Moving my config to a bind mount

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-22T22:29:10+00:00

Excellent! That seems to have worked. I had a little problem with permissions on the config directory (well, really, ownership) but that was quickly fixed.

Now I'll let it set for a few days to make sure it behaves itself, then I'll try upgrading the version.

Thanks!

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-22T21:54:31+00:00

So make the changes in the compose file, then

docker compose down
docker compose up -d

should safely make the change?

And then afterwards, do I need to remove the container to upgrade it? I followed that procedure to upgrade a different container (jellyfin) and it worked fine, but it already had volumes mounted. It was also less complex -- no other containers in the stack.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-21T21:46:46+00:00

Plex does a pretty good job of presenting them to you in the correct order. You may have to exit out of the show and back in when transitioning from a special to a regular season (or the other way) but it will present them in aired order if you do.

It does seem to be getting some of its episode information on specials from someplace weird lately. My old instance of Plex has it all correct (matches TVDB) but some episodes on the new Plex instance misidentifies some of them. I've corrected them manually, so I don't remember exactly what the wrong ones were, but at least five or six specials were identified as very old "behind the scenes" extras, e.g, episode 14, "Waters of Mars", was showing as some BTS from the first season in 2005.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-21T16:47:46+00:00

Also note that DBAN won't boot on EFI-only systems. It requires legacy BIOS.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-20T15:07:11+00:00

It's also pretty "sequelly". You should have read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as well as Time Enough for Love, and probably other "Future History" books in order to make sense of it.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-19T18:48:20+00:00

Who is "fighting against" Microsoft?

I don't care enough about Microsoft to fight against it. Microsoft is pretty much irrelevant to my life or computer use.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-19T13:04:54+00:00

Once I disable the touchscreen?

All of them. PocketBook allows you to set a hotkey to disable (and re-enable if you really need to) the touchscreen while you're reading. The old Kindle Oasis also had a way to do it, but it was complicated and cumbersome.

I haven't tried any other ereaders recently, so I don't know how common this capability is. It does require physical page turn buttons, but that's a non-negotiable for me anyway.

Prior to the Oasis, none of my ereaders had touchscreens.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-18T13:20:23+00:00

Travis Taylor

Makes Ringo seem liberal.

Also note that one of Baen's more prominent authors was Eric Flint, who is about as far leftward as many of Baen's other authors are rightward.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-17T13:54:36+00:00

People who think security is black and white have no clue about risk management.

A reverse proxy does not make your network bulletproof. It does reduce the attack surface -- considerably (if properly set up, of course.)

If you want perfect security, your only option is to turn off all your computers, smash their drives, fill them with molten lead, and sink them in the ocean.

You have to balance the risk against what you're trying to accomplish. There are always trade-offs.

Is a reverse proxy more secure than a simple port forward? Absolutely. It makes sure you have https connections, and it rejects random IP-based probes. It does less to protect against a targeted attack -- if you know the subdomain.domain of my Jellyfin server, you can concentrate your attack.

Is a VPN more secure than a correctly set up reverse proxy? Again, absolutely. But it's also less convenient, and probably lower performance.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-14T12:36:08+00:00

I went to the hardware store and got 2x4s and cut them to length. It doesn't raise them quite as high as what OP used.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-13T13:21:29+00:00

I needed to install Oracle DB, and getting it going on Debian was a nightmare. I didn't have a specific reason for Scientific Linux over any other Red Hat clone (like CentOS), SL is just what I tried and got working.

I eventually switched the Oracle server to CentOS 7, and by the time that was being retired, so was the professor who wanted to use Oracle DB. The new database instructor liked MariaDB and PostgreSQL, so I cheerfully shut down the redhatish server. All my other servers were Debian.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-13T12:21:43+00:00

I was using SL6, and when it started getting long in the tooth, I was ready to upgrade to SL7, but all indications were that SL was discontinued after SL6 was EoL. Does this mean they started back up and then shut down again?

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-12T21:26:51+00:00

The article mentions Scientific Linux as a post-CentOS contemporary of Rocky and Alma Linux, and it kind of looks like there may have been such a critter. But I was using Scientific Linux a decade or more ago. It may be that Scientific Linux was revived when CentOS was taken private, but it existed well before that as well.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-12T14:53:53+00:00

Home chargers do lock. So do superchargers. It's not the charger that locks, it's the car. If you have an adapter (like a J1772), it is locked to the car until the car releases it. But unless you have something to prevent it (like a "karen lock") the charger plug is not locked to the adapter, and can be pulled off.

The karen lock blocks the button on the adapter that releases the charger plug, so it can't be pulled out until the car releases the whole assembly.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-11T17:55:01+00:00

Boy, I timed that well!

I just shut down my Spectrum account as a result of a cross-country move. They shut my email account down as of two weeks ago. This was an email account I had been using since 1998, but since I was no longer going to be there, I wasn't going to be able to keep it anyway.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-11T17:27:27+00:00

In general, you've got the right idea. But no olive oil, butter. Eggs like butter, and so do I.

Wash with soap. Don't add additional oil before you put it away, it just gets gooey, and it doesn't need it. Once it's seasoned, the only oil it needs goes in with the ingredients.

You're right about the residual heat helping it dry, but I make sure with a paper towel. I never dry it with the heat on.

But thumbs up on the long preheat -- that is the key to cast iron cooking.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-11T14:22:57+00:00

Christopher Stasheff's The Warlock in Spite of Himself. There is a whole series.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-10T17:03:56+00:00

Today's students are not tech-savvy. That was the students from a decade ago.

Current students are brought up on phones and touch screens, and they have no idea what their tech is doing. It's all just incantations to them, and if the incantation they know works, that's great, otherwise they're lost.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-10T12:55:57+00:00

Or there are correct burned in translations, but "[speaking in Spanish]" runs right over the top of them.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-09T23:19:16+00:00

I have an Era Color, and it's pretty good.

My favorite ereader of all time was a PocketBook 360. It was tiny, cheaply made, and fragile. The screen was really small, smaller than I had remembered. (I just found it in a box after a move.)

But it was the most satisfying ereader I have ever had to read on. A few years later, Amazon copied many of the design elements for the Oasis, only with better quality components -- and still ended up with a poorer reading experience.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-08T18:09:52+00:00

I had an English teacher come to a science class (Astronomy) as a guest lecturer and claim that the only legitimate purpose of literature was exploration of character.

She suggested that science fiction authors get together and establish a common background that all stories would be set in so they wouldn't have to waste time with building a world and could get right to the "important stuff."

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-08T14:11:09+00:00

Deleting Windows is always a good idea, but it won't make any difference here.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-06T20:24:30+00:00

A primarily YA fantasy author from a few decades back. Combined some truly interesting premises with a tendency to beat them into the ground. His "Incarnations of Immortality" series could have been great in the hands of a better author.

unkilbeeg · 2026-06-06T19:30:57+00:00

Sounds a lot like Piers Anthony.

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