the-water-cooler

[fervent atlas]

I failed to process that sentence

[wintry crow]

I love rabbits. With garlic and white wine

Omg my dog reeks

[brisk glen]

I need more speed

[clear ferry]

Yes, your upload is terrible

[hearty depot]

...

Fuuu

And I upload with 2mbs to drive

I hate my isp

[clear ferry]

In though Germany had good interwebs

Just move to Norway, it's a short move for you @hearty depot

[brisk glen]

@clear ferry and now?

[clear ferry]

Better

I remember speeds like that at college in 2003

[hearty depot]

Austria/Vienna I'm only from Germany
Would love to @clear ferry got a job for me 🤣

[brisk glen]

@clear ferry well... my phone is only 2x2

this is over wifi

[clear ferry]

@hearty depot easy, we need it people everywhere

[hearty depot]

grounded for now. My contract is bound for another 1.6 years. But I can take a couple of trainings each year. What you need?

[north forum]

I currently pay $20 USD a month on top of my ISP's monthly plan to double my upstream.... from 5Mbps to 10Mbps........ 😒

[brisk glen]

tempting to move outside of the US

[clear ferry]

Everything everywhere, the market is very open in Norway

[brisk glen]

why is it soo open?

[clear ferry]

@north forum how is life in 2000?

[north forum]

@clear ferry , honestly not sure what year this is. I can get 1,000 down, 10 up ....

[clear ferry]

@brisk glen because everything is booming, cybersecurity, developers, sysadmin etc, just not enough people

I get a lot of offers every year

[hearty depot]

Lol. On paper I got 40D/10U

Aaah I really hope that will stay this way - I love Norway

[scenic radish]

Norwat

[civic tulip]

@brisk glen that's just your LAN speed though :P What's your actual WAN speed?

[brisk glen]

but isnt it cold there?

@civic tulip thats my wlan speed

[clever mortar]

It stays above 100K, so it's not that cold 😛

[hearty depot]

You can get a Pullover, problem fixed

[brisk glen]

.g what is 100k to C

-173.15

[hearty depot]

.k2c 100

[brisk glen]

ok.... @clever mortar sure not cold

[clever mortar]

Warmer than 0K 😛

[civic tulip]

Yeah exactly, your local area network :P what's your WAN/Internet/ISP provided speed?

Inb4 20mb/s xD

[brisk glen]

@civic tulip only like 90 down and 5 up 😛

tho I am not home much and Im usually at work

my boss has 4 Gbit to his mac from the core.........

idk how the hell he got them to connect him to the core

[civic tulip]

💯 yummy

Is he using a 10gb sfp I'm guessing?

[brisk glen]

more like 4 cables

[civic tulip]

Like thunderbolt 10Gb

[brisk glen]

like I said

idk how the hell he got them to do it

[clever mortar]

Likely he know folks who owned an ISP

I know somebody else who managed magic like that

Yeah, sure, I have my own ASN, doesn't everybody 😱

[brisk glen]

@clever mortar we have fiber from the ISP

I think there is a 100Gbit line

[civic tulip]

What on earth is your business lol, like a datacenter or what? What company uses 10gb+ bandwidth

[clever mortar]

Quite a few...

[brisk glen]

a college with a public library

[clever mortar]

10 Gb and above Internet links aren't that uncommon

I've dealt with one that had dual 32 Gb links

[brisk glen]

we are moving everything to azure ;.;

including our AD

[clever mortar]

Good luck!

[brisk glen]

the migration has already started

[clever mortar]

I mean, as long as you don't lose connectivity to the Internet it'll likely be fine...

[clear ferry]

@brisk glen https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/norway/oslo/climate

[clever mortar]

Oslo looks fine to me

[brisk glen]

might be a tad too cold for my wife

[clever mortar]

A bit dry

[civic tulip]

https://i.redd.it/8v9fopt6wlx31.jpg

One of my favourites

[clear ferry]

Pretty sure I have a customer with a 50Gbit plus internet link, might even be close to 100Gbit

[brisk glen]

heh

[wintry crow]

I love that Azure runs on linux

[brisk glen]

thats like putting HA in kube

I love how powershell core runs on linux

[civic tulip]

Right? They should be forced to run the whole of azure in hyperv lol

[clear ferry]

Very few of my customers run anything more than AD in azure

Even the hyper v minority

[wintry crow]

We have a bit of Azure, a bit of AWS, but 95% GCP. Tbf works extremely well

[clear ferry]

99% of my customers still run 80% in local DCs

With 2 or 3 locations

[brisk glen]

as they should

[wintry crow]

We're dropping all local DCs since we're not using any VPNs into the cloud. Has presented some challenges lol

[clear ferry]

But then again, a lot of my customers aren't even online

[wintry crow]

Strange concept today, not being online at all

[clever mortar]

Not really... just less common

[clear ferry]

Not really, considering the businesses and today's internet either

[wintry crow]

https://youtu.be/j8Goudh9Ggo?t=153

[clear ferry]

Old news

That was like two or three weeks ago

[wintry crow]

:/

[clever mortar]

So, Den Automation may be about to rise from the dead - which is only of interest to others in the UK I'm sure
https://denswitches.com/

[clear ferry]

[last plaza]

never heard of them in the US

although I am waiting for someone to buy Leeo - they filed bankruptcy recently (maybe it is too late now)

[rain swift]

hak5 lol

[forest edge]

Some lady at Hy-Vee was trying to tell people at the girl scout stand the cookies were made in China lol

[last plaza]

@brisk glen this is more of a #the-water-cooler conversation... is AdGuard Home runs entirely local?

never used it - I don't mind looking into it if it is any better than PiHole

[brisk glen]

It’s like pihole

[last plaza]

ok...

[brisk glen]

But it supports things like doh,DoT

More features

Less crap

Portable

[last plaza]

sweet

found https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hole

[brisk glen]

Yah, it’s a little better

[rain swift]

none of the additional stuff adguard does really matters, and I tried to run dnscrypt on my firewall and the servers were always going down

so I ended up going back to good ol google

the extra stuff they claim you need I didn't I just installed it on ubuntu server with one command

[last plaza]

I like what I am seeing there!

[rain swift]

I mean i'm all about competition though lol

I run pihole in a vm so no biggy to fire up a new vm and try something else out

[brisk glen]

I use quad 9

[rain swift]

my new firewall should be in tomorrow

can't waaiit

[brisk glen]

Adguard home uses quad 9

What did you buy?

[rain swift]

netgate sg-3100

[last plaza]

this will be another weekend project... I can't afford to break anything on Sunday night!

[rain swift]

aka pfsense

yeah, I'm gonna try to pre config the new firewall and do a quick swapout lol

[last plaza]

I use Palo Alto firewall, pretty damn advanced in its capabilities, but extreely complex to navigate the admin dashboard

[rain swift]

I just want a nice easy to use GUI lol

[brisk glen]

https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query

[rain swift]

my openbsd firewall has served me for 5 years

[last plaza]

pfsense is good, I block about 140K domains and my home network is pretty clean mostly - although cloudfront makes it difficult at times

[brisk glen]

Dns over port 443

[rain swift]

Unable to parse the request

[brisk glen]

My ISP probably hates me

[last plaza]

why?

oh DNS over 443?

