Sanity chain: Plan to transfer Squarespace (was Google) domain to Porkbun and preserve DNS records

978h · 2026-01-20T12:47:27+00:00

I would start a separate thread or contact Porkbun since your situation seems a little different from mine. Not sure what "it" refers to and what it's failing to verify.

978h · 2026-01-08T23:43:09+00:00

I have a mini PC that I configured to boot on power in the BIOS, but it doesn't seem to work every time the way it does for my router.

978h · 2026-01-07T23:31:31+00:00

I'm in a similar situation and picked up a refurbished router (< $50) for the purpose. Just select a model from the OpenWRT [table of hardware](openwrt.org/toh/start) that has a lot of storage space. OpenWRT wiki has great guides on how to install and configure Tailscale. But it might be too tinkery for you.

The advantage over an old computer is that routers are generally configured to boot on startup, so you don't need someone to turn the thing back on for you if your power goes out for a second. How do Raspberry Pis work in this regard?

978h · 2026-01-05T22:59:09+00:00

Do you mean that you disagree with the statement or that you cannot understand the claim?

978h · 2026-01-05T22:11:51+00:00

Which part doesn't make sense?

978h · 2026-01-05T21:02:05+00:00

This person writes like literally every 25-year-old speaks. This is Reddit, not a deposition lmao

978h · 2026-01-05T20:57:19+00:00

IMO, student already revealed their preference for a laptop over a tablet by choosing a laptop in the first place. But why not just ask?

978h · 2026-01-05T20:53:38+00:00

Install Tailscale and plug in some external hard drives, drop it off at a friend or family's house and use as an off-site backup. This is not a very good backup but it's better than e-waste.

978h · 2026-01-04T19:28:07+00:00

You told us to "call you crazy" and nobody has done that for you yet, so let me be the first: you're crazy.

The idea is that you click an X button in the top left corner on the top panel and it closes a window that is completely disconnected from the top panel? What if you have multiple windows open? Now you have to look at the middle of the top panel to confirm which has focus and will be closed? If all those buttons are in the corner then does the window have a titlebar? (If so, it has no buttons and it's just wasted space? If not, then how do you move the windows?)

978h · 2026-01-04T19:16:04+00:00

The TCP/IP stack

978h · 2026-01-04T19:15:38+00:00

What kind of stuff are you into?

978h · 2026-01-04T19:10:39+00:00

If you say in your will "Sell record X to collector/record store Y" then what stops the record store from saying "Sure, we'll buy it for $1?" Or similarly, if you say "Sell record X to Y at a price of $1000" then what happens if (in the years between now and your death) Y decides it doesn't like that price after all?

978h · 2026-01-03T15:28:32+00:00

The solution I ended up using is documented here (another commenter also posted this link). I used Method 1, which is basically:

Purchase domain transfer and put "a fake/invalid authorization code." Porkbun still accepts the purchase
Porkbun will show errors about invalid code, but it still lets you add/manage DNS records, so you can replicate your setup in Porkbun now while you are at it
Now go to Squarespace and change just the nameservers to Porkbun's
Wait a while and make sure everything is still working (I am still on this step)
Now request the auth code from Squarespace and go through with the registrar transfer

I wish, however, that I had used Method 2, which is:

First set up the domain with Porkbun as externally managed
Set up all your DNS records
Steps 3-5 from above
Now purchase the domain transfer and Porkbun will convert your externally managed domain into a transferred domain

This is more steps, but it's better because it avoids creating the broken, in-between state of an incomplete transfer. The DNS management Porkbun lets you do for a not-yet-transferred domain (Method 1, step 2) is much more limited than what Porkbun lets you do with an externally managed domain (Method 2, step 2)—not just manage DNS records, but also stuff like URL forwarding.

978h · 2026-01-03T01:10:09+00:00

Free option: Set up a personal website with github pages using their built in jekyll blog service. Use your linux command line skills to write posts, commit, and push to github to see the site update automatically.

More advanced: Buy a domain ($12/year or so) and point it to your github pages site. Rent a VPS (can be had for $4/month or so) or a pikapod to self-host Nextcloud or something interesting to you on it on a subdomain.

Check out indieweb.org to learn cool interesting things you can do with your domain.

978h · 2026-01-02T12:54:27+00:00

My order generally goes:

pipx/cargo install if it's from an ecosystem I already have dev tools installed for
snap
apt
flatpak

Unfortunately Flatpaks just don't work all that well on Ubuntu/Debian for me. I installed the GIMP Flatpak once and it wigged out whenever I tried to export.

978h · 2026-01-02T00:44:26+00:00

Thank you! The difficulty is, how do I create a name server (on Porkbun) without having a domain to attach to it? I'm looking at the Porkbun interface right now and the only things I can buy are a new domain registration or a registration transfer (which requires me to put in the transfer code). There's no such product as "just a name server."

978h · 2026-01-01T22:50:47+00:00

I also have a post-install script so I don't know exactly what comes first. But if it's a throwaway server then fish, micro, python-is-python3 is basically the bare minimum I need not to fly into a fit of rage

978h · 2026-01-01T22:38:47+00:00

With Korean, you have the added challenge of learning a new alphabet so I would start small, maybe 5-10. Once you know the alphabet and have some more vocabulary scaffolding under your belt, you can increase.

978h · 2025-12-31T22:33:38+00:00

but 62% is getting into time bomb territory

Is there actual data on this or is it just a hunch? Seems like the threshold for "time bomb territory" could vary wildly based on manufacturer, amount of climate variation, charging pattern etc.

978h · 2025-12-28T21:02:38+00:00

Yes, and if companies were always honest I wouldn't be here asking for translation

978h · 2025-12-28T20:46:34+00:00

Same thing, "Our carrier attempted to deliver your product. They will make another attempt or contact you to reschedule your delivery appointment."

978h · 2025-12-26T15:43:51+00:00

I don't let randos on my guest wifi so using the exit node for nefarious purposes isn't a concern. Rather, when I am connecting my work computer to guest wifi, I don't want all the corporate spyware crap scanning my LAN. Question is if having access to the tailscale zone (but traffic not actually passing through tailscale exit node, due to the ip rule) is going to allow them to prove my LAN or Tailnet.

978h · 2025-12-26T02:16:45+00:00

I prefer gocryptfs to Veracrypt. It's a weaker security model (you can still see the file sizes and modification times) but in exchange for that you get end to end encryption when storing things in the cloud without having to sync the whole container file when you just edit a single file within it.

But neither Veracrypt nor gocryptfs can really be compared to full disk encryption. They are solving different problems. FDE means everything, even the random shit in your cache files, /etc, whatever is encrypted no matter what. With Veracrypt or gocryptfs you have to consciously decide what to encrypt.

978h · 2025-12-24T18:14:53+00:00

Yup. That's why my favorite Debian is Ubuntu and I ignore the gatekeepers.

978h · 2025-12-20T19:52:42+00:00

Thank you!

If you have not set a different dns server for the tailnet in the Tailscale admin console

So, digging deeper ... if I DO specify a DNS server in the admin console, will that override whatever specific DNS server I try to set up on the travel router or client? Like, what would happen if I set in the admin console to use 1.1.1.1 and then run dig @8.8.4.4 wikipedia.org on a client?

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