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faercol , 22 days ago to Selfhosted in Need suggestions for VPS

Yeah I went back from Contabo tbh, as you said, I had several outages, the worst of which lasted several days with absolutely no information, nor response from the support. (My VPS had all the symptoms of a broken disk, which was extremely worrying)

That, plus the subscription fees, it's not something I would advise today

faercol , 25 days ago to Technology in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

Yeah, this is one of the seasons the Pirate party is pushing for a unique ballot, because the current format is really unfavorable towards small parties that don't have the means to print the ballots among other things

faercol , 25 days ago to Technology in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

• there's a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we're talking about here) and you can take any number of them
• then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
• finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

So there's not really a way to definitely know you're voting for an unlisted candidate here.

faercol , 1 month ago to Technology in Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS

As far as I know, gadgetbridge does not support tizenOS smartwatches

faercol , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in That's why we need two ssds for dual boot

Nah, you just need to develop a custom EFI app to boot on it. This app then calls a server on your network which will answer whether to boot on Linux or Windows (or any OS installed really).

And voilà, you don't need to manually select the OS anymore (well, you still need to say to the server what to use, but you can do it beforehand, not during the boot)

faercol , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Simple authentication for homelab?

Authelia is a oidc provider, but does not support oidc as a provider, only local file and ldap. So it really depends on your use case

faercol , 3 months ago to Technology in Boeing: Last Week Tonight

Especially since the B747 is way better than the A380 as a cargo plane, which removes an alternative for the A380

faercol , 4 months ago to Technology in Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal

It's not Swedish specific though. In French it's the same, you "take" a decision

faercol , 4 months ago to Technology in Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Holy shit there's a lot to unpack here, thank you so much for the suggestions!

Honestly in my case the issue is really that I don't want it to be in pain to restore the flat when I leave it, and it's rather small, I just need to pass a cable along the hallway into my office, and somehow pass the door which really does not have a lot of space around it (not enough for a standard ethernet cable, so I'm thinking about flat ethernet cables, which could work here)

But I haven't really had time to think about it yet

faercol , 4 months ago to Technology in Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Yeah, i always try to connect as much as I can to ethernet cables. The issue being that it's sometimes a pain to install the cables, especially if you're renting and can't really pass wires through walls

faercol , 5 months ago to Technology in Masimo — the company that got the Apple Watch banned — has unveiled its new smartwatch

Yeah got a galaxy watch 2 classic years ago and it needs charging every day now, and it sometimes randomly drains the battery in like 1 hour.

But I'm honestly surprised of its longevity, it outlasted 2 phones