DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima , 1 day ago

The first time or the second time?

The first time was because I was sick of paying the "Australia tax" for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world. The second time was due to subscription fee hikes with associated reduction in quality & range of content.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 day ago

this isn’t reddit.

Correct, hence downvoting here is meaningless.

DeltaTangoLima , 3 days ago

It's a fucking travesty what's happening to him. He shone a light on some pretty sordid shit, shit that was definitely in the public interest to be reported, and he's been made into the villain.

Our government should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

DeltaTangoLima , 4 days ago

^ 100% this. My data's backed up. I can get a new phone and sue the government later for confiscating a personal asset without due cause. Fuck that Gestapo shit.

Also, I disable biometric locks when traveling through airports and similar situations. They can easily "compel" biometrics from me, but not a password.

I don't have any concerns for my local coppers wanting to take my phone - it's too risky for them to do that without due cause - but the same can't be said for federal power trippers like Border Force (what a fucking stupid name - sounds like something Trump came up with).

DeltaTangoLima , 4 days ago

increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever

And paying more and more as time goes on. The thing that shits me the most is the increased prices but decreased range/quality of content. That's clearly not a business model aimed at customer satisfaction.

DeltaTangoLima , 4 days ago

Dat port number in the compose file

DeltaTangoLima , 5 days ago

Here in Australia, it's drop bears and hoop snakes. People always want to see them... until it's too late.

DeltaTangoLima , 5 days ago

Typical. Those drop bears have no respect at all for a person's eskie.

DeltaTangoLima , 10 days ago

For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn't appear in my library at all, so I don't really care. Even better, I've spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.

DeltaTangoLima , 16 days ago

May your chickens turn to emus and kick your dunny door down

DeltaTangoLima , 15 days ago

Yeah, but in a light-hearted way.

DeltaTangoLima , 16 days ago

Straight to HR - that fucker needs sacking. This is the very definition of bullying and harassment.

DeltaTangoLima , 16 days ago

Ditto - divorcing my first wife. Now I'm married to my soulmate and we have an amazing daughter together. Best thing I ever did!

DeltaTangoLima , 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Early 80s, maybe 83 or 84, we got a Dick Smith VZ200 (rebadged VTech Laser 210 - Dick Smith here in Australia was kinda like Radio Shack). It had 8Kb of RAM but Dad bought the 16Kb expansion - 24Kb of RAM!

I got a book from my uncle on how to write BASIC programs, and wrote a heap of stuff. We could backup and load programs from a regular cassette tape recorder that plugged into the computer, sorta like the Commodore 64 later on.

Early 90s, guessing around 93, I got a Nokia 101 analogue phone. I even bought a car kit for it, and installed it in my Datsun 180B. It had a snake game on it, and I actually used it to make and receive phone calls.

DeltaTangoLima , 17 days ago

If you grew up in the Dandenong Ranges, quite possibly.

DeltaTangoLima , 18 days ago

• Phone: yoda
• Desktop: bb8
• Firewall: c3po
• Switch: macewindu
• NASes:
  • anakin
  • r2d2
• Wireless APs:
  • biggs
  • garven
  • poe
  • typho
  • thane
  • wedge (virtual controller)
• Proxmox nodes:
  • chewy
  • hansolo
  • obiwan
• Raspberry PIs:
  • bobafett
  • lando
  • jangofett
  • quigon
  • rey
  • finn

DeltaTangoLima , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Not heaps, although I should probably do more than I do. Generally speaking, on Saturday mornings:

• Between 2am-4am, Watchtower on all my docker hosts pulls updated images for my containers, and notifies me via Slack then, over coffee when I get up:
  • For containers I don't care about, Watchtower auto-updates them as well, at which point I simply check the service is running and purge the old images
  • For mission-critical containers (Pi-hole, Home Assistant, etc), I manually update the containers and verify functionality, before purging old images
• I then check for updates on my OPNsense firewall, and do a controlled update if required (needs me to jump onto a specific wireless SSID to be able to do so)
• Finally, my two internet-facing hosts (Nginx reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN server) auto-update their OS and packages using unattended-upgrades, so I test inbound functionality on those

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What I still want to do is develop some Ansible playbooks to deploy unattended-upgrades across my fleet (~40ish Debian/docker LXCs). I fear I have some tech debt growing on those hosts, but have fallen into the convenient trap of knowing my internet-facing gear is the always up to date, and I can be lazy about the rest.

DeltaTangoLima , 23 days ago

It's not just about data hoarding, though. It's also about a social media company having considerable influence over the messaging seen by a very large part of the voting population.

Yes, it's no different to other social media companies, but with one exception: the company in question is subject to the whims of the Chinese government. Something the US government is clearly fearful of.

DeltaTangoLima , 23 days ago

Yep, agreed, but at least the government of the day can try and reign them in with legislation and regulation. Not saying they are (or will), but they'd have the option, if they had the balls to do it.

DeltaTangoLima , 24 days ago

It all comes down to what you trust each type of device to do and how you want to handle their traffic.

I have seven VLANs, with each one's traffic being treated very specifically. The subnets for each VLAN route to specific interfaces on a virtualised OPNsense firewall, which is where my traffic handling and policy enforcement takes place.

Also remember VLANs are just plain useful for segregating traffic, particularly broadcast traffic, without having to invest in separate switching/routing for each subnet. Having a single managed switch that limits the broadcast domains for you is a really efficient way to (physically) setup your network.

DeltaTangoLima , 24 days ago

Yeah, 100% agree on the client devices. One of my VLANs is for the kids' devices. I don't trust their schools' admins or their shitty BYOD policies, so I just let them access Plex (via Nginx reverse proxy); Pi-hole; and the internet.

