“mostly solve the write hole problem” 😬

You do you, but I wouldn’t trust my data to that.

Don’t use the RAID56 functionality of BTRFS, the official docs still list it as unstable. Apart from that it’s pretty good.

You’re welcome, great to see how you’re taking all the comments on board!

There are more subtle problems with NAT as well. Say that PC-A opens a connection from port 1234 (to something on the internet), and PC-B opens a connection from port 1234 too. Now the router has to translate the PC-B connection to coming from port 1235 to distinguish them from each other. But if PC-C then wants to open a listening port on 1235 it won’t work because the port is already in use, even though you can’t see anything using that port!

NAT is full of ridiculous corner cases like that, which normal users aren’t very likely to notice. But once you start self-hosting things or trying to get something like older multiplayer games working the problems pile up fast if you’re unlucky.

Yeah multiple NAT is a lot worse, but normal NAT has a lot of corner cases too that most people just don’t run into that often. For example if two computers behind NAT want to listen on the same port, that just doesn’t work.

NAT is a “good enough” solution that tricked a whole generation of people growing up with it into thinking it’s a good thing. While in reality the best case is that you don’t run into issues and the worst case is that performance is horrible and you can’t do the things you want to do. The only people that benefit from it are lazy ISPs, not their users.

NAT is not a firewall and it’s not that great for privacy either, it’s not hard to fingerprint individual devices behind NAT. There are zero cases where NAT is better than the alternatives, except when you’re out of public IP’s, which isn’t an issue with IPv6.

So you’re much better off by not trying to reinvent the wheel and using IPv6 the way it was intended. Use privacy extensions for privacy. Use proper firewall rules for security. Revel in the fact that NAT isn’t fucking up your inbound connections. Do not under any circumstances force the horrible kludge that is NAT into your IPv6 network.

Good.

You can. There are simple options, that only recognise predefined sentences, that even work on a Raspberry Pi, and at the other end of the spectrum you can host an LLM locally and chat with that if you have the right hardware (Coral isn’t powerful enough for that, you want a GPU with lots of VRAM). Obviously setting this up is more complicated, but there are a lot of options to do it your way.

Depends on which one you have. If you buy their own smart speaker (Voice PE), which is designed to stay entirely local if you have the right hardware and software locally, and even has a hardware switch to temporarily disable the microphone, it’s pretty easy. And of you don’t have all that locally you need a paid subscription to use their cloud a little bit, but they won’t store anything. So still pretty easy.

Absolutely possible if you keep the network setup simple. However, I run different sets of containers as different users, some of which also use services from the host itself (such as a PostgreSQL instance), and things quickly become more complex in these situations. The examples on the github helped me a lot to realise everything I wanted.

If you want to use caddy as proxy for other containers running as quadlets have a look at this repo: https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-caddy-socket-activation

It certainly demystified some network shenanigans for me.

Pretty sure you can unblock per device in Adguard, so maybe block it first then unblock from the logs for the clients you want to allow?

It’s true, we should all love fossilesque.

What kind of AI written nonsense is this. No sources to back up their claims. Made up percentages that seem way too specific. Obviously bad IoT devices can do bad things but claims like these require something to back them up.

Look, if you’re too lazy to set your alarm clock to a time that works for you that’s fine, but why make other people suffer for your preferences? We have timezones for a reason, arguments like yours are what started the DST madness in the first place.

3/4? That’s fucked up, over here it’s roughly half and it’s still too much. Anyway, for specific areas there might be reasons to deviate from the timezone you’re supposed to be in, but for most people it is the best option. Over here (NL) our default timezone is already one hour too early, so adding summer time on top of that means we’re two hours out from where we’re supposed to be.

While DST is indeed nonsense and we should abolish it ASAP, please go back to your actual timezone and not something that is the very modification we shouldn’t have, i.e. summer time.

PostgreSQL shitting itself is generally a hardware problem. I’ve had it “detect” faulty RAM modules in a few cases in the decades I’ve been using it.

It is. On their YouTube channel there’s a very interesting Q&A on their event earlier this year, here: https://youtu.be/os_fHy1mB_M There was a question specifically about making a smartphone. They explained it was very unlikely they’d ever do that and explained their reasoning behind it, so I’d highly recommend watching the video of you’re interested in how they think.

Fair, although it’s less open than it appears at first glance. The world is divided in parts that you unlock as the central story progresses, much like most RPGs.

Hell no, Mad Max was way more fun than it had any right to be. I’ll agree that on paper it didn’t look like anything special, with mechanics we’d seen lots of times in other games, but in practice everything came together as much more than the sum of it’s parts.