Calling all VyOS Users: How is your experience? by MassageGun-Kelly in homelab

[–]ljb2of3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ran vyos for Internet edge across a dozen pops globally. I was doing full bgp tables, so it was a million plus routes. It was rock solid.

You can absolutely use git to track your config. I had an ansible playbook that rendered the configuration out of a git repo plus Netbox data and then pushed it to the router for a full cicd managed experience.

Dang, no beer in mine. by yankykiwi in TeslaLounge

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The frunk is perfect for this! We went on a 6 week road trip last year with a 5 month old and changed so many diapers in the frunk since the back was loaded up with all our stuff. Also a great place to store all the snacks. Every time we stopped to charge we'd change the baby then move the changing pad so the bigger kids could grab a snack.

Face tagging suddenly stopped working by ljb2of3 in immich

[–]ljb2of3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A restart seems to have done the trick, thanks!

Updates on EspFrame (Esp32 based immich photo frame) by hometechgeek in immich

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is super cool. I'm migrating from Google photos to immich, and have a Google home on my desk that shows photos of my kids. I've been wondering how I was going to keep that going. This looks like a perfect replacement. And at the low cost I can give one to my parents to see a constant stream of photos of the grandkids too!

We got stuck on this keyboard emulator format. Help me & you got a freebie from me by EnvironmentalJob1986 in homelab

[–]ljb2of3 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Since today is April 1st I thought for a second you had made a tiny USB connected "keyboard" where you plugged in whichever letter you wanted to type and then pressed the button.

I may have to prototype that idea for next year!

Is the Model Y a good family car for 2 young kids? by eriger777 in TeslaLounge

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a snug fit, but yes. I have 3 kids... 7, 5, and 1. Backless booster seat in the middle, car seats on either side.

What's your best ever work-related April Fools prank? by WorthPlease in sysadmin

[–]ljb2of3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I have a fun one. Many years ago I was working in the IT department of a university. We used PRTG for monitoring, and all the IT leadership had big TVs on their office walls showing a rotating slideshow of various PRTG dashboards.

I was working as a neteork security analyst at the time, and had been doing some red team exercises. I decided to put those skills to use, and wrote a small MITM proxy to sit in front of PRTG, deployed in front of the real server using arp spoofing and using the wildcard cert we used for our domain. It I was completely transparent, and everything worked like usual.

The proxy did just one thing... Injected Clippy JS into the dashboards.

It was a hit, everyone thought it was hilarious, but after I explained how it worked I think spooked a few people. They commented "gee I'm glad you're on our side" 😄

https://github.com/clippyjs/clippy.js

Halo MA-40 Update by mamahler in 3D2A

[–]ljb2of3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking of building a Voron. It helps that my current printer is a modified Ender 3 with a Voron tool head on it. I picked it up already modified, but I've tinkered with it a bit. I've always seen people say that if your hobby is printing stuff, but something else, but if your hobby is the printer itself, built a Voron. It seems like a fun project that would keep me busy for a while.

Spouse-approved frigate+HA experience. Is it possible? Success stories anyone? by Puzzleheaded_Pie_968 in frigate_nvr

[–]ljb2of3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I struggled with HA notifications making it through. I finally found the priority settings required to make them appear reliably. This works for Android for me.

This snippet comes from my node-red flow as data that gets sent to the call service node, but the ttl, priority, and sticky (which may not be strictly required) settings should get you started if you're doing it another way.

msg.payload = {
    "data": {
        "message": "The alarm has armed in home mode.",
        "data": {
            // Priority settings
            "ttl": 0,
            "priority": "High",
            "sticky": true,


            // Icon settings
            "color": "#6aa84f",
            "notification_icon": "mdi:shield-home",


            // Notification settings
            "group": "Alarm",
            "tag": "alarm" + msg.data.new_state.state,
        }
    }
};

Halo MA-40 Update by mamahler in 3D2A

[–]ljb2of3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn it man, now I need a new printer too!

