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“Despises O’Toole”? Did I just get transported back in time 4 years?

From what I recall, this sort of stuff is usually kept as a closely guarded secret by those who do it. Perhaps someone else more knowledgeable about the practice could give some more insight.

All of the services that I host are for private use:

• Nextcloud
• FreshRSS
• Immich
• Jellyfin
• RSSBridge

And they are all behind Caddy, which reverse proxies and handles HTTPS. I’m not sure if it really counts as self-hosting, but I also use my server as a host for my backups with Borg. I also use it as a sort of central syncing point for Syncthing.

I did have a Pi-Hole at one point, but I kept running into issues with it — I may look into it again in the future.

At some point I’d like to try implementing some ideas that I’ve had for Homeassistant (a camera server with Frigate and some other automation things). Once federation has been implemented, I would like to host a Forgejo instance. I may also host a Simplex relay server, depending on how the app progresses. I’ve been considering hosting a Matrix instance, but I’m not sure yet.

Are you looking for something for a headless server or something for a system with a GUI (eg a desktop)?

It entirely depends on how you want your homelab to work. I use a reverse proxy to set up subdomains for my publicly facing services because I find it easier and cleaner to assign a subdomain to each service, and I also like having HTTPS managed by a single point — a sort of single point of entry to the rest of the services. You’d have to decide what you want out of your homelab, and find and set up the services that yield the outcome that you want.

Ha, I didn’t notice that in the thumbnail. Very interesting indeed, if it is a 22 degree halo!

Would you mind elaborating?

Five Guys have better service that is free

It wasn’t free — they were charging money for it:

Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service

Yeah, take a look at the solution at the top of the post.

I’ll preface this by saying that, imo, these sorts of views are the complete wrong type of mindset to have for governing a region that is known for it’s diverse and beautiful natural features and ecosystems.

“What are we going to do if we have 30 per cent less food production?

This is a pretty weak argument considering that food production accounts for a very small portion of B.C.'s total land ­— specifically 4.9% of B.C. is within the ALR [source], so to say that 30% of that is going to be taken away seems like quite a stretch. On top of that, most food production in B.C. is in a relatively compact portion of B.C.'s southern regions [source].

What are we going to do if we’re going to have 30 per cent less forestry production?

Less than 0.3% of B.C.'s land is actively logged at any given time [source], on top of that, only 26% of B.C. land (42% of forests) is available for logging [source], so, again, to assume that it would cause B.C. to loose 30% of it’s logging production is a stretch.

Why do you constantly ask questions without adding anything to the conversation?

That’s a loaded question; I disagree with the premise — I feel that I have provided useful information and context. You, however, have not provided anything but seemingly non-constructive and condescending content for your past 3 comments [1][2][3] in this thread.

The title is certainly classic clickbait — disingenuous and sensationalist. It also doesn’t really match the content of the video, imo.

So what were we talking about before you started trying to derail this conversation with endless questions?

Is that rhetorical? I don’t understand the purpose of your seemingly condescending question.

I think I may have misinterpereted your argument. When you said

It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Where do you think you’ll have a better quality of life? [source]

were you arguing that most countries have the same problems as Canada, so to immigrate elswhere would be futile? I was under the presumption that you were arguing that Canada can’t do anything to fix it’s issues, and that it would instead require some global collaborative effort.

I would guess that it is extremely difficult to quantify how much of an effect the tax has had on the housing market. Anything beyond a guess, however, would be outside of my qualifications — I would defer to those who have looked into this more appropriately. After a very quick, and cursory websearch, I found a paper that stated the following:

From the empirical analysis of overall market, we cannot detect the significant effect of Speculation and Vacancy Tax on the price of housing property in Vancouver after the implementation. Only the parameters of GDP of real estate growth and unemployment rate are reexamined to be statistically significant. We could observe the decrease of housing price in Vancouver from the price chart after the tax policy entered into force. The decrease is also reflected by the negative coefficient of City*Time although it is not significant. […] Focusing on a specific region’s housing price, we still cannot detect that British Columbia’s Speculation and Vacancy Tax has significantly impact on the housing price of Vancouver West compared to Toronto Central. All the other factors mentioned by other researches are not statistically significant neither. [source (archive)]

The original comment that I responded to was about inflation, food costs and housing costs.

Those are all global problems.

How would you argue that they are global problems? (please don’t interperet that as condescending, or accusatory — I am simply curious. It is hard to convey emotion through text)

My child will have to take out loans for like x10 that amount and it will destroy her future before it even begins.

It depends on where one goes — not all post secondary institutions charge the same amounts. Generally, the fancier/more reputable schools will charge the most. It is quite possible to complete undergrad in Canada for <30k CAD (not including living and transportation expenses). Also, keep in mind that inflation is innevitable — the Government of Canada targets an inflation rate of 2% per year [source].

