tristan @ tristan @aussie.zone

Posts

5

Comments

144

Joined

2 yr. ago

Not only is it acceptable in "any way", it's the only acceptable way to handle it

Check out tubearchivist. Now has Plex plugin so can grab the videos from subscribed channels automatically

I get blocked with ublock origin but not with ublock lite

It's not hard to setup a pi as a backup DNS on your local network,, but how I've setup a few friends who have limited hardware is to have the primary DNS as the local adguard and the secondary DNS as adguards public adblock DNS

That way if the local falls over, you still get some as ad blocking from their public one. If your setup allows it, they also have a public doh and dot encrypted dns for a bit of privacy

Congrats on your new slippery slope haha

ike I fire up a docker image which plays music (if that's even possible?) it has to have access to the disc, sound drivers, maybe interactive stuff etc on the host PC right?

So the main things you'll want to read up on for that are mounts. Mounts will let you attach files and folders from the host computer into the docker container that it sees as if it's inside the container.

A lot of docker apps will run a web host, so instead of accessing them like a normal application, you load up the website that's located at the IP address, and the exposed port. Then just like running Netflix or anything, it already has access to local sound and video devices through that

This also means that you can open them up to other computers/devices on the home network... so your phone could load it up and play music or your windows PC could, and it's all served from that docker container

If you're interested in hosting media, you could look into Plex or jellyfin, they are media servers that can stream self hosted videos, music and photos over the network.

There's a lot of other options that are more specific, and what's right for everybody else might not be right for you so it's worth playing around with various options

No worries, in terms of docker, if you want to see some of the more useful docker things along with explanation of how to get them running, check out https://noted.lol and https://mariushosting.com

Noted has a lot of writeups on various projects that are nearly entirely docker based. Marius focuses more on docker projects on Synology but for many of them you can go to the project home to get the generic docker instructions and just read his one for project descriptions and intially setup guides

So we should scrap all the other 20+ advisory panels with the same "powers" such as the landlords one, and the big business one?

Docker/kubernetes and VMS are similar in that they are all virtualisation but the similarity kinda end there. Love them or hate them, Each has its own important role in IT infrastructure.

First off, docker itself needs a host operating system to run. Secondly, Docker are containers. Each image is built on a cut down version of the operating system generally to perform one specific task or run one specific application. The environment is preconfigured to work exactly as intended so generally speaking, you don't get the whole "but it works on my machine"

Kubernetes I'm not the most qualified to speak to, but pretty much someone said "ok docker is great but we want redundancy, scalability, etc" and made kubernetes.

A vm is a full virtual machine. You can give it virtual harddisks, virtual network cards, etc. You then install a full operating system on it, could be windows or Linux or whatever you need.

From there you can install docker if that's what you want, or can install specific apps. This is the first difference, is if you install the app compared to a docker container, you need to make sure you have all the prerequisites met, all the correct compatibility, etc. It's up to you to make sure your system is correct for the software.

Another major difference is docker containers are all seen on the network as coming from whatever the host machine's IP is.

Whereas the network views each vm as it's own device on the network, giving each it's own IP (if using dhcp) and allowing things like vlans and things.

As for my setup, I have 3 VMs with docker servers, each with between 20-30 docker containers, 3 VMs running adguard DNS, 1 vm acting as a tailscale entry point, then a few application specific VMs. It's handy just being able to fire up a blank Ubuntu instance to play with me software, and if anything goes wrong just delete the whole machine and start fresh.

Then for storage behind it all, I have a qnap ts453d with 4x 8tb drives.

Then outside my home, I have 2 X Oracle hosted VMs, one hosting about 22 websites and all the stuff they need, one acting as a tunnel into my home services since I'm behind a CGNAT, and then another physical server located in the local data centre running email for a few small businesses and myself

Proxmox is like esxi, it lets you setup virtual machines. So you can fire up a virtual Linux machine and allocate it like 2gb ram and limit it to 2 cores of the CPU or give it the whole lot depending on what you need to do

Having them in a cluster let's them move virtual machines between the physical hardware and have complete copies so if one goes down the next can just start up

It is a little overkill, I'm probably only using about 20% of its resources but it's all for a good cause. I'm currently unable to work due to kidney failure but I'm working towards a transplant. If I do get a transplant and can return to work, being able to say "well this is my home setup and the various things I know how to do" looks a lot better than "I sat on my ass for the last 4 years so I'm very rusty"

This whole setup cost me about $1000aud and uses 65-70w on average

Thanks :D the frame and all parts are self designed and 3d printed... was a fun project

The whole thing runs from just 2 power cables with room for another without adding any extra power cables

This is my little setup at the moment. Each is 8500t CPU, 32gb ram, 2tb nvme and 1tb SATA SSD all running in a proxmox cluster

Edit: also check out Dell micro or the hp... Uh I want to say it's g6 micro? You might need to search for what is actually called

Even running at full speed mine are pretty quiet but I also have 80mm silent low rpm fans blowing air across them too which seems to help

I also recently went through with fresh thermal paste

Not just that, lightning was a similar speed to usb2. It's in their interest to make the pro look like an upgrade rather than highlight just how bad the lightning was really for the consumer

Yeah I'd stay away from Mac too... but seriously most modern laptops can disable any sleep/hibernation on lid close

My go to lately is Lenovo tiny, can pick them up super cheap with 6-12 month warranties, throw in some extra ram, a new drive, haven't had any fail on me yet

HP tomorrow "introducing our new gaming inkjet printer"

Yup this is why when people think about guns in America they totally think about peaceful protests... nothing else is ever in the news.. nothing... also no need to verify this, just take my word

My thoughts exactly... This might be why nobody is posting there

which is unavailable to other Australians

Perhaps you should look up just how many existing governmental advisory bodies there are that have zero relation to the indigenous population. Maybe we should go and revoke them, you know, for equality

I get so many shit newsletters from American companies and politicians and literally zero of them accept the unsubscribe request

So now I just have it set to move them to spam every time hoping that it trains the spam filters

Been using juicessh for years without any issues