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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Glad to see focused development

I didn't know that the App could be a launcher, will have to check that out...

And I understand the treadmill of technology, but I suspect some of my tablets will now have to go to recycling if Android 6 is minimum spec... they still have good batteries πŸ˜₯

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly any games on a Commodore Vic-20 or C64

I do recall having an old TV console, ie Ping pong, etc, but, I wouldn't say that was as nostalgic as the later cassette games... the screaching sounds whilst loading (for minutes)... ahhh...

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago

So, is that just a 'developer' component, or have I got to analyse all my systems now for the NPM components in the article's list?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago

You ought to see my car... they're all on the front of that one

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Deep snow... like up past the hedges

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Well...

TBH, I've not seen a battery bulge (in a tablet... seen plenty others...), but I do have a tablet which doesn't seem to hold it's charge as well as it used to.

So, have I done in-depth long-term testing... no.

Personally, I just got some of these USB switches and was more interested in whether I could control it easily (I could)

Re: LineageOS - yeah, I agree, if you can find the right tablet AND it's supported, then definitely flash it.

You might still need to download the latest webview component though.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If money's not a factor? Maybe a Linux Panel PC.

I've tried a few Lenovos and they seem ok - inc. the Lenovo Thinksmart discussed on the HA forum

All tablets have a quirk somewhere, but FullyKiosk does a good job - if the tablet is any good - so I recommend it. A colleague used something else.. I'll try to find out what it was.

Whatever you do get, if it has a battery, ensure you monitor it's battery and keep it somewhere between ~20% & ~80% with a smart power socket / USB relay

Based on your statement that you've only had this for a few months, my suggestion is to assume you'll want to change it in 1~2 years, so try cheap, named brand, 2nd hand ones from ebay until you get size and rotation right for how you use it.

My dashboard on the kitchen tablet is landscape, but portrait in the lounge (on the ThinkSmart on a coffee table) - both seemed too big initially, now they feel too small.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

With respect, you wouldn't install these by just doing an update, so pacman -Syu is fine.

You would have needed to install these manually, or a package that depended on them - both from AUR - so you'd also need to use yay (etc) to install them.

But - I totally agree with your points that tge names look innocent enough for someone to install those over other packages.

Always look at the AUR (website) at the package details - if it's new(ish) and has 0 or 1 votes, then be suspicious.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Have a look at Patrick Kennedy's reviews on yoochoob under ServeTheHome - there's some fantastic hardware available now

I ended up buying something from AliExpress, which I was initially reluctant to do - but Patrick's reviews convinced me

For detailed reviews his site's got the details from the videos: https://www.servethehome.com/

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It depends on the sync / backup software

Syncthing uses a stored list of hashes (which is why it takes a long time for the initial scan), then it can monitor filesystem activity for changes to know what to sync.

Rsync compares all source and destination files with some magical high speed algorithm

Then, backup software does... whatever.

Back in the day on FAT filesystems they used the archive bit on each file's metadata, which was (IIRC) set during a backup and reset with any writes to that file. The next backup could then just backup those files.

Your current strategy is ok - just doing an offline backup after a bulk update, maybe it's just making that more robust by automating it...?

I suspect you have quite a large archive as photos don't compress well, and +2TBs won't disappear with dedupe... so, it's mostly about long term archival rather than highly dynamic data changes.

So that +2TB... do you drop those files in amongst everything else, or do you have 2 separate locations ie, "My Photos" + "To Be Organised"?

Maybe only backup "MyPhotos" once a year / quarter (for example), but fully sync "To Be Organised"... then you've reduced risk, and volume of backup data...?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I get that... I'd be the same

So... are you shutting down after x minutes, or, NUT's signalling to shutdown when the battery is getting low, which is x minutes. (If you see my point) - if the battery still has plenty of capacity, maybe extend the runtime and that might be enough to ride through at least some outages?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What's an average power outage duration?

I'd look at changing the shutdown command from shutdown to something like rtcwake -s 3600 to restart the server in ... 1 hour?

You will probably need to play with that command a bit, but I use it for my NAS to autostart at certain times of the day.

 

A colleague was discussing an option to use different vendors either side of a DMZ and suggested StormShield... I'd not heard of them before.

Looks interesting, albeit an old Gartner "magic quadrant" showed their firewalls as being in the bottom left corner... so I thought I'd ask here for real-life opinions on them... if any?

 

Interesting article where ~35k devices from 45 manufacturers have vulnerabilities

Advice is probably not as easy to implement as this in real life:

Forescout recommends that you immediately stop the direct connection of devices to the Internet, to use VPNs or segmented networks, and to ensure prompt firmware updates. Otherwise, tens of thousands of systems around the world will remain a potential entry point for attackers.

 

I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I'd setup over time and I'd now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn't really show much so I'm either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/logseq@lemmy.ml
 

I'm 99% happy with Logseq.

The one thing that I struggle with is keepng an eye on ToDos.

Is there a better way of looking at them without looking at a ToDo page or an advanced query slowing down my journal template?

Is there another application that can parse the logseq .md files so that I'm not getting behind on my work?

 

I saw a similar post here recently, but this is slightly different.

I'm running MythTV on Arch which is working fine (of course), but when MythTv came out of the main packages and went to the AUR, it was just a little harder to maintain and had some compolation issues due to ffmpeg, etc - to the point: my last update was probably 3 years ago.

The (minor) issues I currently have are:

  • terminator won't start 1st time, but starts fine 2nd time
  • shutdown's take a few minutes due to a systemd issue
  • everything's woefully out of date

So... considering all the changes with audio and video over the last few years do I just pacman -Syuv and crack on... or... start again from scratch?

(Yep, full backup 1st)

 

First holiday rental BBQ of the year.

These are always an adventure, broken legs, crumbling gas pipes, spiders and snails in all the crevices...

In this case, it's not too bad, just lit the fire so we'll see if it explodes / melts...

And... just burgers, sausages and halloumi for this one, nothing too adventurous

 

It's already 25DegC in my home office.

The best cooling automation I have so far is to turn the fan on when it's 25 for >5mins.

Is there a nice zigbee / ESP32 evaporation cooler that I can enjoying setting up with HA?

 

Just found my Vivaldi update contained a little more than just bugfixes... it now has Proton VPN built in.

It's actually part of the browser, not an extension, so I'm in two minds whether I like that... or not.

You need either a Vivaldi account or a Proton account, so it's not completely anonymous, but it's a start.

The free-tier of Proton VPN also appears to be bandwidth limited and your exit point is randomised, so... yeah, it's ok...

 

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

 

Before I dive headlong into debugging and throwing bug tickets around, I just needed a sanity check from someone else..

I have an old Lenovo laptop as my daily driver / experimentation box (ie it gets a lot of paclages installed and removed)

Recently I've been using Vivaldi's built-in calendar to use as a CalDAV client for my radicale installation.

It's the only open tab and Vivaldi's using ~20% CPU (according to htop)... actually, I just closed that tab... even with 1 blank tab the CPU's the same.

Is this just my battle weary laptop needing a good clean, or can someone else confirm?

TIA

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