[rain swift]

i'm blocking 125,337 domains

and yeah, home network is pretty clean

I run ublock origin and stuff too

[last plaza]

not bad! you can tell the difference on many sites with pi-hole and without pihole

[rain swift]

big time

[brisk glen]

A big difference

[rain swift]

I can't stand surfing the net "bare back"

its like holy crap how can anyone stand this

[brisk glen]

It even blocks my wife’s pandora ads on her phone at home

[rain swift]

I love going to those sites to watch a movie streaming and watching all their crap not working

[last plaza]

no way - we went to a friend's place a few weeks ago for the weekend, our kids opened their iPad searched online and it opened 150 tabs in their browser

[rain swift]

yeah my wife was asking me about something the other day, I was like, if pihole is blocking it, it didn't need to be opened lol

[last plaza]

they really have no clue how clean our home network is... as soon as they step outside, it is ugly out there

[brisk glen]

Lol

[rain swift]

very

I also run all linux here so, that helps

[brisk glen]

Adguard home inside docker with auto updates On top of Ubuntu core

100% hands off

[rain swift]

yeah thats pihole for me

[brisk glen]

I forgot about it

[last plaza]

I got a dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on my personal laptop - other than that, everything else is linux based - except windows 2016 server where @velvet horizon is running

[rain swift]

I go in and do ubuntu updates now and then

[brisk glen]

Idk why but pihole keeps fucking up for me

[rain swift]

weird

[brisk glen]

Takes or a week

[last plaza]

it is so easy to troubleshoot

[rain swift]

I have 0 issues with it

[brisk glen]

I know but I really like adguard home now

[last plaza]

they are pretty similar in many aspects, you're good!

[rain swift]

once something is cached and I do a dig query time is 0ms

[last plaza]

yup

[rain swift]

does adguard use unbound?

I was running all that crap on my firewall by hand, thats why now I want everything to be easy button lol

dnsmasq, unbound, dnscrypt, openvpn, whyy

[brisk glen]

No

Adguard uses nothing except itself

[rain swift]

interesting

[last plaza]

what do you run your pfsense on?

[rain swift]

hardware I bought off amazon lol

[brisk glen]

That’s how they can claim it’s portable

[rain swift]

I slapped it together old school

[last plaza]

do you pay or just use the community edition?

[rain swift]

it literally only gets rebooted when I do openbsd updates

I touch it so rarely I forget how to do stuff half the time lol

[brisk glen]

I never touch it

Ubuntu core will roll back if it fucks up

[rain swift]

aww yeah

[last plaza]

a bunch of my co-workers use netgate hw, they spent like $250 on them

[rain swift]

you must be doing that one thing

what do they call it?

[brisk glen]

Ubuntu core

Everything is a snap package

The kernel? Snap

[rain swift]

isn't there a service or something for patching the kernel without rebooting

[brisk glen]

Yah, but I’m not using a normal server

[rain swift]

then when you finally reboot everything gets applied permanently

ahhh

got ya

[brisk glen]

Apt is not even installed

[rain swift]

noice

ubuntu server its stripped down enough for me

[brisk glen]

https://ubuntu.com/core

[rain swift]

when the pihole pi died I had to set up the vm, install ubuntu, set everything up at like midnight lol

[last plaza]

what other hardwares can you run ubuntu core?

[hushed basalt]

"bulletproof upgrades"

What could possibly go wrong

[brisk glen]

It’s basically designed for power failures

@last plaza any

[last plaza]

I have a battery backup for all my servers anyway

[brisk glen]

You can compile it for any hardware

[last plaza]

even some of the RPIs as long as they are close to my UPS proximity wise

[brisk glen]

Same here

I just wanted something 100% hands off

[hushed basalt]

Are industrial places moving away from ladder logic PLCs to something a bit more mainstream?

[last plaza]

yup - my network modem, routers, firewall, switches are all on UPS. sometimes we lose power for a quick second/minute, and my network is uninterrupted!

[rain swift]

I keep all the network gear on UPS

[last plaza]

if we lose power for longer period because of heavy snow or something, that's a while another issue

[rain swift]

my UPS sends me an alert when they lose wall power

[brisk glen]

I have everything on a UPS at home

[last plaza]

I use HA for it 😉

[rain swift]

yeah I'll go in and start shutting stuff down to save power

[last plaza]

you could initiate shutdown with HA

[brisk glen]

I just wanted my DNS server to be on something I never touch

[rain swift]

I should set that up

I could

not hard to have it send winders a shutdown command lol

[brisk glen]

Lol

[hushed basalt]

Networked UPS works well

[last plaza]

yup

[rain swift]

my list of things to implement keeps getting longer.

[last plaza]

lol

[hushed basalt]

Every server should tap into the networked UPS and shut itself down

[brisk glen]

I need bigger.... networked UPS systems

[rain swift]

my ups is USB

[hushed basalt]

You can proxy it

So you usb it into a main server

[brisk glen]

Everything is usb for now

[rain swift]

I'd love a networked one though

yes

[hushed basalt]

And then that shares it on the network

[rain swift]

the UPS's connect to the BI machine because I don't have any nut server or whatever

[hushed basalt]

Obviously something core or low power

[rain swift]

thats another thing I want to set up

[hushed basalt]

You can even use an old RPI2

Or rpi1 even

[brisk glen]

Zero

[rain swift]

got a few of those

[hushed basalt]

Ew

[brisk glen]

Lol

[rain swift]

dunno if my UPS's will talk to nut or whatever though

[hushed basalt]

Just want an ethernet, a usb port and a debian based OS

[last plaza]

I bought 10 Pi Zeros when they were on sale for $0.99c, and never used one of them!

[rain swift]

ha

[hushed basalt]

50% off something you don't need is 100% waste of money :D

Now don't look in my garage

[last plaza]

well said!

[brisk glen]

Lol

[rain swift]

when you buy something thinking i'll probably use that

its such a good deal I have to buy it

[hushed basalt]

Then you also need to buy storage to storage and organise all that stuff

[brisk glen]

I need a 10 bay nas :p

[hushed basalt]

Then you need to buy real estate to store all that storage

[brisk glen]

For home use

[rain swift]

I want an ixsystems nas

[hushed basalt]

I need to declutter like crazy

[last plaza]

I have been lookin for one! I just missed a deal, I'm so mad!

[rain swift]

that has zfs

[hushed basalt]

We have a 4 bedrooms worth of stuff in a 2 bedroom atm too

So that's not helping

[last plaza]

It was a synology, only 5 bay

[forest edge]

you don't already have a synology michael?

[rain swift]

a nas I also don't have to touch, just set it up and swap out drives when they die

[hushed basalt]

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/5ssb5h/ups_server_on_raspberry_pi/

[last plaza]

NAS is a best investment! you can do so many things with it

[hushed basalt]

If your UPS has a usb A port you can even power the old Pi off it

[forest edge]

I have a 4tb goflex lol

can't do much that

[rain swift]

so many tabs of things to read

[last plaza]

goflex?

ah, the seagate one

[hushed basalt]

Synology is very simple and straight forward, but you may outgrow it for a home server

[rain swift]

I just started using the chrome tab sync stuff so I can get to everything i'm looking at from everywhere, why wasn't I doing this sooner.

[forest edge]

yea https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/home-entertainment/goflex home/_shared/docs/GoFlex Home User Guide.pdf

[brisk glen]

Nas and nextcloud

With elastic search

[last plaza]

I love that the NAS either synology or qnap all have container station - you could run many things in containers in there - you don't need any additional server hardware

[hushed basalt]

My synology has screwed me over a few times. Can't free up port 80/433, can't setup passwordless sudo without risking bricking it,

[rain swift]

I need to learn more about containers

[forest edge]

lol

[rain swift]

they seem so awesome

[hushed basalt]

Also synology has like years between docker version upgrades

[rain swift]

I didn't use containers until I got into forbidden topic

[forest edge]

prebuilt nas's these days are too over priced

[last plaza]

they have a proprietary container implementation

[forest edge]

even the kits you can buy are over priced cause nas is a "trend" lol

[rain swift]

the cloud is just someone else's computer.

