I’ll have a look at it. The whole site is Jekyll using a theme called “Minimal Mistakes”, so there’s two things for me to look at. I suspect it’s the theme, and I’ve customized it enough that it’s probably “broken” when it comes to updates.
Thanks for the feedback. I will make some changes to the article. IPv6 wasn’t even on my radar since I haven’t got around to using it myself yet.
That’s what I use. You can pick which weather service you use, too. I’m in Canada, but find that Norway meteorology service is good. When the wife and I are comparing forecasts she’ll ask, “What do the Norwegians say”.
Or later, “Your Norwegians never predicted this!”.
As an example, I was setting up SnapCast on a Debian LXC. It is supposed to stream whatever goes into a named pipe in the /tmp directory. However, recent versions of Debian do NOT allow other processes to write to named pipes in /tmp.
It took just a little searching to find this out after quite a bit of fussing about changing permissions and sudoing to try to funnel random noise into this named pipe. After that, a bit of time to find the config files and change it to someplace that would work.
Setting up the RPi clients with a PirateAudio DAC and SnapCast client also took some fiddling. Once I had it figured out on the first one, I could use the history stack to follow the same steps on the second and third clients. None of this stuff was documented anywhere, even though I would think that a top use of an RPi Zero with that DAC would be for SnapCast.
The point is that it seems like every single service has these little undocumented quirks that you just have to figure out for yourself. I have 35 years of experience as an “IT Guy”, although mostly as a programmer. But I remember working HP-UX 9.0 systems, so I’ve been doing this for a while.
I really don’t know how people without a similar level of experience can even begin to cope.
I have an HP T740 running Opnsense and it works just fine. You can pick them up for about $100 USD, and they seem to come mostly with 8GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD. That seems to be more than enough for Opnsense, even running VPN’s.
These are just a tad larger than my Lenovo M910Q Tiny servers, but they have a PCI slot, so you can put a second ethernet port (or 2, or 4) of whatever speed you like in it.
The question implies that the OP wants to create one giant filesystem with all of their data on it. This has its own issues, especially if it is in /home. For one, as someone else pointed out, it’s fairly difficult to run your system without /home mounted, and that makes it difficult to resize. Sure, you can set up an admin account with it’s home in the /root filesystem and then log into that - but that seems to be a lot of work in itself.
If it was me, I’d set up mount points for file systems that make sense. Maybe /data/Photos, or /data/Music, or data/AppData, or whatever. As much as possible, I’d just point whatever software I was using to those new directories to find the data. If that isn’t feasible, for whatever reason, then a symbolic link from /home/Photos to /data/Photos will work seamlessly in most cases.
As far as I’m concerned, after administering enterprise systems using Unix going as far back as the early 90’s, symbolic links are a key tool in managing disk space that you shouldn’t just dismiss because it’s “an unnecessary layer of complexity”. Having smaller, purpose designed, file systems allows you to manage them better. Sticking everything into /home is probably not the right answer for anyone.
Resizing partitons is often not necessary. Use a symbolic link to relocate a subdirectory to another file system. For 99% of use cases this is indistinguishable from expanding the partition.
I guess they figure that Linux users already know what they are doing when it comes to security.
That’s a little confused. From what I remember, it’s the server that matters, not the domain when being blocked. If you self-host this is a problem, but not if you use your own domain on a commercial service.
The “MX records and such” are all a function of domain management. You’ll have to do this whether or not you self-host.
I used KDE Connect on Ubuntu with Gnome. No issues.
Old school Unix guy here…vi,awk and sed are all that you need.
Thank God somebody got it.
“Intercourse!”
My first experience with this food was in Halifax decades ago. The Halifax Donair is a unique thing.
And it’s definitely Donair, not Doner.
Technically, he would have three drives and only two drives of data. So he could move 1/3 of the data off each of the two drives onto the third and then start off with RAID 5 across the remaining 1/3 of each drive.
Deal with the ethernet port issue by purchasing a 5 port ethernet switch. Maybe the rest of your issues go away?
For me Bazzera Magica and Baratza Vario grinder some time back. Better coffee than most cafes.
I looked and Python has the library support for the GPIO and to do background threading to poll pins. My preference would be to go with a JVM language like Kotlin, but then I’m a programmer. Python, from the little that I’ve mucked about with it is really just one step in complexity from scripting. Maybe even easier, because some things in shell scripts are super difficult to do.
Maybe then you need to move one stop up from scripting into something closer to actually programming. I’d be surprised if Python doesn’t have the library support on a Pi for dealing with both serial and GPIO I/O.
Do your smart switches talk to your HomeAssistant server???
Or does your HomeAssistant server talk to the devices?
It’s probably the latter, and in terms of network security the difference is huge. You can restrict your smart switches to their own, untrusted zone with no outgoing permissions and then give HomeAssistant access to them from its zone.
I would also argue that your personal devices and desktop computers are far more sensitive than your HomeAssistant server.