I back up to local storage and then replicate offsite to S3 nightly.

On-prem backups are great and cheap and fast and definitely plan A but a robust backup solution is going to require offsite storage of some sort. Object storage is one of the cheapest ways to do that for most situations, particularly for things that can’t be replaced like photos.

Backblaze B2 is about $7 a month per TB.

Almost every major backup solution natively supports S3 compatible storage.

This looks like someone was afraid they might accidentally cook something.

True but it does put me in a good position to maximize my kill/death ratio.

I weirdly really want more realistic bug games too. I’m disappointed how many games with spider enemies make them behave so strangely where they basically roar and swipe at you like a giant feral cat.

I avoided tailscale for so long because I was already using wireguard and I didn’t know you could self-host with headscale. But once I started using it with headscale the mesh design really is a big improvement to usability. I don’t miss having to carefully manage my config files and ip route rules.

I need to get setup with app connectors and then I think it’ll finally be a high enough wife-usability factor for me to remove some things I still have exposed over the internet.

DERP is the service that actually relays packets between tailscale connected devices when they are crossing a NAT (leaving one private network and going across the internet to another private network).

If you host headscale (the self-hosted community version of the tailscale control plane) and use it with tailscale, by default it will still use the public Tailscale DERP servers. Your traffic is still encrypted and not visible to them, but it does still rely on part of their centralized architecture even though you are hosting the control plane yourself.

That being said, you can just use the embedded DERP that ships with headscale, although there are some other considerations when doing that because it will need to be publicly on the internet, probably with a proper domain name and publicly trusted certificate.

Headscale includes an embedded DERP server but you need to enable it. Their example yaml has it disabled by default, which I assume is because it needs to be publicly available on the internet, requires HTTPS, and thus a certificate and other network/security considerations.

EV’s are probably best for an actually realistic scenario where energy infrastructure is destroyed or there is a mass fuel shortage, both things that happen all the time around the world in times of crisis.

But as far as actually apocalyptic scenarios it’s hard to beat a bicycle which doesn’t require a global supply chain to maintain.

We invented a machine that tells you what you want to hear. Should be fine.

You can self host the control plane for Tailscale using a community project called Headscale. I use that along with Headplane which gives you a nice admin web UI.

Then you just use the tailscale client on devices like normal but you authenticate new clients with your endpoint instead of the centralized one.

ICE is using Palantir data to target neighborhoods, which is purchased directly from “advertising” data brokers. So “advertising” is only part of the story. It’s always been about creating a surveillance state, it’s just not evenly distributed.

I usually miss the tiny text that says “includes a side” and then I panic when I need to make a decision while the waiter lists off all 14 sides including something incomprehensible like “Tato Dunklets” and I have to ask them what that is even though everyone else knows that’s what the place is known for and now I’m the idiot that is taking forever to order and keeping everyone from their dunklets or whatever.

When I was a kid I used to say to my dad “Dad” and he would go “Yes sir Michael Caine” and I would just open my mouth and point in it and wait for him to pour beans in there.

Normies wouldn’t know what to do with winget anyway. Somehow installing random executables downloaded from a browser is still considered ‘easier’ than using a package manager.

I like the fan theory that they aren’t aliens at all, they are demons. The broadcast at the end that reveals their vulnerability is cut off and nothing ever definitively points to them being extraterrestrial. In this theory they aren’t weak to water itself, but holy water which had been inadvertently blessed by the dad who used to be a priest (a bit of a stretch but if I remember right I think we see him mouthing a prayer at one point).

I don’t think that was the intent but if you rewatch the movie with this in mind it’s a pretty interesting way of explaining some inconsistencies in the film.

Winget is still playing catch-up in my experience. Microsoft’s own office365 winget package is broken constantly.

The fact that industrial and commercial use pays lower rates than people trying to live their lives and heat their home is such bullshit.

Seeing how much they’ve advanced over recent years I can’t imagine whatever that guy was working on would actually impress anyone today.

I just set up a rule on my firewall to disallow outgoing web traffic from my TV so I can still control it over the wifi. Then if I want to sell it I haven’t broken any functionality.