At this point, I’ve found a carrier that does 10GB for $17 a SIM (and I could probably get away with less data for cheaper), and I’d be fine with that. I have several rPis that act as hubs taking in LoRa data from things like solar pumps, water bowls and bins, but backhauling to the central server over LoRa is a pain, and we don’t have LoS to all of them so using radio bridges is spotty. Some sites are 10km away over hills. And moving everything to MQTT would make my life easier than my custom BS programming that has devices talking to each other directly.

We don’t generally have issues with phones and where I do, I can probably put up an antenna if the dongle has an external port, or I’m willing to spend extra $$ for an uplink with external. I currently have a Microhard LTE-CAT4 that I use on one remote site that seems to get good reception, but that unit is pretty pricy and I have to fart around with network cables and power when I could just be plugging in a USB dongle.

I see a lot of cheap ones on Amazon, but I was hoping someone had a common Linux specific model they know works, because most of those look pretty janky.

Instructions unclear, dick caught in semi-colon.

Jellyfin is basically a storage/streaming server. You still have to get the files, which is where Sonarr/Radarr/QBT come in.

Make sure you’re out before Canada gets into another dispute with China and they resort to hostage diplomacy again.

GrapheneOS and duress PIN.

Edge is what you use to download a browser.

Mozilla doesn’t seem to have a working strategy

Guess they couldn’t replicate the “own everything that people use to get stuff on the internet and make secret breaking changes to constantly mess up other browsers” strategy.

I had a nephew that found out he could get a $500 bursary for trade school as a male, or $5000 as a female. A trip down to the DMV netted him (her) $4500.

Can’t say I wasn’t amused.

I have no issue with corporate funding. I have an issue when a company gets to make all the decisions. Lot of good software has gone to hell when the shareholders need profit now instead of seeing a long term vision.

We’ll see, but I’ve been around this rodeo enough to just avoid it from the start and take some pain now instead of putting in effort that’s going to be wasted later.

2023, I remember the announcement last year. Not sure where you’re getting 2014 from, that was even before NC split off.

What puts me off of Owncloud is the new ownership. I couldn’t care less if it’s written in the blood of Christ, if I have to worry about the rug getting pulled out from under me for self-hosting, it’s a no-go for me, Joe.

Nextcloud works well for me and has for years. The people that don’t like it can go use this, and we’ll see you back in a couple of years when it goes open-core or worse.

“Crapist”

One who craps his diapers.

I feel personally attacked.

More chins than a Chinese phone book.

Not anymore. They completely divested that off to having to get RPM Fusion repos set up and then manually install the codecs.

As another user said, Nobara does all this, and I use Nobara myself. But Fedora itself has made all that harder.

FWIW, +1 for Nobara. I think it’s an excellent turnkey Fedora for most purposes. But it’s a little chancy on being dependent on a single maintainer.

But Fedora itself isn’t noob friendly when you have to figure out how to add the non-free repos and install all the rest of the shit. Nobara takes care of that well.

Probably depends on the ISP, but I just have 2 nics in each server, and eth1 on both is on a switch to the cable modem. If one goes down, the other comes up fine. Can’t recall if I spoofed the same MAC on the OPNsense VMs.

VMs under KVM are pretty much bare metal and Proxmox doesn’t use much for resources itself, it’s basically a headless Debian with a webserver interface to do all the KVM stuff.

Proxmox, especially if you use ZFS for the VM datastore, makes a home lab so much easier to revert, backup and deploy/clone VMs and LXCs. I highly recommend it if you’re just starting out. Once you wrap your head around it, it gets out of the way and lets you just tinker with your projects, and not have to manually do everything in VirtManager or at the command line.

Combined with Proxmox Backup Server, it’s a production ready hypervisor for anything you decide to keep. Also, the HA features work well enough that I had my main routing OPNsense VM jump between nodes when the primary node lost a drive, and I didn’t notice for a week, it was that seamless.

https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm

This guy has 3M subs and doesn’t take free samples for reviews. I think he’s doing OK, and damn, if you want a detailed comparison of something, he’s the guy. He’s branched away from the mainly mechanic oriented stuff recently, but still staying unbought.

Oh, you need media codecs out of the box to watch pretty much anything in your browser?

That takes Fedora out.

OpenSUSE has probably the most confusing install interface for a noob you’ll ever find. Which DE do I choose? What other software do I put in? How do I partition? Oh, I click a button here to make a user, or can I ignore it completely?

So much for OpenSUSE.

And don’t get me started on Arch. You’d be way better off pushing a new user to Manjaro but everyone’s got their panties in a twist about its devs.

Whatcha got now, big guy?