Create a table in Libre Office, I’ll wait…
(Hint,the devs have flat out stated they will never add tables to Calc, as it’s wrong to do).
99% of Excel usage includes a table in the first, or second, sheet. Without tables a spreadsheet app is useless, in my opinion, regardless of how “wrong” it is (and I agree that it’s wrong).
Gotta remember to enable Quantum Entanglement… Takes a lot more power, but solves the problem.
I’ve taken this approach, sometimes these boxes will act up when they can’t phone home. Definitely worth trying though.
Excellent - thanks for the remote recommendation, it’s one thing I’ve been struggling to find.
Not sure I like the gyro idea - I had a gyro presentation mouse in the past. Worked well, but how do your parents like the gyro element?
Sometimes it’s a decision between reliability and selfhosted
This is an excellent point to keep in mind.
Using something like Telegram for notifications/alerts exposes a minimal amount of info/metadata.
XMPP could be a useful alternative, since there are numerous hosts/providers available, and it’s a privacy minded community.
The proxmox server is connected to a router attached to a fiber ONT.
If you want to be extra secure, there’s no reason the server needs internet connectivity/exposure at all (it should be safe as-is). Put it on its own VLAN with only specified ports open to your home LAN. That would be one extra layer from the internet - if admin/remote ports can’t be accessed via the internet connection LAN, then no way for an outsider to get into it (you’d have to provide other ways of accessing the server to admin it, either KVM, or a machine on that VLAN, etc).
You DO NOT need to do this, just adding an idea about how to make stuff more secure.
Yep.
Rather than try to single-handedly re-engineer an old protocol to be secure, I just use it for stuff where security isn’t a big deal. Including messages with links to secure resources (and send credentials via a separate system).
I don’t see how you wouldn’t have your email on an email providers servers - that’s how email works. You send an email via a provider, they forward it to the destination address you’ve included with the email.
That destination address is another email provider’s server, which holds it until the receiver connects and downloads it. Email is a store-and-forward system, designed at a time when users weren’t always connected. It still works this way.
Email is old, so the fundamental mechanics are pretty simple, and encryption wasn’t an option at the time - so it’s sent in the clear. Otherwise it would require both sender and receiver (either at both ends, or the servers) to agree on an encryption to use.
Haha, nicely done. I had to work harder and harder to read it.
At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).
Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.
I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).
I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).
My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.
SSD isn’t necessarily less energy hungry than spinning platter.
It really depends on the specific units and use patterns.
Generally SSD has better idle power, and HD has better read and write power, but that doesn’t even always hold true.
If your device sits idle long enough, SSD is better for power, but the write time to get to idle could easily consume the power differential.
https://www.edn.com/power-vs-energy-ssd-and-hdd-case-studies/
Beat me to it. I always have the page up.
Scans for open ports run continuously these days.
Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).
At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).
I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.
And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.
DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.
Why wouldn’t it be possible?
The phone is providing the client app connection, you just need an interface from the client to the POTS system, or just the hardware you’re using as a phone.
Years ago I had a cordless phone that connected to the Skype client on a pc - you could call a phone number, or a Skype contact with it.
This is no different - you just need to establish the interface between the hardware and software.
Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I’ve only run into a couple sites where they don’t work right.
I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.
It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.
Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.
I just say “post grezz sequel”. Sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s a stupid name, so I’m gonna say it the way I want.
I look forward to the day when all these lame-ass, insider naming conventions are looked down upon as the stupid things they are.
Wtf does “en jinx” or “engine X” have to do with it’s functionality?
I hate looking for an app on my phone that does a particular thing but hell if I can recall what the idiot developed called it.
Rules of English, the closest I’d come is n-jinx. You don’t pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.
Unless you pronounce the letter “B” the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.
We don’t say “beenefits” or “bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess”
For backup check out SMS Backup/Restore. I have 10+ years of sms backup with it, all readable as text or using Excel.
I’ve never found a good solution to this SMS problem - there’s seems to be nothing out there (probably because FOSS devs think SMS needs to die, and I agree).
I did find my solution last year: JMP.chat - I think they’re considered a virtual cell provider. Port your number to them, then all your SMS/MMS gets piped into XMPP, which you can access with an XMPP client on any device - Gajim on Windows/Linux, Cheogram and Monocles (plus others) on Android, Snikket and others on iOS. My SMS works even if my phone is off. Prices are really good, so good that I use a different SIM in my phone for a data connection, as I no longer need an SMS/voice connection (calls are routed via VOIP in Cheogram/XMPP).