Léon: The Professional

Did she grow up to be a nice girl or a cleaner?

I will have to take another look. I’ve seen it before but didn’t see anything about Lemmy and such.

I use Reolink. Some of the older cameras don’t work as well but setting them to reboot on a schedule works pretty well.

Frigate is not able to control the PTZ function of my RLC-823S1 but the Duo 3V is amazing. I would like to be able to track people who step onto my porch so I can get an image of their vehicle or direction of travel, but I mainly just use it to look around if I hear a noise.

Hardware routers can be killed for many reasons. Age and an inability to upgrade them to suit current needs is the biggest one. OEM’s do this fairly quickly as they build devices with the resources to work for today and maybe tomorrow. After their product is no longer made they want it to be obsolete not long after so they can claim they can support is no longer viable. Then you but another router and they make money.

OpenWRT tries to augment and support devices for as long as possible but at the same time the hardware limitations still exist and often the storage will no longer support the latest version due to the size of the new version.

As far as when that will happen depends on multiple factors that have the ability to change at any time. There viable be a massive flaw in a portion of the software that requires a huge rewrite and the addition of code that will make the software too large to fit.

Sometimes someone will create a version with less used features available so that it can still be used but it’s a losing battle

If you want true longevity repurpose an old computer into a router. OpnSense is what I use and recommend. Add in something like a TP-Link EAP650 or two and you have a rock solid platform that can handle a lot more and last much longer. Add Power Over Ethernet (POE) along with an Omada controller and you can position the AP in a place where it will work the best for your use. You can have enough access points to have a full signal anywhere even if your place is the size of the Louvre. When new technology comes out you can upgrade the AP’s as needed when needed and upgrade the router as well in a similar fashion.

It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Honestly I want to host a Lemmy instance and my own peertube instance.

Two things are stopping me. I don’t understand certain points of how things interact in the software or how to set it up properly to self host and be comfortable in it’s security. I barely understand docker and some other stuff. It sucks because I understood how to use DOS at an around 14 by reading the manual. I also don’t have the funding to do so in a way that I would feel comfortable at this point. I don’t fully trust co-mingling my home services with web services due to the security risks.

War and Peace.

When they successfully finish they can graduate.

In first grade I dreamed of taking my own life because I was miserable. I guess I instinctively knew my mother hated my existence. She stored a 5 gallon bucket nearly full of paint thinner in my closet that leaked and I lived in that for around 6 months before she “found” it. We had a garage and a basement so why store it in a child’s closet? She confirmed that when she later told me while drunk that she had her whole life planned out and then she had me.

I was an outcast in school. I’ve been literally thrown on the ground and kicked so badly the school sent me to the hospital because they were worried about internal bleeding. I didn’t even know the kid and was locking my bicycle up and blind sided that time.

I was molested by my cousin. Told I was worthless by my mother and her boyfriends, forced to eat adult sized food portions from a young age. Thrown on the ground and had my head shoved in the gravel because I couldn’t keep a grip on an old trash water heater and dropped it by her boyfriend/2nd cousin. Punched by him because I didn’t find something fast enough. Among other things.

Ended up married to a woman who had multiple miscarriages, had a son born 3 months premature who died in the NICU at 9 days old. Eventually gave up on the idea of children after another miscarriage. She was injured at work and got hooked on pain killers, then decided to leave me.

My second wife passed away after a long illness. I woke up one morning to find her warm and not breathing. I started CPR and nearly lost it when I broke her ribs.

I’m also considered high intelligence. My iq is around 140. I honestly feel like a failure.

Feel free to feed the following prompts into your favorite Ai and let it do the math.

What would an assumed IQ of a 3rd grade child be if they were told they were ranked in the top ten percentile of children through standardized testing.

And in 8th grade the same child was told that their standardized testing showed they had all of their scores ranked at a minimum of a sophmore in college with some area’s being closer to graduate school levels what would their assumed IQ be.

