It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.

There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes enough money to cover the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.

Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”

Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

Second for Pangolin.

They have a cloud hosted free tier you can try but it’s time/ transfer limited. If you like it, you can self host on your VPS with no subscription since it’s all FOSS software.

Also, thank you for addressing the native app vs Pangolin auth layer challenge. I’ve been wrestling with that myself.

“the 1900s”

: /

I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.

It’s… fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery… I should check that.

Does borg need an entire python venv?

I was looking at “modern” backup tools while back and when I saw borg was python I decided not to bother.

Instead I focused on restic for a little while and then rsync was already there and I already knew the commands so… Rsync. Though I still have restic on my list.

I dunno. At a big company they probably won’t notice an extra TB of storage cost… So long as you’re discrete with the transfers.

I learn something new every day, thanks bud.

They’re not supposed to put chicken shit on the sandwich unless you specifically request it.

On mechanical typewriters the little arms that slap the steel letters onto the ink ribbon/paper could get physically jammed. QWERTY was designed to make it so that was less likely to happen by placing the keys in an order that discouraged it.

At least, that’s the way I learned it.

Source: trust me bro

Looks like you called it. Seems the container image(s) default to a subscription plan (“Starter”, free for <50 users) but apparently you can revert to the “Community Edition” which gets rid of it.

Found this post over at the place we no longer speak of :

Hello, I’m Gabriel Engel, the founder of Rocket.Chat. I want to clarify that there is no new limitation for community use. We’ve recently introduced a plan offering all enterprise features for free to groups with fewer than 25 users. For those with more users, you have the opportunity to try the enterprise features. After the trial period, the system will automatically revert to the community version. However, you have the option to bypass the trial in the admin settings. I emphasize that we are not imposing any restrictions; instead, we’re providing the enterprise version free to small teams and inviting larger teams to experience it. Let’s view this as the positive initiative it is. For more details, please visit our forum: https://forums.rocket.chat/t/introducing-the-starter-plan-free-access-to-premium-features-for-limited-scale-use/18736

In the admin settings for your instance you can go to the “Subscription” panel and down at the veeeery bottom is a “Cancel Subscription” button (I’m on the free “starter” subscription, apparently). I’m assuming that’s how you back out of it.

Once I have a chance to warn users that I’m about to do something potentially dramatic, I’ll test it out and see what happens.

EDIT: Also found this in the RC forums (from 2 years ago) :

Note, if you upgrade or install new version of RC, it will automatically put you at a Starter or Pro plan, to go to the community, go to Admin settings, remove the key and it will put you back to the Community version… It took me a while to figure this out :slight_smile:

O, and the immediate next post is what I described above :

I believe community is still available within v6.6.0, but new instllation will put you automatically to the Starter Plan. You need to cancel subscription going to Setting → Subscription → Cancel Subscription

RocketChat is pretty easy to setup with docker. I couldn’t get it to work in podman after many, many hours of trying despite the documentation saying it does. They have a dedicated podman doc page but I just hit problem after problem after problem. I was trying to do it with the containerized mongo as a PoC though - a lot of problems came from that (mongo connection). Maybe I’ll try again with a “real” db server. Root cause seemed to be networking differences between docker and podman.

I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server… That part weirds me out.

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There are times when things need to be broken. But I also definitely understand your angle.

I appreciates that but unfortunately it is under a different identity and I don’t want to cross the two.

This sounds like exactly my research arc over the last few months. I went with rocket because the 50 user limit is probably fine… Doesnt work with podman regardless of the docs.

Curious to see where you land

Did Mira used to be Avon?

I switched.

Hey bud - for the most part it worked great following the guide. The static IP was very important because dropbear is active before DNS (at least in my config) so you have to configure it in a way that you can definitively find it - and a static IP was the way. I just gave it an easy to remember one at 10.0.0.3 since I already have important things at *.1 and *.2.

Another thing that tripped me up originally is that you need to SSH as the root user. That doesn’t seem to be your problem since you’re not getting there over the network, but FYI for when you fix it.

Destination Host Unreachable

That’s definitely a network problem. Maybe fire it up and then check your router for active IP leases and see which one it took?

I’m attempting all of this over wifi, in case that matters

It probably shouldn’t matter in any super meaningful way, but I do have mine hardwired with cat6 so that could definitely be a difference.

Definitely let us know how it goes - you’re adding to the knowledge pool and that’s awesome.

EDIT : Make sure you can find it on the network first, then work backwards from there. At the moment, it seems like you aren’t getting network connectivity.

I started a blog specifically to make me document these things in a digestable manner. I doubt anyone will ever see it, but it’s for me. It’s a historical record of my projects and the steps and problems experienced when setting them up.

I’m using 11ty so I can just write markdown notes and publish static HTML using a very simple 11ty template. That takes all the hassle out of wrangling a website and all I have to do is markdown.

If someone stumbles across it in the slop ridden searchscape, I hope it helps them, but I know it will help me and that’s the goal.