sugar_in_your_tea

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Nexsar owns ABC affiliates and wants to buy Tegna, which owns more affiliate stations.

Disney isn't really part of that deal, but I'm guessing they also want to appease the FCC for similar reasons.

Colbert's show seems completely unrelated. My understanding is that the cancellation has been planned for some time and has more to do with it having run for 10 years than anything political he has said.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

No, I'm pretty sure it's about the money. They wanted a merger and didn't want trouble, so they cut Jimmy Kimmel's show to help that progress more smoothly.

Disney is really easy to understand because it is always about the money with them.

How is your router "full"?

You can be sued for defamation regardless of the target, as long as you damaged their reputation with false statements. It's a lot easier to prove damages against a company than a regular person though.

You probably opted out years ago. Check your Steam notifications settings.

I only watch top tier players so I can get better at whatever the game is. I'd rather be playing, but my obligations are such that I can watch (say, while doing laundry or dishes) when I can't play. I find it makes my play sessions more effective since I have strategies to succeed where I'd otherwise fail.

That said, I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority given that many of the chats I see on streams are like "what did I miss?" or "has streamer done X yet?" like they're watching a drama. I don't understand that aspect of streaming, yet comments like yours show that I'm likely in the minority.

I think that's really interesting and turns gaming from a hobby to a social endeavor.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why?

Their mad at the English government, not the English people. An English football club is entirely separate from the English government.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Your friends buy you stuff?

Mine exists so I can avoid the front page. I have it filtered to show only discounted games, so when I need a game, there's almost always something I'm interested in that's on sale since I have over 100 games on that list.

Really?

I just open the Steam app on my phone periodically. I have over 100 games there, so there's usually a few on sale on any given day. I have my wishlist set to "discount" so only games on sale are shown, and I check it periodically and buy when a game gets to an interesting price.

I never look at Steam emails.

That doesn’t cost them anything

It's an opportunity cost. What other games would have otherwise shown? If the game isn't appealing, that's poor use of ad space and could result in lost sales for another game that would then in its place.

I think it's the right thing to do, though perhaps the window should've been longer, like 3 days. But saying it costs nothing isn't accurate.

I'm the same way. I'll periodically prune it, but most of the games there have been there over a year. If the game goes on a really good sale, I might get it, but I probably won't.

You can't, but others can.

 

Current setup:

  • one giant docker compose file
  • Caddy TLS trunking
  • only exposed port is Caddy

I've been trying out podman, and I got a new service running (seafile), and I did it via podman generate kube so I can run it w/ podman kube play. My understanding is that the "podman way" is to use quadlets, which means container, network, etc files managed by systemd, so I tried out podlet podman kube play to generate a systemd-compatible file, but it just spat out a .kube file.

Since I'm just starting out, it wouldn't be a ton of work to convert to separate unit files, or I can continue with the .kube file way. I'm just not sure which to do.

At the end of this process, here's what I'd like in the end:

  • Caddy is the only exposed port - could block w/ firewall, but it would be nice if they worked over a hidden network
  • each service works as its own unit, so I can reuse ports and whatnot - I may move services across devices eventually, and I'd rather not have to remember custom ports and instead use host names
  • automatically update images - shouldn't change the tag, just grab the latest from that tag

Is there a good reason to prefer .kube over .container et al or vice versa? Which is the "preferred" way to do this? Both are documented on the same "quadlet" doc page, which just describes the acceptable formats. I don't think I want kubernetes anytime soon, so the only reason I went that way is because it looked similar to compose.yml and I saw a guide for it, but I'm willing to put in some work to port from that if needed (and the docs for the kube yaml file kinda sucks). I just want a way to ship around a few files so moving a service to a new device is easy. I'll only really have like 3-4 devices (NAS, VPS, and maybe an RPi or two), and I currently only have one (NAS).

