COME ON VIRTUES, LET’S SIGNAL THIS CHODE.

Flush facebook it back down where it belongs.

yeah, totally still on the market, but that’s a move I don’t want to make twice in a row :)

This whole OH BTW, this service that looked trustworthy is run by an asshole has me considering self-hosting.

headscale, I won’t even surface stuff I don’t want absolutely public. I’d probably have to do my DNS, smtp, video and image hosting public. Everything else can be extended over private networking to all my devices without giving anyone outside any access.

I’m capable of hosting my own mail, not sure I’m willing. I need my email to be reliable, but I don’t need it to be fancy. I don’t need a web interface. just Postfix, OpenDKIM, openDMARC, let’s encrypt and POP3/IMAP, DNS and maybe spamassassin.

Nextcloud, base filestore, contacts, calendar, syncs with android. Honestly as a drive replacement, Nextcloud is slow as balls and wants to injest my FS data into a data/meta base . I’d probably use Synching and just go full-ass Dropbox style on my storage.

Vaultwarden, 2fa, password storage, I’m perfectly happy with Bitwarden, but if I’m going to have personal servers, monitoring and alarms, let’s go whole hog

2nd copy of Vaultwarden, this one is public-facing and is just there for Vaultwarden to send.

gluetun, maybe. Could pair it with any generic provider like PIA. This would be mainly for torrents.

Peertube, public, but unfederated. Host my own random videos for links to the fam.

Immich, same but for pictures

matrix, would be nice to have my own branded chat, though signal is still damn good. but if something ever happens to it…

gather all logs together in ELK

Monitor with Graphana and Uptime Kuma.

Alerts via ntfy

Backups would script app shutdown, db export and turn the services back up. Syncthing would go encrypted directly back to my house.

Do all these in docker. Stand up two cheap boxes in Hetzner or something, Run K8S so if something explodes it would just come back up.

It just kept me from transferring my google crap to them. Time to search out alternatives

So literally one guy can change your entire network lifestyle?

Seriously? You’re going to question people on loyalty when they find out the person in charge of not selling their data to the highest bidder is an oligarch wanna-be?

Hell yes. If you give me red flags in how a company I need to ultimately trust is run/staffed, I will find a better solution.

maybe the guy is a jerk, maybe an not-thought-out post, idk.

The guy in charge of the direction of their company and who directly influences their security and secures your data can’t restrain himself on the public sufficiently to appear trustworthy to 50+ % of the population.

There are, of course, exceptions, but usually, when someone of that demeanor and lacking restraint makes it to that position, they end up fucking over their company. And since they’re in charge of protecting your data, you should actually think twice about giving them your trust.

Troll Juice I think…

They sound decent. A bit overpriced honestly by the time you add in the sub and enough speakers to setup a nice 7.1 you can buy something less fidgety and save a lot of money.

Their security is bad. They’re vulnerable to people screwing with them. If you’re on the network, you can ask their webservers to do whatever you want, there’s no auth. Their networking protocol is kind of bad. They need a LOT of ports open to communicate with each other. Their discovery is iffy. If you put one of the speakers on ethernet, they’ll mesh the rest of the speakers and use that one speaker to lower latency. but if that speaker reboots or updates, the rest of the speakers go nuts and dissapear for a while.

They don’t allow bluetooth playback. They don’t always show up for casting from Plex. They keep forgetting my wife’s apple ID. They don’t allow you to use a custom name for the alexa integration. The mic on the beam is so hot, that other alexas on the same floor will always defer to it, it’s very bad at hearing you over it’s own sound.

I’m already turning down any party invitations from him, i’ll wait to hear underage before I worry about that one :P

heh hardly :)

You also have a lot of downvotes because everyone else is far more likely correct. So there’s that. This isn’t a jury trial. He’s not innocent until proven guilty in the court of public opinion.

I’d happily eat my words if reasonable doubt arose for half those cases. I want to like him because I like his work, but he legit has that kind of sordid and sad history that fucks people up.

Just be glad that his work stands on it’s own without his hangups. After you find out the characters and themes Lovecraft used were because he was disgusted by interracial children it’s a lot harder to keep that shit behind the fourth wall.

https://amultiverse.com/comic/2019/12/23/jk-rowling-and-the-league-of-disappointing-authors/

9 women, the youngest being 18

In this world of fucked up authors, it’s sad that I’m impressed that he didn’t go below 18.

No, that file is located in the nix store and linked back, If you become root and try to edit /etc/hosts It will complain that you cannot edit the linked file.

If you go and try to edit the store directly you will meet the same kind of dead ends because /nix/store is a ro bind mount

With enough root access, time and persistence you could eventually unwrap its flavor of immutability which is why I said mostly immutable. Compared to most operating systems where you can just slip a quick edit into a cron job it’s leagues ahead.

Then you have NixOS, which is declarative, and fairly immutable.

You don’t have to reboot to make changes, but you can’t just run unlinked binaries either.

You can’t do things like edit your hosts table or modify the FS for cron jobs. The application store is unwritable, but you can sync new apps into it .

You have to make changes to the config file and run a rebuild as root.

Conceptually the same as a royal “we”. Like when you tell a child “we” don’t do that, you don’t mean them and you you mean a larger group. So when I say locally I mean on my network. And when I say on my network I mean I expand my network to wherever I am via VPN. All my web searches and my AI calls get serviced via a docker server at home.

You can’t pry people away from their AI algorithms

Oh they’ll still fill positions it just means they’re going to contract.

They won’t freeze the assets until the company is officially barred from working here. They won’t just fuck around and blindly try to figure out what they’re doing, once they command Apple and Google to remove it from the App store, they’ll start freezing assets and stopping financial transactions. It’s just the nature of the beast.

I’m afraid it’s the royal local ;)

Llama and Open web UI or running in docker containers. My server is running tail scale, when any of my devices aren’t connected to my home Wi-Fi they light up tail scale.

I have run on Pinokio before without any problems. I think Pin and Jan are rather equivalent.

Right when S2 came out, If you needed to go in and screw with anything they would force you off of S1 into S2.

Right when the app released it was pretty bad. They broke the integrations. Speakers were having a lot of trouble being added. My SL ones were just appear and disappear randomly for a bit. It took them like a month to sort it out.

But 99% of my use cases are audio over ARC, and playing music in one kid’s room every night. The arc never stopped working for me on my beam 2.

When the sl-one dropped off I just used an echo for about a week. Plex was broken for two separate 1 weeks bands during which I also just used the echo.

I think it didn’t bother me all that much because I’m already presenting to home automation, and any of my cloud immigrations just explode every time a company farts.

I’d love some speakers that allow streaming without having to be cloud-controlled. I’m afraid I’d have to make them myself.

Ahh, well, we’ll see I suppose.