[last plaza]

yup

[hushed basalt]

Building a desktop PC as a nas isn't exactly cheap either

[rain swift]

we need a forbidden topic type deal that you just install and it turns a bunch of drives into a nas

[hushed basalt]

You guys would hate the term serverless then

[forest edge]

cheaper than prebuilt and with better hardware

[rain swift]

or just a nas addon lol

[last plaza]

again, NAS is one of my best investments - the trick is finding right HDD with right sizing, and after that, you are set for a very long time!

[rain swift]

I want a 2 tier nas

fast SSD's and spinning rust

[hushed basalt]

@rain swift serverbuilds.net have some good builds if you don't mind high power consumption

[last plaza]

you could build NAS with SSDs, that will cost you a fortune, but supr fast!

[forest edge]

solid states in nas always seem silly to me

[rain swift]

I don't love hgh power consumption if I can help it lol

[hushed basalt]

Linuxserver.io discord have some blog articles too. Perfect media server 2017 etc

[rain swift]

SSD in a nas is for vm's and stuff

I guess thats more of a storage array

it all blurrs together

[hushed basalt]

Just beware that cheap ssds are like TLC which means they're quite slow and wear out easily

[last plaza]

I wish I have GPUs on my Poweredge Servers - that's the only thing I miss today

[hushed basalt]

After the SLC cache layer is depleted

But depending on your use case you may never see it depleted

Not all solid state storage is created equally

[forest edge]

you like how newer ssd's are less reliable than the first generations? lol

I always find it a hoot

[hushed basalt]

Selected the appropriate equipment for the job is just part of design

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza you will not miss GPU with 1019+ 😄

[last plaza]

I know, I missed that deal though, I am still mad!

[hushed basalt]

I know situations where a flash cache served with 10gbe would totally change their world

1019+?

[tidal bronze]

Will come around. Add 2 x nvme as well and you are ready to rock.

[last plaza]

I might just go buy it. it is only like $100 difference!

let me know next time you find the deal... I'd jump on it

[tidal bronze]

Will keep an eye for sure.

[last plaza]

@hushed basalt 1019+ is the synology NAS that was on sale earlier this week

[hushed basalt]

Ah i see

Does it have 10gbe or sfp+?

[tidal bronze]

No.

[last plaza]

It is a 5 by instead of typical 4 bay

[hushed basalt]

Hmm. I think the age of 1gbe has passed for anything I buy

[forest edge]

what was it on sale for?

[last plaza]

good cpu and memory, and if you add SSDs, you are set!

[tidal bronze]

But link agg is more than enough for home use

[hushed basalt]

5 bays is nice though. 3+2 SHR2

[last plaza]

$575 something

[forest edge]

yesh

[tidal bronze]

2gig load balanced and plenty.

[forest edge]

I can't bring myself to spend that much on a nas.. just cannot do it lol

[hushed basalt]

@tidal bronze for a lot of people it is. But now that flash storage in NASs and flash storage in desktops is becoming norm, that 10gbe interlink can really make that shared drive feel more local

Obviously for serving to plex it's irrelevant

[last plaza]

although if I buy another QNAP, I can sync between qnaps easily.. otherwise I may have to use scheduled jobs to sync

[hushed basalt]

But for serving network drives to desktops it makes a big difference

[tidal bronze]

I do have a 12TB SSD Nas 😉

[last plaza]

same here - I want to add new HDDs each with 12TBs

but not SSDs 🙂

[tidal bronze]

10GB is pointless ATM fro home use.

[last plaza]

the next one will be a big one for me for sure!

[forest edge]

my idea of a good nas. lol https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/IBM_System_360_tape_drives.jpg

[hushed basalt]

Link aggregation is maybe 200MB/s if you're lucky?

[tidal bronze]

Unless 5 people are watching UHD 4:4:4 with truhd audio lol

[last plaza]

we only have 3 TVs, 50 people can watch but only 3 streams max 😛

mobiles don't count

[tidal bronze]

220 is plenty.

[hushed basalt]

Nvme is in the 1000s of MB/s

[tidal bronze]

Only reason to have a 10G network ATM is if you are editing 4k 8k video on NAS. I think that's a very few on the planet

[hushed basalt]

You don't have to be editing online to want that extra speed

[tidal bronze]

I do have a 10g subnet at home but trust me not worth the hype.

[hushed basalt]

Writing and then checksumming back on even a days worth of Blackmagic RAW during offload would make it very handy

[forest edge]

nothing would even utilize it

[tidal bronze]

exactly

[last plaza]

my dell poweredge has 8 drive slots - currently I only have 2 HDDs in there. I can hydrate that and use that as a NAS as well

I already run esxi on it, having extra disk drives would be easy to set up NAS in there

[tidal bronze]

you are set with that @last plaza

[forest edge]

rpi4 cluster nas would be neat

[hushed basalt]

Just get like 8 poweredges and set up ceph. Will be super simple barely an inconvenience

[last plaza]

portability is the question @tidal bronze

I can take NAS with me, but I can't take my server with me 😉

[hushed basalt]

With you where?

[forest edge]

backpacking the nas

[hushed basalt]

Hiking

[tidal bronze]

Once you add the 1019+ for plex you will be golden @last plaza 🙂

[last plaza]

in case of fire, I can grab it and run out side 😛

[hushed basalt]

Eh id just have onsite and offsite backup and let it burn

[last plaza]

It was too late by the time I found the deal. next time I am not wasting a second!

[forest edge]

hmm that be a hard choice, i'd take the drives and leave the nas then havve the insurance upgrade me

[last plaza]

I could buy retail price, I'm not in a hurry, and I'd rather use the difference for tax and on SSDs

I hate that B&H and Amazon are collecting tax these days 😭

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza if you want you can sync encrypted to one my syno units and I can do the same with yours, critical shares. I have 1 syncing to a buddy in San Francisco and 1 in Long Island. 🙂

[hushed basalt]

The size of stuff I actually care about isn't that big. Maybe 1TB

Everything else is just linux ISOs, no need to back them up

[brisk glen]

Bla

I need 5 TB

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze that's a great idea - DR across Murrica! 🙂

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze lol why? what spy like data you be sharing?

[tidal bronze]

Yep and free :_)

[last plaza]

lol - love the idea - we should start a group across the globe

[hushed basalt]

I did that when I had a NAS set up at my mums house

[tidal bronze]

Replication with Dedpue runs like butter

[hushed basalt]

None of my friends have servers

[last plaza]

I need to get my brother to buy a NAS in UK, I'm all set! 😉

[hushed basalt]

They just all watch netflix and OTA like plebs

[forest edge]

I'd always think the FBI would be showing up at any minute lol

[hushed basalt]

Or they put everything on usb hdds and plug it into their playstations

[tidal bronze]

Best thing with syno is 2 click setup and forget. 🙂 You can even test failover

[last plaza]

@forest edge what do you do to get FBI's attention? 😂

[hushed basalt]

Unreturned library books

[last plaza]

lmao

[tidal bronze]

lol

[forest edge]

if your cross sharing with other people, it's not your stuff you would be concerned about lol

[last plaza]

it is all happening over SSL, and I sincerely hope they can't see data in transit

[hushed basalt]

Too much noise

[tidal bronze]

Current replication 🙂

[hushed basalt]

I have no doubt they can backdoor targeted people. And they dragnet anything that is hosted by tech companies

[forest edge]

yea but if they get busted and the FBI takes over the source

your kind of sol

[hushed basalt]

Eh

[last plaza]

well, it is beyond what we can do

[hushed basalt]

I don't think FBI is going to raid my nzbget server

[forest edge]

not in au no

lol

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze Server A is yours and B and C are friend's?

