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Install GFCI plugs. [1]
Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.
Profit?
Disclaimer: Am not actually electrician. Just know this about GFCI from electrician friends and pointing to a decent explainer.
GFCI plugs can be installed without a ground wire. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/i-live-in-an-older-home-without-ground-wiring-is-it-safe-to-install-3-prong-gfc ↩︎
Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven’t seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I’ve seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.
Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.
Public Libraries are struggling and looking for relevance in the modern world. Libraries brought us the Dewey Decimal System, and early attempt to “categorize all the world’s information and make it useful,” as was Google’s claimed original goal.
A coalition of public libraries and data-scientists seems like the path to me. Libraries are already in the business of categorizing and organizing information, sooooooo.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/
So reading around it looks like Raspberry Pi Foundation now suggests TigerVNC because its optimized for Wayland and the newer version of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) is all Wayland now. RealVNC is not optimized for Wayland and now is pulling this shit on Home users.
I haven’t tested this myself yet, just found it through some quick searching.
How-To Set Up TigerVNC on RPi OS Bookworm: https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/tigervnc-and-realvnc-on-raspberry-pi-bookworm-os/
But this How-To seems to recognize the reasons why the changeover is happening and what RPi Foundation suggests to use, so it seems like a good place to start.
TigerVNC also seems to be Open Source and unpaid, so it seems like a valid replacement option for the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC
It looks like Bookworm is supported all the way back to the Pi 3B+ which is good news for me, specifically. Sounds like its some hoops to jump through in the Raspberry Pi OS Imaging Tool to get it to happen, but it’s there.
I am unsure about TigerVNC support for previous versions of the RPi OS, but its maybe still possible for older models.
I think the main reason this comes as a Fuck You to a lot of folks is that this came with (don’t know if it still does) Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS as the default VNC software. So a lot of hobbyists might have not thought about this in a long time and are suddenly facing needing to set up SSH suddenly because the VNC they were using is now off the table. (Makes me glad I defaulted to SSH+keys pretty soon after learning how to use it)
It probably should have never been bundled as the default for a hobbyist operating system. I guess we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the Raspberry Pi Foundation making bad moves for a while now.
Oh man it’s been a while, but I used to be super interested in getting an Air Quality Monitor going. There’s definitely ones that can seed their data to public databases.
95% of the time the exact model isn’t super important, nowhere near as important as specifications, but when it comes to the physical build like whether it can run without the battery, it can be useful to know.
Web server for a Smart Mirror?
I run my mirror locally, but you can also pull it from a separate server.
Great suggestion, but I’m not entirely sure it’s 100% possible on all models? Some models are built so that it won’t turn on without a battery installed (much like phones) and that the power has to pass through the battery before it reaches the motherboard.
I believe that scenario would take much more knowledge of electricity plus some soldering skills to bypass the battery. They gave specs, but not make and model. I don’t trust companies like HP to not take the route that requires you to send it in to them for servicing.
Services: DNS (Pi-Hole for example), DHCP, or NTP, off the top of my head.
https://skillsforall.com/course/networking-basics?courseLang=en-US
https://www.coursera.org/learn/computer-networking
Here’s some links to some online courses to get you started. I think you might have to pay for the second one, but the first one, from Cisco, is free. (You’ll need to create a Cisco account, however.)
It’s absolutely great experience, and I could write a whole screed about what to look up, or I could point you to sources that are better organized than me, so I’m going with the latter.
Here’s a link with many different free Cisco courses:
https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_sg/partners/cisco-networking-academy/index.html
and IPv6 doesn’t use NAT at all.
Not entirely true! It uses a type of NAT to translate IPv4 addresses into comparable IPv6 addresses.
EDIT: Quoting @Kid_Thunder@kbin.social from elsewhere in the thread because they summed it up beautifully:
NAT provides some security by sheer coincidence and not by design.
NAT is not security.
NAT is a stop-gap measure because there aren’t enough IPv4 addresses that exist in the world. NAT was created so multiple Local Area Networks all over the world could use the same IP numbers and not end up with IP conflicts.
Way way way back in the early days of the internet, there were no LAN IP and WAN IPs You had your Wide Area Network (Internet) IP and that was it. Prior to NAT all devices were directly accessible via their WAN IP on the whole ass internet.
To give you an idea, IPv4 came out in 1980 and it wasn’t until May of 1994 that the first RFC on NAT was published.
IPv6 is a full replacement for IPv4 that has not been fully adopted despite being around for 20 years or so. It has something like 16 undicillion (I don’t recall, it’s a fucking massive number) existing IP numbers, so it could take a few generations for it to run out of address space.
The thing is, it’s come full circle and IPv6 now is the same as IPv4 used to be and you can access a “local” IP directly from the wider internet and Network Address Translation is not needed in the routing setup at all. (I believe it’s called a Global Unicast Address, but it’s been a minute, so don’t quote me on that)
I reiterate NAT was never meant as a real security measure as it is simply Security Through Obscurity at best.
Further, it’s not even that obscure, NAT is often misconfigured meaning internal IPs and ports leak to the wider internet regularly.
Obligatory South Park Ski Instructor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_version_4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_version_4#Address_space_exhaustion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Unicast_addresses
The draw to me was always that you could do a RAID without needing every disk to be the same size. Parity drives just had to be the size of the largest disk in the array.
I had been thinking about buying a license previously, when it was still “lifetime.” Now I’m skeptical and probably won’t although good for the people who got grandfathered in to free updates, though. However, I would question how long that lasts before they’re un-grandfathered-in and have to start paying for updates like everyone else.
While it’s a valid business decision, and while I can see that they’re trying to open more storage options for lower tiers, it does feel like a bait-and-switch to me. I’ve had so many people pushing this to me and I’ve been interested, but unable to justify the money for a license, because I’m poor and have severe health problems in the USA, which means unfortunately my money is better spent elsewhere.
So when I’m finally getting close to feeling like I might maybe have a spare $90 I could put towards a Plus license, it just feels lame that if I don’t come up with the money soon, I’ll be left paying for updates each year.
On the current Buy Now page it reads “Buy Once, Use for Life. No subscription. No hidden fees.”
This just feels like the first step of enshittification to me. While its great the low-level plans now have access to more storage devices, now it is a subscription if you want to keep security updates? So no subscription until they change their minds, essentially. I don’t know, it definitely makes me feel less inclined to invest my money in it. I never saw myself needing more than 12 storage devices, and a lifetime of updates seemed like a great deal. This seems like an average deal. I don’t even have close to 12 drives, so having “unlimited” storage devices seems… pointless to a casual user trying to set up a cheap NAS at home.
This is pretty slick for being in alpha.
Looks like *.lair is still a great one for a local TLD.
Just rock your “Evil.subterranean.lair” people.
You could also go for “Wicked.volcano.lair”
Or even “morallywrong.commercialrealestate.lair”
Also, anyone taking bets on how many “Internal” TLDs are gonna be used for porn?
I’ve got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?
Fuck, if you can’t figure out what to do with them, give them to me and I will! There’s so many fun art projects you can get up to with Pis.
Honestly its just a symptom of a bigger problem with the justice system entirely.
It has always completely favored those with the most money and lawyers.
For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.
I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it’s not gonna ruin my day.
The battery can be recharged eventually unless it’s already be discharged many times or it’s left alone and dead long enough to kill any ability to recharge it.