tristan

@tristan@hachyderm.io

Avid reader, music enthusiast, chronic autodidact, liberal, tinkerer, software engineer, accessibility coach, coffee addict, rarely a creative writer, and occasionally a gamer. I'm a Maine native, having previously lived in the Raleigh-Durham area and Boston (South End) and now braving the chaotic and turbulent state of Texas. Thoughts are my own. Reach out- ๐Ÿ“ฉ tristan@bussiere.dev

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

tristan, to random

I finally made the hop from pfSense to OPNsense for my router in the name of security, more frequent updates, and the whole Netgate being terrible thing. Everything is great except for the part where we took 10 huge steps back in terms of SR accessibility. Unfocusable modals with aria-hidden set to true, buttons containing only a title attribute, and a11y-relevant GitHub issues that have gone stale or are closed - see https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/905.

tristan, to random

The UniFi iOS app, an application that is pretty much just an interface to UniFi controllers, allowing people to manage their wireless networks, is 504 MB in size. That's it. That's the post.

tristan, to random

Well... the part where Linus Tech Tips uses Vinux was not on my bingo card for this video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=yLy3ygqA5yg&t=355&si=J7fR95Cl63wddhrg

tristan,

Bonus points for the blind Arch Linux user that commented and got a ton of replies. Especially the part where they spelled no one as know one... and got called out for it.

simon, to random

Have been trying to install Debian on a 2012 Mac Mini, which is otherwise stuck on Catalina and not especially useful as a Mac. Whether I boot the net installer or the DVD, I can't seem to get the speech synthesis option to work. As soon as I select it, the screen goes black and the installer never returns. Seems to happen whether I have a USB soundcard connected or not. I'll probably try connecting a Braille display and see if it gets autodetected, but this is not a great start.

tristan,

@simon My vote is Proxmox, and here's why. LXC's are difficult to maintain; without using ansibal automations or some such, you have to go in and update each one by hand--I only use one or two for things that I don't need to update very much. Docker, as mentioned in your last post, is really the optimal choice here. Being able to back up the state of your machine as it was, quickly and seamlessly, is invaluable. So I just run Docker under a VM. (1/2)

tristan,

That VM is literally just for Docker. Images of it get dumped daily to Proxmox Backup Server, which automatically handles deduplication, encryption, and compression. If I need an LXC, I have that option. It's seriously such a nice set up once you have all of the moving pieces working well with each other. (2/2)

tristan,

@simon Moving past the โ€œwhy run it under Proxmoxโ€ bit, I chose to do a VM instead of LXC because, if I recall, running Docker under an LXC required a container with elevated privileges. Or maybe that was mounting network shares, which some of my containers need to do. EIther way a non-elevated VM without access to the host machine felt cozier than elevating an LXC with root privileges.

tristan, to random

Today, on a lark, I mounted one of my encrypted B2 shares with Rclone to see how my backups were doing. To my shock, I discovered that the Documents folder on my NAS wasnโ€™t being synced to the B2 bucket. The reason? I use โ€”skip-links to skip over symlinks, and the filter line pointing at my documents was, due to Synology weirdness, a symlink. (Always use /volume1/homes instead of /var/services/homes) (1/2)

tristan,

.Note: This was not a routine check. It now will be. For people with complex backup strategies, add this to your calendars. Seriously. (2/2)

tristan, to random

Not interested in continuing to pay for a Voice Dream subscription in the slightest. What's the best alternative for mobile reading? Speech Central? Dolphin Easy Reader? Buying a $200 android device and using that instead? Ironically this is more expensive than a Voice Dream subscription, but I'd still rather do this because I can keep it running forever off-line with no recurring expenditure. What are people doing now?

tristan,

@ppatel @bermudianbrit @simon Itโ€™s unclear whether the subscription is for iCloud backups or if itโ€™s for syncing using their own servers. Paying a subscription for iCloud backups is insanity when its my own space Iโ€™m already paying APple for, but using their own servers makes more sense as an ongoing cost. Whatโ€™s the deal here?

tristan, to random

Today, I'll be delivering a PowerPoint presentation as well as some demos to the state agency that I'm developing an a11y program for. It has been (checks notes) at least a year since I've presented to 70+ people, and my nerves are a jangle. All of that said, do any blind people here have personal commentary on how they deal most effectively with this? I already have a Braille display, and I'm not new to presenting slides by any stretch of the imagination. Anecdotes very much welcome, though.

tristan, to random

Connected the Synology at the new place and reinstalled all of the drives only to find out 2/8 of my drives have a corrupted system partition and needed to be rebuilt. Nothing is showing up in SMART tests, but for some reason this always seems to happen to me and things are still chugging along fine so... RAID recovery it is. See you in half a day.