[tidal bronze]

Yes

[last plaza]

awesome!

[hushed basalt]

What's recovery like

[last plaza]

make sure they are far away from California 😉

[hushed basalt]

Say if your main nas gets hosed

Do you have keys backed up for the recovery

[tidal bronze]

1 click mount or recovery.

[last plaza]

he keeps the Server B keys in server A and C, and vice versa

[hushed basalt]

You don't want a , key locked in the safe scenario

[last plaza]

the key management is always a nightmare! we have vaults and vaults, and still confused on who gets the keys to the vaults

[tidal bronze]

1 of them is a 8TB photo share, which I seeded and shipped.

[last plaza]

why don't you just upload everything to internet and let internet takes backups for you for free? 😛

[forest edge]

that's alot of dog pics

[tidal bronze]

I have loads of 4k material from shoots B-roll

[last plaza]

lol - I make backups in multiple HDDs and keep them in bank safes

[tidal bronze]

I do that too better to have it than be sorry.

[last plaza]

like safe deposit - not kidding. I also have fire/flood safes at home

I keep multiple copies rotated every 6 months

[forest edge]

you two are going outside the normal scope of the people in this channel lol

[tidal bronze]

About 10 years ago I lost 4 drives, and that was it.

[last plaza]

lmao - when you have kids and so many memories, you have to protect them and give it to your kids when they are grown up

About 10 years ago I lost 4 drives, and that was it.
yup - this is what worries me!!!

[forest edge]

yea i think google photo will still be around lol

[tidal bronze]

I have some on goog but I can handle my backups

[last plaza]

I actually thought of buying a NAS and keeping it remotely in brother's house and manage it remotely

[tidal bronze]

That's a great idea too

[hushed basalt]

Google photos compresses like shit

[tidal bronze]

yep

crap

[last plaza]

yup - you also give them readonly access for certain folder and admin console

[hushed basalt]

I lost the originals from my honeymoon

[forest edge]

build a small underground enclosure 20ft from the house and bury a power and ethernet cable to it and stick a nas in that lol

[hushed basalt]

They're on google photos but it's garbage

[last plaza]

I'm sure there is way to restore original uploads

[tidal bronze]

The google unlimited is good. I am planning on moving plex storage to that with rclone encrypted. Not spend money to store this media crap.

[last plaza]

get an AWS snowball

[hushed basalt]

Yeah my old work backs up 48TB to google unlimited

[last plaza]

best way to transport lots of data at once! I wish I thought of that idea!

[hushed basalt]

Lol home storage on S3, i think not

$$$

[tidal bronze]

plex works great with rclone and encrypted. So yep @hushed basalt

[hushed basalt]

Even glacier adds up quick if you have to retrieve anything

[last plaza]

of course! ingress and egress is where they get you!

storage is cheap

[tidal bronze]

I am currently syncing about 16TB to gdrive. I don't care if they are lost one day just plex stuff

[last plaza]

ah! how much for gdrive?

[tidal bronze]

10/month

[last plaza]

not bad!

[ashen minnow]

That's ingressive... but I egress

[hushed basalt]

I use B2. I only have about $2.5 of stuff I care about

[last plaza]

I forget that we have strangers listening in here! 😂

its creepy

[tidal bronze]

lol

[ashen minnow]

*peers about as if looking for someone *

[hushed basalt]

If i had more I'd go to Google unlimited

[forest edge]

strangers be listening to your bank vaults and cross country data sharing.. almost like being caught naked

[tidal bronze]

Or get edu email and it's free lol

[last plaza]

think of it as $120 a year as an insurance for your priceless memories!

[hushed basalt]

@tidal bronze hmmm

I wonder if that works for au edu

[ashen minnow]

well I am a stranger that just wandered in here looking for help with this here M5Sick-C I got myself...

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze edu emails are completely hacked by chinese government - just an fyi

[hushed basalt]

?

[last plaza]

@ashen minnow I think I referred you to go to #diy-archived

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza I love google but backups I want to have full control. Nothing critical/important goes on cloud storage for me.

[forest edge]

speaking of chinese hackers.. that whole thing has had to have slowed down with everything going on

[hushed basalt]

Even encrypted at source like rclone

[ashen minnow]

10 word or less challenge - what firmware and control for M5stick-c as universal remote

[last plaza]

@ashen minnow 2 words, "not sure"!

[ashen minnow]

@last plaza "same here"

[last plaza]

that is not a popular hardware among the people here, if someone knows, they will jump to answer

[ashen minnow]

Its an amazing thing

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza off topic but have you looked into queuing TTS?

[hushed basalt]

Why would you want that anyways

A universal remote

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze unless you use kafka or something, the mqtt doesn't support queueing

[ashen minnow]

My dream is - to use it as an I remote to automate old IR devices

like my TV hehe - I want it to wake me up by switching to the news channel

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza not MQTT lol, TTS

[hushed basalt]

There's a dozen devices that are cheap and do that easily

[last plaza]

@ashen minnow please use #diy-archived

[hushed basalt]

Why make it hard for yourself

[ashen minnow]

I have an m5 stick lol

[hushed basalt]

Just get a broadlink rm3

[ashen minnow]

I am Irish and a lapsed catholic

[last plaza]

@ashen minnow are you listening? #diy-archived

[ashen minnow]

ok cool braodlink? never heard of it

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze I have setup kafka locally

[ashen minnow]

ya but I didnt hear from anyone - and you guys looked like you were having fun

and I wanted to join in 😛

[forest edge]

wtf not even the coronavirus slows those bastards down they just use it to create more phishing scams lmao

[last plaza]

will try it out, an you can run it in docker with easy steps and will be able to use queueing

[hushed basalt]

I do feel like the topics are a bit too splintered tbh

There's a balance between too few and too many

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza so garage opened/ medicine reminder fired at the same time will get played one after the other ?

[hushed basalt]

But a lot of stuff ends up in #330944238910963714 even though that's just for installing homeassistant /hassio

[ashen minnow]

@hushed basalt perfect advice thanks you 🙂

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze yes

[hushed basalt]

Advice?

[tidal bronze]

Outstanding

[last plaza]

biggest difference between mqtt and kafka is that MQTT overrides old values in a given topic, whereas kafka queues them, - you can go back and play all of them if you want

[ashen minnow]

@hushed basalt The Broadlink Smart Home Hub - didn't know it existed - thought I would have to homebrew it

[last plaza]

you can setup kafka and zookeeper locally in docker

[hushed basalt]

It's rare to need to diy stuff nowadays

Custom flashing sure, but soldering irons aren't needed as much anymore

[last plaza]

I used to be a believer in DIY years ago, but not anymore. there are so many off the shelf products, no need to do DIY in the automation space anymore

[hushed basalt]

Indeed

[last plaza]

there are so many OEM products out there that does everything you need

[hushed basalt]

Although I worry that a lot of manufacturers are making their stuff locked down with certs

Can't mitm as much anymore

[ashen minnow]

Yup - but I often end up buying the junk - or going overboard with the solution

[last plaza]

the DIY is good for kids in school to learn about stuff but no need for practical use

[hushed basalt]

DIY is for novel stuff. But nothing of what we do is novel.

