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So, what's in your toolbox? in c/stopdrinking

[–] brewery 1 points 3 days ago

First time I've seen this and wow, this really hits the reasons! Thank you

[–] brewery 8 points 1 week ago

As someone who used to cycle, walk or ride a bus across these bridges, please don't blow them up. In fact, I think all the central London bridges have bus lanes, plenty of walking space and some have cycle lanes. Theres one bridge for people only. I know im taking this too seriously but it's a very scary thought

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F these, even in urban England (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by brewery to c/fuckcars

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In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours...

These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!

I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car...

CEO to Worker Pay Ratios for S&P 500 Companies in c/workreform

[–] brewery 6 points 3 weeks ago

Does it include cleaners? Most offices seem to hire external companies so don't hire cleaners themselves, or any of the "menial" jobs required to have a functioning office. Might hide much worse jobs

[Help] SMTP options for Authelia in c/selfhosted

[–] brewery 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Im using a free Mailgun account for all my self hosted services. Happy with it so far.

Proton only has SMTP on it's business accounts, and you have to apply for one with a good reason (ie not for spam)

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Upgrading to 3G broadband (self.selfhosted)

submitted 3 weeks ago by brewery to c/selfhosted

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I've really landed on my feet here.

Background

Our road recently got upgraded to full fibre so I switched my ADSL supplier from 300MB to 1G (is it still ADSL?!?). I also have cable broadband at 600MB so last year bought an omada router with dual wan, then bought two EAPs and been quite happy with the speeds. My equipment includes a desktop PC as home server, and a mini PC with pihole and home assistant.

Cable broadband (virgin media) just came up to renewal so they offered me 1G at same price (£35 a month) to compete with the new speeds on my street.

The new 1G ADSL provider had incorrect info on their website so ended up on CGNAT instead of Dynamic IP. It said they have dynamic IP for 1G and 3G lines, so part of the reason I went for 1G was this, which I made clear to them. They took a while to try and fix it and were pretty poor so just for offered a 3G upgrade for £39pm and 6 months free !!!

They're coming on Monday to replace the modem \router for a 3G one. I can keep the old router (brand new 1G wifi 6 router) as a mesh.

Advice needed

Please help me figure out what I need to change to make the most of it?! I purposefully didn't go beyond 1G as was not expecting this much speed for many, many years!

If anybody knows good resources on upgrading speeds past 1G please let me know.

For my home network, do I just sell everything I have and start again? Do I just use their modem and WiFi?

Do I need to check all my wires and potentially upgrade them? How do you check the speeds if they don't have them printed?

On my home server, do I need to upgrade the network card to get the most out of it? Will it be fine if the connection to the pihole DNS is still 1G if it's only requesting addresses?

I am sorry for anyone on lower speeds seeing this with envy. I do appreciate how lucky I am.

TLDR: broadband provider messed up so got ridiculously cheap upgrade to 3G ADSL and also upgraded to 1G Cable (dual wan 4G). How do I make the most of this given my equipment is all 1G?!?

I answered: Are VPNs essential? in c/[email protected]

[–] brewery 3 points 4 weeks ago

Is that true though? I use always on VPN (one of the 3 mentioned) and never had issues. I have more problems with Firefox/Fennec and adblocking add ons. I am in Europe so is this more a US issue? I get blocked sometimes because of GDPR

10 things you should really know before getting an electric bike in c/[email protected]

[–] brewery 4 points 1 month ago

If you get it from a reputable company it's no different to the phone battery. You can also get fire proof charging cases if you're really concerned about it.

Tokyo Metro to help run London's Elizabeth line as new operator named in c/fuckcars

[–] brewery 6 points 1 month ago

I think most of the "underground", at least the older lines are operated by TFL. The TFL also operates some of the "overground" lines as a franchise owner. This line runs on national rail lines out to Reading so maybe it if more like "overground" than "underground". I thought this project would fall under TFL regardless so it is just a joke really.

By the way, for national rail trains, private companies also own most of the rolling stock which the franchise owners lease. The whole British railway system is an absolute mess...