I literally relive my life all the time with memories playing in my head on repeat while I process them. It’s a form of C-PTSD caused by my experiences and intelligence. I also deal with recurring headaches and body pain. I truly only feel at peace when I am under water.

I’ve nearly died a couple times for various reasons. I nearly had my foot ripped off by a machine while working construction. My hands are all scarred from injuries. I made peace with my life ending years ago. I’m not suicidal I just don’t really care.

This is where computers with two dives shines. If you install windows on a drive then remove it and install a second drive with anything else you like you can then manually swap the drive in the UEFI just like booting from USB or optical when both are installed.

Another option is grab a second drive (nvme or sata) that works in your computer. Swap it out for test taking physically. You can also check if your computer can access a memory card directly and use that to install a removable os on, cfexpress would be ideal but the drives can get insanely expensive. Microsd express would work but it’s slower.

Can’t help with windows 11. Never used it beyond looking in a store at a computer. I disliked 10 and ran openshell just to make it usable. Didn’t even want to try to fix 11 once linux was viable.

I agree it’s super stake and works well. The new UI for TV’s is a fail.

There is a school of design thought that says you should be able to navigate to what you need in 3 clicks or less. Old school windows xp is an example, most everything needed was start, mouse over programs and click to access it. It you used it frequently it was start, click on the program. The longest was start, control panel, and then the app you needed.

Plex’s new UI has me hitting the back button so many times it’s faster to exit and come back in when before it was a simple scroll left and move around. To get to movies I have to move up then click multiple times and move down to browse instead of just moving let and clicking movies. As soon as anything else is able to support my library and allow me to use an old school plex interface like what the web browser still does Plex is dead to me. They have already stated the new UI is the future and they are going to eventually move to a more roku type model to profit from streaming. If they would keep the old UI available for people who prefer it I would stick around. They also split the android app so you his need 3 different apps if you have video, audio, and picture libraries.

Divemate, better than keeping logs in different apps if you change computers. Android only, sorry. If you chew the fruit you gotta find something else.

Plex Media Sever used to be great and well worth the lifetime pass. With the recent UI changes I would drop kick it if I could. Sadly the other options just don’t work right with large libraries.

Torque pro is nice especially if you have a turbo charged vehicle. Free is fine if you just need to check codes.

Try Canta and Shizuku. It’s a pair that work together and allow you to remove anything.

4 domain names. .net x1 .us x2 .org x1

Hosting which runs about 250 per year

SiriusXM music for one vehicle.

Windscribe VPN - lifetime member one time payment. Got it in 2018, no longer available. They have end points all over and it works great.

Everything else is self hosted.

Simple solution is to switch to Linux. Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS had worked great for me so far.

If you absolutely can’t or won’t switch look at openshell https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

I keep a monitor in my server closet and bring a USB wireless mini keyboard if I need to physically access something but the majority of my hardware has KVM built in.

Older commercial hardware uses more power than a mini computer in a homelab but has many advantages like often coming with more ram, more powerful (and often multiple) CPU’s, SAS backplanes, plus empty PCIe slots that can support GPU’s and other devices.

Yep. I’m using sata drives in a SAS backplane that has similar connectors soldered to a board.

The exact backplane I am using is: https://files.ekmcdn.com/itinstock/images/supermicro-sas846a-24-bay-3.5-lff-sas-sata-hdd-4u-backplane-bpn-sas-846a-4-93512-p.jpg

The cable connections don’t mean anything. SAS is multichannel and with expanders (expanders work like ethernet switches) one controller can interface with hundreds of drives.

The cable you have pictured is called a breakout cable that dedicates one of the cards individual channels to a drive. If you plug one drive into the cable and spin it up no big deal, add another later on same thing, move a dive from one cable to the other it’s all good. The cables are just electrical data connections to the controller. With ZFS you can even migrate compatible drives from SAS to SATA controllers (SAS only work on SAS, but sata works on either) in the system and they will still function just fine in a pool. For that matter I’ve heard of people mixing SAS, SATA, and USB drives in the same vDev (not generally recommended) and things worked.