Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?

I recall hearing that there’s a Debian install for Qnap devices. I’ve been considering reimaging an old Qnap with Debian and Minio for backups.

How do you decide what’s for Terraform and what’s for Ansible?

I haven’t heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?

I had to scroll way too far down the pageto find this (i trynot to duplicateanother’s comments). At the core of some of thescummy advertisements is profiling, enhanced by privacy violations. Remove the abikity to track you around the internet and IRL and advertisements become less obtrusive.

The other side of the coin is that it costs so little to add adverts to a web page, so why not collect a little cash to help offset your hosting costs? Remove the profiling and Google & friends don’t have a leg to stand on, so then when you visit a cooking blog you see ads for kitchen utensils. No biggie. Looking for auto repair articles? Check out this awesome wrench! At least you now don’t go to show your mom some wedding venue you’re thinking about renting alongside an ad for ED meds from the dark market.

Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend’s house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it’s twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.

Other than clock drift due to power outages, I’ve had no issues.

I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.

A pretty good read. I’ve made many of these mistakes myself and learned from every one of them. We spend so much time hardening our home labs from the bad guys, I wonder if we should instead focus on hardening from ourselves.

Of course, the answer is both.

I’m in a shower of my own tears

I love this!

Just imagine if the roles were reversed and some reporter was hanging out in a top secret war chat on Signal with high ranking US government officials!