Where did xmms go, by the way?

Does sshd count?

Beyond the “default” stuff, I always seem to end up with a setup that involves linux + apache + mod_perl + postgresql for various purposes. And by the way, that’s the only proper LAMP stack in my book, and I will die on this hill.

Or saying

I also love the scene where Carv tries to be the “good cop” by offering anything the suspect wanted, but it turns out they didn’t really have much to offer except from a lone Hershey bar or something.

And geriatric impressions of house prices were based on when houses cost 200$

Them millennials can’t afford houses because they’re blowing all their money on military operations and avocado toast

I’ve done some very dodgy things with VGA cables in an effort to route the cables through narrow bulkheads. For normal computer-to-monitor-lengths this is probably fine.

I haven’t noticed much signal degradation below 4m-ish.

At 12m, you better solder properly and wrap some extra shielding around your splice.

Source: I’ve ran plenty of VGA cables between bridge computers and a deck monitor on ships.

Normally it doesn’t matter. The only restrictions is in terms of who can buy domains of that country to begin with (some countries have restrictions on that), and what sort of content is allowed in such domains. Other than that, it’s OK.

I had the same curiosity and concern, so I bought one (in the name of science, obviously).

I’ve now had it for about half a year, and it is in fact tons of fun still.

There are some supplementary activities/hobbies that help:

• Electronics (holy fuck, I hope my SO doesn’t find out how much money I’ve spent on digikey.com)
• 3d design (doesn’t have to be anything fancy. I do most of my stuff in blender, and I consider myself a beginner).
• Minifig painting (not me, but I’m sure some with 3d printers find that useful)

My printer is in use almost daily. I’m currently printing a bicycle pump mounting bracket that I can screw onto the wall, because I’m fed up with having to figure out where the fuck the bicycle pump is every fucking spring. Took me 10 minutes of cobbling together a design in blender.

I bought one mostly just to have a new toy. But it has become an essential tool in my household.

I mostly print functional stuff, but I also use it a lot for my electronics-projects, which does happen to include an RC project that I hope to see fly this summer, budget permitting.

Introducing the next generation of OS: Microsoft OS AINT^TM

Combines the best features of NT with an AI agent that offloads everything onto onedrive. Requires an internet connection and a Microsoft account to boot, but that’s OK; once the kernel and the drivers are loaded, you can spend two hours in a dos prompt to be able to load files locally

I’d say that a good starting point would be the smallest setup that would serve a useful purpose. This is usually some sort of network storage, and it sounds this might be a good starting point for you as well. And then you can add on and refine your setup however you see fit, provided your hardware is up to it.

Speaking of hardware, while it’s certainly possible to go all out with a rack-mounted purpose built 19" 4U server full of disks, the truth is that “any” machine will do. Servers generally don’t require much (depending on use case, of course), and you can get away with a 2nd hand regular desktop machine. The only caveat here is that for your (percieved) use cases, you might want the ability to add a bunch of disks, so for now, just go for a simple setup with as many disk as you see fit, and then you can expand with a JBOD cabinet later.

Tying this storage together depends on your tastes, but it generally comes down to to schools of thought, both of which are valid:

• Hardware RAID. I think I’m one of the few fans of this, as it does offer some advantages over software RAID. I suspect that the ones who are against hardware RAID and call it unreliable have not been using proper RAID controllers. Proper RAID controllers with write cache are expensive, though.
• Software RAID. As above, except it’s done via software instead (duh), hence the name. There are many ways to approach this, but personally I like ZFS - Set up multiple disks as a storage pool, and add more drives as needed. This works really well with JBOD cabinets. The downside to ZFS is that it can be quite hungry when it comes to RAM. Either way, keep in mind that RAID, software or hardware, is not a backup.

Source: Hardware RAID at work, software RAID at home.

Now that we’ve got storage addressed, let’s look at specific services. The most basic use case is something like an NFS/SMB share that you can mount remotely. This allows you to archive a lot of the stuff you don’t need live. Just keep in mind, an archive is not a backup!

And just to be clear: An archive is mainly a manner of offloading chunks of data you don’t need accessible 100% of the time. For example older/completed projects, etc. An archive is well suited for storing on a large NAS, as you’ll still have access to it if needed, but it’s not something you need to spend disk space on on your daily driver. But an archive is not a backup, I cannot state this enough!

So, backups… well, this depends on how valuable your data is. A rule of thumb in a perfect world involves three copies: One online, one offline, and one offsite. This should keep your data safe in any reasonable contingency scenarious. Which of these you implement, and how, is entirely up to you. It all comes down to a cost/benefit equation. Sometimes keeping the rule of thumb active is simply not viable, if you have data in the petabytes. Ask me how I know.

But, to circle back on your immediate need, it sounds like you can start with something simple. Your storage requirement is pretty small, and adding some sort of hosting on top of that is pretty trivial. So I’d say that, as a starting point, any PC will do - just add a couple of harddrives to make sure you have enough for the forseeable future.

Back in the day I used Nagios to get an overview of large systems, and it made it very obvious if something wasn’t working and where. But that was 20 years ago, I’m sure there are more modern approaches.

Come to think of it, at work we have grafana running, but I’m not sure exactly what scope it’s operating under.

Not that strange. Different users may belong to different groups which may have different authentication backends. The associated authentication method is brought up once a username has been provided.

Barring any hardware issues or external factors, will it run for 10000 years? Any logs not properly rotated? And other outputs accumulating and eventually filling up a filesystem?

Sounds more like what you need is a combination of a VPN and RDP. Have your machines connect to somewhere via whichever VPN protocol you prefer, and then you can access them via whichever protocol you prefer.

I’m old and crusty, so I mostly use openvpn, but wireguard will probably do as well.

Looks like an URL matcher of some sorts, not limited to HTTP. Kudos for handling parentheses as valid URL characters.

I’ll image and share my swap partition, if anyone’s interested

Debian on homeservers, centos on work servers, and mint on desktops

In this day and age, shouldn’t Huntarr be replaced by Gatherarr? You know, sustainability and all…

Yup. As a state certified bygdetulling I live in the middle of bumfuck, and I could in theory get by with an EV, but it’d be pretty impractical when I need to wheel down to Oslo on short notice (which happens pretty frequently). So I went for a PHEV instead. 7h drive, and I prefer that over a 50min flight. I drive on electric power only when local, and I can run fueled for whenever I need to go longer.