Pluck a nostril hair: “Please stop! I have a wife and kids! Take them”

Cloudlfared with pihole is the right way to go here

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

I run a few services that require ports to be open. Everything that can go behind a reverse proxy does so. But there’s some that can’t and that’s OK.

Gitea here for me too, works a treat

I pipe fortune through cowsay through lolcat through aha with header and footers going through toilet.

And that makes for a very useful home page 🤣

• Clonezilla
• An Ubuntu live ISO is useful
• GParted
• memtest
• Your favourite Linux distro of choice
• If you’re running a business for this sort of thing then a few different versions of Windows would probably be useful.

I just use wireguard that’s built in to opnsense. Am I missing out on something ?

Reading you loud and clear. Over.

Totally agree, plus it’s 14 years old, and at this point I think it’s fair to just give up on it.

I have enough to think about without the damn file system getting complicated. So plain old ext4. It’s stable, it works it’s great.

I used btrfs once and it went really badly. When it gets corrupted it refuses to even let you mount read only. The documentation isn’t good and you end up finding obscure wiki’s with big warnings to only run these commands if you know what you’re doing - but of course I don’t, there’s no where to learn it and the only people who do know are the developers who wrote the file system. No thanks! It holds your data captive, so you better have some spare time and some backups. Never again.

I have ended up with 6x 2TB disks, so if I was starting again I’d go 2x10TB and use an IT mode HBA and software RAID 1. I’d also replace my 2x Netgear Switches and 1x basic smart TP-Link switch and go full TP-Link Omada for switching with POE ports on 2 of them - I have an Omada WAP and it’s very good. Otherwise I’m pretty happy.

3, so not his fault at all

Used to have a Dell R710 in a rack in the garage. The rack doesn’t have a door, bit it was cheap and fits in the space like a glove.

One day I was down there with the wife and kids sorting some stuff out at one end of the garage. Look over and see that the little one had pulled all the disks out of the server.

Managed to recover all my VMs that were running ext4 with a quick fsck. My main data storage VM that was using btrfs just locked me out with no possibility of mounting it even read only. From then on I will not touch btrfs with a barge pole.

If you self host a community how would anyone find it?

I thought you meant a self hosted leaderboard. Who is winning at self hosting?

I pay an extra £1 a month to my ISP to get a static address. Figured it’s well worth having no hassle.

I’m just waiting for Spez to follow his idol and restrict access to Reddit to all non-logged in users. How can I petition him to do so…

That’s pretty cool that it worked so well. Does migrating the VM’s result in any downtime or is it a seamless cross over?

I waited a few days before upgrading as I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to get stung by any teething troubles. Would have ideally waited longer but had an ideal few hours available to do it without the family being annoyed by any downtime.

I have no idea why, but I thought there must be some good reason to document it and put the check in to the test tool.

I don’t yet have a black strat. I’m considering the Player series of a non-Fender option of a Vintage V6.

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. I’m glad it worked out for you.