I’m behind CGNAT, so I have a local DNS server that resolves to the internal IP, and regular DNS resolves to my VPS, which tunnels into my home network through Wireguard.

If you’re not behind CGNAT, you’ll just hit your router after DNS resolution and you’re golden.

You’re doing fine. Have a wonderful day.

My apologies.

In the west, we have an informal concept called “wife approval factor,” which is how supportive your wife would be about something. Then there’s the idea of “a happy wife, a life” and “if momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” so it’s in the husband’s interest to keep the wife happy.

I thought this was pretty universally true. I have coworkers from very different parts of India (one Muslim from the north, the other Hindu from the very south), and if we have a surprise work-provided lunch, they’ll eat the one they brought from home at the end of the day so their wives don’t get mad at them not eating the lunch they prepared. So even in a very patriarchal society, they’ll still go out of their way to keep their wives happy.

It’s not that women call shots (men get away with a lot of nonsense here), the “permission” is largely about keeping the wife happy.

Wife is an adjective, keep up.

I’m curious too. Hopefully I can come up with a design that feels natural and encourages the kind of interaction I’m after.

About 10k power on hours. That’s honestly a little surprising since I’ve had them for 7 years or so, but it’s only been on 24/7 for the last year or two (used to just turn on when watching a movie or something).

From those hours, I should expect a few more trouble free years.

My OS drive is >30k hours since it used to be my desktop boot drive (tiny 120GB SATA SSD). I’ve been thinking about upgrading to NVME, since my desktop NVME is getting a little full (500GB), and it could also make for a nice cache. It’s nowhere near dying though, with ~16TBW, so I’m in no hurry.

It’s not top of the line, but my Ryzen 1700 is way overkill for my NAS. I’ll probably add a build server, not because I need it, but because I can.

/srv for me.

Yup, I use /srv, works well.

Wow, it’s been a long time since I had hardware that awful.

My old NAS was a Phenom II x4 from 2009, and I only retired it a year and a half ago when I upgraded my PC. But I put 8GB RAM into that since it was a 64-bit processor (could’ve put up to 32GB I think, since it had 4 DDR3 slots). My NAS currently runs a Ryzen 1700, but I still have that old Phenom in the closet in case that Ryzen dies, but I prefer the newer HW because it’s lower power.

That said, I once built a web server on an Arduino which also supported websockets (max 4 connections). That was more of a POC than anything though.

Is it a VPS? Or do you have a physical server in another country?

Kodi is a great choice regardless of distro, whether that’s libreelec, osmc, or just regular Raspbian.

I installed Kodi on my RetroPie setup, and it works well.

Not in my area, but there are plenty of areas where not having a security system is a liability. Most of my neighbors have Ring doorbells, yet the only breakin was ~20 years ago and it was a kid in the neighborhood that everyone knew. Oh, and we had one parked car get hit by a drunk driver, probably a neighbour as well.

Property crime just isn’t something that happens here. I’m in neither the poor area nor rich area, and my city has a higher average income than much of the state, but doesn’t have any absurdly rich people, those all live in the next town over with the actual rich people (not the richest in the state, but probably the richest in the county). I don’t even think there’s a good place to buy drugs here, we’re sandwiched between two larger cities, which is probably where people go for their fix.

If you’re going to burgle someone, you’d either go where more people park on the street (everyone has garages here), to a wealthier neighborhood (we’re pretty middle class), or somewhere with lots single people/dinks. Two blocks in any direction would be much better for burglary than my neighborhood, and any neighboring city would be better. We even had the sheriff in our neighborhood until recently (lots of extra police patrols), and the new one is a couple blocks away in the next city.

Nothing happens here. Well, except one murder suicide recently (father killed his wife and himself), we have our fair share of mental illness from keeping up with the Joneses. But property crime just doesn’t happen. Good luck to someone trying to find something to steal in my house, everything has been wrecked by my kids.

That’s different.

If I create a book club and lose interest, the rest of the group should continue on without me. I certainly shouldn’t be obligated to continue hosting, but in a digital book club, nobody needs to host. That book club could continue as long as people are interested.

I need to get one. My cat hardware does okay with pest control, but not so great with security.

People lose interest and move on. That’s how it works in in-person communities, and that’s also how it should work in online communities.

Communities naturally come and go, and they change over time. That’s fine. I’m talking about artificial deaths of communities because the nature of the platform changes (Reddit’s closure of the API, a self-hosted platform disappearing due to cost/interest, etc).

As long as updates work between any two versions, or there’s a clear upgrade path, I don’t really care. I don’t update my services on any particular schedule, so it doesn’t matter much to me.

However, you should have a mechanism to inform users of important updates, like patches to known exploits. Don’t spam me, but a nudge if I’m outside of some support window will probably get me to upgrade.

My upgrade cadence is probably every 3-6 months. I’ll do system upgrades more often, but I try to avoid breaking my docker stuff.

You can get an NVME drive for <$50, in fact I saw a 128GB one online for ~$15 from a reliable brand (Patriot).

Yeah, but it’s not very similar to Activity Pub from what can tell. Details.