Controlling lights, doors, TTS, tvs, that's all standard nowadays

[last plaza]

yup

[hushed basalt]

We're getting to ride the wave of mainstream automation

[ashen minnow]

Haha in my case - I shouold prob buy a new TV that I can more easily control

[hushed basalt]

Then hacking it to our benefit

[ashen minnow]

I just hate throwing away a perfectly nice screen - or just giving away

[hushed basalt]

Controlling source, volume etc is easy enough with a IR blaster

But deeper integration is nice

[ashen minnow]

yup I did it before with an arduino by recording the codes

[hushed basalt]

I recommend LG. WebOS is nice

[ashen minnow]

but I thought there may be something else by now haha and there is

[last plaza]

@ashen minnow just connect a RPi to your TV and you are all set

use the screen as you want

[ashen minnow]

It's a dumb tv - so all brightness etc are all done by IR - my arduino version ran thru the menus

it was the lack of an RTC that failed it

[tidal bronze]

DIY will always have a place with HA if you want to do things out of the norm and not be stuck to what's on the shelf. But as for motion sensors etc, right now cheaper to buy stuff like zigbee. Buy the time you put stuff together it's usually little more than retail. But if you take WLED for instance, there's nothing in the market unless commercial stuff that can even come close to the functionality it offers.

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze are you looking to queue TTS messages?

[tidal bronze]

yes

[dull chasm]

i need to try wled ....pixelstick is what i am using now

[last plaza]

@dull chasm individually addressable LEDs?

[tidal bronze]

time to switch. WLED is miles ahead of stick and still supports DMX 🙂

[dull chasm]

not sure if it will handle ws2815's

@last plaza yes

[ashen minnow]

@last plaza Is right I should be in the diy chan - thanks all for the help 🙂

[dull chasm]

unicast?

[tidal bronze]

anything you want.

Mind blowing stuff

[last plaza]

I bought a set, but have been sitting on my desk collecting dust... I need to hook them up

[dull chasm]

cool......if i can get wife to stop smoking esp's ....she loves soldering connectors and doesnt always pay attention to where wire goes instead of its color

[last plaza]

lol

[tidal bronze]

best part is multi-segment in the same strip or length. Displays as separate lights in HA. Can run all individual effects color pallets in segments. But single strip 😉 What more can you ask.

[dull chasm]

awesome ....putting leds underbed for latenate tv watching or pee time 🤣

[last plaza]

that's a great idea! I need to do for our master bathroom - right now, we have motion sensor lights that turns on full brightness

[tidal bronze]

Example sides vertical effect, top bottom android

[last plaza]

master bath has too many lights, and when you get up middle of the night for bathroom break, those lights are too harsh! 😂

[dull chasm]

i will put one under bed motion just for them ...so when in sleep mode they trigger them

@tidal bronze show off

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze you don't need a fireplace in LA! come on!!!

we are the ones who freeze our asses here

[tidal bronze]

38 where i live last 2 months

[dull chasm]

fake one at that 🤣

[last plaza]

38 you are complaining? we will be in shorts if we have 38F

lol

[dull chasm]

thats proll c @last plaza

[tidal bronze]

@dull chasm sorry we don't do that wood burning stuff. Natural gas and remote fired, it's 2020 😉

[last plaza]

yu[

lol

[dull chasm]

hey hey ......whats wrong with that

[last plaza]

we have the fake wood fire place but runs on gas

[dull chasm]

thats my heat ^^^^

[tidal bronze]

I am a sucker for fireplaces, since I don't like forced air heat, That's what I use in the master bedroom as well.

[last plaza]

wow! I haven;t seen that in a very long time!

we have forced air and air condition... we are used to it. we do have personal heaters if needed!

[tidal bronze]

AC I am fine with. But heat gives me headache.

[last plaza]

@dull chasm you burn wood in there?

@tidal bronze as long as you maintain humidity, we're usually fine.

[dull chasm]

yea ...i dont have one now but have had recentyly

[last plaza]

@dull chasm did you put temp sensor in there?

[dull chasm]

no

[tidal bronze]

@last plaza it's dry here as you know. So force heat is very irritating.

Fireplace makes it so cozy.

[last plaza]

that's why you need a humidifier with heat

[tidal bronze]

Humidity and I will run.

[last plaza]

our kids will have nose bleeds if it is too dry and heat is on

[tidal bronze]

Checking kafka

@last plaza can you explain TTS method you are using.

[last plaza]

I am just using directly - pass a text to notify method, that uses polly

instead, we could drop a message in kafka, and have a kafka listener process the message.

kafka support has been added lately, but I haven't checked it in detail

[tidal bronze]

Got it.

[last plaza]

the current kafka implementation is limited to history only. 😦

[tidal bronze]

Mom's med reminders and door alerts for the nurse fires at the same time, sometimes, so need to figure out a way to store and play them

[last plaza]

I see. another work around would be to use an input_text 😉

basically what you do is, add the message to input_text, only if it is empty. and on input_text change event, call TTS notify method, after TTS is done, clear input_text.

when adding to input_text, if it is not empty, wait for 30 seconds or so 🙂

[tidal bronze]

As always brilliant Sir!

[last plaza]

lol - simple hack, but can be done easily without too much effort!

@tidal bronze better yet, use shopping list!

[hushed basalt]

#automations-archived ;)

[last plaza]

@tidal bronze there are limitations with shopping list as well. will look into it.

you can add, remove items programmatically, but you can't get all items at once!

[tidal bronze]

I am also diving deep 😄

[last plaza]

cool... we can use input-text easily. will look into it tomorrow! and we will see to it. I have been wanting to do this too!

[scenic radish]

FORBIDDEN TOPIC

[last plaza]

Those rules are for non-mods 😝

Only saying because mods can’t ban other mods - so it doesn’t apply 😂

[scenic radish]

OH I GET IT

"do as I say, not as I do"

https://media.tenor.com/images/3bc4f656073e3d6f95774efcdecfb696/tenor.gif

[hushed basalt]

Reeeee mode activated

[scenic radish]

I'm gonna reeee like I've never reeee'd before

[hushed basalt]

https://media.tenor.com/images/2366529855d20cf3056f620e30dfaa56/tenor.gif

Reeeeeecursion

@hushed basalt

[forest edge]

starting to think you need a degree from a community college to understand this RF shit

[clear ferry]

@forest edge openmqttgateway I say

[forest edge]

that is ancient

[clear ferry]

So are you

[forest edge]

so is your cheese

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/4jdEbvfD0u6tmOLgMKJYUg?si=4bBsXafxTfi5HcTXiDkx7Q

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Y8qb9CHqPdK6ryfn3YcIE?si=PxbzF2ldQGW5g-EX8CgrGw

[hushed basalt]

You've posted that one before I'm pretty sure

https://media.tenor.com/images/4b0761d5917715f50b0a64f2b97a501c/tenor.gif

[clear ferry]

That exact one?

@hushed basalt the auditor

He knows just what you are posting, he knows if you repost, he knows just which of the mods to ping so be good for goodness sake

[hushed basalt]

You better not ping

You better not stir

You better not spam I'm telling you why

Tediore is reeeeing tonight

[clear ferry]

[hushed basalt]

So what is everyone's take on CORVID-19?

[midnight adder]

CORVID-19 is a large intelligent black bird but is less sophisticated than the CORVID-20 model 😉

[agile compass]

Hi everybody , can I ask for help here ?

