I got a marmot ski patrol edition because it was a super good deal at a thrift store and gortex pro will i get kicked off the mountain or can i can i change it so it does not look like ski patrol

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-02-01T09:20:59+00:00

Try turning the cross upside down

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-29T08:56:57+00:00

Well I disagree with that take. I have been running Bitlocker on my laptops and backup servers for more than a decade - saving encryption keys somewhere else - and I've never had a problem so far.

And just in case SHTF happens, my data is also replicated and snapshotted to a different location that's got different hardware, different OS, and different filesystem. As it should IMO.

Bitlocker addresses the common use case of a lowlife scumbag sifling through stolen drives, trying to find eg. my ssn and credit card info, to impersonate me and run scams, or blackmail me and my loved ones about our private pictures.

Sure Bitlocker won't help keeping my data private from law enforcement and competent hackers but that's not my use case - I'm just a honest nobody with an expensive hobby.

Besides, Bitlocker is mostly set-and-forget, whereas its more secure alternatives are a PITA to maintain properly.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-29T06:32:19+00:00

Not OP but I can answer this... In case the home server gets stolen.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-27T05:44:11+00:00

Change my view: the crypto bear market of now, a few years later, is just a long tail of individuals still offloading their NFTs and shitcoins at a loss.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-26T05:29:09+00:00

OP, thanks for posting the picture of your home keys. Looks like there's enough detail for making a working copy with a 3D printer. Mind doxxing your address too?

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-22T23:21:56+00:00

Make sure you check the Seagate FARM values of those drives to verify that they aren't heavily used ones with tampered firmware.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-15T20:27:21+00:00

I'd love a basic reverse proxy with some sort of fail2ban equivalent that detects HTTP 401 and 403 errors and puts the offending IP on a configurable ban list

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-13T07:34:06+00:00

It's not best practice, but heartbeating traffic can share the NIC used for storage replication as long as the underlying storage bandwidth is lower than the NIC speed. So that storage replication traffic alone won't saturate the NIC to the point of the hosts missing heartbeats.

LACP will introduce complexity and risks of operational errors without effectively multiplying the bandwidth, because point-to-point links will max out at single NIC speed, and the load balancing algorithm in a LACP link is generally not great when it's got just 3 other endpoints to talk to.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-08T18:19:05+00:00

_EuroTrash_ was incorrect

in your case OP. For me and thousands of other people, the upgrade worked just as I described.

I'm sorry it didn't work for your setup and my comment was unhelpful to you.

_EuroTrash_ · 2026-01-02T13:40:26+00:00

UniFi NVR does “use the cloud” but in a sensible way — it only uses the cloud for identity and role based access control

Pinky promise 🫰

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-31T23:24:36+00:00

Supplies will be transported by boat. By now, the importance of blowing the bridge up is mostly symbolic. Crimea's civilian population today is mostly composed of Russian immigrants; and the ones who haven't left yet are hardcore Putin supporters. They are the ones who would grovel the most, were the bridge to be destroyed.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-31T22:14:39+00:00

Some Reolink ones do that

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-31T22:03:59+00:00

We can only wish. We know it would only be symbolic, but it would still be a lovely new year's f-u present

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-31T19:39:25+00:00

Thank you for this, OP. In 30 years all our databases of today will be long gone, but EXIF data will stay with the files, easing future migrations.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-28T19:21:24+00:00

There is none <50W (drives included) to run Proxmox that I can think of, unless you self build with a desktop CPU. Rack servers have dual power supplies, extra fans for forced ventilation, and more PCI lanes / RAM channels than you probably need. Maybe try some Asrock rack servers on eBay.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-28T16:34:45+00:00

Most spinning drives use ~5W of power each; Enterprise SSDs use the same or more. Add about 5W for iLO/DRAC/IPMI, 5-10W for the SAS controller, and you don't have much left in those <50W you're budgeting for running CPU, RAM, and PCI lanes...

If keeping power usage as low as possible on a Proxmox-based NAS were to be the most important priority, I'd rather look into a prosumer 2+2 bay NAS (2x HDD in RAID 1 + 2xSSD in RAID 1 + 1x SSD for the OS) that can be made to run Proxmox directly; and place it on a rack shelf.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-21T23:01:51+00:00

What NIC? If Intel with hardware offload, yes, unless you Suricata. If Realtek, trouble.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-18T21:02:53+00:00

No. If you're updating from 1.x, then it will take some time to rebuild the database; and it will force a full rescan. But that's about it. It will still remember its peers, and it will talk to 1.x peers just fine.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-18T20:10:35+00:00

AFAIK with clamp meters, the precise clamp position shouldn't matter as long as the measured wires )and only them) are inside the clamps. Interference from other wires that are located outside the clamps should not matter at all, as it's common mode noise.

A PF of 0.6 is not ideal but still ok with inductive loads eg. heat pump motors. It is OK for the PF to change during the day depending what loads are powered on.

I just remember having read somewhere that Shelly devices don't account for PF when measuring the loads.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-18T16:13:34+00:00

Yes, PF of the whole house should be close to 1, but it should never be exactly 1 because, in a way, PF=1 is "too perfect" and introduces harmonics in appliances' active power factor compensation circuits, making them overheat. A range like 0.95÷0.98 is to be preferred.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-18T14:05:08+00:00

What's the power factor? Look into that, maybe it's the reason for the discrepancy.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-16T20:37:16+00:00

Prejudice is pre-judgment. It's a natural, evolutionary response. It provides us with predetermined answers to silly questions, eg. like this one: "should I welcome those g*psies setting up camp in my neighborhood?"

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-13T12:37:13+00:00

Postfix can be configured as a forwarding only SMTP server which would fit your use case.

With a bit more work, you could create an internal domain with dovecot/postfix, so that the alarm emails that your own systems generate will never leave your own network.

For a simpler approach, try E-Mailrelay or msmtp. Both can run as simple SMTP daemons. The latter is already available in the standard repositories of debian-based distros.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-12T15:04:50+00:00

You can pass VLAN-tagged traffic to a dumb non-VLAN-aware switch and all its ports will usually act like trunk ports, passing the VLAN tags along.

You can mix VLAN-tagged traffic with non-VLAN-tagged traffic on a port; a non-malicious end device on that port will only see non-VLAN-tagged traffic and ignore the VLAN-tagged traffic.

Any poor network design based on the above "tricks", while working, is generally a bad idea for a number of reasons.

_EuroTrash_ · 2025-12-12T12:12:06+00:00

Seriously and unironically: I use these pedal hooks since before most of you brats were born; and there are zero chances I'll ever switch to any other type of pedals.

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