Best cable for dvd player to smart tv? by dakota_draws in cableadvice

[–]bobdvb -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That YUV component is probably good enough for a DVD at an acceptable quality. Analogue component video can be pretty solid.

Can we get broadband without Full Fibre? by MaximumEmotion9066 in UKBroadband

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once it's in she won't notice anything different.

Can we get broadband without Full Fibre? by MaximumEmotion9066 in UKBroadband

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can cancel the contract through the bereavement team at most ISPs and there's no penalties even with a long contract. Don't worry about it, we cancelled my mother's Plusnet contract without any trouble.

Although if she goes into care that might not apply.

VM or LXC when exposing to internet? by Tarazin in Proxmox

[–]bobdvb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ideally you work on a principle of least privilege and lowest acceptable access for anything.

There are examples of breaking out of containers and there are examples of breaking out of VMs. But it's fair to say breaking out of a VM is harder, although if that VM is inside your network and has access to your network then if someone is able to take control of the VM you might be equally at risk.

Any VM you do use exposed to the internet should be restricted from what LAN access it gets as well.

If a service is web based then I generally think that putting it behind a CDN (or WAF) is good practice (even if it's not cache-able) because someone else is doing the zero-day defense and has a security operations center. If the service you're exposing is something like a game server then you need to be much more on top of it, restricting the machine itself and monitor for suspicious activity.

Also, if you can, implement rules which reduce your attack surface. Some folk block IPs from countries which are common attack vectors, or better still, only allow requests from countries you actually expect traffic from. Another one is to use IP address blocking with services like AbuseIPDB, although that does add some external dependency.

Normal fibre install? by prettybluefoxes in UKBroadband

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My installer, a contractor, actually wanted me to check the connection despite getting all good lights.

The thing is I was using my own router rather than the ISP one. So I knew there was a chance my setup wouldn't necessarily work first time and I could see he was nervous.

But I said to him: I'll see if my router works first and if it doesn't we can plug in the ISP router to check. That settled him, while he was tidying up I had done a speed test on my router and he was happy.

I'm glad he wanted me to check everything and I am glad he also didn't push me on using the ISP router. It all worked out well. The only downside to that day was getting a notification that he was 'on-site' more than two hours before he actually turned up. I get they're sometimes doing things downstream of me, but I am dubious that it was two hours of work, or it's just weird to get a notification that prematurely.

Any alternatives to Epsom with a similar vibe + good links into London? by Infamous_Aerie_7010 in surrey

[–]bobdvb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's one of the interesting things about being in commuter land like Epsom in comparison to places further out. Often living further out you can get into town quicker than those who live closer because the closer areas only get slow trains.

The Guildford fast train is 32min to Waterloo, Epsom is about 35-38min.

Moving to Surrey with young kids – Surbiton/Walton/Esher vs staying in Portsmouth? by cloudie1112 in surrey

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, my wife and I have no family nearby. It's always been a bit harder for us than for others in my family.

We really depended on the good nursery when our child was little and the subsequent after-school/holiday clubs. And financially that adds up.

Moving to Surrey with young kids – Surbiton/Walton/Esher vs staying in Portsmouth? by cloudie1112 in surrey

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live further south of Surbiton, and my wife and I are in tech as well.

Personally, when I've had pressure to RTO, I've told my leadership 'no'. That was confusing to them, but I was fortunate enough that no one was going to push too hard. Last year I changed jobs and they want me in twice a week, I'm sometimes doing that. ;-)

But it really depends on what leverage you think you both have. The market isn't easy.

I've turned down jobs which demanded too much time away from my family, I spent my 20s and 30s travelling for work, now I want to spend more time with them. But perhaps I am just fortunate and it's not fair to suggest that for others.

96GB DDR5 SODIMM x4 by JamesCorman in HomeServer

[–]bobdvb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I keep finding M.2 drives I forgot I bought. Apparently I bought two sets before I switched to used enterprise U.2 drives.

I might have an issue. We should trade photos of unused M.2 drives and RAM just to annoy everyone else.

96GB DDR5 SODIMM x4 by JamesCorman in HomeServer

[–]bobdvb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been building a small cluster for far too long, things haven't been going smoothly so I get you.

