sxan

sxan , 6 months ago to Texas in Texas currently requires you to upload a picture of your face to view porn

I take a quick trip to Switzerland

That’s where you get the really weird stuff.

sxan , 7 months ago to homelab in Router recommendations for small home network that supports 1.5Gbps and VLANs (without breaking the bank)

You know, I have no idea about flashing ability.

I missed the “ethernet only” part, sorry! I just buy Netgear routers, but they’re all unmamaged so relatively dumb.

sxan , 8 months ago to homelab in Router recommendations for small home network that supports 1.5Gbps and VLANs (without breaking the bank)

I love these GL.iNet products (their portable models are fantastic, too). Runs OpenWRT, built in support for Mullvad (both OpenVPN and Wireguard), reasonably priced; fantastic kit.

sxan , 8 months ago to Work Reform in Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect

Completely agree. I had the same logic, only since it was CA I figured they fat-finger-dropped a “2” in front of the first number.

sxan , 8 months ago to Work Reform in Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect

You’ve never shopped for housing in California, have you? $95k doesn’t give you rent for a room in a quad.

sxan , 8 months ago to LinkedinLunatics in NSFL

An allowance sounds more like something added to their paycheck, rather than something they expensed. If that was the case, and they got to take home the allowance… well, heck. Ten bucks is ten bucks.

sxan , 9 months ago to homelab in Do any of us host their own email?

This is the way. Exim is far easier to config than Postfix, which is what I’m using now. I’d run Exim before for years, but thought I’d try Postfix since it’s the popular kid. It was a mistake, but everything is running and stable, and… well, sunk costs is keeping me from reconfiguring my set-up.

It’s a bit of effort to get everything configured correctly in any case, because of the number of moving parts. SPF and DMARC on the DNS entries, dovecot, Postfix or Exim, and a spam manager. Spam management consumes a huge amount of resources.

It really is the only way, though.

sxan , 9 months ago to homelab in Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox

I don’t know about “shouldn’t use USB for storage;” it’s perfectly fine. However, if you can use a SATA interface, I would. You’ll get better performance in general from it, and that’s what the port is there for.

sxan , 9 months ago to homelab in Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it

Yeah, zfs is what I meant. Or yfs, as in “Y-use anything but btr-FS?”

sxan , 9 months ago to homelab in Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it

xfs. ext4 doesn’t have a comparable feature set, and nobody is going to use those others as their main filesystems on Linux. bcachefs will be a contender, once it’s included in the kernel, or if you’re the sort who compiles their own kernels.

sxan , 10 months ago to homelab in Storj, decentralized storage for dirt cheap

Companies are beginning to realize there’s literally nothing stopping them from advertising on Lemmy.

sxan , 10 months ago to homelab in Backblaze B2 Price Increasing to $6/TB/month

I have only had positive experiences with B2; I don’t even keep an eye on competitor prices any longer. I hope their employees are getting decent raises out of it.

sxan , 11 months ago to Politics in A Longtime Political Organizer in AOC’s District Says She’s the Real Deal

I wish only that she wouldn’t attack members of her own party that aren’t in full alignment on all of her hot-button issues. There are Dems holding seats in districts where they are barely beating their Republican rival, and may not have AOC’s luxury of being full-throated on all of the issues. I’m not asking her to defend pedophiles in her ranks (as the Republican party does), but just… not try to tear them down and allow their Republican rival to beat them.

Her inability to work with moderates in the party - at least in the press - is not a strength.

sxan , 1 year ago to Firefox in Firefox ESR?

I use it on one machine because it’s the only thing available there. I frequently have problems with web sites that refuse to work because my “web browser is out of date.” Google, in particular, is bad about it, and even seems to actively user agent mocking from working. I know that’s not FF’s problem, but it is a severe issue that makes me wish I could update to a newer version.