Yep, hence my comment…

You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.

My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.

That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.

Backups… fine

When’s the World “test you can restore” day?

Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.

I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward

Thanks

I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.

What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?

🤯 I can generally follow the gist of that, but, wow, how the hell do these people work this stuff out

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻

Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.

But, there was not much tracking back then…

Depends… if you use an offline password manager ( like keepass), you can ask it to autotype your credentials into anything… if that’s what you ask it to do (ie it’s not a fault)

Main point though: don’t reuse the same credentials across different sites.

They’ll get 1 site, but not all the rest of them…

Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??

Or is it better now…?

Proton VPN for Vivaldi is only available for desktop at the moment. We hope to include it for mobile in the future. https://vivaldi.com/protonvpn/

1. Agreed
2. Well, if it’s the free tier option, then I guess not a lot…?

I’m all for revenue income to support these tools - as long as I’m not the product - I just won’t be using this option.

Yeah, just read a bit more, where it’s implied that Vivaldi recommend you share your Vivaldi account recovery with Proton, which was the problem recently:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/proton-vpn-for-vivaldi/

Allow Vivaldi to share your account’s recovery email address with Proton (only shown during first use).

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/vivaldi_proton_vpn/

Proton VPN is operated by the same company behind the encrypted email service, Proton Mail. The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

Hmm… this doesn’t sound good to me.

Everything I get usually has it’s metadata updated / overwritten by Musicbrainz anyway

But, yeah, it’s slow going if you’re in a niche…

I’ve created / updated a few albums in there and it takes a few minutes to get it all done, but there’s some satisfaction in giving back

They’re my preferred platform for buying music.

I purchase from Bandcamp, should I be looking to move over?

Yep, it’s something that more people need to consider to keep their free (as in the source code is not a prisoner) software going

It looks like jellyfin costs ~$500/MONTH just for their hosting fees: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

If everyone using jellyfin contributed $1/month, I bet that would be covered

(No, I’m not affiliated with them)

Think I’d rather pay that towards the development of Jellyfin

I’m just glad I’ve still got my MythTV running.

They’re referencing the package as a whole, plastic casing, gold internal wiring, etc. and the silicon die in the center of it all.

IMHO each new version of Windows looks & feels different to the last anyway, so most (general users) wouldn’t know the difference - they just need a web browser an email client and an office suite.

That 1 Windows-only program they use is probably not compatible with the next version of Windows too

I’m using a Pi Zero as a voice satellite with an additional mic hat and a speaker hanging off the audio output and it’s … ok

There’s definitely much lower WAF with this option

The voice assistant has built-in audio which appears to be high (enough) quality and considering it’s case, power, etc, not to mention funding the advancement of open source voice control, it’s just overall “better”

If you’ve got a Pi lying around with a mic & speaker, definitely give it a go