tristan, to random

I've started using Tailscale's Golink for various long, hard-to-remember links that I want to be able to access across machines. It's slightly frustrating in certain browsers, as typing go/keyword/ does require the trailing slash and my muscle memory isn't there yet, but I'm sure I'll get there in a couple of days. https://github.com/tailscale/golink

tristan,

@simon Tried it, decided it wasn't worth the trouble. I want 100% reliability (which self-hosting cannot reliably provide--neither can Tailscale, but their job is to keep this one thing up--without that the egg is on their face), Mullvad VPN access, and I don't mind paying for something that works so well if I have to. I know Headscale covers most of Tailscale's feature set and lots of people love it, but I'm not quite there, especially with the extra steps to use it on certain platforms.

tristan,

@simon The router allows you to use Tailscale via the CLI if you connect via SSH, you might be able to do a thing with that. Setting --login-server with tailscale up once should be enough to save it. The final reason I don't love the idea of switching is the thing where I have 30+ nodes, some of which are just docker images, some are VMs, some are Windows, some are iOS, some are Mac. Every single one would need to be manually updated. Misery.

tristan,

@simon Or maybe it's as simple as redirecting your Headscale URL to just be a CNAME for Tailscale's Control Plane server. Dun dun DUNNNN. You'd still have to rebuild the Tailnet completely though, so nah.

tristan, to random

"Comes with a smart speaker and your choice of Siri or Alexa Built-in. Control your home using the power of your voice and listen to your favorite Spotify playlists and podcast through your thermostatโ€™s speaker. Apple home hub required to enable Siri on Smart Thermostat Premium." This has to be the weirdest thing I've read in 2024. I just want a smart thermostat for the new place. Now it's this whole thing...contraption...okay, whatever.

tristan, to random

Can anyone with a Zoom H1 Essential give me a quick rundown of the buttons on the front?

miki, to random
@miki@dragonscave.space avatar

I've done it.

Committed the ultimate crime against humanity.

Fedi's equivalent of killing kittens or kicking helpless puppies.

I followed Elon through a Twitter gateway and reposted a post of his.

tristan,

@talon @jscholes @TheQuinbox @miki This, completely. I've concluded that I'm just going to stop engaging with people like this. Stirring shit seems to be a lot of what happens, whether it's fedi or something else, and dedicating my mental and emotional bandwidth to it isn't even worthwhile. I know, this is a wildly hot take. :P

tristan, to RSS

Miniflux 2.1.0 just dropped, including many, many accessibility improvements: there are now landmarks throughout, controls that act as buttons now use the role of button (this still needs work. Semantic HTML, please), skip links, feed entries are now headings, and much, much more! https://miniflux.app/ #RSS #accessibility #Miniflux #feeds

tristan, to random

I'm getting into YouTube more, and would love some suggestions for good channels to follow. Let me know some of your favorites! Bonus points for the educational, esoteric, or entertaining (in an intellectual way, less looking for dumb YouTube shorts).

tristan, to random

Just bought a couple of Zoom H1 Essential's and was browsing around to snap up some accompanying micro SD cards and good lord those things are cheap now. $25 for 512 GB (normally $35), $19 for 256, $18 for slightly faster 128 GB... I think when I got my first Raspberry Pi in 2014 or so, my 32 GB card was about the cost of a 256 GB one, now, 10 years later. 2014 doesn't even feel like it was that long ago. Oh no, what's happening?

tristan, to random

Trying out the Day One journaling app. I am in love with the functionality, but yet again, we have a piece of software that's significant features are locked behind a subscription. $35 a year. Maybe I'll pay this, I'm not sure. I'd be much more apt to pay for a lifetime subscription, though, that's for sure. Hate, hate, hate how this is the default model of revenue now. If you want to capture money after implementing new features, just make a new version of the app and charge for that instead.

tristan,

@miki @simon I was never saying buy an app once and keep it forever; merely a version. But... ok.

tristan,

@miki @simon There is, though. It's not official, but many apps already do it: remove the existing app and submit a new app with the new version number in the name to the App Store. People that paid for the old app get to keep it in their purchases and install it as much as they'd like, and if they want the new features, they need to pay up. See also: Things, Infuse, Prompt, and lots of other popular apps.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • โ€ข
  • provamag3
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • modclub
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ethstaker
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • osvaldo12
  • everett
  • cubers
  • tacticalgear
  • anitta
  • megavids
  • Leos
  • cisconetworking
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •