Midnight Wolf

I swear that wasn’t the case, but I guess I’m wrong. Where do you go to ‘trade in’ the licenses?

My first used license ‘expired’ after a year, even though I’m 99% sure they are perpetual. So I’m on my second, waiting for that to expire too…

This is what I use, though I run it on a local server that checks services that it runs (update breaks something, etc) and then also reaches out to the vps (and more) for status checks. Have it check services that are accessible by an access control rule, so the server is protected but you have updates on exactly what is having issues.

I dunno if it would help, but between my phone and my computers (and one of my local servers) I use KDE Connect. Read about whatever I’m working on with the phone, share > kde > device, boom the clipboard is filled with whatever, or the link is automatically opened. Then proceed with the thing on my computer. Need to think or read about something but need to step away from the computer? Just copy it on the desktop, and again the clipboard is filled on the phone.

And of course sharing tabs on Firefox/derivatives.

It seems to me that having an asshole that contributes is a shitty situation, but each to their own.

(hehe poo joke but the point stands)

AWStats

“are you in good hands?”

(only people from the states will get this)

Movies, TV, porn. That’s what I started with anyway…

20 up isn’t terrible; I made do with 10 for 8 years, and that included hosting said movies and shows to friends.

So you’re offering to manage my ~40 services, and make sure that all the dependencies are met - and none conflict…?

I mean, I enjoy hosting things myself, but I’m not going to invite issues that have been resolved by simple solutions. I’ve been around the block with dependency hell, fuck all of that. Now if I was getting paid like 6 figures instead of zero, sure boss, whatever the fuck you say boss, job security all day long. But unless you’re offering, I’m sticking with the easy way.

I don’t see any options or mention of changing instances, beyond discord canary and public testing…? I might be blind

It’s been around a few years. I investigated it last year. It had a name change some times ago.

I can’t vouch for the code quality, but it’s too old to be slop.

I set this container up yesterday. Technically it’s running. But all the settings are in the fucking sql db, and I know fuck all about sql other than drop tables is funny meme from xkcd. But also, ignoring the settings, I would like to point out that there is effectively no client. I mean, there are two official ones - the depreciated one, and the alpha one, and the alpha one has a total of 4 releases with the newest being two years ago. How do you deprecate a client when the server is still in alpha? What the fuck? And on all pages it screams ‘this is alpha testing software, do not use as a daily’. Also the docs are, uhh… rough. If rough was falling 4 stories into a bed of poisonous cacti. It took me 3 hours to get the container running properly and finally poking at the db. It’s as organized as my bedroom (‘it’s somewhere in this dresser, I think…’).

The idea, the potential, is brilliant. Literally everything about getting it working though…

I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…

You vastly overestimate boomers-era individuals (and really the entire general population). Beyond turning things on and ‘everything magically works’, most know fuck all about tech.

I know that if I croak tomorrow, while my ex partners and a couple friends would be able to piece together things, 1) they’d have to be informed that I’m dead, 2) they’d have to be asked to help with my different hosts, and 3) they’d need to remember where I physically put the password in case of emergency to access the main host (with all of the family’s important shit, like all of it). Assuming they got those three things done, they would have to convey to the ex/friend how to access the main node, and then figure out my password manager master password, and the mfa (multiple options), or assume it’s inaccessible and use the physical password to retrieve the data and restore… on an OS none of them has ever used before.

Assuming all that is doable, after the restore is to maintain the system and the containers, perpetually, as well as continue paying for the domains so they can access the services hosted on the nodes, and continue paying for my vps and the backup storage strategy (two different companies on two different continents alongside the local copy).

As I have literally almost died before (I was supposed to have died, according to doctors who saved me), I have tried to make this hypothetical situation easy, and still it would astonish me if they get past like step #2.

I might send you an email about that; I commented above (same parent comment) about having Windows server 2022 at home. I haven’t tried to connect the vm to xpipe (no need as of yet), but I would have been bummed out at the requirement.

(it’s running on a second-hand ThinkServer tower, tucked away under a table :P)

As per https://xpipe.io/pricing :

The following systems are classified as enterprise operating systems within XPipe and connections to those systems are only possible starting from the professional plan:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
• SUSE Enterprise Linux systems
• Zentyal systems
• Windows Enterprise systems
• Windows Server Datacenter systems

(which I didn’t know about and is a bummer since I have a w10 2022 sever datacenter vm, but it’s single-purpose so I don’t need to interact with it much at all)

Tossing my hat for +1 since I use xpipe for data transferring and basic stuff between systems, have been for like… 2 years now? It’s super handy.

Have the system do something intensive and see how much the temps climb. Let it work for a few minutes and see - that will tell you if your system is thermal throttling or not.

Yeah, that all looks okay. Did you put the system under heavy load while checking/monitoring?

Thermal throttling is when the system (usually the cpu) becomes so hot from the lack of cooling provided to it, that it limits its performance to save itself from certain death - going so far as performing a hard shutdown if the situation doesn’t improve or stabilize. AMD chips usually throttle at 80C, Intel chips 100C, but it could be a few different components. You need to run software that can properly read and report the temperature of various parts in your system to see if you might be hitting the throttling threshold.

I know software to do this for windows, but not any for *nix.

My Pixel dis/enables it on a press. Long press for devices.

I was 110% a Google fan until about 9 years ago, when Project Fi was headed towards public release, and devices purchased from them (effectively through the Google Store with a different sticker on the box) kept mysteriously going missing in transit, and the customer got an empty box/a brick/whatever. This is annoying on its own, but G/Fi cs response to these instances were awful. As I was a Fi user (woo closed beta gang), and I bought my devices thru Fi, I became concerned that this might happen to me. That thought quickly snowballed, and I started migrating out of the G ecosystem because the realization that their cs is useless and if I ever have a dispute or situation, they can just delete my account without giving a single fuck.

To pay a company money and not receive some assurances that my data won’t be wiped out of the blue while I am asleep, is - in my opinion - fucking stupid as hell. I don’t know how the apple situation is, but until proven otherwise, fuck both of them for anything you care about.