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  • Best remote control option to support non-techies

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  • Get an SSH tunnel working first.

    That'll find all the problems poking holes through home routers, dynamic public IPs, etc.

    Once you've got that part running, then you can look at VNC or... and hear me out... I just run the X11 apps remotely. So I'm opening their apps on my laptop, changing the config for their session and it's done.

    I reconfigured Thunderbird that way when we moved email providers foe the family's email.

    No need for VNC to transmit all their screen when just the app is needed 😉

  • home system setup advice

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  • Yeah, I agree... I want (and have) a NAS... and a separate Server.

    The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.

    I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.

    And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don't want.

    For OP, try things, break things, try other things... just make sure you have backups 😉

  • MOS Is a New Open-Source Server OS Aimed at Homelabs and Self-Hosting

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  • Thankyou. For some reason thst just made me laugh and I've had a shit day... so thanks 🙂

  • [Arch/EndeavourOS] Random reboots

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  • I bet you it's a hardware issue.

    Run Memtest+ to check the RAM first...

    Might be a PSU / heat issue....

  • big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server"

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  • How's your HA voice assistant going?

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  • Interesting...

    I have a Pi Zero2W with a (v1) respeaker hat and it's pretty good, but doesn't do well in a moderately noisy environment.

    I was considering to get a voice preview instead... but... maybe I should consider the v2 respeaker instead? I already have the pi...

  • Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

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  • Ooh, didn't know about that. Does a replacement screen fix it, or is it the actual screen component that's the problem?

    Was eyeballing one on ebay...

  • Linus Torvalds Confirms The Next Kernel Is Linux 7.0

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  • Arch is on 2026...

  • Question about Antivirus

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  • It's not about AV. It's about vulnerabilities.

    AV just uses (often multiple) vulns to do something, and with closed-source systems you can't fix it yourself, so you need an application to do it for you.

    AV is a block-list approach... always needs updating, even for things you don't have. Linux can operate with allow-lists, so only the apps you have can execute.

    Plus firewalls (outbound as well as inbound), SSH, secure package repos, etc.

    You don't need AV, but, you can have it if you want it (maybe file-less memoey resident stuff)

    But, yeah, that other post was just mayhem.

  • Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

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  • Yeah, we're using Conversations and it's fine for most things.

    Will be self hosting prosidy "sooon"... and it'll all be in-house.

  • Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker

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  • And this is their only post.

    The wording, the story... I can't tell if it's a collection of google searches or someone newer to computing.

    I get that someone could be stressed out by something, but this just seems odd.

    I've seen people flip out in Red/Blue team trials, but this isn't the same

    OP.. if this did happen to you, you need to calm down. Maybe with professional help. Then come back to this when you're calm.

  • Non-US cloud storage for backup?

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  • This is good, if they:

      • Understand & trust what you're doing and don't fiddle with it
      • Don't understand and just don't fiddle with it

    Luckily I have a family member that fits one of those categories.

  • Non-US cloud storage for backup?

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  • +1 for Hetzner

    I'm using restic to encrypt my files (content + filenames)

  • Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it?

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  • Boot memtest

    Leave it to do it's thing overnight. That will at least check for badly failing RAM.

    I've run this on machines that I thought were ok, only to find... they weren't.

  • 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx

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  • That was all resolved.

    I held off switching until very recently, but reading the githubs, etc. it's all settled down now.

    From memory it was just a bit of a nieve handover (ie "hidden" in the background, not out in public)

  • Best way to trigger automation with my return home?

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  • I'm from ye olden times, when everything was done in the yaml configuration files - so I prefer that approach.

    The zones you create from the UI, work fine.

    It's just that the default "home" zone appears to have some quirks that can only be set from configuration.yaml

  • Google photos alternatives?

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  • If I understood correctly, for your usecase (not OPs), take a look at syncthing.

  • Best way to trigger automation with my return home?

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  • Yeah, the home zone is somewhat... different Zones

    I do most of my config in yaml and all the zones are configured in a separate file, however, the home zone has (had? I've not checked in years) to be configured in configuration.yaml under the homeassistant: section.

    You should be able to do something like:

     
        
homeassistant:
  latitude: 12.3356
  longitude: 1.23456
  radius: 50

    If you're configuring zones from the UI, I think editing the file should still work.

  • Best way to trigger automation with my return home?

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  • I have multiple zones: home and almost-home (same center coordinates, just larger diameter)

    This allows the house to "get ready" before someone is actually home, ie trigger lights to come on earlier.

    It also helps with random GPS jumps.

    Then, when the wifi connection is slow (maybe low phone battery) and people are literally outside the door, there's no awkward pauses before someone actually "arrives".

    I also have zones for our work places, intending to be used as a double-check, ie not-home isn't usually good enough, I want the house to know we're all at work and then the internal house cameras come on, etc.

    I also have a "visitors" flag, so that if friends / family are in and we leave, then the TV and lights don't turn off and they're not attacked by the laser robots...

    Also, (from memory) the person entity can be a combo of GPS and ping sensors to ensure it's a correct reading

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    System Redundancy

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    Holiday Upgrade Disasters

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    Backups.. Pull or Push?

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    Laptop uptime - since suspend

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    Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

    itsfoss.com /news/open-source-developers-are-exhausted/
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    Any experience of Diode?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation

    www.techradar.com /news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025
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    Stumbled on to StormShield - opinions?

    www.stormshield.com
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    Solar PV vulnerabilities

    www.redhotcyber.com /post/34-000-impianti-solari-a-rischio-hacker-la-sostenibilita-ha-un-lato-oscuro/
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    Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    OLD System... Upgrade or re-install?

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    Automated Cooling

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Vivaldi, now with added VPN

    vivaldi.com /blog/privacy-without-compromise-proton-vpn-is-now-built-into-vivaldi/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device"

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    Any MythTV Users Here?

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    NAS vulnerabilities

    www.theregister.com /2024/06/24/mirailike_botnet_zyxel_nas/
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    Sanity check: Vivaldi high CPU usage

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    pfSense DHCP (& DNS) Performance

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    pfSense DHCP / DNS performance

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    Pause alerts during the night