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@atpfm

Brief thoughts:

I use ProxMox and PBS personally and with clients. Clients have local PBS, that PBS then connects over a VPN to my PBS and syncs the delta every night. (Hint hint: make a small PC and send it to @marcoarment padding it with electronics you don’t need and he can store it next to the water in his closet.

I run PBS with ZFS based data stores and I’m able to use a mirrored config doing so, currently using two 4Tb disks. Since it is only two disks if both fail I’m hosed but if one fails and I catch it fast enough it’s easy to replace. I don’t actually need the 4Tb of space, between my backups and my client backups PBS is still saying it will take a year at the current rate to fill up the disk, and that’s presuming I don’t clean up old backups after 6 months.

As for replacing the Synology the Unifi gear works well, if you want something with more options TrueNAS Scale is another choice.

@marcoarment
@atpfm

You installed a Unifi DMP right?

Why not use WireGuard in the Unifi itself so it’s one VPN connection that you can turn on/off at will to link to the whole network there?

I do this in my setup to my home lab remotely, and the only headache is if the public IP changes or if I was behind a CGNAT, which is something Tailscale can handle to my understanding.

If you are behind a CGNAT another option is doing the inverse: have the WireGuard in the datacenter reach to a WireGuard box you have on the outside. That’s how I handled my VPS connection in that I had the VPS just always online and my pFsense router at the time made the connection back to the VPS, which allowed me to move my router from physical site to physical site without any interruption aside from the literal downtime in moving it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115991705165860760

There is legal precedent for this. A circuit court had determined that biometrics are a thing you have, akin to a urine sample, whereas a password is something you know and would need a warrant for.

Obviously abusing the letter of the law is wrong. That said, I want to remind everyone to look up how to trigger requiring a password/passcode on your device in the event you are stopped or going through a checkpoint.

@marcoarment
@atpfm

#ATP #linux #bsd #unix

I think in an alternate timeline where Apple didn't exist any longer, BSD/*nix OS's would have had a different outcome. I want to believe it would have been better, for sure.

I will also say: Linux is good right now. Yes, you need to pay attention to hardware choices. Yes, not every program is 1-to-1 with it's counterparts. But even for power users that do lots of coding, it works well. I have access to Firefox, Google Chrome (not just Chromium), VS Code, Discord, etc etc.

So to say it has a lot of the same issues is IMO incorrect because people such as ourselves wouldn't just grab a system off the shelf and then hope Linux works. 1/2