Tokyo Metro to help run London's Elizabeth line as new operator named in c/fuckcars

[–] brewery 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why the hell is such a massive publicly funded project being pimped out to multiple overseas corporations?! I know a public body that has train drivers, engineering staff, ticket staff etc called the TFL... Oh right yeah, I forgot, it's all about the £££. Privatise the profits, socialise the investment/risks

Podman or rootless docker? in c/selfhosted

[–] brewery 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

pastebin.com/DiHX2vg2

Hopefully this works and you can see the compose file. I've put a few things in [square brackets] to hide some stuff, probably overly cautiously. I have an external network linked to NPM and in that, I use nextcloud-server for IP address and 80 for the port (it's the inside container port, not 8080 on the system - that took me a long time to figure out!). Add a .env file with everything referenced in the compose file, then (hopefully!) Away you go

TTeck (Proxmox Helper Scripts) has passed away. R.I.P. in c/selfhosted

[–] brewery 7 points 1 month ago

RIP from England. Those scripts helped me through some tough times when first trying proxmox, I remember being so happy to find them. I wouldn't have stayed on proxmox without them

Podman or rootless docker? in c/selfhosted

[–] brewery 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not sure if it makes a difference and not quite your question but I've just switched away from nextcloud-aio to just having my own docker compose, so I have better control and know what's going on more. I always found it funny and when installing on a new VPS decided to try. It was surprisingly straightforward and Ive been able to install everything I need.

Let me know if my docker compose would help. I still need to add the backup solution but it's going to be straightforward as well.

Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats in c/technology

[–] brewery 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like my free healthcare, ambulances, fire fighters, roads, drivers requiring licences, drivers requiring insurance, police, trains, buses, general security, employee regulation, safety regulation, building codes, industry regulation, help overseas from consulates, so would prefer to pay a bit in taxes to get a lot back. It might not all be "perfect" but the idea of aiming for a happy and equal society is good.

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Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems (self.selfhosted)

submitted 9 months ago by brewery to c/selfhosted

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After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of employees spread across the world, it is a wonderful sight to see.

Now at my current company, it's at the opposite end of the scale where I almost believe that I could do a better job by myself! They've trying to do everything you would expect but somehow doing it wrong. They are so heavy on security I have a Citrix environment that takes me 3 logins to get to, fails constantly and means I can't work without internet (like on a long train journey for work purposes recently), and on the other hand they've only just turned off admin rights for users so we could've installed anything we wanted!!! All our attachments (incoming and outgoing) are saved to a secure website (like OneDrive) and replaced with a link. It doesn't save the file names on the email so it's really tricky to find old emails if it's a document you're looking for. I could go on but just venting at this point as it's so frustrating!!!

Thank you to the good IT people out there. Your roles are so important but not appreciated enough!

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Recommendation for children's photos sharing (self.selfhosted)

submitted 10 months ago by brewery to c/selfhosted

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I had a child and both of our parents were in another country so wanted to keep them updated with photos and videos but refused to use social media. I have been using Back Then which, to be fair, has worked pretty well. I pay a subscription and can give access to anybody I want through their email. They then have to download an app and sign in to see. It updates them if there's new photos and shows them in a nice chronological order by age. There are other features (likes and comments) but tbh, no-one really uses them and I don't care about that. For me, it's just the privacy and access control I'm after

Now I have built my home server and got to the point where it's reliable (enough), plus I'm happy with my security/SSO setup, does anybody recommend a self hosted photo sharing tool?

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Son keeps declaring he loves me and giving me hugs (self.dadsonly)

submitted 2 years ago by brewery to c/dadsonly

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My son is 4 and is now randomly saying I love you to me and my wife, and at other times giving us proper tight hugs. We are so buzzing about it. Ever since he was born we have been doing that to him as neither of us got it growing up so wanted to show him all the time that he is loved, and it really feels like all that effort and work is really paying off as he is such an emotional and lovely boy.

Just wanted to share as a super proud dad...