Elite hax.

When I saw the default configured repos were hosted by Huawei I did a double take, then installed Armbian too : D

Similar setup here. Orangepi zero that starts kiwix server at boot and switches the wifi to AP mode. Just plug it in, connect to kiwix WiFi, access kiwix.local via phone browser, and shazam.

Be the change you want to see.

Also, loop me in. I have almost no free time at the moment but I’m building up a list of FOSS projects to work on when I retire.

Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics… Minor bright side, I guess.

That’s the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I’ve got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off… There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They’ve only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn’t work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that’s true, never tried it, never will, but they didn’t pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the “if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won’t be able to login… That’s up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware”. Unfortunately they haven’t forced it yet.

This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it’s life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy “slow” too but a factory reset helped a lot.

I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.

I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don’t recall the name offhand but I’d never heard of it.

…fdroid wasn’t trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn’t communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.

I still have my previous phone… S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn’t get updates and I “needed” some apps that wouldn’t run on the old android version (I don’t remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).

It’s been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still “works”. Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back …because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.

No, silly, 25 years ago was nineteen seventy… Wait.

26 years later and my brain still default counts back from 2000. Stupid brain.

Same. I quit whatsapp the day after facebook bought it. Switched to signal and never looked back. The few people I talked with on whatsapp moved too.

You’re correct.

The only time I can think of that this approach wouldn’t work is if the quadlet config file specified a tag/version on the image setting besides latest. That is, if the quadlet file specified something like Image=docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:a_old_version. I usually stick with latest on mine.

EG: Image=docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest

Thank you for posting this. I tend to get a lot of my opensource project info from Lemmy so people who take the time to post it are awesome.

Just updated my home instance. Can confirm that 10.11.7 is available in the Debian repos and the update went perfect. I got a new kernel in the same update : D

I’ve been dreading the new computer as well. I built the original incarnation of my current one in … holy shit, late 2013. I was thinking 2016 but I just looked up the order and it was 2013. I did it pretty damn “top of the line” because I wanted it to last ages. I have occasionally upgraded or replaced drives, GPU, RAM, power supply, but I’m still on the original board+CPU.

It’s still great… running Linux and occasionally gaming.

That’s mostly correct. If we want to be super technical, I’m not “logging in” to my router, just using it as a Tailscale network bridge to gain LAN access so I can SSH from my phone to my server. But, in general, yeah.

I currently don’t allow any direct access to my server from the internet. The only way to access it is Tailscale. I have Tailscale installed on both my desktop (always on) and my router (also, always on). The reason I installed it on the router is because my desktop is also full disk encrypted. So, if there’s a power outage then both the server and desktop will reboot and both will be waiting for LUKS unlock, rendering my desktop useless as a Tailscale jump point.

Since the router boots automatically then it will always start back up and allow Tailscale access after an outage and therefore I can use it to access my LAN and SSH to the server to enter the password.

Basically the same setup you’ve got with the RPi - having a node that comes online automatically after a power outage, automatically starts Tailscale, and allows LAN access. You use an RPi, I use my router. (I briefly did the exact same thing as you, with an RPi, until I found I could install it on the router : )

I used Mint for about a decade. When I upgraded the drives on my desktop RAID from 2TB to 14TB the newest version only recognized 999GB. After some troubleshooting I begrudgingly tried Ubuntu, same thing. I figured Debian would be the same since that’s Grandma but I tried anyway. It worked perfect so I’ve been on Debian for a few years now and haven’t noticed any big differences so here I’ll stay.

Love me some Debian

A lot of people seem to think I’m we’re crazy for not getting a new phone every year or two. Previous one lasted 7 years, this one is at a bit over 5 years… It’s fine.

Been awhile since I used this since I rebuilt my home server a few months ago but it was solid when I was running it in the past (as a pod in k3s)

I need to add this to my list to re-add…

That’s where you draw the line?

(Also, say hi to your chickens for me)

Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development…