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@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

Of course the one thing cable doesn't give me is anywhere access to my recorded shows.

Build yourself a Plex server, get a CableCard, and buy the PassPort and now you can.

Really it's not that big of deal. When I'm not home, I rarely have time for show watching.. so having a bundle at home for a binge weekend is fine.

That said, I do want to put a Plex system together, I'm just trying to decide how much I want to spend on it.

I put together a micro ATX system with an i5 (integrated graphics), 8GB of RAM, an SSD I had lying around for OS and a spare 6 TB drive. I'm running Windows 10 on it and I hibernate it when not in use.

I am using an Android app called WOL Wake on LAN WAN https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benfinnigan.wol&hl=en (very ugly interface but works perfectly) and I just have shortcuts on my home screen that I tap and it instantly resumes from hibernation.

To hibernate my system again, I use another Android app called Shutdown Start Remote that has a corresponding java-based client that runs on the PC at startup. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.vrallev.shutdown.android&hl=en

EDIT: I am using either my phone, Rokus, Fire TV or web browser to access the plex server.

Was there any proper security audit or at least a professional review? You know, the kind of data it stores is very sensitive.

@jmoore said in Korora 26 is Here!:

oh and our clan was called STD just for that stupid joke that people thought was funny.

Gaming can be so infectious.

@romo said in Sudo without Password?:

When using configuration management tools it does make things a lot easier to work with if you atleast have one user with passwordless sudo. You really don't need to log to the servers anymore, you only need to properly secure your ssh keys.

With things like salt stack, you don't even need that.

@aaronstuder said in Korora Custom Partitioning - KVM:

I am installing Korora on a small 120GB SSD drive.

It's a SFF PC, so adding another drive for data isn't an isn't an option... unless I use an external drive...

This system will be a KVM Host, so whats the best way to setup the partitioning?

50GBfor root seems like a lot... and doesn't leave much space for VM's etc.

Also, Where should I store the VM's? I know some people create /data, and store them there?

Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xfc93f734 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2099200 234440703 232341504 110.8G 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/mapper/korora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8325693440 bytes, 16261120 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-home: 53 GiB, 56941871104 bytes, 111214592 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

For a drive that small, shrink the root partition to 20 GiB or less, give the swap partition 4 GiB and the rest to home partition. Or just have root and swap partition only.

VM in user session, the default location is
/home/username/.local/share/libvirt/images

VM in system session, the default location is
/var/lib/libvirt/images

@quixoticjustin said in Learning Git:

@stacksofplates said in Learning Git:

@quixoticjustin said in Learning Git:

@stacksofplates said in Learning Git:

@quixoticjustin said in Learning Git:

@stacksofplates said in Learning Git:

@scottalanmiller said in Learning Git:

@matteo-nunziati said in Learning Git:

@scottalanmiller said in Learning Git:

@jaredbusch said in Learning Git:

@tim_g said in Learning Git:

I use VS Code with GitLab.

I need to install VS code. on my desktop. been hearing you two complement it.

It's like Atom but with some benefits (and drawbacks.) If you like Atom and use it mostly for coding, VS Code might be the right choice for you.

@stacksofplates said in Learning Git:

@jaredbusch said in Learning Git:

@tim_g said in Learning Git:

I use VS Code with GitLab.

I need to install VS code. on my desktop. been hearing you two complement it.

It's pretty nice. The built in Git stuff is nicer than Atom. To me it feels faster than Atom also.

matter of taste: I've used both for coding (mostly python) and I prefer Atom. As far as git is concerned I feel constrained with both and I go straight to cmd line.

I generally use the command line too for GIT. Just so quick and easy, and works every time.

I find the integrations in the apps quicker for normal commits. Don't have to switch between the app and a terminal (or even switch to a terminal in the app). The shortcuts are quick, and auto-complete as you type. I've never not had it work.

Quake style terminals are perfect for this. Hit a hot key, terminal is in your face, commit, hotkey and it is gone again.

I use the drop down terminal extension for GNOME3 a lot. I'm just lazy and like typing as little as possible 😛

With a tiny BASH wrapper, you could have essentially no typing at all. Something like "gitcom these are my changes" and it submits for you. Or just alias it to "g".

True. I usually don't alias much. But I think we are at the point where you are writing things to get the cli at the same speed as what's in the applications.

I've not found any application that comes close in speed to the "up arrow, hit enter" speed of the CLI, though.

You still have to enter your message. So to me it's the same as hotkey and then message.

@JaredBusch said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@dbeato said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@JaredBusch said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@dbeato said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon Lightsail OS Choices:

@JaredBusch I wonder how performance compares.

Price is on par now, but historically the price drops lag behind. Since it is a subscription model, the historic price modelling makes it more expensive. If we are deploying a workload only momentarily, we assume that the prices are on par. But from past performance, the expectation is that any long running workload will cost more over time.

Perfomance is good, I have customers on it and works well but it is based on Bitnami for a lot of apps like Wordpress.

FFS. It is a VPS. Not an app system. Yes, there could be some apps preset to spin up just like DO and Vultr do.

Yes....

So the whole thing is not based on Bitnami......

Correct, I said it wrong and for that I apologize. What I really was trying to say was that Bitnami is what they use for running Wordpress if you use their template for WordPress and other applications (But yeah it is not an OS). As below
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/

@Curtis said in PiHole for Friends and Family:

@Romo Are you still maintaining this?

He is.

Looks like it's just you getting an AWS instance with them doing an install script for you? So you pay more than AWS which is already double Vultr. I'm unclear what you are getting for they money.

EchoDot came back hard.

I disabled the pi-hole for 5 minutes (setting in the menu on the left) and poof. it is happy again.

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I pulled a @jaredbusch and justed used voip.ms 😄

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@aaronstuder said in FreePBX for Family?:

What are some advantages to using FreePBX and not going direct to a VoIP provider?

SIP Provider Failover Free Extension to Extension Calling Maybe more Control? Voicemail, Call Forwarding, etc?

Extension to Extension is big for me. The whole family can call each other this way.

Except when you setup direct to VoIP.ms it is still ext to ext.

Oh really? And you don't pay per extension?

They are just sub accounts.

Interesting. That's pretty handy.

Back on the news.

FUKUOKA -- A man who allegedly sent a nude female image to a stranger on a subway train via Apple's "AirDrop" file-sharing service is accused of violating a prefectural ordinance, police said on Aug. 20.

I'm a fan of MATE, but lately I've been choosing Cinnamon instead because of convenience in places that make more sense.

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That could be cool. I will take a look

When I setup my old server room I just hooked a cheep webcam via USB to a old Windows Client computer I had laying around. I then installed some cheap software (Webcam Monitor I think) that would take a picture when ever someone walked in front of it, save it to a file share, then email me the pic as an attachment. I then pointed the camera at the door at face height, turned the lights off, and left it. I could RDP to the box to check in, and I had a email and photo log with time stamps of everyone that walked in.

@aaronstuder

OpenSSH installation is the one thing I always have to do when installation finishes with Ubuntu Servers, so it is always an extra step for me. And I dont like how they are messing with openssh config frequently lately.