I imagine it’s more like this

Block all updates to the games and launchers you have, just in case. Sims 4 is dead, guys

Windows is stupid as shit, trying to shift+right click > open Powershell in a path containing a space results in it throwing an error, and you have to paste the path in yourself anyway

I mean, if we’re being realistic, everything I use supports .webp now. Hell, every upload on my instance Blajåj becomes one (not Lemmy universal, as noted by SatyrSack)

Maybe but I always have to enter /24 after setting a VM’s manual IP for it to be valid

For inspiration, here’s my list of services:

Here is the overhead for everything. CPU is an i3 6100 and RAM is 2133MHz:

Quick note about my setup, some things threw a permissions hissy fit when in separate containers, so Media actually has Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and two instances of qBittorrent. A few of my containers do have supplementary programs.

An LXC is isolated, system-wise, by default (unprivileged) and has very low resource requirements.

• Storage also expands when needed, i.e. you can say it can have 40GB but it’ll only use as much as needed and nothing bad will happen if your allocated storage is higher than your actual storage… Until the total usage approaches 100%. So there’s some flexibility. With a VM the storage is definite.
• Usually a Debian 12 container image takes up ~1.5GB.
• LXCs are perfectly good for most use cases. VMs, for me, only come in when necessary, when the desired program has more needs like root privileges, in which case a VM is much safer than giving an LXC access to the Proxmox system. Or when the program is a full OS, in the case of Home Assistant.

Separating each service ensures that if something breaks, there are zero collateral casualties.

Docker also has its own LAN IP address, in my experience it’s 172.17.0.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. And yes, between containers the container name is used, e.g. plexserver:2736, and it’s good practice to manually give them names.

Hi, Cloudflare DNS needs to point to the external IP address, aka 201.172.48.922 (check using any ‘what’s my IP’ site on any device connected to the same router). 192.168.x is internal and only used by the router. Changing this, and port forwarding 80 and 443 to the NPM host, will allow everything to work remotely.

That said, in a comment you said you’re only aiming for local access. The only requirement for this is setting your Plex client to the internal IP of the server, 192.168.x. Only when setting up external access do you need a cert, domain and DNS records.

Finally, if you can set your router’s DNS servers, set one to the NPM server. That may allow local devices to find the internal IP by querying the FQDN (domain). Or use your Pi-Hole to add DNS rewrites.

My main gripe is Windows Defender. I have an app that integrates with Home Assistant and Windows keeps flagging a component as a Trojan virus. Makes sense, as it’s supposed to access admin level functions to read some sensors and enable remote power control.

But for years I’ve seen MsMpEng.exe, or the antivirus, constantly scan my 4TB HDD, either looking for viruses or doing some stupid NTFS remapping thing. It’s loud and only spun up when idle on Win10, but became more aggressive on Win11 with less time to start scanning and not stopping when I move the mouse.

The latest development with breaking my app just means I’m more vigilant in turning the entire antivirus off when it turns on and starts scanning.

According to the very last quote in the article mentioned here:

“As someone who works in them… we do it 100% on purpose!” one man said.

Yep, it’s Bridgford. There is a rather hilarious article about local complaints.

The fact that this is a news article about a mundane social media post is another issue I won’t go into lol

“Of course it’s all in your head, Harry, but who’s to say it isn’t real?” - Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore

I have a theory that reality and worlds are objective. For example, two people can look at the same item and see different things. Everyone’s worldview is a current perception based on their experiences, and what stories they’ve acquired defines what kind of stories they see in, say, a statue of a cat. Person one may have fond memories of felines and see the statue as a wonderful symbolism of pride and agility. Person two may just see a statue, cold and disrespecting to the nature of a warm-blooded animal. The statue is in the shared reality. The idea of the statue for both people are both real, both true, but not shared. Thus, two realities.

For an optimist, their world is pretty and full of opportunity. For a pessimist, their world is a blend of grey and full of cruelty. Both worlds are real, but only in the view of the individual. Experiences shape perception. Perception shapes shared reality into an individual reality.

Take someone who has hallucinations of creatures imposed on the shared reality by their mind. To them, the hallucinations happen. They are, for them, real and they interact with, react to, the visions regardless of whether they are in the shared world. But whether they are part of the person’s world depends on if they perceive the hallucinations as real.

What is real? Is it the idea of something that is shared between worldviews? Or is it explicitly a tangible, physically interactive something?

Thus, Barbie’s world may be a view of our (shared) reality, or it may be entirely fictional, but it is definitely real, down to the sentient nutcracker.

I often view works of fiction as alternate realities, meaning their worlds are real, their stories are now really in our world, but they are stories of a reality as imagined by an author and therefore every novel, motion picture and photo album is a replay of an event the author experienced, a privileged view through a portal into another individual reality.

I know I’m not the only one to theorise on this, as proven by Phil Collins’ Two Worlds, referring to the worldview shared by members of the human colony and the other worldview shared by the predominantly gorilla colony in the movie Tarzan.

US, not UK as the URL suggests

Ah I understand now, I was a little slow to get that the “loan” is the $700 and it won’t be repaid for a while… Damn. Well I hope the next update is a positive one! YMMV but I’ve learned that harassing customer service often works, by chasing it up with another email every few days to however often you can handle it

Did you choose to pay with installments for the laptop, is that why they’ll get more money from you? For the privilege of not having the product…

Probably a contract deal rather than individual leasing, and business deals often include bulk discounts

My last phone was the OnePlus 6T and they only accepted trade-ins for about five years. By the time I’m ready to trade it its value is so low that it’s barely worth the cost of sending it to a recycling centre

Is that why it’s called Præy for the Gods?!

How can it pass if it hasn’t had lessons… Well said. Ooh I wonder if lecture footage would be able to teach AI, or audio in from tutors…