DeltaTangoLima 16 hours ago • 100%
Ah, no worries mate. Almost got excited for a minute there.
DeltaTangoLima 1 day ago • 100%
This old thing - a Barmah Squashy hate, made from Kangaroo leather. I clearly don't regularly treat it with leather conditioner like they tell you to.
This hat is my constant companion whenever I go camping. We're literally tomorrow leaving for a three week trip through the Outback, so it's about to get a lot of use.
DeltaTangoLima 1 day ago • 100%
Are you sure? I went looking after I upgraded and I still only have Assist; Scripts; Actions; and Open Page.
DeltaTangoLima 2 days ago • 100%
Well, that’s probably because he’s hit the cap on base salary. After a certain point in Amazon, the majority of your income at Amazon is derived from shares.
That said, after the signing shares are yours after the first 4-5 years, you’re down to the yearly grants they hand out, which come the year after they were granted, in quarterly amounts.
Also, if your brother is high up, he probably got more shares this year than usual, as Amazon announced that only certain levels and below were getting salary increases. Higher up only got shares.
DeltaTangoLima 2 days ago • 100%
God, that's bleak
DeltaTangoLima 2 days ago • 100%
How are they retaining staff?
They retain them for the 4-5 years it takes for signing cash and signing stock units to all run out, at which point many people start to get itchy feet.
DeltaTangoLima 2 days ago • 100%
Yeah - they call it URA, for "unregretted attrition". Tell me that doesn't sound like a shitty way to manage your people.
DeltaTangoLima 2 days ago • 100%
You know, at some point, you gotta assume they'll eventually hire and fire/lose all the usable talent they have access to, and shit like this will prevent them finding new talent. Until some exec "invents" WFH as a perk...
DeltaTangoLima 3 days ago • 100%
Cheers! I certainly hope it will be. We're traveling the Aussie outback - want my wife and daughter to have a whole bunch of life experiences on this trip.
DeltaTangoLima 3 days ago • 100%
Awesome. Literally about to leave for a three week caravan trip. This will make a nice addition to the playlist for those relaxing arvos around the campfire.
DeltaTangoLima 5 days ago • 100%
A lot less VCDs and MP3s downloaded from FTP servers and BBSes.
Not sure if I’d bring it back, but I sure do miss the fun of playing Quake against my mates on public servers.
DeltaTangoLima 6 days ago • 100%
Hoping someone more in the know can explain this to me. Could commissioning an art piece feasibly mean you've paid for that art to be yours? Are there types of contracts available when commissioning art pieces where, conceivably, the person commissioning the piece gets the rights to use it for other things?
I'm not across the legal and ethical aspects of commissioning art pieces, and neither the article or the DA post gives any additional detail. Just wondering if the "Josh" who the artist named in their DeviantArt post be someone who was involved in the Nerf gun somehow...
DeltaTangoLima 6 days ago • 85%
No judgement here, and my wife has always said she never judges how anyone gives birth.
Question was asked. I answered. That is all.
DeltaTangoLima 6 days ago • 63%
Watching her give birth to our daughter. No drugs. Just natural child birth (in a hospital).
Years later, discussing childbirth with her (now) 20yo daughter (my step daughter), when asked why she did it that way for all three of her kids, she simply said it was something she wanted go go through, to feel connected to the experience of having her kids.
Awe and pride don't even begin to explain what I felt (and still feel) for my wife.
DeltaTangoLima 7 days ago • 100%
Not sure where you're located,but we have https://www.productreview.com.au here in Australia. I've occasionally found it useful.
DeltaTangoLima 7 days ago • 100%
Entirely self-hosted at home, on Proxmox. My Piped server (as well as many others) can only reach the internet via my Mullvad VPN.
DeltaTangoLima 1 week ago • 44%
Protesting is a fundamental democratic right
Peaceful protesting, sure. A lot of what we saw today was far from that.
DeltaTangoLima 1 week ago • 100%
Well, thanks for the fall down that particularly horrifying rabbit hole. I can only imagine the pain these women went through, given this was at a time that predates anaesthesia.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Unfortunately not. I need to park nearby in case I have to go to another one of our work locations out west. Public transport isn’t an option for those locations, and I need my vehicle.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Jesus. I hope all the fuckery is done by the 16th. MCEC is the only place I can park when I have to go into our city office.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Nah. Won’t let me access at all unless I login.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Looks like The Guardian is putting some news behind logins now. Shame.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Oh, sure. I get that. Sending yourself reminders is absolutely understandable. Sending yourself documented evidence of your plans to defraud someone is entirely different.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.
My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don't. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
In a 2017 email to himself, Smith calculated that he could stream his songs 661,440 times daily, potentially earning $3,307.20 per day and up to $1.2 million annually.
Great idea, but why would you email yourself about it?
DeltaTangoLima 2 weeks ago • 100%
Maybe the cop lives there, decided to bring his work with him
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
Isn't the picture from Logan?
Edit: oh, it's called johntucker.jpg.
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
Fucking hell. Where's the incentive for responsible disclosure, if that's the sort of (non) response you get?
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
The casting bit is the missing piece for me.
I've built a RasPi with Kodi for our caravan, to use Plex and stream our free-to-air TV here in Australia (using Musk's space innernets). I just miss being able to cast from my phone, for the occasional thing I can't do with a Kodi add-on.
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
Here in Australia, it's costing our family of five about $100k a year to live, excluding our mortgage. 4% return ($80K) is conservatively realistic here (for low risk investment), and still isn't enough.
Like I said, while it would've set me up with a house and no debt, I'd still have to work to pay for the cost of living.
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 70%
In my mind, rich means not having to work again. A couple million doesn’t even get close, sadly.
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
Well, at least where I live, phones are banned in schools. So that’s a good start.
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 83%
This is odd advice, when you consider many kids in the same age group probably have access to (or own) a tablet device of some sort. The only difference with a smartphone is the ability to call and text, and portability while staying connected (assuming many tablets aren't 4G/5G capable).
Or am I missing something here?
DeltaTangoLima 3 weeks ago • 100%
Nearly 30 years ago, I worked for a tiny li'l anti-virus software company that got acquired by one of the big boys, and everyone's performance-based options they were holding were suddenly worth a lot. Being hungry for career growth at the time, I'd left the company and forfeited those options. Less than 6 months later, they announced the sale of the company.
My options woulda been worth a few million at the time, maybe double that in today's money. Importantly, it would've set me up with a nice house, car, etc, without any debt, in my early 20s.
Not rich, but certainly comfortable.
DeltaTangoLima 4 weeks ago • 100%
I paid a subscription fee for the option
DeltaTangoLima 4 weeks ago • 100%
I'm starting to really hate this timeline. Might be time to pick another door.
DeltaTangoLima 4 weeks ago • 100%
RAID5 and unlimited downloads on my 1Gbps fibre. All I backup is my library metadata itself, using a 2N+C strategy.
DeltaTangoLima 1 month ago • 100%
It possibly would, but I don't have any Homekit devices, and I just feel hat this is a simple thing a home automation app should offer, it's almost conspicuous by it's removal/absence.
DeltaTangoLima 1 month ago • 100%
Yep, that's it. One of my most frequent uses of this widget was to turn the kitchen light off - the teenagers are forever walking in to the kitchen while we're watching TV in the loungeroom nearby, then forgetting to turn the light off when they leave again.
Having a quick access widget for it just made it such a non-issue for me to turn it off. No fumbling and swiping for the app, and no interrupting what we're watching to issue a voice command.
Does anyone know if the 2024.5 Companion App update for iOS removed the ability to control entities from the widget? I've read the [release notes](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/22/companion-app-for-ios-20245-assist/) but there's no mention of any features being removed. I could *absolutely* swear that I had a working widget with most of my lights on it, a solitary button for each light, that I could single tap to toggle said light. Then, a few months or so back, I noticed the widget didn't seem to be working. The entity icons had change to black, round shadows, and tapping them did nothing. I deleted the widget, thinking it got corrupted somehow and have never been able to get it back exactly as described above. Now, it seems that only thing I can do with widgets is use Actions. Some Actions have been auto-created by the Companion App for each scene on my server, and I can obviously create my own Actions, to trigger automations. But, I don't want to have to frig around with Actions (using input_booleans and automations) to do something as simple as turning a light on or off. Am I dreaming? Did the iOS widgets never have this ability? Or am I missing something really obvious to configure entities onto a widget? Thanks in advance for any useful advice.
**UPDATE**: well, I've belatedly realised I've left out a key piece of information. I need to buy a pair of locks - one for a regular wooden entrance door, and one for a security screen door in front of it. Turns out hardly anyone (reputable) makes a decent smart lock for screen doors, except the Yale Unity range, but those aren't Z-Wave compatible. Guess we're sticking with keys for a while longer... --- Hey folks - the time's come for me to consider diving into smart locks. I've been running HA for many years now, and have resisted the urge so far, but a few recent incidents have me thinking smart locks are the next upgrade I need to think of. My requirements, equal in priority, are: - Must be usable via HA (automating my locks is the primary reason I'm considering this move) - Key lock backup (I'm petrified of flat batteries stopping me from entering) - Ability for HA to report on battery level (see above) - Local network only (prefer IP, but will consider Z-Wave - anything that calls home in the cloud is a hard no) - Code and/or fingerprint entry (unique code per person, at least 6 codes) I say "consider Z-Wave" as I don't currently utilise any Z-Wave devices. The main reason for this is that I run HA (Home Assistant) on a (heh!) HA (high availability) Proxmox setup, and I hadn't sat down to think through how that would work with a Z-Wave USB hub across two nodes. But, after some cursory research, it seems there's enough options out there that will let me control Z-Wave remotely via MQTT, so I can use one of my RasPis to host a Z-Wave hub just fine. There's been plenty of positive comments on other posts regarding Schlage's locks, so I'll probably start my research there. But I'm very keen to hear of anyone's experiences with any smart lock brands - good or bad - to help guide my research. While I'm at it, I'm open to recommendations on a Z-Wave hub. I have zero Z-Wave experience, but I gather it's reasonably straightforward to use. Simple enough requirements: - Usable on a RasPi running Rasbian - Decent enough range - has to reach the smart locks through a couple of internal walls, from the garage to the front door (about 6m/20ft) Cheers in advance for any advice offered!
Ah, excellent. Let's convince the general public to fucking dob on each other. This is *totally* going to end well. I hope they have really good gen-AI detection available.
**Right wrist** (I'm a leftie): [Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar Tactical](https://www.garmin.com/en-AU/p/819546) (with generic glass screen protector and silicone case) **Front left pocket**: - A [leather pocket organizer](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/678157316/the-mini-engineer-caddy-made-in-usa), holding: - [Victorinox SKA (Cyber Tool M edition)](https://www.victorinox.com/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Medium-Pocket-Knives/Cyber-Tool-M/p/1.7725.T) - [Fisher bullet space pen, brass](https://www.spacepen.com/400-raw-antimicrobial-raw-brass-bullet-space-pen) - [Olight AAA white led torch](https://www.amazon.com.au/Flashlight-Compact-Handheld-Flashlights-Dual-Output/dp/B0CHMV8G9W) **Front right pocket**: my iPhone 15 Pro Max in a [black Spigen Tough Armor](https://www.spigen.com/collections/iphone-15-series-collection/products/iphone-15-series-case-tough-armor-magfit?variant=41717021704239) case **Back right pocket**: a large handkerchief (I get bloody noses and my engine runs pretty hot - I can sweat a lot at times) **Back left pocket**: reserved for my [minimalist EDC wallet](https://www.amazon.com.au/Metal-Wallet-Money-Clip-Obsidian/dp/B091JJZPCM) when I carry it (not the exact model, I don't always carry, as I can use my phone for everything, including digital driver's licence) **Belt, right side**: - [Leatherman Surge stainless](https://leatherman.com.au/collections/multi-tools/products/surge-stainless?variant=8280360386605), using the [pocket clip](https://leatherman.com.au/collections/accessories/products/pocket-clip?variant=7116264210477), but on my belt - A spring clip carabiner, on a belt loop, holding - My house keys and a trolley token release tool, in a [black leather Orbitkey](https://www.amazon.com.au/Premium-Leather-Orbitkey-Stitching-Mechanism/dp/B06XWDFL9D) - My car fob **Belt, left side**: [RAE Gear sheath for Leatherman bit kit](https://www.amazon.com.au/GEAR-sheath-Compatible-Leatherman-EXTENDER), holding: - [Dual bit kit](https://leatherman.com.au/collections/accessories/products/bit-kit?variant=43733758148824) - [After-market bit kit extension](https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BMNN8JB3) (simply cannot get the Leatherman ratchet extension *ANYWHERE*!) - [Leatherman saw blade](https://leatherman.com.au/collections/accessories/products/replacement-saw-file?variant=43733914222808) (file lives on my Surge) --- When I go camping/offroading, I'll often put the Leatherman into a Toolbro holster, holding my [Wuben L50](https://www.amazon.com.au/Rechargeable-Flashlights-Waterproof-Emergency-Inspection/dp/B09Y5VVNJ7) rechargeable torch. Sadly, it looks like [WJMake](https://www.etsy.com/shop/WJmake) is no longer selling on Etsy (where I got the Toolbro), which is a real shame. They sold some really nice, handmade EDC accessories, and were happy to customise to suit my exact needs. Mine has the extra elastic loop on the side to hold my Space Pen, an extra pocket on the front to hold the Leatherman saw blade, and they swapped out belt loops for a pair of belt clips, so I could wear/remove without having to undo my belt - a really important (to me) capability when camping and offroading.
I host a Plex server for our household, which includes a couple of teenagers. All members of the household (myself included) have a PIN protected managed user profile on our Plex server. The problem is, if I let the teenagers have my Plex account password to login to our Plex server, it automatically logs them in with the Home Admin profile, whereas I'd much rather it force them to select from the list of profiles on our server (eg. just like Netflix does). This means that, every now and then, I have to manually go to whichever new device they want to run Plex on (such as a Playstation) and handle the login process myself, so I can be certain they're logged in with their own user profile - not the Home Admin profile. I've set a PIN on the Home Admin profile, but that doesn't help unless you've already logged in first, then go to use fast user switching to select a different profile. On very first login, Plex will always auto-select the Home Admin profile. I've searched high and low, but can't find any info or settings that help me change this behaviour. So, my question is simple: is it possible to prevent auto-login as the Home Admin profile, and force selection from the list of managed users instead? Thanks in advance. --- **EDIT**: I should have provided more details about what I've tried so far. We have tested out using a separate Plex user account for the oldest kid, as all the reading I did suggested she would "inherit" my server's Plex Pass rights when streaming from it. But, we found that the iPhone app could still stop playback after a minute. Plus we couldn't log her account onto the shared Chromecast TV, so she could watch her shows on the house TV. So we ended up moving her back to a managed user profile on our server. --- **EDIT 2**: after some more reading, it now seems the mobile app must either be logged in with a Plex Pass account (mine, in our case) or the user has to pay a once-off fee to unlock it. I could've sworn it was different when I first read about it a year or two back, where the app would "inherit" the server's rights, but I guess that's either faulty memory or they changed the rules. The once off unlock fee isn't a big problem, so that's one hurdle overcome. The second problem is how to use multiple Plex accounts on the Plex app for Chromecast, so the kids can enjoy their content on the big screen when they want to. Has anyone cracked the code on how to achieve that?
I've just switched back to an iPhone after 10 years on Android, so forgive me if this is an obvious question. I'm trying to setup a bedtime focus so that I *only* get notifications from specific apps - doorbell app, etc. Logically, the way to do this is setup an explicit whitelist for those apps in my Sleep focus, on the assumption that anything else is muted. And this seems to work... for other apps. But, system sounds still make noise - lock sound, going on charge, etc. Is there any way to mute those sounds in a Focus? I thought the Silent Mode filter would do that, but that *also* turns off the notification sounds for the whitelisted apps. This seems a little counterintuitive to me, but it is what it is, I guess. It seems like this should be an obvious thing to want, but I can't find any useful help content anywhere that explicitly talks about this. Or it may be that I'm not searching using the right Apple terminology. So, short version: is there a way to selectively mute system sounds using a Focus, while still allowing selected apps to audibly notify? Thanks in advance.
IMO, this is yet another government initiative that's turning out to be an absolute joke. My 9yo daughter has been hounding our household to *not* throw our 10c deposit containers into the council bin. Instead, she wants to collect them and cash them in using the CDS Vic scheme. As she puts it, we get money *AND* the containers get recycled properly, rather than what happens with our commingled recycling bin. The problem is, every time I go to one of the reverse vending machines in my area, they're out of order, or there's only one receiver working, with about six people in line, all with several bags or boxes each. Then the CDS Vic app itself says the same operator is running an over the counter collection at our local netball club, but someone was dreaming when they put that into the app. I've never seen *anyone* collecting recycling there, and I drive past it at least twice daily. The operator in our area (Return-It) should lose their contract for being fucking useless. This has been going on for so long now, that I'm now holding an estimated 400-600 bottles and cans, which my daughter is begging me to not toss out, so we can get rid of them "the right way". I'm all for doing the right thing, and making sure recyclables are, well, recycled properly, but when the personal inconvenience level is so high, all it does is cost more taxpayer dollars without moving the needle on our recycling performance. /rant
Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.
cross-posted from: https://reddrefuge.com/post/189022 > > > Obligatory note for those that haven't read/retained the news: Simple Mobile Tools was [sold to ZipoApps](https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/) - an Israeli company that specialises in buying and monetising popular apps. > > > > Fossify is the fork of the Simple Mobile Tools repos, and they're gradually getting through each app and re-releasing them under the new name.
cross-posted from: https://reddrefuge.com/post/189022 > Obligatory note for those that haven't read/retained the news: Simple Mobile Tools was [sold to ZipoApps](https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/) - an Israeli company that specialises in buying and monetising popular apps. > > Fossify is the fork of the Simple Mobile Tools repos, and they're gradually getting through each app and re-releasing them under the new name.
Obligatory note for those that haven't read/retained the news: Simple Mobile Tools was [sold to ZipoApps](https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/) - an Israeli company that specialises in buying and monetising popular apps. Fossify is the fork of the Simple Mobile Tools repos, and they're gradually getting through each app and re-releasing them under the new name.
So, after nearly 10 years of faithful service, my shitty ol' Wanhao i3 Plus is finally ready for retirement. Steppers are buzzing, occasional collisions with the bed, and the heat block just doesn't... heat as quickly as it used to. Talking to a mate who does a lot more printing than I, it seems I can't pass up the Ender 3 V2. The right price for what I typically do, and is backed by a mature community. I've ordered the auto-level kit with it, but nothing else. My i3 already sits in a Lack Rack I made, and it should comfortably take the new printer. I have a couple of functional print projects on the backburner that were waiting for me to make a move, but wanted to get some advice on mods and upgrades first, that might make the first experience with the Ender even better. So, asking the more experienced Ender owners out there: are there any essential upgrades, preferably 3D printed, you think I should look at first? Cheers in advance!
I just spent a good chunk of today migrating some services onto new docker containers in Proxmox LXCs. As I was updating my network diagram, I was struck by just how many services, hosts, and LXCs I'm running, so counted everything up. - 116 docker containers - Running on 25 docker hosts - 50 are the same on each docker host - Watchtower and Portainer agent - 38 Proxmox LXCs (19 are docker hosts) - 8 physical servers - 7 VLANs - 5 SSIDs - 2 NASes So, it got me wondering about the size of other people's homelabs. What are your stats?
We have tickets for a festival he's headlining next month. I'm sure the promoters will line up someone else who'll put on a good show but, having seen Jimmy at this festival before, I know he'll be missed. Wishing Jimmy a full, and speedy, recovery. The man's a national treasure!
I assume this is the genesis of a Five Eyes cloud platform. Questions for me are which commercial partners are in the mix, and how will they ensure TS-level security? I guess we'll never truly know, but it's hard not to worry about the implications of this.
> "In Catholic morality, consent is necessary, but not sufficient, to make the sexual act right or wrong. It is the long-held teaching of Christ that sexual activity is only legitimately expressed within the loving relationship between husband and wife." Er. Who's going to tell them?
So, a couple of weeks ago, [I wrote to this community](https://mander.xyz/post/5190859), asking for some advice about our new blue tongue's eating. And the advice I got really helped us start to understand the lizard brain a little better. It's been nearly three weeks since we brought him home, and we've figured out he really likes tinned dog food, strawberries and raspberries. No luck with veggies just yet, but we're still trying new things. The important thing is he's not going hungry, and gets his calcium supplement with the dog food. But he's still very reclusive, and quite cranky with us. Most of the time, he'll hide under his basking log, or bury himself under some substrate. When we've reached in to try and pat him, he jerks suddenly and hisses. My daughter's been afraid to try patting him again herself so, the past week, we've just been getting her to hand feed him a small piece of fruit each day, to try and build some trust between them. It's gone well, and he's eaten out of her hand a few times now. My biggest concerns are that either his behaviour isn't that normal and we've not done something right, or that we're running the risk of letting this behaviour become his new "normal", and my daughter won't get to have a relationship with her pet. So I guess my question, without trying to sound too anxious or impatient, is if his behaviour at this stage would still be considered normal? Should we be doing anything different? Once again, thanks in advance for any knowledge and experience you can share.
