I'm running a homelab server already that's more than capable of running everything I want and more. I've got nextcloud with stun/turn, arrs, every fediverse platform, navidrome, peertube, the list goes on and on. I've been working on it for a while and it's stable and happy.

BUT...

I just got two new UN100P Mini PC's 12th Gen N100's 16GB DDR4

I've no idea what to do with them. Is there something useful I can do with these that could compliment my setup somehow? I was thinking maybe using one to run my game servers (minecraft, whatever) as they're kinda a pain to run behind my VPS and only game with friends.

Seriously though I feel like I'm at a loss. I have a ton of overhead on my homelab setup still. What would you do with them?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/27808168

Midjourney

Prompt: A Goofy Movie 3: meth "A Goofy Movie 3: meth" movie poster --ar 9:16

It took the idea and absolutely ran with it, five stars.

You've probably seen me share Rowan's work before - he saw the state of modern gaming with their lack of paperwork within the video game cases, and decided to just do something about it. He makes beautiful manuals and inserts (all made by hand), with care, and all because he misses that physical and tangible part of buying video games:

Anyway, I got to chat to Rowan and ask him all about his work for an article. If you're interested in what he does, how he does it, and why, then it's worth your time to read it!

The link to my article is here, if you do want to read through about his work!

^ also, this is the amount of chatter Rowan gave me, so...clearly I culled all of that back to find some quotes. I'm actually impressed with it.

Anyway, more of his work because I just love it:

Just installed fedora to replace windows 10. I've used mint and ubuntu as a general purpose os in the past but it's been a few years and I was never a power user, just learned what I needed as I went.

I remember it being important to use timeshift to safeguard against breaking something with updates, but it seems like timeshift doesn't work on fedora. Rather, you can get it to work on fedora but it's not supported. The thing that is confusing me is, searching for a way to do snapshots on fedora, I haven't really found what I expected? There's nothing I can see in software or flathub, timeshift or the alternatives mentioned on forums. I'm think I'm going to proceed with figuring out snapper using btrfs assistant as a gui...

But, given that I remember timeshift being basically recommended all the time to everyone when I used to use linux, I can't find anyone all that interested in using snapshots with fedora. Is it not necessary with fedora? Does fedora somehow handle that already? I can make do with the information I can find, but I'm wondering why there is so little information about it at all. I can't really find anything that suggests it's important to make snapshots. Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? Can someone help me understand this better?

Here I am playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, when it dawns on me. Lara is a sociopath. She is a killing machine who barely even speaks on it, it's nothing to her at this point. She doesn't care about her health, injury nor pain. She just wants artifacts and to uncover ancient mysteries. I like her character but damn she is actually low key the villain of the story when i think about it. Trinity are bad guys but Lara is the boss villain slaughtering all in her way to get to her goals. Lol anyone else notice that?

Context: The Finnish Marticulation Examination is a national examination required to qualify for entry into a university in Finland (not strictly required, but the vast majority will have passed the exam before university). These are basically the final exams of Finnish "high school". The current digital system used for the exams is called "Abitti", which is a Debian-based OS. The students boot into the system with provided USB-sticks.

In the linked article, there is the following statement (in Finnish):

Computer technology advances quickly, and the current Abitti works in fewer and fewer computers. The threat is that computers that can run the current Linux-environment won't be available in the near future.

The new system ("Abitti 2"), which is planned to be used by Autumn 2026, uses locked-down Web-apps written for each supported OS. Support is planned for Windows, Mac, and ChromeOS. Linux support "needs further investigation". As I understand it, the current situation is that the old Linux USB-stick method (now called "Abitti 2 student-stick") is still used as a backup for those without Windows, Mac, or ChromeOS.

I think the main premise of Linux-bootable computers not being available in the near future is extremely dystopian. Thoughts?

Running pfsense, I was able to route my entire LAN subnet through a VPN. I have firewall and NAT rules that use an alias to filter outgoing connections to specific domains outside of the VPN gateway.

This works great. But here's the problem. Wildcards are not supported within pfsense aliases, and therefore unless you know the specific subdomain for a service, there's no way to reroute services that use rotating or load balancing subdomains.

Surely this is a big problem in large companies. I'm sure they utilize a paid solution to solve this problem.

Are there any solutions for self hosting that are FOSS or within pfsense?

I set up Wireguard on my phone, server, and computer to let my phone access my home network when I'm outside of it.

It works for the most part, but the inconvenient thing is that on Android you can only have 1 VPN running at a time. I want to use Mullvad VPN for the rest of my network connections for privacy.

I could make a single Wireguard config that defines 2 peers to connect to mullvad and my home VPN at the same time, but by doing this, I lock myself to a single server without the benefits of being able to swap servers at the same time.

Locking myself to a single mullvad server results in:

• less privacy, since my IP is more static
• inability to switch to bypass a VPN block

On desktop, I can have multiple wireguard VPNs at once, but if I have both running at the same time, then my LAN is accessed over the home VPN which is routed through Mullvad VPN. It goes

Computer -> Mullvad server -> Home VPN -> Home server

which is pretty wasteful.

Additionally, I'd prefer not to not do something like: Computer -> Home VPN -> Mullvad server -> destination, as my upload speed is pretty bad and this would throttle every non-local connection

What options do I have?

publication croisée depuis : https://jlai.lu/post/26411548

La Région Île-de-France a décidé de basculer les données de 550 000 lycéens vers des solutions françaises :

→ Docaposte / PRONOTE pour la vie scolaire

→ Leviia pour l’hébergement en France

→ Worldline pour la messagerie

→ et toujours Monlycée(.)net comme portail

Le but ?

🔸 Reprendre le contrôle des données

🔸 Réduire la dépendance à Microsoft

🔸 S’aligner sur le RGPD et les futures règles européennes (DORA, SecNumCloud)

🔸 Et faire des économies sur les licences

Source La Tribune

https://www.latribune.fr/article/tech/informatique/87093664157841/souverainete-numerique-l-ile-de-france-remplace-microsoft-par-des-solutions-francaises-pour-centraliser-les-donnees-des-lyceens

Awesome to see Omarchy getting more visibility! Fireship’s vid spreading the Linux desktop to 500k+ viewers is huge!

I don't use this distro myself, but I still cheer for anything that helps motivate Windows users to make the switch.

publication croisée depuis : https://jlai.lu/post/26411548

La Région Île-de-France a décidé de basculer les données de 550 000 lycéens vers des solutions françaises :

→ Docaposte / PRONOTE pour la vie scolaire

→ Leviia pour l’hébergement en France

→ Worldline pour la messagerie

→ et toujours Monlycée(.)net comme portail

Le but ?

🔸 Reprendre le contrôle des données

🔸 Réduire la dépendance à Microsoft

🔸 S’aligner sur le RGPD et les futures règles européennes (DORA, SecNumCloud)

🔸 Et faire des économies sur les licences

Source La Tribune

https://www.latribune.fr/article/tech/informatique/87093664157841/souverainete-numerique-l-ile-de-france-remplace-microsoft-par-des-solutions-francaises-pour-centraliser-les-donnees-des-lyceens

One thing I’ve run into as I’ve been playing some of my retro games is that, when using a controller with an Nvidia Shield + Moonlight or even with just a Steam Deck, the emulators often have a massive amount of controls that I can’t really interact with. All of the controls are hotkey based, for save states, loading states, etc.

Most of the games I’m wanting to play are controller based, but it feels like the tools to enjoy them are all keyboard based. Do you just use the built in save functionalities? How does it all work?