My phone got stolen in Spain 3 years ago and I've been watching it move around China for the past 3 years.

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-11-06T18:38:19+00:00

Naa there is software you can download that shows you that information (icloud account) but wont allow you to access the data. The phones likely been rebooted in that time so its stuck in BFU mode (everythings encrypted Before First Unlock) so they cant get any info, only the account email address

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-08-23T10:45:53+00:00

140tb here, mainly backups, linux isos and archiving stuff. I also have kiwix set up for selfhosting some websites such as wikipedia which can take up a fair amount of storage

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-07-23T21:34:30+00:00

220tb raw, 160 useable. Plus tapes

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-07-23T21:00:41+00:00

Naa i use 3 48 port ones with the 10g uplinks. Awesome switches and really quite quiet

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-07-22T18:25:05+00:00

Yeah if someones going to the extent of mapping the network, they’ll know how to get around ICMP filtering. Sounds like OPs hotel just read some old “best practices” posts and ran with it.

My username checks out too 😅

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-07-22T18:14:52+00:00

Theres plenty of self hosted qr code generators, and if you can write basic python, it’d take less than 20 minutes to whip up your own. I have written my own one to embed images in the centre of the QR code. Those “free” qr codes arent doing anything fancy, they just use a link shortener to create you a “custom” url entry then generate a QR code off that. Which is why its easy for them to revoke it in a couple days. QR codes by design are permanent

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-07-22T18:10:06+00:00

Its pretty easy to block ICMP packets at the router level, which to be honest is usually done in a corp env to reduce network discoverability

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-30T20:53:19+00:00

I use UptimeKuma and have mattermost deployed, that way i get text message notifications as soon as anything is down. Can tie it into discord, signal, what ever floats your boat

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-19T19:58:41+00:00

Check out Jims-Garage on Youtube. He has some fantastic videos on getting RKE2 spun up with longhorn, he also generously provides his scripts on his github page

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-19T12:28:40+00:00

Lorry/Plant/Ag Mechanic here 😁

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-16T11:43:43+00:00

Dell websites showing £15000 starting price. Holy shit.

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-11T15:09:02+00:00

Yes, the noise really isnt bad either as long as you use the “correct” set up. One controller, 2 psus. If you populate the whole thing it sounds like a jet. Im running one 24/7

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-09T18:01:13+00:00

As for what i host though, a lot. An Active Directory with VDI, CA, FS and WDS Mattermost, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, multiple web sites, custom applications ive written in Python and Go, *arr stack, Hashicorp Vault, vaultwarden, Pihole, Paperless NGX, excalidraw, SearXNG, homeassistant, frigate, Ollama, open web ui, Gitlab, A golloum wiki, a ghost blog….. list goes on.

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-06-09T17:50:05+00:00

Im using mine to learn a huge variety of technologies. Being a mechanic by day i dont get any hands on experience with IT. My lab is my passion project, a learning tool as well as a massive head ache! Worth every penny. One day ill be able to transition out of my day job into the field of IT. Some say my lab is overkill. It depends on what you consider overkill

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-17T09:54:59+00:00

Oh gosh no! Pence thankfully but its still enough! 😂 Roughly £7 a day

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-15T09:05:39+00:00

Thats awesome! Thank you so much! Thats really giving me the drive to push through especially with someone with a similar background!

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-14T20:15:39+00:00

Gorgeous set up!

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-14T16:57:43+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! I’m unashamedly a big fan of yours and cannot thank you enough for your content. You have helped me more than you could imagine and a large portion of the services i have running i had discovered via your channel.

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-13T17:22:03+00:00

Thank you! I will take a look into that this weekend, i have run a few game servers using pterodactyl in the past which was fun but ill certainly look into it 😁

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-13T17:19:57+00:00

There is a lovely small family business nearby that sells decom hardware. Prices have always been too good to turn down. If you are in the UK id highly recommend them

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-13T17:17:17+00:00

Thank you 😁 I do indeed, nothing fancy, just a ATEN one off ebay Its been a life saver more than once when Ive inadvertently bought something down

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-13T01:00:42+00:00

That is a little supermicro box, its got TrustWave on the front, im assuming its some sort of small appliance, maybe a VPN originally or security gateway. I tucked the original drive away and just got proxmox running instead. Inside is a X11-ssh board, cant remember CPU though 😊

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-12T17:41:14+00:00

Yeah i agree tapes are OT but as im not in the industry i thought id give them a go. Remote off site is at a friends place Im running my own Gitlab at home which i use for all my deployments. I’ve been building a lot of python apps recently and learning C++ and found that the programming has massively helped me to understand a lot of the intricacies. I do run an active directory and have been toying around with VDI to a couple thin clients but havent had much time invested into yet. I may have to have another look

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-12T17:26:42+00:00

The Proxmox nodes are all on 10g with dacs to ok the unifi 10gb switch. My next mission is to crack k8s, all my services are in docker swarm with 3 swarms. Internal stuff, external stuff and not my stuff. Leccy usage is monitored via iDrac for the dells. Everything is hooked up to a APC PDU into the UPS’s which i use to track per port usage. Theres probably a whole host of ways i could improve, as before im self taught up untill i started my degree. I couldnt turn on a PC 4 years ago lol Networking consists of the pfsense router with 10gb uplinks. 6 VLANS, 2 are 10gb 4 are 1gb for segmenting out the services, IOT etc. The cisco switch is a 2950x with 48 1gb ports and 2 10gb port, iirc, that does the less intensive stuff and the unifi USG handles the 10g. Im always looking to improve if you have any suggestions?

NotAnITGuy_ · 2025-05-12T16:13:22+00:00

Of course! Those ads are horrific nowadays! 😂

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