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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • We had a power outage a couple months ago: when the power came back, the clock on the microwave stopped remembering the time. You set it for 1:30pm for example, then look at it ten minutes later and it’d be something like 5:26am, ten min later and it’s now 2:48pm, and on and on.

    We unplugged it a couple times, but it wouldn’t fix it; time was still jumping all over the place.

    Had another power outage last week. Power came back: Suddenly it’s working perfectly again. 🤷🏻



  • For a while, the windows machine I was using kept randomly becoming unresponsive (both via network, as well as the keyboard+mouse) and I just could not figure out why. Everytime it did, I’d have to force a shutdown by holding the power button until it shutoff, then press it again to start back up. Sometimes this happened while I wasn’t home, so it had to just stay offline until I was.

    I got sick of having to do this; so I replaced the power button with a transistor and a RPI. The PI would ping the server every 5min; if it failed to get a response 3 times in a row, it would trigger the transistor for 10sec, release for 3sec, then press and release again; forcing a poweroff then starting the machine again. It’d also write these events to a log file. I think it was around twice a week ish.

    Never did figure out what the cause of the lockup was; but it stopped when I replaced windows with Debian.













  • Get a grip?

    On the fact that this administration has systematically gutted every government agency that’s designed to help the people in any way, while ransacking the Markets and Federal Reserve to enrich Trumps family and friends?

    Or on the Trump administrations active crusade to destroy, rig, and completely control state run elections; or threaten, jail, and even murder anyone that opposes him?

    Maybe you should get a grip on the fact that sitting behind a desk/podium, wagging your finger, and saying ‘I ordered you not to do that’ ISN’T FUCKING WORKING.

    Your government is in shambles. It only continues to crumble, bit by bit, while the people stand by watching. The courts won’t save you.

    Has he lost some court battles? Sure. But so much more has been done to bring your country to it’s knees, while these cases are slow walked through a system that simply cannot cope with the magnitude of corruption it’s enveloped in.

    The people must act. It’s Americas last hope. The rest of the world is praying you’ll wake up to this reality before it’s too late.



  • Fair points.

    I’ve been lucky enough to have never been behind cgnat, so I keep forgetting about it.


    My bigger concern with tailscale is being required to install software on the client. Not every device I use, I have permission to install a vpn client, nor would I want to.

    For example, I have a fileshare using Filebrowser where I store work related files that I don’t want to loose access to or need access to from multiple machines (non proprietary info, stuff IT/MGT wouldnt get mad at me for ofc. I’ve actually cleared it with my managers, so no worries). That’s also a handy way to (temporarily) share large files with people or provide a way for friends to upload large files to me.

    I also like to access my emby server (using sufficiently limited accounts), from things like the TV in the work break room, or a friends PC while I’m visiting.

    Tailscale is a hurdle that I just don’t need/want.



  • You don’t need a static IP, you just have to keep track of what your current dynamic IP is.

    You can do this with either a free or a paid DNS service.

    There are a few different ‘free dns’ services that will delegate a subdomain of theirs to you at no cost. Admittedly, I’ve never actually used one of these so their names escape me. Hopefully someone else can point one of those out if that’s what you really want.


    I purchased a domain via google domains, when they existed. It’s now transferred to squarespace, because they bought out google domains a few years ago.

    It was around $13/year when I first got it a decade ago. It’s now around $28/year.

    This allows me full control over the domain: I can use as many subdomains as I want to give each service I use it’s own unique name. (Instead of using their own separate ports that you’ve gotta remember) My domain will also forward all inbound email to my gmail account; this lets me use email addresses like <servicename>@mydomain.example. This way, I don’t share my real email and can immediately tell who sold my info to the highest bidder when I get spam. (I could also host my own email service if I really wanted, but I haven’t bothered)

    Add Cloudflare ontop (for free); and it can filter out known attacks, ddos attempts, geofence your services to regions you’ll actually be in, provide/autorenew ssl certs for https, show you usage analytics, cache static data reducing server/network load, etc.

    Ultimately, the paid option is well worth it IMO. $2/month (which I typically pay in 3-10 year blocks) is hardly anything.

    /edit; vpns are good and all, but they require you to setup software on the remote device to connect to it, and that typically routes most if not all your traffic back to the vpn server then out to the internet. That can create speed/bandwidth issues.

    A domain allows you to access your services from any Internet connection with 0 configuration on the client side. Just accessing it like any other website.

    I also host a vpn directly from my network, that I access/find via my domain. This means I’m not dependent on a public service like tailscale, but can still add additional security to access private only services (stuff I don’t expose to the open internet)