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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • Feeling lost and with no direction, what skill should I learn?

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  • +1 for the channels you mentioned, plus I find Inheritance Machining is pretty good too. A goodish amount of dry wit (not as much as TOT, but often gets a smirk out of me), and I really appreciate how he incorporates his manual drawing into a lot of his videos, rather than CAD.

    Clickpsring is by far my absolute favourite. I've been following him since the very start of the clock build, and loved every second of it. I like his 2nd channel too - Clickspring Clips - for the occasional 2-3min video brief of him making a single part.

  • Feeling lost and with no direction, what skill should I learn?

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  • Woodworking. I love it. Wood is such a warm medium to work with, and it's a really easy hobby to get into, too. You don't have to buy expensive power tools, nor do you need to set a target of making fine furniture.

    For me, I started out with scrap wood, trying to make as perfect as dovetail joint as possible, using just hand tools - a cross-cut saw and a good, sharp chisel.

    That took me down a path of trying to learn different joinery techniques, which was a whole lot of fun. I bought a couple of joinery books from the big A and scrounged scraps from my local hardware to practice on. And, I know you said you wanted to get away from the computer, but there's some incredibly good woodworking channels on YT. I tend to avoid the ones that talk too much about what they're doing - I prefer to just watch masters at work. I find Japanese woodworking videos incredibly satisfying and enjoyable.

    I don't get to indulge the hobby as much as I want - family life keeps me pretty busy nowadays - but, when I have the occasional afternoon to myself, I love spending it in my little workshop, mucking around with wood. I always come away from a bout of woodworking feeling relaxed.

  • When was the last time you bought a paper map and why ?

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  • Literally just bought a map book for most of Australia a few weeks ago.

    Planning a three week trip through the Outback. Seems crazy to try and rely on technology out there for that long without a safety net of some sort.

  • What's the most recurring theme/element in your nightmares?

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  • When I was younger, it used to be falling down a large hole, getting swallowed up by the darkness, and never knowing exactly when I'd hit the ground (or worse).

    Now I have a family, my most frequent one has been losing my 9yo daughter, usually when we're camping or at a busy shopping centre - something like that.

  • How do y'all backup docker databases with backup programs like Borg/Restic?

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  • I just have a one-liner in crontab that keeps the last 7 nightly database dumps. That destination location is on one my my NASes, which rclones everything to my secondary NAS and an S3 bucket.

    ls -tp /storage/proxmox-data/paperless/backups/*.sql.gz | grep -v '/$' | tail -n +7 | xargs -I {} rm -- {}; docker exec -t paperless-db-1 pg_dumpall -c -U paperless | gzip > /storage/proxmox-data/paperless/backups/paperless_$( date +\%Y\%m\%d )T$( date +\%H\%M\%S ).sql.gz

  • Which adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?

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  • Honestly, that's on Martin. He signed the deal, then failed to get off his arse and finish the damn series. HBO exercised their right to develop their own content when, after five eight years, he'd still not made any progress on finishing the series.

    The fans needed something. Can you imagine the uproar if HBO told us all to wait another few years before closing out the story?

    Martin can whinge all he likes about his creative process, and how he was shut out of the final seasons. I notice he hasn't whinged once about the money he made from selling the TV rights.

    Don't get me wrong - he's absolutely entitled to that money. It's his creation after all. But he also signed the contract that got us to where we got to.

  • What movie would you most like to watch for the first time again?

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  • In terms of being able to enjoy that massive reveal behind the whole plot, The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects.

    In terms of being able to just enjoy the whole storyline without any prior knowledge, The Godfather (parts 1 and 2) or Se7en.

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  • When I caught myself planning exactly how I'd scale that building wall, AC style.

  • Self-hosting Photo Alternatives

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  • You wake up from a coma that started back in 2004. What music artist/band/group are you most surprised (good or bad,) by the direction they took musically over the last twenty years?

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  • sigh Chester.... Him and Chris Cornell. There's always gonna be a hole in my music-loving heart when I hear either of these guys sing.

  • Self-hosting Photo Alternatives

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  • You do need to be able to reach your public IP to be able to VPN back in. I have a static IP, so no real concerns there. But, even if I didn't, I have a Python script that updates a Route53 DNS record for me in my own domain - a self-hosted dynamic DNS really.

    You certainly can run Wireguard server in a docker container - the good folks over at Linuxserver have just the repo for you.

  • Best Local Smart Lock for Privacy/Security

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  • General rule of thumb for me is, if LPL can't open it in 30 seconds or less, I'm probably safe from most of the fuckwits that live in my area.

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  • This may take us down a bit of a rabbit hole but, generally speaking, it comes down to how you route traffic.

    My firewall has an always-on VPN connected to Mullvad. When certain servers (that I specify) connect to the outside, I use routing rules to ensure those connections go via the VPN tunnel. Those routes are only for connectivity to outside (non-LAN) addresses.

    At the same time, I host a server inside that accepts incoming Wireguard client VPN connections. Once I'm connected (with my phone) to that server, my phone appears as an internal client. So the routing rules for Mullvad don't apply - the servers are simply responding back to a LAN address.

    I hope that explains it a bit better - I'm not aware of your level of networking knowledge, so I'm trying not to over-complicate just yet.

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  • Yeah, this is why I jumped ship to Immich last year. I was donating to PP, with the understanding that donating users would get access to multi-user features when they happened.

    Then they put them behind a paid recurring subscription. For self-hosted users. That move broke all the trust with me.

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  • Mullvad is great for outbound VPN, but inbound is a PITA without port forwarding (as you've said). I just host a Wireguard container for inbound connectivity now, and it works flawlessly.

  • What's the most expensive thing you've come to own that you've never gotten to fully use?

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  • Actually, Nintendo Switch, mainly because I can take it anywhere. I just don’t find myself with heaps of time to sit down for proper gaming sessions any more.

    The tyranny of getting older, and having family responsibilities.

  • What's the most expensive thing you've come to own that you've never gotten to fully use?

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  • Xbox Series X. I have a Day 1 release, and recently cancelled my XBL Gold + Game Pass due to lack of use.

  • What drew you to the high seas?

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  • The first time or the second time?

    The first time was because I was sick of paying the "Australia tax" for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world. The second time was due to subscription fee hikes with associated reduction in quality & range of content.

  • I never managed to find out about cinemaHD, Beetv and cyberflix on Fire Stick TV until ..

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  • I just wish Smarttube would support Piped instances - that would 100% complete the puzzle for me. Being able to use Piped on my streaming stick.