I'm running a <cough, cough> years old instance of Volumio 2 on a Raspberry Pi 3

The security of this is terrible, but it sits in my bedroom with a local USB drive full of music and works absolutely fine with a Nanosound DAC audio preamp hat / board which makes it sound lovely... which I don't want to change (it handles a remote control with power on / off)

When Volumio 3 came along, I wasn't impressed, didn't see the software improving much... it was starting to be more of a pull towards their subscriptions

So, I've left it alone and feel like it might be worth a revisit.

So, how's Volumio 4? Or... should I consider another FOSS product ( has to work with the same hardware).

TL:DR; Has anyone here successfully migrated their data & workflow from Logseq to Silverbullet?

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I've been using Logseq for a few years and it has been a life saver at work, trying to track the stuff going on - honestly, I'd have burned out if I hadn't found it.

However, I still haven't quite got all the things organised and I feel Logseq's development is taking a different track that I don't want to go down (db, collab, etc)

SilverBullet.md appears to be developing into the solution I'm looking for... although I don't want a server-client architecture, so I'm running it standalone at the moment.

But, the learning curve feels so steep it's tending to curve back on itself... or... I'm just too busy to focus on learning it.

I see how the file structure works, but I don't understand how the templates, journals, etc work (really simple.in Logseq)

It appears to be 1 person developing this with lots of helpers who all seem happy to chip in with some AI generated code in the forum, but no meaty documentation, examples, etc.

If you've read this far... is it worth sticking with? Is there an FAQ I've missed? Any pointers or encouragement...?

After being home for weeks, I went away for business, the 1st night away there was a brief powercut and the firewall (on a UPS) seemed to get stuck.

So, that's no DNS, DHCP, or connectivity between wifi and LAN... All due to (admittedly aging) hardware issue.

Since then my entire home system has had issues whilst it all settles down.

It made me think about getting some redundancy into the system to handle a single failure.

So,.can you give me any insights into High Availability like CARP (for pfSense), VM failover (on Incus?), mesh wifi, Home Assistant, etc?

Of course there are going to be single points, like ISP line, etc, but seems like something to test out.

So, just a light post, I upgraded my Pi4 last night and found the Linux firmware breaks a 32bit install.

I've been meaning to change to 64bit for months, but as it's my DMZ box for torrents, radicale, etc, then it's just finding the right time to convert an adhoc setup into my ansible scripts.

Luckily I had a SD backup from September to get it running again

So, what have you broken over the holidays?

I've been generally running various different ways of backing up files to my NAS (which then backs up to other locations...) - mostly syncthing for photos and large collections of files, but I tend to use rsync to push out config backups to the NAS once something's working.

But, the NAS is only powered up a few times a day (to save on electricity costs), which is fine for manual pushes, but makes scheduling backups a bit tricky.

It dawned on me that it might be better for the NAS to pull the files via rsync instead of pushing them.

Anyone tried this route and have any advice?

Just been supporting someone remotely and was waiting for them to turn on their laptop...

Whilst troubleshooting I ran uptime to see how long we'd been working on the problem and saw it was up for ~2 weeks...

Which made me think ... how do you tell how long a device (laptop) has been running, but since it's last suspend / hibernation?

I can find it from other clues such as journalctl -b -fu systemd-logind and look for Lid opened, but I was really looking for an smarter way...

Just a nice little challenge for anyone bored at this time of year :)

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/49194514

I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity

And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names

And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

The internet is down... well, if you use AWS services it would appear to be true.

Things such as Alexa (now working again?), Ring, etc are either slow or not responding whilst they try to get things running again

A colleague was discussing an option to use different vendors either side of a DMZ and suggested StormShield... I'd not heard of them before.

Looks interesting, albeit an old Gartner "magic quadrant" showed their firewalls as being in the bottom left corner... so I thought I'd ask here for real-life opinions on them... if any?

Interesting article where ~35k devices from 45 manufacturers have vulnerabilities

Advice is probably not as easy to implement as this in real life:

Forescout recommends that you immediately stop the direct connection of devices to the Internet, to use VPNs or segmented networks, and to ensure prompt firmware updates. Otherwise, tens of thousands of systems around the world will remain a potential entry point for attackers.

I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I'd setup over time and I'd now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn't really show much so I'm either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA