I use a separate nuc, and even still, rebooting the router is a non-trivial exercise. The internet was wired into the top shelf of a cupboard, so need a step ladder to get to it.

Since getting a second pihole setup I haven’t had any issues, so I think I’m okay now. Hopefully it fails over the christmas break when I’m home :D

I dont think so, because everything else remains up and working. But it certainly could be.

I mostly like it, but over the last few months I’ve had my pihole die randomly during the day, which killed my home network, and I had to walk my partner through rebooting everything.

I’ve now got redundant pihole instances, but I’d really like to know what is going wrong with pihole. Its impossible to replicate, and very sporadic.

Went through the local PC shop, so not too bad, but still frustrating.

I’ve seen a few posts on reddit while trying to solve it, but no idea how widespread the issue is. There certainly isnt a solution that I’ve found yet.

Other than this issue, I agree, protect is quite good, but there isnt much point having nice 4k cameras if they dont work correctly…

Oh, also, had 2 cloudkeys develop disk problems within weeks of owning them, so that was very annoying. 3rd one is going strong though.

Get ready to see lots of this in your future:

No explanation, the connection is fine, the cloudkey is fine, the camera is fine, it just randomly decides to drop quality permanently.

I rely on the developers putting in a health check, but few do.

I’ve also got uptime kuma setup, which is kinda like an external healthcheck.

This isnt really the same as a health check. PS just checks that the process is up and running, but it could be lagging or deadlocked, or the socket closed.

A proper healthcheck checks if the application is actually healthy and behaving correctly.

WSL (at least WSL2) is Linux in a VM, so it is real Linux.

Pretty sure AI isnt meant to make things better, its to sell stuff. If it does make any improvements, thats just a happy accident.

Samsung spokesperson Elise Sembach said the company’s AI efforts are grounded in enhancing experiences while maintaining user control

Oops. Said it out loud?

If timers on the bios aren’t an option, look for the settings to power on after power outage. If you turn it on, you can use a standard timer plug to turn the power on and off.

Definitely, which is why i suggested hosting the image + js on a CDN. Keeps brand awareness, and lets the CDN take the brunt of any malicious activity. with a bit of code-golfing, the data served by Anubis directly prior to POW could be a few hundred bytes, without impacting its functionality.

I dunno that is true, nothing in the docs indicates that it is explicitly anti-CDN. And using a CDN for a static javascript resource and an image isn’t the same as running the entire site through a CDN proxy.

A HTTP get request is a few hundred bytes. The response is 28KB. Thats 280x. If a large botnet wanted to denial of service an Anubis protected site, requesting that image could be enough.

Ideally, Anubis should serve as little data as possible until the POW is completed. Caching the POW algorithm (and the image) to a CDN would also mitigate the issue.

Maximum anonymity would be to fake your death and go live in a cave, never speaking to a human ever again. Which is obviously silly.

Did the international school charge you extra for punctuation?

I have a lot more faith in tailscale holding the fort against enshitification. They at least seem to have planned their business plan around free tier for advertising, and minimising the cost of the free tier traffic. Can’t predict the future of course, but from a business model POV, they appear to be well setup.

Headscales main issue is that they rely on the tailscale app, and if the app got paywalled or locked to tailscale, that would kill headscale overnight.

I am very happy with headscale so far though, bit fiddly, but once setup it works very well.

I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn’t matter either way.

There are no domains that are infinite time ownership (AFAIK, please correct me if I’m wrong), but its pretty close to ownership. I have the rights to the domain for 10 years, and I get first dibs on renewal after that. So its sorta renting/sorta owning?

Yes. I bought the domain through them, to keep it all nice and simple.