[midnight adder]

hi I think you'd be better off asking in a relevant channel

[agile compass]

Ok ok

[mighty summit]

@radiant zodiac is that yuuu ? https://community.ui.com/questions/View-DHCP-Leases-in-Controller/fa638f35-a22b-439e-ae4d-be9c07d002e7#answer/86a9b5d8-abff-4690-ba2b-60144441a8c1

[rain swift]

https://www.interstacks.com/blocks/

[midnight adder]

Happy with my Home Assistant beer brewery so far!

[scenic radish]

https://discordapp.com/channels/330944238910963714/397426163649216512/683887571985760273

[last plaza]

@midnight adder great job! Please share these kind of updates in #general-archived

You can also share on our community web site. There is a section dedicated to showcasing work.

[pure vine]

A thing I ordered from china arrived

It's a little lorawan gateway

[stoic talon]

lmao prepare to have all your data stolen

[pure vine]

The Things Network is encrypted and RAK is a reputable company

[stoic talon]

tbf so was huawei at one point, its a cool little box, just saying you should be careful 😉

[last plaza]

What is that thing? @pure vine

[pure vine]

a lorawan gateway

[last plaza]

Ah! What sensors do you plan on using with that gateway? Can you integrate with HA?

[pure vine]

Currently got it for my final year project, there is a lot of things that can use it and there is a intergration for the largest community network called the things network is in home assistant

[last plaza]

Someone suggested Lora earlier for a long range sensor - like having a sensor in a postbox far from home...etc.

[pure vine]

yeah, with a good antenna these can reach a few km

and if your lucky to be in a city like barcalona there is quite good coverage provided by other people

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/thethingsnetwork/

[last plaza]

Works on mesh?

[pure vine]

no

[tidal bronze]

Unfortunately lora public nodes are not as popular in the US. EU there's plenty

Oh except San Francisco 😄

[last plaza]

This lora sounds intriguing. I can automate postbox and backyard things - like playarea lighting, soil moisture levels...etc

[pure vine]

oh, the things network has a limit of 30s of airtime a day

private networks dont have the same restriction

[last plaza]

That sounds dumb and I don’t like their cloud service either. I may have to look for alternatives

[pure vine]

its kind of to prevent people cloging it up with tomany messages

as it uses ISM bands and there isnt really collision detection

@last plaza you can run your own network with something like https://www.chirpstack.io/

[last plaza]

Cool!

[clear ferry]

I am contemplating building a LoRA gateway for my perifial garden stuff, and to even put a few sensors in my daughter's kindergarten

They have hens, roosters and more

Openmqttgateway also supports LoRA

[tidal bronze]

Anyone seen a 300mhz amplifier?

[clear ferry]

300mhz

[tidal bronze]

Yes, looking for a gate opener booster/amp

[clear ferry]

Not an option to replace the actual switch with something more usable?

[tidal bronze]

I wish, sadly no.

[midnight adder]

@last plaza ok! just read that

"Also, don’t forget to share your creations with us via Social Media:
Or via chat, drop us a line in the #the-water-cooler at Discord" in the blogpost

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/02/19/community-highlights/

[last plaza]

@midnight adder excellent! Thank you for pointing that out!

Also, community site is also a good place to share your projects.

[pure vine]

I never thought about the climate card being for more than just heating control

thats a kinda cool use of it

[clear ferry]

Give me hacking tips

Now

[last plaza]

Discord made it to hacking list! 🎉

[velvet horizon]

The topic of this channel is:

NO POLITICS or RELIGION and BE CIVIL to one another or get BANNED permanently.

Command '.topic' was invoked by: skalavala

[torn horizon]

Is it me or 0.106 changelog is the same as 0.105 ? https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/02/26/release-106/

[clear ferry]

[rain swift]

The UK is airstripone from 1984. 😂😂😂

How much is it to boost the server?

And what do we get?

[scenic radish]

Wait so home assistant is no longer FORBIDDEN here?!

🎉

🥳

As long as it's not support related I assume

[light trout]

Correct, support still go in a DM to @scenic radish

[rain swift]

awesome, lemee get my questions ready.

[scenic radish]

Lemme get my block button ready

[clear ferry]

@scenic radish I bought sour patch kids yesterday in Sweden

[scenic radish]

Oooooo

You gotta try the sour patch watermelons if you can find them, they're awesome

[clear ferry]

This is the extreme ones

Had to figure out what you like

So they had them in Sweden

[last plaza]

Extreme sour is the best if you can handle it.

[clear ferry]

It was not very sour @last plaza

We have a lot of sour candy in Scandinavia

So pretty used to it

@scenic radish now I know your poison

[gilded canyon]

Alright lads and ladettes

Not sure what the best channel is as I'm not really after support, just ideas.
Do you think these are the best cards for this info? I'm unsure, feel like it could be displayed better, but not sure how best to do it...

[clever mortar]

#frontend-archived is the best place to ask about stuff to do with the frontend/cards

[last plaza]

How many piholes does it take to... 😊

@clear ferry our kids love sour candy. Me not so much.

[rain swift]

the real question is what value do you get from seeing that stuff.

[clear ferry]

Pihole 🤢

[last plaza]

Mostly feel good factor, knowing that it is working.

What do you use the ? Adguard?

[clear ferry]

PFblockerNG

[last plaza]

Fancy!

[clear ferry]

I'm quite fancy you see

[last plaza]

lol

I need to get all my RPi shit together. Too many of them, they are everywhere

[clear ferry]

Yeah, I used to run a esxi cluster, now I can run everything in docker, except the firewall which runs on a AliExpress minipc

And some more intensive stuff in freebsd jails

I have my nas anyway so

[rain swift]

I use pihole, but I see no value in seeing how many things it blocked.

if I wanna know if its working, i'd monitor the web interface or something lol

presumably if it stops working I will know since it does all of my DNS.

[boreal pewter]

Adguard was faster for me

[rose comet]

My home assistant history has been to add cool stuff that I didn't realize was supported.
then realize its overloaded with stuff I don't care to see.
Pare it down
repeat

[clear ferry]

Auto populated interfaces 🤢

Zzz installing 3x HPUX servers tomorrow, first new install I'm doing in atleast 5 years

I'm rusty

[rose comet]

oh nothing is auto populated

just my brain being like, yea I need that

until brain says nah you dont need that

[clear ferry]

@last plaza @scenic radish I also let my 16 month old daughter taste them, she made a face that said they were a little sour

[last plaza]

Capture those precious moments!!!

[gritty bane]

is it possible in Home assistant to capture live video from Arlo Camera's? I do not see any intergration for that.

[last plaza]

@gritty bane #cameras-archived might help you

[gritty bane]

any idea of what can be capture using this intergration?

[clear ferry]

@last plaza the only 16 month old I know that has rebooted a freenas system for upgrade too

Daddy wrote the command, but she pushed enter

The time she broke my configuration.yaml on the other hand

[last plaza]

lol

[clear ferry]

Hmmmmmmmmm

Plex.tv is down....

[gilded canyon]

@rain swift It's just nice to see. If I want a quick peek, it's quicker than logging into each Pi-Hole individually.
Sort of beside the point though isn't it 😛

And if it isn't working I wouldn't notice for a while, as I have two nodes 🙂

@clear ferry Convince me on pfBlocker! I've considered switching but have no reason to really, so it'd be pointless effort.

[rain swift]

the heck is pfblocker?

[clear ferry]

Proper software

[rain swift]

proper for what

[gilded canyon]

Blocking ads 😛

[rain swift]

looks like it does what I was doing with pf and a script lol

so we think its better than pihole?

ima be setting up my pfsense box tonight

[gilded canyon]

Well, apparently... Yet to hear why though 😄

Genuinely interested as I'd be all for switching if there's good reason to!

