Which is why adding Tailscale to this KVM is a killer solution

Excellent, thanks for the link!

I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don’t understand the constraints at first.

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you’ve got a killer remote support solution.

Weird people would downvote this. I usually don’t care (still don’t, lol) but someone downvoted the idea of installing a mesh VPN on this KVM, yet it’s already been done.

My grandmother said the same when I showed her a Motorola Droid in 2009. She said “that’s a pocket computer”.

Lol

It’s as if any play is for a given audience, and we have to bridge the gap with our own imagination. Crazy, right? 😆

Mind, I’m not criticizing your point, I agree with it, Hollywood has never been great with accents, it just has to be “good enough”, like watching a stage play and the props have to be “good enough”.

He stole it from Highlander!

I’m not sure I follow? His character is Egyptian, he was immortal. Though I take OP’s point, he couldn’t really be Scottish since he had been alive long before Scotland existed, possibly before the Picts even.

All together now:

I. Told. You. So.

*syntax

(Just an FYI, I’m guessing autoincorrect got you).

Great notes too, good point about the device name vs device ID.

Immich is part of FUTO now? Great, congrats!

I look forward to implementing it on my new home box.

“distrohoped”?

As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

Sounds like S.O.P

Nothing like an aerogarden. Every one I’ve seen grows things like crazy

This is the answer.

Never mix business with personal on devices. That’s bad for both.

Besides the websites like apkmirror/ApkPure, etc, I save APKs of apps I want to keep using an app like APK Extractor - this extractor will name the file with App Name, Package Name, and Version. Really helps.

I have it extract to a folder on my phone that I keep synced to my server just for extracted APKs.

One down side - an extracted apk may not install on a different phone or new OS, it’s a little trickier these days, downloaded APKs are more specific to phone and OS version now. I’d say maybe 1-2% of my extracted APKs don’t work on newer version of Android, and that’s with having APKs as far back as 2010, I have hundreds (my server says 1400, but there’s a little duplication.)

For ten minutes, lol.

Every time I organize my tools they look like this - for ten minutes. As soon as I do a task, I find the tools need a different arrangement.

I envy folks who can keep their tools looking neat like this!

Meh, security isn’t one thing, it’s layers.

Everything always has risks. 0-days most notably.

Take a look at the NTLM risk that was just announced - every version of Windows is susceptible to it. Minimizing access to small groups is what has kept smart businesses safe from it. Along with things like isolating primary systems on a VLAN with no direct access, unless authorized by more than one person, and through well-configured, specific mechanisms.

Everywhere I’ve worked has had to run expired OS’s for one thing or another - typically CNC type systems that were built for DOS or maybe XP. Do we stop running those systems just because the OS is no longer supported? No - they either get air-gapped or run on a very isolated VLAN with very strict access controls.

Then there’s the person’s threat model. Who is likely to be after you? Do you run questionable apps or just basic ones? Do you have Google services (it’s a risk in my opinion)? Does your phone have a firewall? Do you block network access for apps that shouldn’t need it? Do you separate apps into user profiles to keep data from leaking across them? Do you use a VPN? Maybe a mesh network to your own systems, with all internet traffic going there, then filtered by that firewall or IPS/IDS?

Lots of ways to skin the cat, but most importantly is to maintain layers. Layering is why MFA is such a big thing right now - it’s another access control layer.

I run a bit wild, I admit it. But my threat model doesn’t include people specifically coming for me, or state-level actors. I do have some data-destruction mechanisms in place, just in case.

Parallel won’t show current load of a device. Even a clamp type can be thought of as serial, it’s just picking up the EM field instead of actually carrying the current load across the device.

Something in parallel will be powered by the same source, with it’s current load independent of the other device.

(And yes, I had to think about it for a second, it’s not always immediately intuitive for me either.)