recently went this route after dabbling with other options. I had a wireguard VPN through my Unifi router, with rules to limit access to only the resources I wanted to share, but it can be a struggle for non savvy users, and even more so if they want to use Jellyfin on their TV. Tried Twingate too and would recommend if it fits your usecase, but Cloudflare Tunnels were more applicable to me.

OminousOrange OP , 2 months ago

Docker is installed on a Debian container with Proxmox as the hypervisor. I believe as far as Docker knows, it's just running on normal Debian. The Debian LXC has its own local ip.

I'll take a look at those resources though, thanks.

OminousOrange OP , 2 months ago

I might have found the issue, see updates above. I have a separate Docker LXC that was behaving normally too, so was good to cross-check with that.

OminousOrange OP , 2 months ago

Why would one prefer a VM over an LXC for Docker?

OminousOrange OP , 2 months ago

This is mostly my reasoning too. I've got a bit more juice than a NUC, but I prefer the way resources are managed with an LXC for the certain apps that I run. I still have VMs for other things, like HAOS and a BlueIris NVR. It's only a local homelab with no external users so avoiding additional complexity is often in my best interest.

OminousOrange , 2 months ago

You don't have backups set up in Proxmox?

OminousOrange , 2 months ago

Many local libraries provide access to this incredible resource too. Check yours to see.

OminousOrange , 2 months ago

It's not OP's website. Looks like there's a contact form on the site though.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago

There is a bit missing with auto discovery on these frontends, which makes sense...if it doesn't track what you watch, it can't recommend things. Most have related videos though, so you're not just stuck with your subscriptions.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago

Perhaps, but there are often related videos which provide a similar sort of discovery. One of the main points of these frontends is that they don't track what you watch. If they don't do that, they can't recommend videos.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago

Oh, I think I misunderstood what you meant by queue function. I get it now, the ability to pick a bunch of videos and have them play through, not a recommendations queue.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago

Would a passcode (different from phone, of course) or biometric unlock for the 2FA app count? For example, I have bitwarden and Aegis, both have fingerprint unlock when opened with a reasonably short timeout. So, even if my phone pin was compromised, both would still require biometric unlock to access.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago

Right, so fingerprint on everything wouldn't be the best practice, because it's all in one category and everything can be unlocked by a compromise of that one thing.

That's a good point. I might look at removing that from my totp app and using a passcode instead.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago

They likely just sent it to anyone above a relatively low karma threshold desperate to get any sorry fool to buy their stock.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago

I've purchased a few things after listening to him yell at me for 20 minutes. The reviews are useful, but I wouldn't watch for pleasure.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago

Toss Linux Mint on a bootable USB, fire up a live version and play around a bit. I was in the same boat and am working on fully transitioning over. The only minor hurdles are Office 365 and other Windows-only programs, but there are ways to get those to work, or just run a Windows VM.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago

Without extortionate extra fees either. I recently wanted to crossplay Overcooked on my PC with a couple friends on my PS4. "Buy PSPlus for only $100+ to play this game online!" Yeah, fuck off.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

I use Docker LXCs. Really just a Debian LXC with Docker and then Portainer as a UI. I have separate LXCs for common services. Arrs on one LXC, Nextcloud, Immich and SearXNG on another, Invidious on a third. I just separate them so I don't need to kill all services if I need to restart or take down the LXC for whatever reason.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

For ease of setup and use, I've found Twingate to be great for outside access to my network.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

ERVs should be controlled by humidity, outside temperature, and time. Some come with an automated mode that adjusts run time and fan power with those. It'd probably be difficult to find controls that have multi zone, HA integration, and E/HRV features in one package.

I'd leave the ERV controls out of this one.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

In this case, the someone else is Alphabet megacorp. I wouldn't waste any concern on them. The content is still hosted by YouTube, just played through the invidious instance.

To do away with all those concerns, you could self-host invidious, or donate to the instance you choose to use if self-hosting is outside of your technical prowess. If you want to support certain creators, donate to them directly instead.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

In hosting invidious or what? I've got it running pretty maintenance free in a docker LXC in Proxmox and use Twingate for access to it and everything else outside my home network. There was a learning curve to set up, but there's plenty of yt tutorials to guide you through.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

Yes, it's a lot of words, but there's really nothing to keep track of after setup. I just go to my invidious ip rather than youtube.com and it works. There are very good tutorials available if you want to implement these solutions. That'd be a good first step rather than the 'I've tried nothing and am all out of ideas' approach.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

Network time protocol protocol

OminousOrange , 5 months ago

I think it was Freakonomics that did a series on it? But yeah, quite an interesting and convoluted series of events.