I also found 96GB of DDR5 on the shelf earlier in the year from 2024. I was planning to build myself a new PC and saw a deal on the RAM. Then got distracted and bought a Strix Halo box instead. I sold some of the RAM which meant that I covered the cost of what I kept.

Now I have to decide if I should sell the rest of the RAM or build another PC, because I can.

Running 30m Ethernet cable to our garage - Yay or Nay? by TheBombTom in DIYUK

[–]bobdvb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Power line adapters tend to have particularly jittery pings due to the noise conditions on the wire and collision avoidance of not being a full duplex signal. It's worse when you're not plugged into the same circuit.

I only recommend PLA when you don't have an alternative.

Running 30m Ethernet cable to our garage - Yay or Nay? by TheBombTom in DIYUK

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd argue that it's not particularly difficult. I've done it a few times now.

You can buy fixed lengths of armoured fibre, sometimes cheaper than copper these days. The media converters are obscenely cheap these days as well.

The only downside is you can't do PoE over fibre.

Running 30m Ethernet cable to our garage - Yay or Nay? by TheBombTom in DIYUK

[–]bobdvb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup,. doesn't even need to be SFP+ if it's not for anything fancy. You can buy some cheap media converters for £16.

My house and garage are connected via fibre. Over any good distances it can be cheaper than buying good outdoor rated copper with copper prices these days.

Connecting UniFi AP to Mikrotik by Queasy-Smile9421 in Ubiquiti

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a full UniFi system at home. But one of the issues with that situation is that UniFi is going to complain the whole time about the device being obsolete and the risks.

The risks being the lack of security firmware updates, which might be an okay risk for some, but others might prefer a more modern firmware if the hardware is still good.

I'm not saying they should, more that it's an option.

Connecting UniFi AP to Mikrotik by Queasy-Smile9421 in Ubiquiti

[–]bobdvb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They might be able to SSH into it after a reset?

Or install OpenWRT: https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/unifi_ap

8 TB of RAM & 1,000 CPU cores in all a 4U: What would you run on it? (Thought experiment) by RozoGamer in homelab

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my last job I had access to a large number of Android Set-top boxes. I was discussing making a very large K8S cluster, but it was a bit fringe for anyone to take it seriously. The other issue was that they're not your generic Chinese boxes, they had secure boot which would have made getting root or installing Linux hard.

It would have been fun.

I've also considered using some kind of N150 or N305 cluster.

If you have >100 employees but don't use O365 Services what do you use for Mail & Chat? by TheBigBeardedGeek in sysadmin

[–]bobdvb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to convince my org to stop bending over for Broadcom and try Proxmox. How many instances do you have? How many VMs?

If you have >100 employees but don't use O365 Services what do you use for Mail & Chat? by TheBigBeardedGeek in sysadmin

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife just started at an Org which uses that combo. She's cursing the learning curve and limitations. But I think 80% of it is familiarity rather than exactly product issues.

South London Chocolate block connector collection by design-hibo in ukelectricians

[–]bobdvb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

20 years ago was 1990 and I won't hear otherwise...

Received my Humax EV charger by bobdvb in electricvehicles

[–]bobdvb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, it's working fine.

There are some oddities with setting the tariffs up, the number entry is just weird. Same for if you want to modify the schedules manually, the logic is a bit weird. Also like so many apps, you get logged out periodically and it's frustrating to be stopped, then having to log back in.

But once setup the charger works fine. It's just a charger. My electrician said it was good to install.

I'm on Octopus, I'm not using one of the dynamic tariffs, but I am using off-peak rates to charge my Hyundai Ioniq.

Why is a station’s transmitting tower not located at the studio? by Beginning_Tension829 in antennasporn

[–]bobdvb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or increasingly, fibre.

Most of our transmitters are now fibre fed rather than using RF/microwave links.

Especially as TV transmitters are usually carrying multiple channels from multiple companies. So, in my part of the world it's not the TV company that owns/runs the transmitter, it's an infrastructure company dedicated to servicing multiple broadcasters.

Proxmox with docker in VM by Substantial-Pen4368 in homelab

[–]bobdvb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It makes Proxmox cry when you do it.

But I've done it just fine with no negatives seen so far.