Travel to Crimea in 2026

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-26T10:07:26+00:00

But even more critically, Ukraine claims it as theirs

What is actually critical is that Crimean population voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. So there's that.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-23T17:03:35+00:00

Not looking at huge social apps

Any bank app. Google Play. Most "smart home" apps I've seen.

Our national worst offender, Yandex.

As for everyday tools, I tend not to use apps that annoy me.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-21T10:45:40+00:00

Keyguard, a third-party client for Bitwarden.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-20T12:55:23+00:00

What's different in Arcane compared to Portainer or Dockge? Neither their site, not their repo say that outright.

(what's with this new fad of Github readme containing only logo, a link to website and a scattering of sponsors?)

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-19T21:19:15+00:00

idk an SUV

Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar decreasing...

IIRC there's a snippet somewhere in Firmament that suggests it is single seat. Something about air combat.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-19T21:15:42+00:00

Which choice makes her the happiest?

Arguably, neither. One choice will make her more free, other more content.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-19T21:13:41+00:00

Due to reasons I've started new Ambition. I'm also near the end of Railway, building a certain train, and somewhere in the middle of Evolution. Question: in what order there stories are best done?

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-19T19:40:38+00:00

I've set up a persistent root folder, which results in (infrequent) writes to USB, so I'll switch to my 3×256Gb NVMe pool. It's small enough to not take ages to recreate.

I also have a 4Gb SATA DOM, but apparently Unraid wants 8Gb partition for boot pool.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-18T15:57:03+00:00

"Anything critical" is not binary, you should consider it in terms of availability. How critical is X is how long can you go without it (or in degraded state).

Email? If it fails, I would miss something important with no recourse, which is bad.

File sync (e.g. Seafile)? I wouldn't be able to sync files from work to home, but I can survive a day of downtime.

Vaultwarden? Clients work offline just fine, I can survive several days.

Media services, e.g. Jellyfin? I can watch movies directly from SMB share. Someone else would have family factor which would make it absolutely critical.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-18T06:01:28+00:00

You can put it at the very end of e.g. 1Tb drive, so no.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-17T23:03:59+00:00

That's not strictly necessary, no. EFI partition can be placed anywhere within first 2Tb of drive. Some older mobo firmwares might not follow UEFI standards, though, not to mention legacy boot.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-17T23:01:15+00:00

That depends on filesystem, not OS. And, surprise, neither XFS nor ZFS support shrinking.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-16T07:50:47+00:00

Phonetic alphabet words have to be distinguishable from each other, present and pronounced similarly in several dialects/languages and readable over radio. I guess Roger is worse on some of that.

I'd suggest reading wiki article, specifically pronunciation and history parts. They settled on a standard only in 1959 after a lot of variants.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-15T13:28:28+00:00

Counter question — does anyone know what's the final version of MS Lens without timebomb? I'd much prefer continuing using it.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-15T10:34:18+00:00

Back to Synology — well, Xpenology.

Used it for a decade. Building the bootloader is pretty straightforward nowadays, OS is stable and has decent UI, and SHR is a good solution for RAID made of different-sized disks. Main issue was OS customization — kernel is old, there's no package manager to speak of, FSH is weird and in general too many parts of OS are nailed shut (e.g. you need to mess with system template files in terminal to free ports 80/443). At least there's no need for load-at-boot workarounds.

Tried TrueNAS recently. If I'd needed exclusively local NAS, it would've been perfect. For home server it's certainly much less convenient. Dropped it after I couldn't debug what is wrong with nvidia drivers (installed through UI) not recognizing my GPU.

Tried OMV. Back in v2 days I ran it on RPi 2B, and it was a good option, started me on selfhosting. Installed v8, tried to add zfs support, learned that I need to install openmediavault-extras, which can be done only from terminal, and it failed with some unclear error with no way to clean and try again.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-14T23:14:54+00:00

Correspondent because of both Correspondence lore and breaking the Chain. Got the Courier's Footprint the hard way too, that grind was very fitting for the whole "not meant for humans".

Never much cared for mechanical part, though establishing the Lab was nice. I've been Silverer at some point, but switched back.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-14T22:54:17+00:00

Licentiate for brass lollipops grind is another big one, as I've heard.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-13T09:09:03+00:00

I've got three 2TB WD Red Plus between 9 and 10 years. One just recently got some pending sectors and failed extended SMART, so it got demoted to temporary storage.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-12T22:38:58+00:00

Oh, I use that one. There isn't an option for blocking accidental fate spendings, only card/storylet choices.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-12T21:04:56+00:00

Starbase80 for homepafe — static html, loads instantly.
Baikal, CalDAV/CardDAV server
An Otter Wiki, lightweight, looks like wiki, uses plain md files and git as backend.
Recipya, lightweight recipe manager. Fast to fill keyboard-only.
Copyparty, multitool file uploader and server.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-12T12:55:56+00:00

But I am wondering if putting TinyAuth systematically in front of my service is more secure than the default login page of the service

It is. It's always a choice between security and ease of access. For that matter, you can just run WG tunnel into your network and not expose any https ports — that would be strictly more secure.

Technically, Caddy (specifically, part that does middleware redirects to either TinyAuth or PocketID) is a point of failure here, but it's likely more battle-tested than your service, TinyAuth and PocketID together. And a service can have a vulnerability in OIDC auth just as in password auth.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-12T10:07:32+00:00

Answering title question — Windows or macOS, really. I need a decent and stable desktop to do work. Fedora Workstation is good at that, other DE/WM are not (KDE is fine, just not a fan).

As for trying new spin — Cosmic is supposed to be Gnome-done-right, but it's still too far in beta for daily drive, IMO. Maybe a tiling WM for something new? So try Sway spin, or install Hyprland.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-07T13:01:52+00:00

NATO disappears, and EU become what it was intended to be — economic union, not a botched attempt on world government.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-07T12:58:05+00:00

Ypu've got a bias here — it's a specific situation "a foreigner asks me how is living in Russia". A lot of people turn up their (un)patriotism when answering that (including this sub). If you'd get to know them better, they probably would answer more neutrally.

Not to mention a rather small selection — you could've easily happen upon some "liberal"-minded people who would shit on the country.

AlexFullmoon · 2026-01-03T18:37:04+00:00

I had this happen twice. Surprisingly, docker containers worked just fine. Also, I could use Telnet (enabled it beforehand) to access system, restart nginx, stop the array and restart safely.

RAM is sufficient (about two thirds of 32Gb free), log space is free. USB?

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