I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

What kinda thing are you thinking of? An actual photobooth kinda box?

You could usr an Android tablet, install Open Camera (from F-Droid) and that has the ability to take (for example) 4 photos with a 10 sec delay… videos too…

Then use syncthing to copy those photos to something else (your phone, a NAS, etc) before it gets trashed / accidentally wiped, etc…

This is the way.

There’s nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it’s a VM / container running inside a server that can’t start because it doesn’t have an IP address and you can’t resolve names to get the thing started.

Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.

I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.

I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there’s no internet, for example)

Then I have everything else in a single server.

Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.

Yes, because the CLI command is poweroff, so I do agree with you 🙂

(Please Wait… comments about alternative CLI commands will arrive soon…)

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.

No, you can jusy restore to a second location…it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.

I prefer backing up specific folders rather than “everything”, so it’s easier to test. (I’d just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)

Let’s say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it’s been accidentally deleted… then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

:) you don’t have to use containers, but they do simplify the install.

I don’t use containers.

There’s also no Setup.exe to download run where you just Next, Next, Finish.

So, instead, I have to install separate packages, configure them, deal with conflicting requirements, etc…

Did I have to learn Docker? No. Did I have to learn something else? Yes.

As someone else mentioned, spending some time learning what / how / why you’re doing will help massively later on. Probably why you’re getting Docker answers, they’re auto-suggesting it to start you off with something simpler…

Yeah, good summary - I’m not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we’re not really channel hopping either.

How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend…

Glad we helped you :)

I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?

I’m lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.

Ah, ok, you’re a bit of a contributor… I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)

TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.

And yeah, Myth’s not ideal for external streaming…

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about a combined Myth Backend / *arr box and then see whether Myth Frontend or Jellyfin worked “better” (for my use case)… just need a spare weekend to try it all out.

That’s me… Jedi Advert Avoider

Yep, still alive 🙂

Not heard of Tablo… I’ll take a look

Yeah, now it’s charity shops… walk in, pay almost nothing for some DVDs, rip the disk, return them to another charity shop…

Better business model than Blockbuster 😉

Yeah, Myth’s built-in internet browser is pretty dire - I have a 2nd virtual desktop to open a browser if I want to watch something via the internet, but I don’t bother with Netflix, etc…

No. Maybe it is where you’re located, but for me it’s fine.

Movies come from the high seas, so I’m not too worried about them, but there’s some good stuff on terestrial TV definitely

Agreed.

If the hardware’s standard, then it’s possible for people (us) to keep these things out of the ground / incinerator for a few more years, but if it’s custom / proprietary stuff, then that’s just terrible.

I must get around to looking into 2FA / MFA sooooon (next ~5 years)

Did you find it really straight forward to get setup?

I think the fear of getting started with these things is sometimes worth it (home system offline for days) but often it’s quite simple…?

Maybe not a docker solution, but you could throw pfSense into a VM and do all that from there

I use it (as it’s intended) as my firewall, but I used to use these as general purpose network security VMs in the past (just because I know the product well)

So for you: no firewall rules, just setup DNS with pfBlocker (for the advert blocking) and setup the VPN as required…

Just an idea…

I’d also split #2 further:

2a: Using a domestic DSL router and Synology NAS to run everything 2b: Has a Raspberry Pi (or 6) maybe a 2nd repurposed old PC and possibly an unmanaged switch 2c: Full height 19" rack, UPS, firewalls, managed switches, full virtualisation with SAN, redundancy and 100Gb full fibre internet

I’m somewhere between 2b and 2c

Ok, thanks… Good to know for a rainy day.

Not heard of RouterOS before … <quick search> I didn’t realise jad released firmware that would run in a normal VM… don’t suppose you have anything to compare it to pfSense?

Wow. I use jtx board and never tried the Kanban view … man, I didn’t even know it did that! Thanks!

So, do I need a GPU to use facial rec. with this?

I have a NAS with a low powered CPU, but I don’t care if it takes weeks to analyse - we don’t take loads of photos.

Wow.

Now I know there’s an app for everything…

I’ve been here since before dial-up. I knew Janet in the early days 😉

Yeah, I have trail sense installed - but everytime I’m out and about I just can’t work out how to use the myriad functions it has (like how high something is, etc)…

I really ought to RTFM and try to use it properly

Ah, ok, so I can export my OsmAnd paths, import into this and then remind myself of where I went on holiday / almost fell of a cliff / got lost driving / etc ?

I have a bunch of tracks I’ve saved over the years… hmm… maybe this is what I should be using

Hey, the demo is really responsive… impressive!

Is this running on a mega spec server - or are the results comparable to the small VM I’d be wanting to run at home? :)

+1 for Logseq… I’m using it for work as well as personal stuff and it’s strength is automatically creating new pages (and reverse links back) by just typing ‘’ [[that new idea]] ‘’ and you’re done. Fantastic.

And sync with syncthing

Ok, so does that also mean we can check the SMART parameters now?

Previously, the USB interface effectively blocked access to them.

This must’ve changed as I’ve shucked WD Elements / Book drives and they were normal drives…

So, you’re saying the actual harddrive has a USB chipset onboard and only a USB interface?

When did this start happening?

+1 for TiddlyWiki

I’ve been using it for years for a similar reason.

Each section (Tiddler) that you create in each wiki can be exported as a static HTML file, so if you have tables, etc, then formatting shouldn’t be lost.

I use Firefox with an addon that helps to save changes (not at the desk at the mo, so can’t check the name), but it works well.

… searches for “Futa” on company laptop…

I think others have covered the main points, but I found it hard going for 1 device (ie a Ras Pi, VM, etc), but then it was effortless when I wanted to add a 2nd (or more…), so at first pick the sensible uses, then consider ansible for that one-off device a little later…

I like a few specific utils (tmux, nmon, htop) on all my devices: ansible script

I want to update all the Ras Pis in the house: ansible script

You get the picture…

Yeah +1 for LLTV