That duress feature is neat!!

Pepper Pig is on the French tracker yggtorrents (dual French and English audio)

Thanks. Have done some googling and just found out that subwoofers are extremely expensive in my country (New Zealand). E.g. subs that are $600 in the US are equivalent of $1,100 here. But then I see that DIY subs are a thing. Might look into that because I do have woodworking equipment, import the electronics and buy the MDF locally.

Didn’t really consider HDR and brightness. Lots to think about.

Does the .1 really make a difference? I’ve been running 5.0 for a few years (Micca) and 1080p dumb TV from 2015 (I don’t care for 4k) connected to a 2019 shield pro and my Unraid server. Been happy with the sound quality.

So more of a “cattle” than “pet” approach in general?

This is my favourite comment. I laughed out loud. Thank you.

The article honestly reads like it was written by an AI tool.

This is one of those things I didn’t know I needed. I have so many usb sticks lying around with various troubleshooting isos. This is a game changer.

How does that work exactly? Do you partition the USB drive and make Ventoy bootable in one partition and then put the isos on the other partition or something?

Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn’t seem to make economical sense here. But don’t have any objective data to offer, just an impression.

Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.

Thank you that was really informative. I paid <$50 for my IP address in 2015. My ISP has been around since 1990 so I suppose they may have been one of the lucky companies. Not sure if they do RPKI, first I’m learning of it. Maybe they’re cross subsidizing from other areas of the business. Their monthly fibre fee isn’t the most competitive but the service is reliable and haven’t had anything to complain about.

They are a little behind in speeds though. They only offer 900mbps asymmetrical max, while you can get 2, 4 and 8gbit in my area from other providers. I don’t need that kind of speed so I’m happy for now.

Why do some ISPs charge a monthly fee and others a one off fee? I paid one off with my ISP several years ago for my static IPv4.

Hosting personal websites on your own hardware is such a pain, and I would imaging doing it on a rpi would be even more of a pain than on x86 architecture. If at all an option I’d recommend hosting on something like github pages or better still on a VPS.

VPS (Ubuntu on 4 virtual cores, 10GB ram, 100GB NVME)

• Mediawiki with semantic mediawiki and various plug-ins and 650 pages
• Orthantic and OHIF (radiology images)
• Moodle (docker)

Cloud container provider (different to above VPS provider)

• 3 x mediawiki sites

Homelab (Unraid on i7 4790, 16gb RAM, 3 x 10TB HDD, 4TB external disk, no cache disk yet, RTX 3070, fractal define 7 mid tower)

• Plex
• Komga (comics)
• Audiobookshelf
• Kavita and Calibre (books)
• Photoview (family photos)
• Filebrowser (work)
• Cloudflared (zero trust tunnels)
• Heimdall (dashboard)
• Krusader
• Plugins: docker compose manager, docker patch, unassigned devices

Have ordered an N100 mini PC from aliexpress with plans of installing OPNsense and running a couple VMs on it.

My gaming computer for interest, not currently hosting anything: 5800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB ram, 2TB NVME, 2TB SSD, 4TB HDD, fractal meshify midbtower case.

I also have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 that I don’t have any use for currently. Open to ideas. I already run Adguard on phone and Ublock origin on desktop browser, and don’t see any current use for Pihole.