We got our daughter (9yo) a blue tongue lizard for her birthday this week. We picked it up on Tuesday afternoon (it's now Saturday morning, here in Australia). The store says it's about 6 months old. We also bought a really nice enclosure for it, with all the bits and pieces: 4' wood enclosure with glass sliding doors; twin 75W ceramic heat emitters; thermostat (located around the mid-zone); UVB light (on 12hrs per day, from 7:30am); good substrate, a basking log, a hide-out, and some fake grasses and leaves to hide under. I'm not convinced the thermostat is particularly good, but I've kept a digital thermometer at the basking end, and the heat seems to consistently sit at around 30°-35°C (~86°-95°F) there, which at least tells me that zone is OK. I'm not sure the cool zone isn't too cool. I plan on buying another thermometer for that end. The problem is, it's not eating much. It tends to find a hiding spot near the cool end, and bury itself under the substrate. We gave it some diced strawberries on Wednesday. I ended up putting it right near the food, and it eventually ate about a strawberry's worth. The past couple of days we've tried some diced apple (freshly cut each day), but it hasn't gone near the food at all. Most of those two days, it stayed hidden and/or buried under the substrate. Per the store's instructions, we're taking the food away again around mid-afternoon - 3pm-ish. Today, we put some beef pet food out and moved the lizard next to the food bowl. It had a tiny, little munch, but didn't really eat what you might consider a meal. The store says it could take a week or so for it to settle into its new home, and I understand that. We're being disciplined and resisting the urge to take it out and hold it, to try and keep stress levels down. But, I'm a touch concerned at all the staying hidden/buried, and lack of eating, as we've been told juveniles should be fed daily. My daughter's starting to get really worried, and I've tried explaining that cold-blooded animals metabolise way slower than warm-blooded, so it's not like he's starving or anything. At least, I don't *think* he is. Should we be concerned at all? At which point should I start to seek professional assistance? Just looking for some reassurance that anything we're doing/not doing isn't causing any problems. Thanks.
Took this coming down the mountain from Lovick's Hut, roughly halfway to Bluff Hut, looking west. The peak at the centre (with cloud hovering over it) is Mt Buller and the one to the right of that (1/4 in from right edge, slightly more cloud) is Mt Stirling. Love me some Victorian high country.
Hi all - I have a sectional garage door, that I'm currently automating with a relay to trigger button press on the garage door motor, and a simple reed switch for open/closed state, using esphome on a Wemos D1 mini. Lately, I've been thinking about finding/building a door position sensor, instead of the reed switch. If I had position data being sent reliably, I could very easily determine if the door is open*ing*, as well as open/close state. I have a number of automations in mind that would benefit from such data. So far, my searches for "garage door position sensor", and variations thereof, aren't bearing much fruit. I've been pondering of couple of home-brewed approaches: 1. A series of reed switches on a track that a magnet on the door will trip as it moves along. I guess it's theoretically doable, but they'd have to be sensitive enough to be tripped by a moving magnet, but not so sensitive that too many of them are tripped at the same time, which might confuse my "moving mathematics" to determine door movement direction. 2. An ultrasonic sensor could possibly do the job. I'm mulling over exact placement of it so it has a reliable surface to reflect off, to give me an accurate read on position. Nothing (yet) comes to mind on that front. It's not that I wouldn't enjoy going down the very enjoyable rabbit hole of prototyping something, but I thought I'd just ask first. Is anyone aware of an off-the shelf sensor that might give me what I'm looking for, please? If it needs something beefier than an ESP board, I've got a couple of RasPis lying around doing nothing. Cheers in advance for any suggestions.
Just wondering what tools and techniques people are using to keep on top of updates, particularly security-related updates, for their self-hosting fleet. I'm not talking about docker containers - that's relatively easy. I have Watchtower pull (not update) latest images once per week. My Saturday mornings are usually spent combing through Portainer and hitting the recreate button for those containers with updated images. After checking the service is good, I manually delete the old images. But, I don't have a centralised, automated solution for all my Linux hosts. I have a few RasPis and a bunch of LXCs on a pair of Proxmox nodes, all running their respective variation of Debian. Not a lot of this stuff is exposed direct to the internet - less than a handful of services, with the rest only accessible over Wireguard. I'm also running OPNsense with IPS enabled, so this problem isn't exactly keeping me up at night right now. But, as we all know, security is about layers. Some time ago, on one of my RasPis, I did setup Unattended Upgrades and it works OK, but there was a little bit of work involved in getting it setup just right. I don't relish the idea of doing that another 40 or so times for the rest of my fleet. I also don't want all of those hosts grabbing updates at around the same time, smashing my internet link (yes, I could randomise the cron job within a time range, but I'd rather not have to). I have a fledgling Ansible setup that I'm just starting to wrap my head around. Is that the answer? Is there something better? Would love to hear how others are dealing with this. Cheers!
So I recently (a couple months ago) moved my fragmented docker-on-raspberry-pi architecture over to a Proxmox cluster. I'm running it on a pair of HP DL360 G6s, and I couldn't be happier. Except, well, I could be happier with just one more thing: **high availability**. In particular, I want HA for my OPNsense firewall/router, but eventually for more of the workloads my family are depending on for life in general - Home Assistant, Plex, Overseerr, Immich, etc etc. My current storage setup is a couple ratty old ARM-based NASes - an ancient Netgear ReadyNAS and an even more ancient Qnap TS-410. They're both populated with 4 x 4TB (max raw size they can take) using RAID5, so I get about 22TB usable across the pair of them. They mostly store media for my Plex setup, but also support my 2N+C backup strategy for stuff like Immich, Paperless, and other important data. My high-level plan is to grab another DL360, so I can have a quorum, then introduce a new storage system that: - provides an iSCSI target for my Proxmox cluster; and - can eventually grow to replace my old NASes. The two solutions I'm pondering are: 1. Build a TrueNAS setup from scratch - mini ITX case, board - the lot 2. Pickup something tried, true and proven in the market, like a Synology Up front cost is a consideration - I have a family to feed, so I can't just run out and buy an 8-bay enclosure and fully populate it with 16TB disks. Whatever I get, I'm likely to want to start with, say, 3 disks and grow it over time. So, I guess this is a call out to the community to share any and all successes, war stories, and other advice. The more technical, the better. I want to make a sound, data-based decision here, and anecdotes from others who think like me are the best way to set my compass. Cheers for anything you can offer!
After seemingly endless days sulking around the Fediverse, looking for something interesting, I thought I'd check sub.rehab to see if Daddit had made the shift, and you/they/we have! It's been a lonely few weeks...
This weekend, I cutover my home network to OPNsense on Proxmox. So far, it's been... OK. I'm having some issues with state tracking on a couple of VLANs, so need to dig into some pcaps from my switch and see what's going on there. But one question I have is how to get the best out of my hardware, as it seems my WAN speed is a lot less than it should be. I'm running Proxmox on a HP DL360 G6, with the pair of built-in 1Gbps NICs. One NIC is dedicated to my WAN connection, using a bridge in Proxmox, and it's plugged in directly to my 1Gbps fibre internet. The OPNsense VM has 4 cores, 8GB of RAM, and a 40GB volume. Using my previous hardware router/firewall (Draytek VIgor 2865), I was easily getting some decent speeds - 500Mbps to 700Mbps+. But, I'm lucky if I can get speeds any higher than about 120Mbps right now through OPNsense. I've disabled hardware checksum offload and hardware TCP segmentation in the OPNsense firewall. Then I found [this post](https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=16531.0) that suggested doing the same to the NIC and bridge in Proxmox as well. I've even tried rate limiting the interfaces on the OPNsense VM to 1000Mbps (OPNsense says they're 10Gbps), but nothing's made a difference. So, throwing out to my newfound Lemmy network: does anyone have any suggestions on what to try, or look at, next, please? Kinda worried I might have to go back to the Draytek, which would be a real shame. OPNsense has already proven to be far superior in every other way.