[rain swift]

I like the blocking countries part.

I may use that.

[forest edge]

block norway

[rain swift]

I was blocking china and russia before with pf

[forest edge]

block norway!

[rain swift]

pihole is my dns and dhcp though so I need a good reason to re set up my static dns entries and dhcp reservations.

[forest edge]

the single greatest source of all outdated suggestions!

[peak scarab]

Hi, which channel might be the best to ask about the state of a fail over solution for home assistant?

[clever mortar]

There isn't one, but #general-archived maybe

[vast dove]

There isnt one because its not needed 😁

[clever mortar]

Also, it's "not trivial"

[last plaza]

@clear ferry Apple secretly throttled older phones to conserve battery life and forcing users to upgrade, finally settled $500 Million settlement! Another reason to have Apple, now you get up to $1500 if you claim you have one.

[clever mortar]

Unless something was designed with it in mind, failover is "fun"

[peak scarab]

I know, but a friend of mine wants to run it on a shady old Laptop he had on the shelve for many years. The point is i would't be suprised if i'd turn around and IT would explode..... So I want to place a raspberry pi in the network that performs some network monitoring Tasks and can take over for a few hours should the laptop crash or fail permanent until i got around to repair it.

[clever mortar]

Worth looking at the forum threads then

[forest edge]

I love watching John Oliver lol https://youtu.be/c09m5f7Gnic

[clear ferry]

@last plaza i have a old 3gs in a drawer, let me pull it out

[last plaza]

I use the old ones as iPods at home - use it as a music players to play music on wifi speakers

[dusty crag]

Which TV has the best integration with HASS? Might be in the market for a new one but wanted to do maybe some notifications or something on it screen if possible

may have just answered my own question looks like LG WebOS has notification support

[orchid rose]

Also it's probably a question for #hardware-archived

[dusty crag]

thanks @orchid rose wasn't sure where to ask 👍

[rain swift]

Generally in a class action you end up with about 5 cents after lawyer fees and everyone makes their claim

[forest edge]

well now we don't need a coronavirus addon cause frenck made it into an intergration lol

[rain swift]

Because so many people claim, layers take a huge chunk, that's the only reason they do it, so you end up with very little after it's divided equally, talking about the apple battery thing.

[forest edge]

it's one of those should it be a controversial thing or not type of things lol

[rain swift]

Was this sponsored by George soros

Next they will put some kind of election integration and then tell you that you can't talk about it

[forest edge]

I could see a lot more US HA users using that if it could be narrowed down by state > county > city for precautionary purposes. considering they stated 40-60% of all american's will have it by end of the year it would serve as a heads up when you should be washing your hands even more ect lol

[hushed basalt]

Cough politics cough

I don't think you worry about specific cities/areas. Precautions should be the same.

[forest edge]

what do you mean

[hushed basalt]

By the time an area gets tested as confirmed wide spread

It's already been out for 2-3 weeks

It may already be at that stage, but if things get worse social distancing should be in effect

Reduce contact with people to a minimum, whether you're sick or healthy

Because less contact at a community scale slows down transmission. Reducing the peak and pushing the level down.

[forest edge]

well that's why i said state/counties. the virus is slow so even if it takes time to process confirmed cases if your looking at state/county wide it would still show before it really impacted your immediate area

[silent canyon]

can anyone here help me understand in plain kitchen english, what a boolean is?

[hushed basalt]

A true or a false

So in computers you have values which are different types

String is a type, different types of numbers, etc

A boolean is a value which can only be true or false. On or off. Yes or No.

[forest edge]

tediore or not_tediore

[hushed basalt]

tediore == human
false

[rain swift]

so one of my UPS's battery died and I was thinking about getting the newest version of it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00429N19W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[brisk glen]

blocking firefox DoH

assholes

[hushed basalt]

@rain swift you can replace the batteries

But the choice is yours

[fading robin]

anyone know if there is an easy utility for creating backup images of hassio installation for my raspberry pi (mac)

[rain swift]

Yeah, I can get another battery, and just have another maybe. Wonder how to find out which one it takes.

[scenic radish]

Pop that bitch open and take a look

Or search your model online to try to find the battery specs

[rain swift]

well things are plugged in right now

https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Battery-CyberPower-CP1500PFCLCD-12V/dp/B00G5ENHZ0

oh hell

here is the factory ones https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOU93XA?tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

lol done

loving pfsense btw

[hushed basalt]

@rain swift you might want to see if you can remove the cartridge on the ones you have easily

Then you can buy cheaper probably better generic 12v SLAs

[brisk glen]

and DoH servers blocked along with DoT

god dam web browsers

[forest edge]

those ups batteries with the manufacture label are the same as the cheaper ones. in fact you can literally pull off the label and see lol

[hushed basalt]

As long as the cartridge can be easily removed

[brisk glen]

you can usually get a UPS battery replacement for like $30 or less

[hushed basalt]

If it involves dremeling it off and gluing it back on I wouldn't bother

[brisk glen]

they are designed to be removable lol

[forest edge]

dremeling what off?

[hushed basalt]

Then I wouldn't buy UPSs from that company again

[forest edge]

no shit, if you got a ups where the batteries are plastic welded in or som crap that thing is trash lol

[hushed basalt]

The link that hmj sent us was two batteries in a cartridge

So buying two generic batteries would still need to be put into the old cartridges

[forest edge]

thats not a catridge

[hushed basalt]

Yes it is. It literally says so

[forest edge]

thats two batteries facing each other with a middle plastic spacer

[hushed basalt]

CyberPower RB1280X2B Replacement Battery Cartridge, Maintenance-Free, User Installable

[brisk glen]

lol

[forest edge]

that spacer may or may not what puts those batteries in series. i doubt it's anything fancy but should be reusable

[hushed basalt]

As long as the cartridge can be easily removed
@hushed basalt

[rain swift]

it'll work

thats all that matters lol

I'm setting up openvpn, is there any advantage of using tcp only over udp only

[brisk glen]

its slower?

might bypass some firewalls

let it use both...

[rain swift]

haha no doubt

[forest edge]

what were you going on about firegarbage michael? vlan p0rn sites blocking the browser? lol

[rain swift]

it doesn't let you use both

[brisk glen]

@forest edge fire garbage bypassing my dns adblocking

[forest edge]

lol

[brisk glen]

@rain swift make 2 profiles

use the UDP one for 99% of the time and the TCP only one for if UDP fails to go through

UDP is going to be a hell of a lot faster

[forest edge]

the funny thing about firefox and their latest move to using that "DOH" is that mozilla is still selling user data themselves. so they cut out your isp from making any bank but continue to do it themselves lol

[brisk glen]

yah

[hushed basalt]

ISPs are required to log everything for 2 years here and provide all logs to any agency

Basically any small government office can look at your metadata.

[rain swift]

I'll make another profile tomorrow lol

right now i'm getting familiar with the interface. gotta figure out how to do my blocking of entire countries lol and if i can set up a group in here, a table I guess you'd call it and just add things like my IP cams to it to block them from going out the wan port.

and also how to do dmz for the game consoles.

[last dirge]

Last Monday "hey, we're pulling you off of the project you're working on for this other project that's higher priority"

today "hey, I just sent you a meeting invite. We're pulling you off of that project for something that we need a demoable product by the 20th"

FML

[hushed basalt]

Needs more agile

Get that MVP up now

[shy comet]

next week "Hey we need you to work on all 3 projects now"

[hushed basalt]

"and maintain all your regular duties"

And be on call for any other department head pet projects

[rain swift]

They don't call it salary slave for nothin

[hushed basalt]

Yeah screw working for a fixed salary with unpaid overtime

[last dirge]

salary?