Also, is there a customary place to stick stuff like config files? I'm currently using my user's home directory, but that's not great long-term. I'll rarely need to touch these, so I guess I could stick them on my NAS mount (currently /srv/nas/) next to the data (/srv/nas//). But if there's a standard place to stick this, I'd prefer to do that.

Anyway, just looking for an opinionated workflow to follow here. I could keep going with the kube yaml file route, or I could switch to the .container route, I don't mind either way since I'm still early in the process. I'm currently thinking of porting to the .container method to try it out, but I don't know if that's the "right" way or if ".kube` with a yaml config is the "right" way.

 

Apparently US bandwidth was reduced to 1TB for their base plan, though they have 20TB for the same plan in Europe. I don't use much bandwidth right now, but I could need more in the future depending on how I do backups and whatnot.

So I'm shopping around in case I need to make a switch. Here's what I use it for:

  • VPN to get around CGNAT - so all traffic for my internal services goes through it
  • HAProxy - forwards traffic to my various services
  • small test servers - very low requirements, basically just STUN servers
  • low traffic blog

Hard requirements:

  • custom ISO, or at least openSUSE support
  • inexpensive - shooting for ~$5/month, I don't need much
  • decent bandwidth (bare minimum 50mbps, ideally 1gbps+), with high-ish caps - I won't use much data most of the time (handful of GB), but occasionally might use 2-5TB

Nice to have:

  • unmetered/generous bandwidth - would like to run a Tor relay
  • inexpensive storage - need to put my offsite backups somewhere
  • API - I'm a nerd and like automating things :)
  • location near me - I'm in the US, so anywhere in NA works

Not needed:

  • fast processors
  • lots of RAM
  • loose policies around torrenting and processing (no crypto or piracy here)
  • support features, recipes, etc - I can figure stuff out on my own

I'll probably stick with Hetzner for now because:

  • pricing is still fair (transfer is in line with competitors)
  • can probably move my server to Germany w/o major issues for more bandwidth
  • they hit all of the other requirements, nice to haves, and many unneeded features

Anyway, thoughts? The bandwidth change pisses me off, so let me know if there's a better alternative.

 

Here's what I currently have:

  • Ryzen 1700 w/ 16GB RAM
  • GTX 750 ti
  • 1x SATA SSD - 120GB, currently use <50GB
  • 2x 8TB SATA HDD
  • runs openSUSE Leap, considering switch to microOS

And main services I run (total disk usage for OS+services - data is :

  • NextCloud - possibly switch to ownCloud infinite scale
  • Jellyfin - transcoding is nice to have, but not required
  • samba
  • various small services (Unifi Controller, vaultwarden, etc)

And services I plan to run:

  • CI/CD for Rust projects - infrequent builds
  • HomeAssistant
  • maybe speech to text? I'm looking to build an Alexa replacement
  • Minecraft server - small scale, only like 2-3 players, very few mods

HW wishlist:

  • 16GB RAM - 8GB may be a little low longer term
  • 4x SATA - may add 2 more HDDs
  • m.2 - replace my SATA SSD; ideally 2x for RAID, but I can do backups; performance isn't the concern here (1x sata + PCIe would work)
  • dual NIC - not required, but would simplify router config for private network; could use USB to Eth dongle, this is just for security cameras and whatnot
  • very small - mini-ITX at the largest; I want to shove this under my bed
  • very quiet
  • very low power - my Ryzen 1700 is overkill, this is mostly for the "quiet" req, but also paying less is nice

I've heard good things about N100 devices, but I haven't seen anything w/ 4x SATA or an accessible PCIe for a SATA adapter.

The closest I've seen is a ZimaBlade, but I'm worried about:

  • performance, especially as a CI server
  • power supply - why couldn't they just do regular USB-C?
  • access to extra USB ports - its hidden in the case

I don't need x86 for anything, ARM would be fine, but I'm having trouble finding anything with >8GB RAM and SATA/PCIe options are a bit... limited.

Anyway, thoughts?

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