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no guy has ever dropped the line “you don’t know what I’ve been through”

I had this moment years ago when I realised 95% of root tweaks I was using were available non-rooted anyway. The other 5% I learnt to live without and now struggle to remember what they even were.

Not sure what kind of apps you are into that know when you’re taking a shit but my banking apps have notification permissions and that is about it (camera when needed but yank it straight after). Most bank and broker websites are limited compared to the app. I have 8 finance related apps and it was constant musical chairs with which one will break after an update requiring hours of workaround research, if one is even available. Any version of Interactive Broker straight up refused to work on rooted device. You may personally be OK with giving up that functionality on your phone but not everyone is in the same boat as you.

Great description of a problem I noticed with most LLM generated code of any decent complexity. It will look fantastic at first but you will be truly up shit creek by the time you realise it didn’t generate a paddle.

Until the day it doesn’t, I was one of those people excommunicated by Oracle out of the blue and that is the last I ever heard from them (seriously, I tried to find out why at least)

I definitely learnt (more than) a few things from your write up, thank you sir!

It is complete overkill for most home server tasks but I would look to run something like this for next 10 years at least so I can see it making sense if you cost it out like that.

Depends on your personal use case of course but for comparison I have a (relatively) piddly Intel N305 processor mini PC with 16GB of memory and currently run a 25-30 container load, including Plex and a torrent server. My setup currently idles at around 20% CPU and 25% memory utilisation, so I can quite confidently say the linked N5 ought to give more than enough headroom to handle a typical homelab/self hosted load.

Don’t mean to outright negate the article but I have experienced literally none of the problems mentioned with Wayland through three separate installs over more than 2 years. I happen to be running a nightmare of a setup too (nvidia/AMD GPUs in a laptop)

Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father’s brother (Bob’s your uncle).

Today I learnt, thank you.

Question please, how would podman alleviate container update woes?

I tried many different keyboards but honestly nothing matched up to SwiftKey, now sadly owned by Microsoft, so I locked its internet access using RethinkDNS (or NetGuard)

I’d have to second Feral Hosting, although I haven’t used them for years. Starting from £10/month for 1TB and unlimited bandwidth.

A reverse proxy saves you from having to expose your services directly and acts as a go-between.

Internet <--> Reverse Proxy <--> Service

Nice tips! Personally will use SSH aliases and canonicalised hostnames.

Other topics covered in post:

• Forward Yubikey Agent
• Reuse connections
• SSH straight into tmux
• Alias commonly used hosts
• Do not add testing stuff to ~/.ssh/known_hosts
• Make connections last longer
• Canonicalize hostnames
• Yubikey and GitHub, without touching it every time

Just under two right now but it is throwing out 55-60GB a day at the moment. Gotta keep those Linux ISOs seeded!

This week I finally managed to route torrent traffic through a VPS that was sitting around gathering dust. I am behind CGNAT so was taking me 6 weeks to do the kind of traffic I do in a day now. I couldn’t be more chuffed.