LOL

hourly corp-to-corp contractor 🙂

on the call this afternoon they were like "it's just a demo, it can be fake"

[hushed basalt]

Exactly

[last dirge]

they're demoing it to a client who wants to use it

[hushed basalt]

I'm not saying you were working for free

[last dirge]

so the client will say "cool, let's get using that"

and then it'll be a BFD that it's a fake "app"

[hushed basalt]

But a lot of company cultures have no paid overtime, or a culture of looking down on anyone who claims it

[last dirge]

so I'm probably going to design it how I'd normally design the app and bury the fact it's storing stuff in browser storage behind the service API

then when they say "cool, make it actually work" I just swap to a real http call

[hushed basalt]

In film and tv we call that "shooting the rehersal"

[last dirge]

I asked "hey, when did you guys know this was going to be a thing"

"oh, about 6 weeks ago"

[hushed basalt]

Are they the type to constantly email and call people

Especially with open ended questions. Asking questions that take 5 seconds for them to write but the other person half an hour to give a response

[forest edge]

@clear ferry i wanna chuck this rf bridge across the room sometimes lol

[storm summit]

Do it.

[scenic radish]

https://tenor.com/view/justdoit-shialabeouf-do-it-gif-4531935

[clear ferry]

@forest edge RF 🤢

@shy comet you guys only work on three projects at once? Lucky

[scenic radish]

i should go to sleep

but why would i do that?

[clear ferry]

@hushed basalt in Norway they are only allowed to log who owns an IP address, and only for 2 months I believe, and they hardly ever give out the IP addresses unless it's a serious crime (not piracy etc)

[scenic radish]

also, ludeeus thinking he's entitled to multiple lines of my startup log:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)
Version: 0.20.7
This is a custom integration
If you have any issues with this you need to open an issue here:
https://github.com/hacs/integration/issues
-------------------------------------------------------------------

pffh

[clear ferry]

@scenic radish don't do it, it's big pharma lies to get you to sleep more

[scenic radish]

i screm

[hushed basalt]

@clear ferry without getting political. Thats.. not how we do things in the 5 eyes countries.

[clear ferry]

5️⃣ 🏝️

[scenic radish]

Oh ffs

[clear ferry]

Private account @scenic radish u noob

[scenic radish]

I only have Instagram because of my fiancee lol

I don't even use it

She just sends me memes

[clear ferry]

Do screenshawtz

[scenic radish]

Video

[hushed basalt]

@clear ferry do you have pfsense virtual or physical nowadays

[scenic radish]

found it on youtube, thank you Gay Blog Br: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMakCuXXG6c

warning: LOUD

[clear ferry]

Physical, ran virtual for 3-4 years, but physical since mid 2000s otherwise

Moving to opnsense now because I feel pfsense lagging behind now though

[scenic radish]

i about died laughing at it, i must have watched it 10 times in a row

[clear ferry]

@scenic radish sounds like me trying to get hyperv to do my bidding

[forest edge]

why do you scream like that tediore?

[hushed basalt]

@clear ferry what are you running for hardware

[scenic radish]

Y not

He's using a pi zero @hushed basalt

[hushed basalt]

🤢

2.4ghz devices are dead to me. Dead!

[forest edge]

in norwat pi zero are fast

[hushed basalt]

Ah I see

[clear ferry]

Started out on a dual pentium 3, moved on to a dl360g4p, moved over to a bl460c g5, then a VM on esxi running on a bl460c g7 and now I run on a minipc from AliExpress

#Aliexpress NOK 699.83 52%OFF | Mini PC Celeron J1900 Quad Core Windows 10 Dual LAN 2*COM Fanless Mini Computer Celeron J1800 N2830 NetTop 300M WIFI HDMI VGA
https://a.aliexpress.com/_d7EQnlf

[scenic radish]

I'm gonna make a 5 GHz microwave

[forest edge]

I really wish I could freaking understand how this rf crap works with this bridge, about to cry at the insanity lol

[scenic radish]

Don't steal my idea

[forest edge]

aliexpress is like our microcenter/frys for outside the US lol

well can't say frys anymore

[hushed basalt]

Wireless video stuff was always a crap shoot

Especially camera mounted transmitters on 1km links

But even stadium distances. So much interference out of your control

[clear ferry]

Kid delivered in kindergarten before breakfast, awzm

[forest edge]

as in birth?

[clear ferry]

[forest edge]

or Norwegian mail delivery?

[clear ferry]

Or just dropped off

[forest edge]

Kid delivered
can mean alot of things, BE MORE CLEAR

ah

[clear ferry]

My inglis now gudd, sori

[forest edge]

well you did spend like 2 weeks in the south here, that would hurt anyones inglis

[clear ferry]

Y'all

My pronunciation is usually defined as accentless

As in indistinguishable

Not American, not British, not Norwegian

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/4w7W7jlWm6hmdQupBh48iE?si=zzcTuyM0TCSMR0ewO2wuEQ

[small gulch]

anyone familiar with chromecast audio?

[clear ferry]

Yes, I'm familiar with it being discontinued and hoarded by audio people

[small gulch]

@clear ferry is it possible to pair a chromecast audio, with a chromecast

so lets say i have a home audio/video receiver in my network closet, and i run all my speakers to it

then i have some chrome cast audios plugged into the inputs on the receiver

[clear ferry]

They can be in the same audio group I think, but not sure

For multi room streaming

I know @tidal bronze probably knows

[small gulch]

so i can not only do audio, but i can stream plex movies to the den for instance, and it plays the plex audio through the chromecast audio, through the receiver, and to the speakers

[tidal bronze]

You can as audio groups only. If you cast plex out will be to AVR and out from that as a single output. You cant group plex audio with others.

Would not work anyway because of latency

If you already have whole house audio. Sync zones and pick CC with plex as the source and output using regular speakers.

@clear ferry is it possible to pair a chromecast audio, with a chromecast
@small gulch yes

[clear ferry]

I knew you knew

[iron kestrel]

Spelling mistake in the latest blog post on home-assistant.io?

0.106.3: **Cornavirus **integration (COVID-19), track the outbreak

[orchid rose]

I automated my Windows PC to turn off every night when I go to bed, but for the last few days I've had an issue where Windows very quickly just turns on without any apparent reason. For example last night I went to bed at 1AM and was promptly woken up by my PC half an hour later.

I checked the logs and turns out the reason for wake at 1:30AM was to check for scheduled updates. So I googled to see how to fix this issue. Turns out, it's been around at least for five years now and instead of fixing it, Microsoft has disabled the ability to stop the scheduled process from turning on the PC, even with administrative privileges. I found a tool that allows you to run programs with "trusted installer" privileges which allowed me to disable this behavior. Hopefully this will fix the issue, but what a PIA.

[fading zodiac]

@junior forge

clicking it causes

[storm crest]

I keep getting messaged by random folk to help them even though I have zero experience HA, please amend the rules not to message folk. I just idle here a lot...

[fading zodiac]

So i can message you to wish you a good day ❤️ ?

That's no answer

[forest edge]

@storm crest how did you get a role then? not judging, just asking

[fading zodiac]

rofl

[storm crest]

I think this was automatically assigned by being active on the server for a certain period of time

[forest edge]

ah, well it's likely the reason you are getting PM'd. you should ask to remove it

[tough igloo]

He got in at the ground floor as they say

Worked his way up to middle management

[forest edge]

guess you could turn PM's off for this server. that would work too

[storm crest]

oh that's fantastic