biscuitswalrus

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[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

I've been thinking of running something using second hand usb cameras and raspberri pi 3+ since my switch already has poe and my nas has 40tb.

I have a 3d printer so a wall mount enclosure shouldn't be hard either.

Was thinking of mounting them on the window frames indoors.

Nvr software like this might work: https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

Tailscale will allow me to access the Web front end anywhere on my devices. Individually it could hold the RPis too just for remote troubleshooting later if anything happens.

Personally I'd like to reuse as many things that I already own and have no specific reliance on a vendor. If I got a rstp camera later, I wouldn't need a pi to host the camera. But I've got a couple of pis and a couple of usb webcam to start. It won't work for night mode so I'll have to make sure the outdoor lights are triggered by motion.

But I've not done anything yet this is all how I've thought about it in my head. So I'm watching this space to learn more too.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Same, I need too much mental space for it, it's so engaging that I want to actually have the room to enjoy it. When I do I love it, but when I don't I kind of don't want to disrespect it and my enjoyment of it with a half attentive state.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

I've seen similar on my desktop on proton when on wake it crashes the display manager and shows my locked desktop unlocked with all the running applications before it finishes crashing closing all my applications and then going back to login screen.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

You're right. Both cloud services (like Microsoft 365 measured by licensing) and azure each individually are about double Windows. They together make over half of Microsoft's earnings while Windows is like 16%. Then you've got games and linkedin and others filling up the smaller %.

Microsoft doesn't need Windows, you can run your office 365 off Mac or Linux for all they care. Just host all your virtual workloads on azure regardless of OS if it's not serverless, and they're fine with taking that money.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This thread teaches me that generally, most Linux people are looking at windows. Meanwhile Microsoft only thinks Windows is 16% of its business.

Basically, it seems, most Linux users do not think hard about Microsoft.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, my mum isn't going into the shell. She's 65.

I don't really like the idea of 'beginner friendly' like 'you'll get better and start doing it the real way'. It's not some esport where it's easy to play and hard to master, it's a toolbox where it's only job is to get out of the way of you accessing your tools.

Operating systems are middleware.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Yes, you're right about voltage and amp combined, but the problem is modern phones and their charges don't generally want to be doing high amps at 5v, they increase their voltage to 9v, 15v or, 20v. Which like you would point out, is not the right voltage.

Personally I just feed 5v in via a ubec like this: https://core-electronics.com.au/ubec-dc-dc-step-down-buck-converter-5v-at-3a-output.html since I usually have some kind of 12v battery powered thing going on with mine and lots of 12v ac-dc adapters for bench testing and charging. Lots of ways to power them but it's definitely not just 'grab your usb-c charger and it'll be right' which can be frustrating for people since it's almost all other usb-c things will 'just work'.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Tailscale can act as a site to site vpn, but it's best used as a meshvpn imo with as many things as possible in it.

Why? Because the dynamic dns is so powerful. Every host name automatically is in every other tailscale joined computer automatically. My NAS (Truenas in my case) is just "nas" so to access it it's just https://nas. Same with my rustdesk server on https://rustdesk. Jellyfin? You guessed it: https://jellyfin.

Why is this cool? I moved my box between other networks and it just works again. No ips changed.

I take it to work. It just works. I keep one server at my parents place? It just works.

But my printer doesn't have the ability to join the tailnet so I use subnet routing to create a node on that network to act as a NAT router to get to and from that printer.

You can even define exit nodes so if I install tailscale on my parents TV in another state, they can exit their internet via my home which has my IP and therefore Netflix counts it as inside my residence.

Anyway just some considerations. I generally use the subnet routing as a last resort. My 3 node proxmox cluster is all joined and if I took a node to my parents it would literally just work, if slower, as a cluster member. Crazy. Very cool

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Quoting of course from the great Dragoon Fenix.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

After installing mint, and you find a problem, just live boot mint again.

You can do a lot in live boot including mount your permanent copy even the kernel. Whatever is missing you can download put onto the installed hdd or usb storage, and then install.

Ask me how I know. Lol.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

100% it's crazy. I mined 1 btc in 2008(?) on a 9800gx2 over a bit longer than winter in Australia, and I've left it in a wallet and watching it flap up and down in value. This announcement was basically "crypto is up so we have enough again". I mean selling what they must have will crash the market again surely. Or the repayment is over 36 months as they slow sell, but then they risk the value again going down.

Don't do crypto kids, it's a game for traders with an appeal to people who want to self host, self sufficient, disconnected from big banks, and all that, but it was corrupted by financially motivated assholes. Therefore it became an investment/wealth vehicle and received the attention of the most morally bankrupt, manipulative people.

Trust is what any currency that has no intrinsic valueis built on. Crypto can't have that when the fraction of good to bad actors is skewed so heavily.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Telegram isn't encrypting chats (only secret chats).

As far as reproducible builds telegram has got instructions and caveats or excuses around builds for the same issues signal does: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds#reproducible-builds-for-ios

Both easily make Android reproducible builds. This Twitter message is a rock being thrown in a glass house, knowing most people who consume Twitter like it's a firehose, won't swallow the nuance of the details.

I don't even, not to complete lengths.

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