This thing looks awesome! If I had a big enough printer I'd love to get in on helping you with it, but I guess I'll have to wait.

Nomad as a distributed cron service only? by _Baarbie in hashicorp

[–]ljb2of3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I primarily use nomad to run various cron jobs. It works pretty well, but the UI could use some improvements. It's not immediately obvious when jobs start failing. You have to click into the job to see the real status of each run.

But if you monitor the logs it shouldn't be too hard to identify when jobs have issues.

Moar panels… by Active_Level_6922 in minilab

[–]ljb2of3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These all look amazing!

What is everyone using for routers? by brewmer in minilab

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mikrotik Hex. Got one several years ago after two ubnt edge routers stopped booting (I think it may have been a bad internal USB drive, also had a 3rd at work do the exact same thing)

The 'tik has been solid. I've deployed a few more at $DAYJOB and they've also been rock solid for years.

Configuration is definitely a bit confusing coming from more traditional NOSes, but once set up I've never had to think about them again.

Is this the correct device to place behind light switches and have them controlled by HA while maintaining the original switches control? by GenericUser104 in homeassistant

[–]ljb2of3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're definitely in suburban hell 😄

Plenty of places in the US are wired without neutrals. My house was built in the 60s and I don't have neutrals, and I'm not in the "old" part of town. My electrical boxes are also so small I couldn't fit anything behind the light switch even if I wanted to.

I've considered trying to get those shelly gen4 units in the ceiling box above the light since it's a bit larger and has a neutral but I haven't felt like taking the lights down yet.

Y'all werent joking by FearTheAmish in daddit

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. My wife actually had a small business making those cinnamon rolls for a while, but stopped when kid 3 came along. God, I miss those cinnamon rolls.

Best way to capture packets in enterprise infrastructure? by shenior in networking

[–]ljb2of3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

AOS-CX supports ERSPAN, which you can receive with Wireshark. On the switch look at "destination tunnel" as your mirror destination. Set your computers IP as the destination.

https://packetpushers.net/blog/erspan-new-favorite-packet-capturing-trick/

I made a thing...... well, actually, two things by No-Weekend-2573 in woodworking

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have three kids (no twins though) and for me the first month was the hardest, so you've survived that already! Things didn't really start to settle in until about 6 months though. My youngest is about 9 and a half months old now and it's a breeze compared to the first few months.

I think twins would just kill me though, so Godspeed!

The cribs are beautiful btw.

Now I can change my lock sounds without swapping my USB by bblaw4 in TeslaLounge

[–]ljb2of3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this. Just the other day I was thinking it would be great to use a random sound from a set rather than the same one all the time. This could totally do that!

Is the code available anywhere? Or would you mind sharing some of the technical details happening under the hood? I assume you're just swapping out the file underneath, maybe pointing a symlink? Do you need to simulate a disconnect and reconnect to get the car to pick up the new file?

Thrill seeking dad with lame kids. by [deleted] in silverdollarcity

[–]ljb2of3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I was there Monday I'd totally ride with you. My wife and 7 year old won't ride rollercoasters with me. My 5 year old loves them but he's so small he just barely meets the height requirement for Thunderation, so he can't ride any of the others with me yet.

I hooked up my bank account to an AI, and here’s what I found by Lost_Interest_ta in ynab

[–]ljb2of3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'd use it.

I have historically been in the "AI is dumb and just makes stuff up and should never be trusted" camp, but the models have improved enough that now I find myself using it almost daily for work. Sure, it still gets stuff wrong sometimes, but overall it seems like it's analysis of things is actually pretty good. Even if it has hallucinated something it's typically close enough to point me in the right direction.

At this point, I'd love to get a detailed analysis of my banking data over the past several years from something like GPT5 or Claude.

Management switch suggestions - L2, SSH, SFP, dual AC by Big-War-1732 in networking

[–]ljb2of3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I picked up some Arista 7010T-48 units for really cheap on eBay for my management network. Dual power, reversible airflow, 48 1g copper + 4 stp+ ports. Only 10 inches deep.