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hereiamagain

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  • What are your best tips for looking busy at work, while actually doing something you enjoy?

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  • Brilliant

  • I feel used, and not in a good way...

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  • To prepare that perfectly popped popcorn, purportedly.

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  • Opposite directions? That explains why mine never worked!

  • I'm from the streets

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  • My drive is 35 minutes, but all 55-60mph, so like 30 miles. I'm not biking that, it's not even safe on these roads, no shoulders.

  • It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition

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  • Made my first model

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  • Awesome man! You've inspired me! I've been taking dice with me everywhere for farkle, but in a plastic baggy.

    I'm gonna remix this to fit my bone dice! And a pad of paper. Excellent.

  • Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month

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  • Interesting, I've never heard it described that way. I'm running Bluefin for a year, and up to now I've just avoided making any system level changes. I run flatpacks for most things, and containers for any odd bits that need dependencies.

    Is what you're describing, using rpmostree? I haven't used it yet, afraid of messing things up, because I LOVE the stability I have now.

    Used to run Ubuntu, and I'd reinstall for every new release, because I'd already mucked up my install anyway so might as well start fresh. And other times I'd just break stuff so thoroughly I needed to reinstall.

  • Klingons are so wholesome

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  • An oldy but a goody

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • Gotcha! No worries. Networking gets more and more like sorcery the deeper you go.

    Networking and printers are my two least favorite computer things.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • That makes sense. I haven't used an ISP configured router in over a decade. At my parents house, their modem/router combo didn't support bridge mode so I put it in a DMZ and slapped that to the WAN port on my router. Worked well.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • Oh you mean DNS server, yes ok that makes sense. Yeah I totally understand running your own.

    If I understand correctly, DHCP servers just assign local IPs on initial connection, and configure other stuff like pointing devices to the right DNS server, gateway, etc

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  • Atlantis was great.

    Universe was amazing, and I'm still mad that they killed it on such a massive cliffhanger. Made me gunshy to this day, I don't like watching shows until they've concluded. I will, but I don't like it. Much rather find something that's already wrapped up.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • Question, what's the benefit of running a separate DHCP server?

    I run openwrt, and the built in server seems fine? Why add complexity?

    I'm sure there's a good reason I'm just curious.

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • This is an example of what an Internet service providers network might look like.

    They use many different types of specialized computers and devices to connect your house (one of the grey rectangles) to the greater Internet (the yellow rectangle in the middle).

    One person is arguing that instead of the Internet service provider owning all of the red green and blue computers... Other people would own them. And maybe the red computer for your neighborhood would physically be inside your neighbor's house, instead of in a small building or box on the side of the road somewhere nearby.

    Functionally, it's the same Internet, regardless of who owns the red box. Though theoretically, it could be less safe to give random people, potentially bad actors, access to the physical computer that is the red box, because they could do something malicious with it. But the point is, if the technology is working correctly, it doesn't matter who owns it, everyone's private home networks (everything downstream of your grey rectangle), are kept separate.

    Just like normal Internet, you can't print on your neighbor's network printer, just because you both have the same ISP and share the same red computer upstream somewhere. The red computer won't let it happen.

    Does that make sense?

    Now, the concern of the other guy, it seems, comes from not understanding this. Not understanding that the red computers are specially configured by the ISP, or whoever owns it, to keep the grey rectangles separate.

    What he might be thinking, is something similar to sharing your Wi-Fi password. Or maybe running an Ethernet cable over the fence and plugging your neighbor's router into your router. Things start to get complicated here, so I'll gloss over a lot of things, but essentially... Your home router is not configured like the red computers are. So all of your neighbors data would be going through your home network, and you could very likely see what he's doing, and he could potentially see what you're doing (provided there's no double NAT, but even then I'm not sure, maybe).

    Basically, if two or more neighbors want to share Internet, but don't know how to do it safely, then they can expose their private network activity to each other and open each other up to a decent amount of risk.

    The solution, is to configure your router in a similar way to the red computers. It's complicated, but not that difficult in practice. You could Google VLANs to get an idea of what would need to be done. Honestly you'd need more than that, some good firewall rules, and more things that I'm not qualified to comment on. I'm not a networkologist. But it can be done.

    The debate/argument stems from a basic misunderstanding of how these systems work. Or perhaps they both understand how they work, but the guy who doesn't want to do it is just worried about his neighbors being untrustworthy with the hardware being in their house, worried they'll be nefarious, but he's just bad at communicating that idea to the other guy.

    At any rate, it doesn't matter who owns the red computers or the green or blue, if they're configured correctly, you're safe. Unless you don't trust whoever owns the computers 🤷‍♂️

    Hopefully that makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions!

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • This. Though theoretically you could do it without CGNAT, maybe some type of complex vlan arrangement? I'm not sure, I'm not a networkologist.

    I do know that I just got fiber down my road from a smaller company, still a big multi state company, but not Comcast or charter big. I called them because I was worried about CGNAT for my self hosting. The salesman didn't know what I was talking about, which is disappointing but not surprising. But they forwarded me to the tech guys, who also claimed to not know what I was talking about... Which was either a downright lie, or they were idiots, either way it's very concerning.

    The price was right though, $5 cheaper per month, for 10 times faster download, and 30 times faster upload. So I gave it a shot. Thankfully I'm not behind a CGNAT, yet 🤞

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  • I'll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don't point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they'll take you out

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, "I'm only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It's DDR4, can't be that expensive".

    Yeah... It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.

  • CVS style

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  • Excellent

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