DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago

Actually, Nintendo Switch, mainly because I can take it anywhere. I just don’t find myself with heaps of time to sit down for proper gaming sessions any more.

The tyranny of getting older, and having family responsibilities.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

Xbox Series X. I have a Day 1 release, and recently cancelled my XBL Gold + Game Pass due to lack of use.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

Dat port number in the compose file

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

Mullvad is great for outbound VPN, but inbound is a PITA without port forwarding (as you’ve said). I just host a Wireguard container for inbound connectivity now, and it works flawlessly.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

Yeah, this is why I jumped ship to Immich last year. I was donating to PP, with the understanding that donating users would get access to multi-user features when they happened.

Then they put them behind a paid recurring subscription. For self-hosted users. That move broke all the trust with me.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

This may take us down a bit of a rabbit hole but, generally speaking, it comes down to how you route traffic.

My firewall has an always-on VPN connected to Mullvad. When certain servers (that I specify) connect to the outside, I use routing rules to ensure those connections go via the VPN tunnel. Those routes are only for connectivity to outside (non-LAN) addresses.

At the same time, I host a server inside that accepts incoming Wireguard client VPN connections. Once I’m connected (with my phone) to that server, my phone appears as an internal client. So the routing rules for Mullvad don’t apply - the servers are simply responding back to a LAN address.

I hope that explains it a bit better - I’m not aware of your level of networking knowledge, so I’m trying not to over-complicate just yet.

DeltaTangoLima, 2 days ago

You do need to be able to reach your public IP to be able to VPN back in. I have a static IP, so no real concerns there. But, even if I didn’t, I have a Python script that updates a Route53 DNS record for me in my own domain - a self-hosted dynamic DNS really.

You certainly can run Wireguard server in a docker container - the good folks over at Linuxserver have just the repo for you.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 day ago

Yep - they introduced paid subscription tiers and put multi-user support into those: www.photoprism.app/editions#compare

DeltaTangoLima, 11 days 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, 11 days ago

this isn’t reddit.

Correct, hence downvoting here is meaningless.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

The problem there, as we’re already seeing, is arsehole councils taking action against people on private properties, where the people either own the property, or have the property owner’s permission, and live in tents or caravans there.

Examples:

• Pensioner living in bus on private land because he can’t afford to buy or rent facing council legal action
• Campers in central Victoria face eviction from own land by Mount Alexander Shire Council, despite rent crisis

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Every layer of government has their fair share of blame to wear for this, from the snouts at the trough in the local city councils, to the fat wankers in suits in Canberra. Not one single government has done anything remotely positive to improve the future of housing in this country in the past 20 or so years.

Instead, they’ve encouraged and rewarded foreign ownership and rich landlords that own dozens of properties. Our monetary policy is tied to a broken measure of financial health, where the snake eats its own tail: higher rent contributes to higher inflation, which contributes to higher interest rates, which contributes to higher rent.

All our governments have done is create the perfect conditions for a massively bloated housing market that’s almost impossible for anyone to get into without already being in the middle-to-upper earning brackets.

Councils have to start thinking along humanitarian grounds, and enable people to live self-sufficiently, rather than punishing them for it. It’s not hard to see a future where a pensioner dies on a park bench in the middle of winter, because they couldn’t afford to rent or pay their mortgage, got permission to live in a van on someone’s rural block, and some cunt of a councilor decided a bullshit zoning law was more important than human dignity.

Something has to give.

DeltaTangoLima, 11 days ago

Yay for the Streisand Effect! Imma post this monthly now… https://reddrefuge.com/pictrs/image/3428de7b-7acb-4a20-b01d-ea9835cb4c31.png

DeltaTangoLima, 13 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, 12 days ago

That’s a really sad, yet probably entirely accurate, assessment.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 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, 15 days ago

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

DeltaTangoLima, 16 days ago

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

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

I just wish Smarttube would support Piped instances - that would 100% complete the puzzle for me. Being able to use Piped on my streaming stick.

DeltaTangoLima, 19 days ago

Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.

Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 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, 14 days ago

Don’t be a dick, mate. Engage just a little bit of critical thinking before calling people names like that.

By law where I am, our kids aren’t allowed to have their phones at school. My daughter’s school’s policy, then, is that phones are left at the school office.

We want to give our soon-to-be 10yo daughter her first phone later this year (times with a planned family trip, so it can be her new camera as well). But if she takes it to school and has to leave it at the office, I can guarantee she’ll absolutely forget on more than one occasion to pick it up before coming home.

So, her phone will have to stay home. But we’re also getting to the point where she can be trusted to let herself in and wait for one of us to get home (like OP, maybe an hour or so). So a presence detection option can’t be based on whether the phone has moved into the geo zone in HA.

This is a legitimate question for modern parents. Denigrating OP without knowing or understanding all the facts certainly does shine a light on ignorance at play here. Just not OP’s ignorance.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

I use an ESP32 boards as a wifi-based proxy for the BT temp sensors on my barbecue. Works a treat! It’s doable in esphome, so easily plugs into HA.

Details here: esphome.io/components/…/inkbird_ibsth1_mini.html

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

I’ve been thinking about exactly the same problem.

We want to give our near-10yo daughter her first phone, but she’s not allowed to have it at school. She’s also getting to the point where she can be trusted at home for an hour or so before one of us gets home from work, so I also need a presence detection method that doesn’t use a mobile phone.

My best theoretical solutions are like those already suggested here: an ESP32 BT proxy detecting a homebrew BLE beacon in her school bag, or detect activity on her iPad/the TV. But neither of those are reliable for all scenarios - she obviously doesn’t take her school bag to her friend’s house, and doesn’t always use her iPad or the TV.

The only other thing I’m pondering is if I could setup facial recognition using our video doorbell. I use Frigate with a Coral TPU, so hoping there’s a project out there that could possibly do that.

DeltaTangoLima, 15 days ago

Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

DeltaTangoLima, 20 days ago

An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.

We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.

We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.