Good luck with that to them. Internet reliability is extremely crappy in the US, even on supposedly “tech hubs” in California the best you can do is unreliable Comcast or super slow DSL from AT&T.

Or what amazon did for many years, or Uber, OpenAI, etc. Most startups really.

How will you know its electric if it doesn’t look like shit otherwise?

iOS devices are pretty horrible at keeping a background task going unless apple owns it. Probably why they can get great battery life, but also seems pretty anti competitive. Not even google’s photo backup works well unless you manually open the app once in a while.

The first of many problems is he did away with the equivalent of their president for no good reason.

Hello Cuba my old friend! How have you been?

But then you are sending credentials in clear text over the network. That will get logged on the corporate access logs ensuring a quick permanent vacation once they notice how careless the employee is, not to mention the mixing personal and work resources.

Edit: forgot to mention, most work devices also decrypt SSL traffic by using man-in-the-middle approach (unless they are very incompetent). Even stuff like personal email and shopping should not be accessed on a work device if you don’t want your work to have your passwords.

I had to delay mine by about 2 years waiting for GPUs to come down. Ended up building the system without one until I got something slightly more reasonable (kept 2015 card for a while since that was still newer than the rest of the system core [2012-ish]). It does suck knowing that nothing of value was the reason (crypto at the time).

You couldn’t really take them to a Starbucks though. This feels more portable for what many people use computers for on casual setups (shop, music and videos).

I felt gaslighted every time my cheap card supposedly had reasonable FPS but the game felt choppy and laggy. Between this and the video showing iOS typing the wrong letter from what the OSK showed as typed… I don’t trust code and UIs no matter how fancy they look 🙉

For people living with others it might not be a choice though. The lights not working for a day the way they normally do is all it takes for someone to lose all faith in automation. It’s easier when you plan for a specific time and day to update things, as long as you are not exposed to the internet, slightly out of date apps are not a big worry

Maybe they read the room and decided to drop that part last minute.

I get that, but the services listed by the other comment run just fine in docker with less hassle by throwing in some bind mounts.

The 4 VMs dedicated dockge instances is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind for people that want to avoid something that sounds more like work than a hobby when starting out. Building the knowledge takes time and each product introduced reduces the likelihood of it being completed anytime soon.

I would give docker compose a try instead. I found Proxmox to be too much, when a simple yaml file (that can be checked into a repo) can do the job.

Pay attention to when people say things can be improved (secrets/passwords, rootless/podman, backups), etc. And come back to them later.

Just don’t expose things to the internet until you understand the risks and don’t check in secrets to a public git repo and go from there. It is a lot more manageable and feels like a hobby vs feeling like I’m still at work trying to get high availability, concurrency and all this other stuff that does not matter for a home setup.

Why not?

After getting a NAS to replace my raspberry pi 4 as a home server, I literally just SCPd the bind mounts and docker compose folder, adjusted a few env variables (and found out of a few I needed to add for things like the uid/guid the NAS used as default for the media user I created) and it took maybe 30 minutes total to be back and running. Highly agree with you from experience.

They are also way too small in terms of storage given that they don’t support external cards (Apple is similar). Google/Apple definitely want buyers to also buy their subscription storage services or pay the high premium for the next storage level.

I’m on an XR right now and it feels older, but still very much usable. I wish companies offered options to only get security patches instead of having to buy new phones every few years, that’s the 1 thing I hope Google keeps around and doesn’t walk back in the future.

The city is literally sinking, global warming is not helping and billionaires disproportionately contribute to it.

As the saying goes, the average person isn’t very smart, and by definition half of the population is even less savvy.

Out of curiosity as an owner of a QNAP NAS, how did it go out? Any signs it was in its last legs? Now that I’ve used one, the form factor is the only thing better than most options out there when I got it.

Nowadays all QNAP, Sinology and other NAS vendors supposedly offer a lot of extra value with their cloud options, but I find them a sure way to get hacked based on the average company’s investment in security (I work in IT, it is a sad affair sometimes) combined with all the ransomware specifically targeting them due to old packages they rely on = I’ll build my next system from the ground up, even if the initial cost is higher and the result is uglier.