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I hope the author of that click bait headline stubs his toes every day.

To save anyone else wasting a click: Pihole.

Someone reported it, Samsung understood their concerns and thanked them for their feedback. But that’s about it.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Suggestions/Implement-Auto-Delete-Clipboard-History-to-Prevent-Sensitive/m-p/3200743

I also learned the hard way: beware of SD cards! They have limited write endurance and will end up corrupting. With the amount of logging a system does and that the SD cards writes in pages, those writes add up soon enough.

Using a SSD boot drive over USB has been reliable and faster for my use. Alternatively, get high endurance SD cards or higher capacity to spread out the writes. At some point though, with the higher price of high endurance/capacity SD cards, you might as well get an SSD.

“When you’ve got a phone, every problem is an app”.

Agree, just buy an alarm clock.

It’s pretty much this…

I’ve listened to the excellent weekly PC Pro podcast for years, it’s by the various writers and editors of that magazine.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-pc-pro-podcast/id563487808

(available on various platforms, not just Apple)

Also the ITPro podcast, which focuses more on industry

https://www.itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast

Are you running docker?

UFW is a popular iptables front end on Ubuntu that makes it easy to manage firewall rules. But when Docker is installed, Docker bypass the UFW rules and the published ports can be accessed from outside.

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker

The Map Men explain it better than I could:

How do you start a new country? https://youtu.be/hX4s1ZLW_PI

There are NOT 195 countries https://youtu.be/3nB688xBYdY

And just for fun…

The mystery of the squarest country https://youtu.be/8mrNEVUuZdk

(Yes, I’m a big fan!)

Thank you, voted!

It’s likely those images haven’t been updated in the 8 hour period in which watchtower checked. Daily or weekly update schedule should suffice.

Replying to myself to add…

This was all while installing this and that dependency and troubleshooting it. Docker was a complication I didn’t want to learn yet.

And then tinytinyrss moved to docker only which forced my hand. I can say installing Docker and Portainer (as someone who prefers a GUI more than command line) has made self hosting so much easier for me, and hugely reduces the need to think about dependencies.

Absolutely. I had a similar journey. I started with Yunohost and DietPi. Then plain Raspbian, then plain Debian. Each time nuking and starting from scratch. You learn quickly when you’ve got to retrace the same steps again on a fresh install after messing something up.

Eventually, I tried and stuck with Proxmox (running a Debian VM) and Proxmox Backup Server. With that, you have your regular backups, and if you mess up, you simply revert to a previous backup version.

Others will recommend Ansible - I haven’t got that far yet.

The caps lock thing hurts my feelings (ಥ_ʖಥ)

Tasker - for automating anything, everything.

I was tempted by these n100 mini PCs, but worried about the no-name components. I saw many people on reddit/lemmy recommending Dell, Lenovo, HP micro form factor PCs. You can pick them up used from eBay as companies clear out “old” computers. The advantage of the known brands is ongoing firmware support.

When you use a “good vpn”, it would just show that a user with your same fingerprint visited also from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

Take it from someone who is a Linux noob and Googles for terminal commands every time, and whose most used keys are ctrl c, ctrl v…

1. Go to official docker documentation, copy paste the commands to install docker.
2. go to Portainer documentation, copy paste the commands to install Portainer Community Edition
3. Find a service you want to install, copy the ‘docker compose’ text. (A good first service to install is Watchtower which takes care of updating other containers)
4. go to Portainer’s browser UI, find the ‘stacks’ tab, paste, click ‘deploy’

Don’t do this on your main server. Use some old hardware or a cheap VPS to practise on.

The main skill I need is googling and asking AI. It’s that easy.

So bad it’s soooo good.

It’ll be absolutely fine to use your work device for personal stuff. Until they want to fire you and need a reason for it. A quick audit of your usage, then bye bye!

These have words but might still fit the other factors:

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Horses - Patti Smith