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I recently had a local issue where I could barely reach B2 as well. It turned out that one of their endpoints was on a DNS blocklist I use. Once I manually unblocked that everything started to work again. Not saying you’re having the same issue but it could be a lot of things between you and B2, careful triage is needed to find the root cause.

Some people really enjoy living in walled gardens I guess. But when I see people like GamersNexus who were considering a large order of Bambu printers are now ticked off by this they really should’ve known better.

I’m surprised that people are surprised by this. Bambu has clearly telegraphed what kind of assholes they are in the past when they locked down their firmware and local APIs, so this was just expected behaviour IMHO.

Built my own server to be completely silent since it lives in my living room. Based on an Intel i3-12100 with some NVMe and 5x SATA SSD’s, and running tons of containers. Does about 18W most of the time and it could have been lower with a different motherboard.

All the UniFi stuff (gateway, switches, APs) uses just under 50W though, so there’s little sense in spending more money on the server to shave off a few watts.

Servers are terrible for homelab use. They’re unwieldy, consume way too much power and as you’ve found they’re very noisy. My vote goes to selling the thing and getting a mini PC, an (old) laptop or building something quiet and frugal yourself. In the last case you might be able to reuse some parts you already have. But if cost is important almost nothing beats second hand mini PC’s in value for money.

Honestly the barrier to entry of Usenet was always high, finding a working Usenet provider only made it slightly harder in a world where everything lives in your browser.

Not really unfortunately. As much as I dislike linking to Reddit their Usenet subreddit does have a decent wiki with some of the info you’d need: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/index/

I would have expected that too, but they say:

the specific thing that died is not usenet itself. it is usenet as a service your isp gave you.

SnapRAID offers an additional benefit over real RAID-like systems: it functions as a short-term backup. If you sync it daily like I do, that means that if you accidentally delete a bunch of files (old enough to have been synced, I.e. older than one day in my case) you can restore them from the SnapRAID parity.

The reverse is also true of course: if you lose a disk you also lose today’s changes to that data. So it’s most suited to large collections of rarely changing stuff like photos and videos and music IMHO.

Usenet is a weird one on that list. They frame it as Usenet by default from your own ISP, and that is indeed pretty much dead. But on the other hand there has never been more data shared through Usenet than right now. Absolutely everything is available on it, at full download speed, with encryption, without having to upload anything back to anyone.

People who still use (public) torrents to get their stuff have no idea what they’re missing out on. It’s a steep learning curve and not free, but once you have it all set up just right it’s amazing how well it works.

Official Podman Quadlet files? Me likey!

I’ve been using IPv6 for more than 20 years, and I can’t say that about nuclear fusion.

Depends. There are a few things I update by hand, but as long as you have proper backups it’s generally safer to run the latest versions of things automatically if you don’t mind the possibility of breakage (which is very rare in my experience). This is in the context of self-hosting of course, not a business environment.

Yeah only for :latest containers, that’s true. It automatically runs a daily service to check whether there are newer images available. You can turn it off per container if you don’t want it.

One of the nice things about it is that I have containers running under several different users (for security reasons) so that saves me a lot of effort switching to all these users all the time.

Podman automatically updates my containers for me.

A recommendation for Moonrise Kingdom based on Mickey 17? The genres might match, but those are totally different movies.

The point is signaling to other people that it’s not worth their time. I sort by new so I often see these slop posts as well, but other readers very quickly downvote it into oblivion so if a post is older than say 15 minutes I generally will know not to read it even if it sounds interesting at first glance. A mod will come by later to actually delete it if that’s warranted, but until then downvotes suffice.

Relevant video: https://youtu.be/4X9ww6FtUhE

Tl;dw is that sure, the US could withhold software updates and sure, NL could do their own software thing, but there is a whole intelligence software thing too that makes it harder. And ultimately if the US stops supplying new parts the existing planes are quickly dead in the water anyway. So it’s a short-term solution at best.

Jellyfin on an Android TV does DV just fine here, so any android box that supports DV should work I guess.

Yes, those go to the “unsubscribe” folder, so I read them less often than my normal mail.