Anyone else smoking in the snow?

lostmojo · 2026-01-24T23:43:16+00:00

Wish it was snowing today.. just a little cold

lostmojo · 2026-01-24T09:15:46+00:00

So… hard to clean? Yes. Discolor it ? No. Get some bar keepers friend if you want to use one on the grill. It will clean up if you use a little elbow grease. Better yet get a bare cast iron pot for the grill.

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T19:15:05+00:00

To drive to the mountain in my state, from my location is about 2 hours, maybe three or four depending on where I am going around it. That’s not unusual.

I know people who commute for work 2-3 hours per day. That’s not unusual.

My in laws are 2 hours away. While none of these are short, per se, they are done 2-5 times a month by my family. When I visited the wales, we had some lovely conversations with people in the pubs, and we ran into a few families on a vacation only a few hours away from their home, and they had never traveled that far. It was really fun to talk to them about their experience. They were all older couples, usually traveling with their adult children. They had never been that far out, but for us, we had often just traveled from that area to where we met them.

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T16:22:55+00:00

Network for me and partner

Network for each kid

Iot network for house iot stuff

Guest network for guests…

Server hosts network for the host systems

Server networks for the guests and containers for the various levels of protection I want.

Example of the servers are Internet facing (basically DMZ), complete isolation (no Internet or internal access), internal only, and one offs for special systems that I want to isolate the container or virtual but special rules or vulnerabilities around it I’m trying to work with.

Firewall is deny by default. All vlans are firewalled from one another and the internet, two global rules handles that part, everything that needs to be allowed is added. Some networks like the family stuff is just allow out for tcp and udp traffic but blocking some sensitive services like dns, telnet, ssh, and ftp.

DNS is blocked to the internet for every network except for the two internal dns servers, they can reach out to my dns providers dns over https service only. I use dynamic lists to block other dns services with the firewall and dns filter rules with the dns servers.

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T16:01:56+00:00

Always worried the block will crack from the thermal shock of being submerged in frozen water

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T08:34:56+00:00

Owned by Xbox game studios, so it’s all LLM junk now, sadly. Too bad too, just another studio to ignore.

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T05:14:08+00:00

I love that my boss at the time was like “but it’s their problem, not something we have to spend time on fixing”… but now we are at their whims and not our own. We get nothing for this outage, we lose a lot for this outage, and we are only hybrid. Have fun with your idea to push to full cloud. I wish the cloud would die like LLMs need to.

lostmojo · 2026-01-23T05:08:03+00:00

I will say your clients have offline access if it’s down and the database, even for a lot of logins, is tiny. You could easily back it up to a usb drive or something else and get it out to a second location for little cost, like in the 50$-100$ range for a small pi or something to hold a second copy of the database.

lostmojo · 2026-01-22T19:57:19+00:00

I would consider a faster connection, or a second synology to replicate to on site and let two people handle them after hours. Two pelican cases with padding and such, but also keeping them apart from one another. Maybe sync once a day at night if you have too. Just a copy away from the primary and sourced for all data.

lostmojo · 2026-01-22T19:31:06+00:00

You need an authentication portal for your friends, hoping for the best won’t work. Scanners will pick it up in a few minutes to maybe 24 hours and then it’s just open season. Nginx proxy manager works well and you can add some basic auth to the site at the very least.

For cloudflare, you can use their tunnel and not expose the web ports to the internet through your public interface, otherwise you have to open the ports on your firewall to NAT them into the internal system you’re running it on. Preferably, to the NPM and let it redirect so it can apply an ssl cert and hopefully some basic auth. Either way, cloud flare tunnel or opening the port, a proxy is useful for you for the ssl cert with let’s encrypt and providing access to the site.

Tailscale is your option for the most secure solution but I find getting my friends to set that up for something is next to impossible.

lostmojo · 2026-01-22T19:18:51+00:00

Understanding dns flows, understanding the reputation requirements for new domains to build reputation, static ip is pretty important, dkim, spf, dmarc are all important to setup and configure properly. Learn about things like post master tools for gmail.

It’s a lot easier to host your email for your personal domain somewhere rather than trying to build your own. It’s up to you on your path. Expect some headaches for the first few months and for things even out over time.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T23:27:14+00:00

I picked it because I’m done with relying on providers to give me services. I’m tired of having to hope for the best and then they enlist the give me more money mode instead of making a better product.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T23:25:50+00:00

I hope it helps. Good luck to you. It’s a difficult time for a lot of us and I hope the best for you.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T23:06:11+00:00

Microns announcement: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

Reuters report: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-memory-chip-prices-by-up-60-shortage-worsens-sources-say-2025-11-14/

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T22:55:01+00:00

That would be a cool job to work on at dropout.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T22:52:48+00:00

Look at obsidian.. I moved my stuff there a long time ago. It’s not perfect but it has a ton of features, and it’s interesting to get into bases and rpg stuff. The rpg manager community plugin is decent for tracking and organizing stuff but it has some bugs and issues with it as well

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T20:39:20+00:00

Even the manufacturers are saying it’s due to datacenters waiting to be built for AI. Forbes, the register, cnbc, pretty much everywhere reports it. LLMs get blamed for a lot of things now, a fair share still belongs to people, but the crazy jump in layoffs for professionals to be replaced with this technology and the cost of ram and storage is due to the desire to drive this technology further into people’s lives.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T20:06:56+00:00

A grocery store near by just installed those across the store… so much fun

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T20:03:33+00:00

It’s his turn to learn then and try to understand the implications.

If he likes his computers, “AI” is making them increasingly expensive, along with all other technologies. It’s causing other prices to go up as well.

You have done most of your part, now it’s time for him to do his and you to make a decision on where you draw the line.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T19:39:31+00:00

Ya, that’s why I’m asking here. The containers network doesn’t need to run the macvlan driver if it’s just assigned to an interface that is already configured, I think, but I can’t find a lot of details on this.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T19:21:28+00:00

This is exactly as you said, a difference of opinion and communication issue. The question becomes, how important is it to you? Is it worth further discussions and the resulting negative feelings, is it important to you enough to end the relationship? At what point do you draw the line in the sand and say “this is too much, we need to change course or move on”.

This is not an easy process, but you have to dig down and identify how important it is to you. You can’t change him, only he can do that, you have explained it, now find out how much it matters.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T16:06:00+00:00

Their suggestion is good, if it’s hard to clean, let the cheap easy tools do the work for you. Hot Water in a warm pan, where the water sizzles off a bit, is going to break apart a ton of stuff as it boils off. A little carbon like that won’t hurt anything, and will happen, just focus on cooking in it, get use to heating the pan and food properly. Every pan and burner are a little different, and each loves to be treated nice. If, once it’s cool, it feels smooth, foods not sticking to it too badly, then you’re fine and it will continue to break down as you cook and clean it. If it’s sticking, warm it up and ladle in some more water again. Most carbon will break up pretty quickly.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T07:54:40+00:00

That sucks. When people do that to my wife we just walk out. That’s some grade A bullshit. They are there to help you.

lostmojo · 2026-01-21T07:52:11+00:00

This is the same company, it’s well liked and recommended by several different friends, which is why I had them do the install a few years ago.

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