DeltaTangoLima , 24 days ago

Believe it or not, a Netgear. Specifically this one. I don't have any fibre connected gear (yet!) and 180W of PoE+ was more than enough for my few PoE cameras and WAPs.

DeltaTangoLima , 26 days ago

It should be climate action. Not saying it will be - just that it should be.

DeltaTangoLima , 26 days ago

Sort of. I respect your right to have an opinion, but I'll respect the opinion a lot more if backed by facts and data.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

After 10 years on Android, I just switched back. Because I admire Apple's commitment to privacy, and simply don't trust Google any more.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I need to use my phone for work, which means I can’t use custom ROMs due to our BYOD policies.

For me, iOS is still by far the better option, especially as I use privacy-respecting apps and services (Firefox, self-hosted Immich, etc).

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

I have an always-on Wireguard VPN, and use my Piholes at home. So far, so good!

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Yep - not sure what point you're making, though?

A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation

My phone isn't used "primarily for commercial advantage or monetary compensation". It's my own phone that my company reimburses me some of the monthly cost of running, for being able to use it to contact me.

DeltaTangoLima , 29 days ago

Yep. I get all that, but that’s not an option with my employer.

I’m comfortable with the separation I have, and iOS is key to part of that satisfaction.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Warrior - chock-full of powerful emotions at just the right points, and a really, really good "underdog rises to the top" storyline.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

That moment with Nolte in the hotel room. Holy. Shit.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

I've been a user of the GTD method for many, many years, so any app I use needs to be GTD-specific.

Currently, I'm using Nirvana - have been for about 6 years. I like it so much, I paid for the lifetime sub, so haven't really bothered to look elsewhere since.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

We loved it - binged the whole thing in a couple of days. Probably helps that we're huge fans of Walton Goggins.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

"Change and comfort rarely come together"

• Unattributed quote from a manager I work with

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Interesting (kinda) coincidence. I've just switched from Android back to iPhone, after about 10 years away from the platform.

But I use an always-on Wireguard VPN back to my home network, with my DNS set to my Pi-hole servers and my firewall rules blocking access to all external DNS servers, except from my Pi-holes for upstream resolution.

I'm yet to do some p-caps to see what I'm missing in this setup - while I'm confident it did a great job of protecting me from a lot of Google's data-harvesting shenanigans, I'm yet to investigate what I need to do to achieve a similar outcome for my iPhone.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps.

Thanks for that - great tip for new players.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

I haven't gone into detail on this, but I suspect some shiny-suited, greasy-haired wanker lawyer has been able to make a case that things like site-specific CSS classes and the like can somehow be covered by DMCA.

I'm 100% speculating (not American, not a lawyer) but it's more than URIs and Javascript, is what I'm saying.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Thanks for the share - have grabbed the latest Firefox repo for my private Forgejo.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Yep. I didn't feel this way for a long time, then realised it was because I was married to the wrong woman. She was heavily influencing the sort of man I was outwardly portraying, and it always felt like I was wearing a badly-made suit.

After the end of that marriage, I met my soul mate, and now have two wonderful stepkids and an incredible daughter. We've now been together for a little over 11 years, and I'm still amazed at how lucky I am. My family gives me purpose and meaning, every day.

After that, nothing else matters.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Except for the parts where, in the name of religion, people are subjected to barbaric surgical procedures; "cures" for their sexual preferences; and pedophiles in positions of authority, among many other terrible things.

In the history of humankind, religion is responsible for more human suffering than all other causes combined.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

I use Nginx Proxy Manager and Authelia for just this. Authelia supports a wide range of identity and MFA providers.

Edit: although Authelia has an article on how to set it up, I found it still missed some key info. This article was the one that helped me most in getting it to work.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Spencer Grant

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

I run Proxmox with a few nodes, and each of my services are (usually) dockerized, each running in a Proxmox Linux container.

As I like to keep things segregated as much as possible, I really only have one shared Postgres, for the stuff I don't really care about (ie. if it goes down, I honestly don't care about the services it takes with it, or the time it'll take me to get them back).

My main Postgres instances are below - there's probably others, but these are the ones I backup religiously, and test the backups frequently.

1. RADIUS database: for wireless auth
2. paperless-ngx: document management indexing & data
3. Immich: because Immich has a very specific set of Postgres requirements
4. Shared: 2 x Sonarr, 3 x Radarr, 1 x Lidarr, a few others

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

That was the English guy? DIY Perks built the cabinet for the other fella who reviews the phones?

Edit: this one?

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Not sure if secret, but most people express surprise when I tell them I add unsweetened cocoa powder and brown sugar to my chilli con carne.

DeltaTangoLima , 1 month ago

Yep - unsweetened cocoa adds a lot of richness to many sauces. And the brown sugar I add to my chilli con carne takes away some of the tartness of all the tomatoes I put into it.

DeltaTangoLima , 2 months ago

I don't know your personal circumstances, but how feasible is it to look for another job? Is there something specifically keeping you there? Sounds like these cunts are putting your mental health at risk, and they're just not worth it, mate.

DeltaTangoLima , 2 months ago

I tend to use "folks" for my usual gender-neutral collective pronoun.

I don't think "dude" is a real issue, is it? Here in Australia, I'll happily use mate for any gender, and I often hear other genders do the same.

Of course, we also tend to unnecessarily shorten (or lengthen) people's names here, and those always get used:

• Darren = Daz or Dazza
• Josh = Josho
• Dan = Danno or Danny-boy
• Adam = Ads
• [first name] Thompson = Tommo
• [first name] Johnson - Jonno

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Even our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is Albo. You get the idea... ;)