Empty houses in the Metro Vancouver area have certinaly been an issue [source]. The B.C. Speculation and Vacancy Tax was implemented to discourage this behaviour [source]. Theoretically, it should also capture the negative impact that vacant housing has on society and the economy.

Is empty housing a prevelant problem across Canada? I was under the impression that it was really only a problem in Metro Vancouver. Furthermore, B.C. has a vacancy tax [source], which should capture the negative societal and economic impact generated by empty housing .

It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Which problems that they mentioned do you think are global, and why?

food prices are through the roof because we’re being robbed

Would you mind clarifying what you mean by this?

Higher education is unaffordable to anyone without wealthy parents

Based on what are you making this claim? The Canadian Government and the provincial governments provide loans and financial support to students, which should be able to cover all expenses for an average post secondary institution [source] [source]. Furthermore, the Canadian government provides extra support for Indigenous Peoples [source].

reflect on how bad you colonized and fucked up my continent

By “my continent”, I presume that you are referring to the idea that the indigenous peoples were the first ones to arrive in North America, and, by extension, you apply the first possession principle? Also, for clarity, what exactly does “my continent” refer to, in terms of lands?

I see no citations in the video description and I’m not too interested in listening to their argument if they can’t provide those citations up front.

Yeah, I agree that this is annoying, but, to be fair to the video, there are citiations within the video itself in the bottom right corner. I have no proof if they are provided for every claim, however.

The only measure they seem to be appealing to in order to support their claim that “no one wants to live in Canada” is that Canada has lowered in happiness index.

Aha, I would be very hesitant to justify clickbait, but, that being said, did the creator refer to that thesis within the video itself (I’m not disagreeing with you, necessarily — I could simply have missed something in the video)? One other claim that may be in line with that thesis is at 12:38 when they mention that, each year, Canada loses 0.7% (in the video, they misquote this figure as 7%, but, to be fair, the document that they were citing wrote the value as “.7%” which, arguably, could be easily misread) of its population to brain drain.

I would argue that it’s due to people not making the distinction between the government policies that attract immigrants, and the immigrants themselves. The immigrants are simply pawns in the greater game, and they are therefore used as a scapegoat to detract from the government’s own failings.

Out of curiosity, what content in the video do you specifically disagree with?

so might run into more roadblocks with its use.

This has been my experience with Podman. That’s not to say that these roablocks aren’t without reason, nor merit, but there is always a trade off of convenience when optimizing for security.

Podman is […] “better” because it doesn’t run as root, but other than that I don’t know of any advantages to it that are not a derivation of “it runs as a regular user”.

Podman can run in rootless mode (with some caveats), but it is still able to run as root — it doesn’t only have the capability to run as a “regular user”.

I am curious what kind of performance you’re seeing for DNS requests considering how old and anemic the first gen Pi is

I haven’t done any rigorous tests to gather empirical data for an accurate comparison, but, annectdotally, it, at least, doesn’t feel any slower than when I had my router (Linksys E8450) resolving to Cloudflare.

I could be misunderstanding your comment, but you don’t seem to have answered my question of why I don’t see my rules anymore.

Now that it is up and running, do you think it’s is a good service?

That’s a good question. The service itself is well made — it functions as advertised, it has satisfactorily intuitive UX, a sizeable community, and a good amount of documentation. I’m not sure, yet, if it’s a service that I personally need — I set it up mostly for the benefit of others.

While you may not like the setup

The main pain points were the sparse, vague, and misleading documentation that I encountered — I understand that documentation is difficult, but for a company like Raspberry Pi, my standards, and expecations are quite a bit higher. I probably won’t use Podman anymore, as I don’t find its setup overly user friendly, currently, as compared to something like docker. I had never used Podman before, and I was considering switching my existing services over to it, so this was sort of meant to be a trial run on something with little impact. I will keep an eye on Podman, but I will stick with Docker for the time being.

do you enjoy the results?

I personally don’t notice its effects as much, but I do like what I’m seeing for others. It has also made me aware of some other issues that I’ll have to look into, so that is good.

It’s a raspberry pi 1. Those things have 256mb of RAM

The exact model that I am using, which I referenced in my post, actually has 512MB of RAM.

Given the extremely limited resources: why bother with containers?

While, from what I can see, containers virtually don’t add any resource overhead, it’s honestly moreso that I favor consistency. Containerization is well documented, it is well supported, and its behaviour (if one is familiar with the platform) tends to be more predictable than running a service natively.

See the post for the solution.

If you are interested, a solution was found. See the post for the update.

See the solution in the post.

See the solution in the post.

See the solution in the post.

You can always do what I do, and just blow up the install and start fresh.

This may be what I’ll have to do. I just don’t understand what’s going wrong here. It’s so strange.

Yup. I ran # nc -u -l 0.0.0.0 53 to listen on port 53. Then I ran # drill @127.0.0.1 53 archlinux.org in another shell. I saw the request in the listening shell.