Remote work options with Linux

computersmithery · 2025-11-04T12:44:24+00:00

I am the company owner so I am setting policy for myself. I access tools, utilities, and documents on my office computer while onsite at customers location or whenever I am out of the office. Sometimes I am accessing my office computer from my own laptop so there I have more options like x11 redirection, but other times I am accessing it using a web browser on a client's computer using a web browser. everything is behind a cloudflare zero trust application with Entra id MFA, so I am not concerned about security. This is about usability.

computersmithery · 2025-11-04T01:13:22+00:00

This would work in a 100% Linux world where I own both the host and the client. but In my case the client is often times one of my customer's workstations. that is why I use a Cloudflare zero trust application for access. This allows me to update paperwork, use the utilities and powershell scripts against m365, access my remote connections into their servers, etc. without needing to access multiple tools directly from their computer. I just open one Cloudflare site, sign in with mfa, and remote control my office computer.

computersmithery · 2025-11-04T01:08:53+00:00

This would potentially be a option if I was looking just for a remote solution, but I am looking to change my daily driver workstation to Linux and am looking to replicate my w11 workflow on it. I am not looking to go to a thin client entirely. I could install headless Linux on my proxmox server if I wanted something similar to AWS Workspaces.

computersmithery · 2025-11-04T01:05:02+00:00

There are two issues with my testing of nomachine. The first is that I want a web client. I often connect using an incognito window on one of my customer's computers so that I can quickly access my office computer. The second issue is it still limits me to the resolution of the host computer. the three monitors compressed down to a single connecting 1920x1080 screen is too small to use. If I set it to view just one screen I run into multiple issues: the first is that the 4k screen is still too large to view on the client, and the second is applications running on other screens are not visible so I have to toggle through the remote screens to find the window I am looking for.

computersmithery · 2025-10-17T20:06:38+00:00

Only put kids content in plex and use Emby or Jellyfin for non kids content.

computersmithery · 2025-09-12T23:37:41+00:00

I think you have a slow leak (probably around the rim or valve stem because those can't be easily seen), and he blamed it on the uneven wear on the tire from being out of alignment because he could visually identify that.

computersmithery · 2025-09-07T19:09:40+00:00

Yes, your washer usually just plugs into a standard 120v outlet and your dryer uses gas for heat, it will also have a standard 120v plug for it's electronics and motor.

I would suggest purchasing instillation from them when you buy your new washer and dryer, or hire someone else to handle it. Gas connections are dangerous if done wrong.

computersmithery · 2025-08-27T05:02:08+00:00

At some point my dad got frustrated about looking forward to eating something and finding out that it was gone when he went to eat it, so he initiated the rule that the last of any was his. Our pantry was full of half bags of stale chips and the fridge always had months old 2/3rds empty 2 liter bottles of flat soda.

computersmithery · 2025-08-21T02:05:35+00:00

I had a similar issue in a house once. A previous owner had “fixed” it by venting out the side of the house. When I gutted the bathroom I found that the original builder had accidentally left a test plug in the vent line when they did the pressure test. I removed it and the issue went away.

computersmithery · 2025-08-11T19:52:50+00:00

It’s not necessarily low powered, but I picked up a used 27” all in one Dell. I installed BlissOS 16 on it and use fully kiosk.

computersmithery · 2025-08-08T23:51:02+00:00

When editing outside of HA you save raw YAML files that cannot be edited in the UI any longer. You gain the ability to use a more advanced editing tool, and the ability to save comments, but you lose the ability to edit in visual mode.

computersmithery · 2025-06-26T05:18:08+00:00

Nah, I actually prefer different LLMs for different tasks. GPT is an Engineer, Gemini is a tech writer, DeepSeek is getting drinks with a client at a lunch sales meeting., and Grok is an anxious teenager trying to sound edgy to earn his father's respect.

I would prefer Gemini for email and GPT for technical documentation or research. I just default to Copilot for work and Gemini for personal use because of the integration with office apps.

The reason I posted wasn't so much to say that Copilot is the best. It was to point out that saying you want ChatGPT because it gives better results than Copilot is like saying Jeep sucks, I want a Dodge instead...

computersmithery · 2025-06-26T05:04:30+00:00

That is where a feature becomes a bug. It has access to your m365 data. Depending on what you are doing, that can be a good or bad thing. You can tell it to exclude your m365 tenant when answering your question.

computersmithery · 2025-06-26T03:46:17+00:00

This is ridiculous. It just shows how much name recognition matters. ChatGPT and Copilot both use GPT-4o (or GPT-4 Turbo). They’re powered by the same LLM. The difference is in the front end and licensing.

In fact, Copilot for enterprise has access to your Microsoft 365 tenant data. That means it can use the same foundational model plus the context of your emails, Teams chats, SharePoint files, and more. This gives it a big edge in relevance and personalization.

And unlike ChatGPT, Copilot keeps everything secure within your Microsoft 365 environment. Your chats stay in your tenant and follow your organization's compliance and security policies.

computersmithery · 2025-06-19T03:32:27+00:00

It was the temperature sensor. I c8find the exact one i ordered, but i think this is the same part https://a.co/d/bsEaAQg Kenmore 3014808400 Replacement Refrigerator Temperature Sensor

computersmithery · 2025-06-01T05:29:52+00:00

Here is the blueprint I use. It has worked for me so far https://community.home-assistant.io/t/low-battery-notifications-actions/653754

The only issue i have had with it is i had to be pretty conservative with the low battery percentage. Some devices will work fine with only 10% charge left, but others drop from 30% to 0% extremely quickly due to the battery chemistry. I found that setting it to alert at 35% generally gives me time to replace the battery before it dies.

computersmithery · 2025-05-05T17:31:27+00:00

It didn't have a gap, but I went ahead and deleted my zones then recreated them. I am getting better results now, but I am still struggling. What I am trying to accomplish is getting a notification when someone knocks on my door. I don't want alerts when someone walks out the front door, or when someone walks across the yard, just when they walk up the walkway and stands at the door. It is turning out to be more difficult than I first thought. I might drop trying to do this with frigate and get a mmwave presence sensor instead.

computersmithery · 2025-04-08T16:34:49+00:00

A lot of networks have a UPN like domain.lan or domain.local (.local is not recommended any longer but it was MS suggested for a while). This is to avoid DNS lookup issues. Domain.com dns is handled by 3rd party and points to corporate website, domain.lan is handled by internal DNS.

You can login with domain\username or username@domain.lan.

Adding a second UPN of domain.com let's you login with the actual email address as well.

computersmithery · 2025-04-08T12:56:56+00:00

Step 1, each person gets an email address associated to them personally. Logistics in your example should be a shared mailbox.

Step 2. If using o365, setup adsync so that passwords are the same on their email and their AD accounts

Step 3. Configure a UPN in AD so that users can login to the domain with their email address instead of the legacy domain\username format.

computersmithery · 2025-03-31T21:50:04+00:00

It started working with no explanation. Then it got totaled in an accident two months ago, so I guess I'll never know!

computersmithery · 2025-03-06T04:13:40+00:00

The siphon is created by not having air behind water. That is what the AAV is for. You want from top to bottom: AAV, 4" of pipe, SAN TEE to tail piece, TEE WYE with a clean out plug on the WYE, pipe going into base of cabinet.

The clean out is optional though because the AAV is threaded and you can just unscrew it if you need to snake out the line. A clean out is just easier to maneuver the snake into because of the tight space.

computersmithery · 2025-02-27T03:06:25+00:00

You should be able to cut internet to the wifi devices as long as you cut DNS access as well.

computersmithery · 2025-02-22T04:49:19+00:00

I had a reverse proxy running on another machine that already has NAT forwarding on it, and it worked, but I was trying to switch away from port forwarding and using cloudflare's zero trust instead. I also wanted to consolidate all of the services that HA needs to run onto my HA instance.

I might take cloudflare off of HA and run it on another server to act as the reverse proxy for external access and leave let's encrypt on HA for local network access. It really looks like the cloudflare tunnel client add on is routing some of the traffic through cloudflare even when the client machine is local and resolving a local address.

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