It actually saved my life a few months back, I had a dying windows server I needed to resurrect and the tools on there were perfect for it.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Hirens boot cd is a great tool if you’re working with windows. You are not always going to need it, but when you do need it it’s awfully nice to have it.

Having a pair of default gateways could be an issue. On Windows (which I know, isn’t the OS here), you have to be pretty careful because if you’re straddling two networks, you need to pick one network to be the dominant one, that’s the one whose default gateway will get packets heading onto outbound networks.

Always seems self-evident that equipment you don’t own and control isn’t going to work on your behalf.

When I’m using linux, I do something similar, I just sync’d my home folder as my nextcloud directory and that similarly made all my files available.

The way I’ve got it set up is I have a Nextcloud\Desktop, Nextcloud\Downloads, Nextcloud\Documents, Nextcloud\Pictures, and Nextcloud\Videos folder, and on each machine I use I point each of those points in windows to use the folder in the nextcloud folder instead of my users folder, then I run the official client to sync the entire nextcloud folder. By doing that, whichever computer I’m on I’ve got the same stuff in my main folders and anything else I have I can keep in the nextcloud folder. I’ve also got it on my mobile device just to automatically upload new pictures to the InstantUploads folder, but the app is a bit limited.

I live equally on the road working as at home, and I’ve got completely different computers for home and travel, so in this way I’ve always got all my files available since once I start up the computer it automatically starts pulling the local files. If you don’t want a full copy of everything on both machines, I think you can tell it to just create links of the files and the client will download the files from the server as they’re required, but I prefer having a local copy of the files myself.

I use nextcloud for syncing between different computers, because I tend to have different machines that are far separated geographically, and it works well. I put all my home folders on each computer into the nextcloud directory so I have all the same files everywhere I go and if I don’t have one of my computers I can still log in and access those files.

I used to use nextcloud as my solution for everything, but a big problem with photos is it isn’t really very navigable, and a problem with nextcloud as a general platform is everything is a plugin so if the plugin doesn’t get updated you can be stuck on an older version of the software which carries its own risks. As well, given the interface, You have your media but you can’t really go back and look at it. What I did instead is I set up a library in jellyfin with all my photos sorted into directories, and you can scroll and navigate through them fairly intuitively. I pulled my data out of google and facebook before deleting the accounts and so had many many photos but no way to really enjoy them, but that solution worked really well for me and I’ve been able to look at my old photos easily.

How so? It seems like chromecast does exactly what it says it does, even if it’s a suboptimal solution for not being FOSS.

Not sayin nothin, but you might want to look at Matrix Conduit. you won’t want to keep it open, but it’s much easier to set up and it uses a tiny amount of the resources. Synapse kills the server I’m running both conduit and lotide on just fine.

The most important risk you face is if somehow mains voltage ends up contacting somewhere you get electrocuted and die.

There are 2 purposes of an earth ground: First it can be used as a reference for certain signals, such as microphones. Second, it can be used to protect against turning yourself into a sparker.

There is a clear separation between mains voltage and system voltages so it’s typically not going to be a problem, but if a little wire ends up contacting the power supply case it can become energized and things start to get really bad.

Most of the electrical code where I live focuses on grounding as “Bonding”, which is purely safety related for giving dangerous voltages a safe place to go.

It’s subtle, but they changed a lot of minor things, I think maybe because it’s using a different UI framework. Scrolling is worse (the scroll bar acts nuts and the scroll wheel usually doesn’t work very well, I these days tend to use the keyboard to scroll the middle plane) and the frame on the right doesn’t reset between stories.

It’s little things, but it makes reading through the days news a bit tougher.

I live by nextcloud news, but I don’t like the new interface.

The other nice thing is it syncs with apps on every platform.

Imo the future is federated and self-hosted. Maybe not for everyone, but for me.

Neat, I didn’t realize he has a blog.

For squarespace sites you can get an RSS feed using ?format=rss

https://www.cnckitchen.com/?format=rss

lol

And just imagine, you can make a shitty gun for 20 bucks using parts from the local hardware store.

https://social.fbxl.net/media/2c5e2e1c1784048054b50a05bba93cd3d7a5d7f3d98f22a13624b6ed57702d76.stl

Here you go.

I’ll throw the stl up for you in a few hours.

I don’t own Facebook, so I doubt that.

I think the power was just out when you tried them.

The most important thing for everyone to remember is that if you don’t fully own the thing such that you can install and run it without asking permission, or if it isn’t simply free and open source, then it can go away at any time.

Honestly, if you’re running public facing services, you should run the latest everything you can. There’s a risk that stuff breaks, but at least you’re not having to worry about patched exploits.