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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

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  • Good advice.

    I also tried just the CPAP without the Trazodone for a while, to see how much it would help by itself. I generally don't like using medication unless it's absolutely needed (I'm not anti-science or anything! I just think medications are overprescribed and sometimes there's other, scientifically-proven, alternatives to taking pills for every ailment)

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  • Yeah it's definitely not for everyone, but it works wonders for me. I sleep better (fall asleep quicker + stay asleep longer) and feel more awake in the mornings than I used to.

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  • Trazodone was originally a medication for depression, but other antidepressants are more effective these days, and now it's mostly prescribed off-label as a treatment for insomnia. It doesn't work well for everyone, but it works great for me. I don't encounter any side effects, and I can fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

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  • If you can't sleep well then it's worth getting a sleep study done. I did one and was diagnosed with both sleep apnea and insomnia. I was prescribed a CPAP machine for the sleep apnea and Trazodone 100mg for the insomnia and it's helped a lot. I sleep so much better now.

    Edit: Trazodone isn't the best solution for everyone, and can have potential side-effects, but it works very well for me. My point is that you should get a professional diagnosis from a medical facility that specializes in sleep.

  • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • I usually use HTTPS, because a lot of web features only work over HTTPS.

    You can use Let's Encrypt DNS challenges to get real TLS certificates for internal hosts, instead of having to use your own CA or self-signed certificates.

  • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • Tailscale has several NAT bypass / hole punching methods for double NAT (including CGNAT) and symmetric NAT, but they don't work in 100% of cases. https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works

    IPv6 is definitely a good solution since then you don't have to deal with NAT at all. IPv6 is pretty easily doable in the USA (at long as you're not using Starlink) but can be harder in other countries that don't have as robust IPv6 infrastructure.

  • [SOLVED] How do I run docker compose on Bazzite?

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  • this means their permissions do not work like docker, and it is not in fact a drop-in replacement for docker

    It might a drop-in replacement for Docker if you're running Docker in rootless mode? Not sure how common that is, though.

  • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • I like Unraid because it's essentially "just Linux" but with a nice web UI. It's got a great UI for Docker, VMs (KVM) and Linux containers (LXC).

  • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • Don't. Use a VPN like Tailscale or Wireguard. Tailscale uses the Wireguard protocol but it's very easy to configure, and will automatically set up a peer-to-peer mesh network for you (each node on the VPN can reach any other node, without having to route through a central server).

    The only things that should be exposed publicly are things that absolutely need to be - for example, parts of Home Assistant need to be publicly exposed if you use the Google Assistant or Alexa integrations, since Google and Amazon need to be able to reach it.

  • GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly

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  • this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.

    That's part of it, but using a dedicated server, colocated server, or VPS are also considered "self hosted" too. "self hosted" is broader than just having a server at home, and means any server, web service, etc where you maintain it yourself.

    Hardware in your own house is generally referred to as a "home lab".

  • 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?

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  • For storing the backups, I use a storage VPS. I got one from HostHatch a few years ago during Black Friday sales, with 10TB space for $10/month. Hetzner have good deals with their storage boxes, too - they offer 5TB space for $13/month if you're in the USA (you need to add VAT if you're in Europe).

    A good rule of thumb is to never pay more than $5/TB/month, and during Black Friday it's closer to $2/TB/month. The LowEndTalk forum has the best Black Friday deals.

    I use Borgbackup for backups, and Borgmatic to handle scheduling them. Borgbackup is a fantastic piece of software.

    Borgmatic has an "append only" mode which lets you configure particular SSH keys to only be able to add data to the backup, not delete it. Even if someone/something (ransomware, malicious users, etc) gains access to your system and tries to delete the backups, they can't. Essentially, this is protection against ransomware.

    This is a very common issue with other backup solutions - the client has full access to the backup, so malware on the client system could potentially delete all the backups.

    I have two backup copies of most things. One copy on my home server and one copy on my storage VPS. If you do do multiple backups, Borgbackup recommend doing two separate backups rather than doing one then rsyncing it to another server.

  • Why I don't use AI in 2025

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  • Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time

    I wonder if they're factoring in the energy usage to train the model. That's what consumes most of the power.

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • Crowdsec is much more efficient than fail2ban. Fail2ban is a lot of old single-threaded Python code with inefficient log parsing/tailing routines. Crowdsec is a more modern Go codebase.

    If you're looking at old-school solutions, there's also DenyHosts.

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • Crowdsec blocks login attempts too.

  • Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive

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  • Does this have a way of sharing a directory publicly?

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • I hope that goes well for them. It's hard and extremely expensive, which is why there's so few good search engines and half of them just use Bing's API.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • Do you have a source for that? I think it's nowhere near 95% of sites given there's several major providers that aren't AWS or Cloudflare (eg Hetzner, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Wordpress.com, and a bunch more)

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • Definitely true. I'll have to try it out. Is Ecosia better than DuckDuckGo or Kagi?

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • Google was best in the 2000s, but things were different back then. They were still a young company trying to improve the world, SEO spam wasn't really a thing yet, there were far fewer websites, and most online discussions were archived and searchable (compared to today where there's platforms like Discord that aren't indexable in search engines at all).