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  • Can confirm. Neighbors house had an attic fire with knob & tube wiring.

    … Just like the stuff still in my place today. Eek! Landlord won’t upgrade unless there is a problem. In my house, the breakers are all 20amp and that’s a lot to run on, best guess, 70 year old wires.

    Oh, and do not assume anything is wired as expected. Test after. I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

    A cheaper solution is to take a copper wire and connect the ground screw of the socket to a water pipe. It does the job and is better than nothing.







  • I don’t think self hosting is average person territory at all.

    I noticed 2 services out of dozens weren’t working last week and restarted their docker containers when I got home. Working again! Easy.

    Nope. They only work on local LAN. Turns out IPv6 wasn’t working so I had a heck of a time tracking that down.

    Home assistant kept giving me errors about my reverse proxy not being trusted, but all the settings were correct. Tried adding IPv6 addresses too, but never got that working. The only thing that worked was change the network interface from Ethernet to wireless.

    There are a LOT of gremlins in selfhosting. It’s a fun hobby and rewarding, but definitely not for everyone.



  • I loooove bad movies. Not religious-bad, more mystery science theater bad.

    I rip everything and plunk it into it’s own library just for me.

    If you have the space and time, go ahead and limit access to her. She’s already seen them or will anyway. You hosting a file for one individual isn’t going to tip the grand scale of anything.

    If you have a moral issue against it, don’t host the content. You’ve already made up your mind, it’s just taking you a while to realize it.





  • Syncthing is very, very good at syncing, but I get the sense the developers are very specific about keeping to the core objective. There have been other features that would be nice, like have one device sync and archive old/removed files, that many have asked for but rejected. (There is a way, but it’s clunky and sometimes gets out of sync.)

    I don’t think a cross-user sync solution would ever come to this app. You’ll have to create a unique folder and “device” for that.


  • That’s my setup. I like selfhosting, but leave email to other services. I got tired of being on blacklists.

    That said, namecheap email servers are still on blacklists. I’ve locked horns with tech support a couple times because legit email gets dropped. Unless you pay for a vps or something more expensive, you’re thrown in with the spam and scum class.

    It works for the most part for my needs.




  • IIR there are 2 versions, one using SATA protocol and the other using PCIe. The difference is keyed into cutouts between pins.

    I’m not entirely sure what the benefit of this setup would be over 2 independent SSD’s since one drive will max out the connection speed and 2 can use 2 ports.

    I’ve had a 2x SATA-based m.2 RAID card that plugged into PCIe for a boost in speed ages ago. It was fun, but I swapped it out for true PCIe based m.2.