[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

I'll admit I didn't open the article, as far as I'm aware the best way to sidestep silly requirements like warrants is to just purchase data intended for advertising. Databrokers really have an amazing wealth of info ready to be tapped into, all you gotta do is pay.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Debian is always my first choice, but I'm not playing the newest stuff (Far Cry 5/7D2D/Ark/etc), while it hasn't been 'smooth sailing', I haven't found anything that just refuses to play.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Track-me-not, automobile edition.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Define "freeloading" for me. They don't have access to big social services (TANF, SSI, etc) due to not having documentation, roads are funded through fuel taxes as far as I'm aware (so if they're pumping gas, they're paying for the roads), dog parks are usually paid out of local sales tax (again, only as far as I know, I live in GA and we're a fucked up state a lot of times).

Income tax is a big one, but not on a small scale (like municipal level)... Hell, I haven't ever had a local income tax that I can remember.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I remember it being iffy when I used it back then, the 8320 didn't have GPS so it was trying to use cell towers to figure out the turn by turn. It was slower, but not as slow as the connection speed would seem because every page load wasn't dependent on a thousand different CDNs and a hundred different trackers.

A dedicated GPS was essential for cross country (if you didn't want paper maps or printouts).

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

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[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

I host way more than I probably should, but everyone should have some stuff like immich, vaultwarden, and nextcloud. I also like to host gitea and 30+ other things (check out netboot.xyz, it isn't something everyone needs but why wouldn't you want to be able to boot off the network), but that's just what some people do as a hobby I guess lol.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Mine is definitely a hobby... possibly a borderline addiction. I am an IT person by day and then selfhost a bit at home. Most of my equipment is good old eBay specials (R720xd, R610), or just accumulated over the years (a few HP Microservers, RAID enclosures, etc).

The uptime is decent but my ISP isn't great, plus one of the servers has been having issues so until I find a few hours to focus on it, it is not something I would consider "acting like a paid IT".

Not to make myself sound like a bad IT person, but my homelab is held together with hope and scripts to recover when it goes down. One day I'll cluster some lower power proxmox systems with portainer and ensure everything important has a way to fail over and backed up offsite (no, I'll probably just take a nap if I get a free afternoon lol).

Sometimes people in these communities don't realize how they come off, tone is hard over text, and I'm just as bad in person (thankfully I work remote most days).

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I haven't had to do anything special for signal, Home Assistant has some issues with permissions and not always reporting back if its on in the background. Still trying to figure out why its fine on mine but not on my son's phone.

The fine tuned controls for things like network access, storage and contact scopes, etc. are just amazing.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I mean that is an option. Much like banning nuclear weapons, it's easier said than done.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Well, I guess that gives people an excuse to start pointing lasers at them (gotta accurately measure distance somehow). Also might be fun when those that are hard of hearing start trying to keep 25' back and can't hear the officer trying to ask them to stop.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

... on a proxmox host in another room.

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