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+1 for the Oracle solution. I use one for my public IP, and port forward over WireGuard to my home. They claim something like 480Mbps, but it's nowhere near that, at least for external traffic. But in any event I've been using it for a few months with no real complaints.

And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host services to get away from big corporations, but relying on Oracle to do so.

Cool! I just got an Orange Pi 5 Plus, 16GB RAM**, but haven't set it up yet so can't give any recommendations. On paper though it looks great --- significantly beefier than a RPi 4 (my current server), and supports M.2 NVME as well. Might be worth looking into for your use too, but the emphasis here is kinda on computing with a very low power budget, so I'm sure you could get more horsepower with e.g. an x64 NUC or similar.

Here's a review, and note that this is without extra heatsink so it was probably thermally throttling (as was the RPi?): https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-5

**I first ordered the 32GB version but it got seized for counterfeit postage, and then some shenanigans ensued. If buying from Amazon I would suggest only buying units in stock and shipped from Amazon. May only apply to US though...

[Billionaire Taylor] Swift, who has publicly aligned herself with the pro-choice movement and declared her opposition to former President Donald Trump, has become the ire of a vocal group of conservatives hell-bent on the bizarre notion that the singer is a political weapon aimed at the upcoming presidential election.

I mean, I'm no Swiftie, but that seems pretty reasonable to me...

How much do you care about power/energy usage?

Also, how important is having one do-it-all server vs. a few separate servers? Sounds like you're ok with at least two servers (Pi turns into HA OS, and you get a new one for everything else).

Yeah all the EEE/"Threads will kill us" talk reminds me of how Slack killed IRC by first offering an IRC gateway, and then killing off support. And after that IRC literally died.

/s

I saw a post here about how Threads' biggest enemy at this point is antitrust, and a federated approach is a clever way around that. I think that makes much more sense than the EEE narrative.

I think I saw this earlier on Lemmy, but without the red text spelling it out. I think I prefer that ever-so-slightly more subtle version.

I see. In this case the 30 years is irrelevant I think.

This is probably PITI cost --- principal, interest, taxes, insurance. Principal and interest are zero here, but the other two continue for as long as you own the home (property tax is annual like income tax --- it's not a one-time-deal like sales tax).

The home insurance covers the home, so it's useful for all interested parties (owner, possibly bank).

Even if the bank doesn't have any interest in the house (cash sale/no mortgage), I would absolutely want to insure the house!

Owning a house means you don't pay rent, but you do have to pay taxes and, unless you really want to gamble, insurance.

Online calculators almost always include, or have an option to include, these costs. In part it's because that's the number the bank will use to determine what you qualify for. Makes it much easier to say, "here's your monthly obligation" and compare that to you monthly income, instead of "here's your monthly obligation, and here's your twice-a-year tax obligation."

Curious where you are getting 25%?

At least this amount will, assuming it's just taxes and insurance, be due every month for as long as it's owned. Property taxes in California for example are around 1%/year (so a $377k home would be around $4k/year).

If you own the home outright you may not need insurance, but of course, that's a risk.

Taxes may be severely limited in how much they increase (see: California prop 13), so while they will likely increase it may not match e.g. rental increases.

Calm down, this isn't the banks screwing the little guy. This number includes tax and possibly insurance --- "PITI" (principal, interest, taxes and insurance) is the standard quoted cost. It's just an estimate. You can often pick your own insurance which will change the cost, and if you're buying in cash, insurance may not even be required. (It will almost certainly be required if you have a loan, since the bank wants its assets protected.)

I did that --- free VPS w/public IP, WG to my router. Works great!

Dynaco ST-70 stereo tube amp, probably from the 60s (no date on them that I can tell).

Very proud of it, got it for free at a garage sale. Replaced selenium rectifier with silicon diodes, a few new caps, and new tubes. Sounds great.

Credit cards, for instance, are not required but extremely useful. For instance, my recollection is that when booking hotels or rental cars with a debit card they will put a hold on your account for collateral. This could be a problem if you're living paycheck to paycheck. If you have a credit card, you may get a hold as well --- but this is just reducing the amount of available credit. Functionally this is the same, if you have enough money, but if you're living on the edge and your rent money is in your checking account, this is pretty unfortunate in the case if a debit card.

Additionally, credit cards offer consumer protections, including chargebacks. My understanding is that debit charges are much more difficult to dispute.

And, in the US, for many people not in urban centers, owning a car is essential for life/work. Quick Google search claims, in relation to savings, "The median balance for American households is $5,300." So if your car bites the dust, buying a new (used) car may not be possible without a loan.

You're right though, it's certainly not literally required.

Given the effect it has on credit score, it will perhaps be more difficult to accumulate debt --- it will be harder to take out large credit card, mortgage, or other loans. Probably not applicable to medical and whatnot.

In theory I think it makes sense: loans should be a privilege not a right, or something like that. But in reality, loans are essentially required for modern life, at least in the US. So the people who can least afford it end up with loans with ridiculous interest rates (even if the total loan amount is smaller than it would be pre-bankruptcy).

I am fortunate enough to be able to pay off my credit card every month, so the interest rate doesn't really matter. It's a great, but dystopian, example of positive feedback: those who can afford pay less (no interest), and those who can't afford pay more (interest).

Never used TailScale but I know it's WireGuard based. Does it do keepalive by default? I was having issues with VPS (WireGuard peer with static IP) not being able to ping my network (router as WireGuard peer with dynamic IP and no port forwards). Sounds like this isn't what's going on here but just in case...

Thanks! So, for local (not VPN) traffic I like to access the local IP for bandwidth reasons --- would you then just set up SSL on both the local server and the VPS?

On my Mac running yabai it sometimes gets into this weird state where the mouse does this as it toggles rapidly back and forth between some windows. No idea what causes it...

On Linux I run i3 which kinda negates the need for the mouse finder since it will move the cursor to the active window.

I guess I didn't remotely answer you question though!

After setting up my own network, and trying to (kinda sorta) do it the right way (multiple SSIDs, vlan segregation, restrictive firewalls for iot, VPN to a VPS, etc.) --- I have so much respect for network engineers. First month with my new router, felt like I "broke the Internet" every other day.

So in order to access from local network (useful for e.g. photo uploading as it is way faster) would you just handle SSL locally too? So, SSL on VPS+SSL on local server (with only one being used per client of course)?