[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

This will be down voted, but I also tried a bunch of launchers and never found one I liked better than Nova. I ended up installing TrackerControl and Nova has its internet connection fully disabled. It doesn't need Internet for any features I use, so I felt like this was a good compromise, personally. I ended up starting to block trackers in all my apps now because of it, so I see it as a net win.

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Tracker Control on Android works well for system-wide tracker and ad blocking, and you can configure custom blocking rules per-app. Works without root by using a VPN profile (but no data leaves your device via the VPN, it just routes the traffic through this app).

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Mine's "Abraham Linksys"

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

A great puzzle game with terminals often found in woods or other outdoors locations. Like so:

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

I thought the same, but it only took me like 2 days to get used to it.

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago

You guys use more than just the +30 button? Weird.

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

"Are you sure you don't want to lower your standards? You're still single..."

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

Haven't seen anyone mention it in here yet, but this is exactly why I use Aurora Store to search for and download apps instead of the Play Store. It still installs things so the Play Store can update it automatically if you want, but you don't have to deal with any ads.

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

If they're using a service to send the emails, like SendGrid or Mailchimp or something, that Unsubscribe survey is actually hosted by the email sending provider, and the more people that mark the email as spam or use the "I never signed up for this" option or similar, the worse it makes the user of the mail sending service look. If they used Sendgrid for example to send a mass email to 10k people, if more than 5% Unsubscribe or mark as spam or use the "I never signed up for this", the company might get their account locked down by Sendgrid until there's an investigation as to why they sent spam.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by shadshack@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm thinking about making some changes to my home server to make it a little more robust and let me do some cool new things with it (like actually trust it for backing up data to with NextCloud, replicating VMs or data across sites, etc). I'm just looking for any advice people might have for this process to migrate hypervisors.

What I currently have:

  • Windows 10 Pro OS with Hyper-V
  • Running some applications on the host OS (Plex/PRTG/Sonarr/Radarr)
  • Running a few VMs for things I set up after I realized "I should be doing these in VMs..."
  • 4 HDDs for data, each just mounted individually. 2 for TV, 1 for Movies, 1 for Backups

What I'd like to have:

  • Better OS for running the hypervisor (Proxmox is what I'm reading may be best, but I'm open to suggestions)
  • Nothing running on the host OS other than a hypervisor
  • All my services running virtualized, be that via Docker in a LXC or a guest OS.
  • My Drives all in a RAID 5. Planning to add more drives at some point as well.

My thoughts on the process are that the "easiest" way may be:

  1. Just throw a new OS drive in to install Proxmox on
  2. Export my VMs from Hyper-V and import them into Proxmox
  3. Set up the services I had running on the host OS previously in their own VMs/containers
  4. Make a new RAID either: a. with new disks or b. by combining data from my existing disks so I can get a free few disks to start the RAID with, then moving data into the RAID and clearing out more disks to then add to the RAID, rinse and repeat until done (that's a lot of data moving I'd like to avoid...)

I wasn't sure if it would be a smarter idea to do something more like this though (assuming this is all possible, I'm not even sure that it all is). If this is possible, it might reduce my downtime and make it so I can tackle this in bits at a time instead of having an outage the entire time and feeling like I need to rush to get it all done:

  1. New OS drive for Proxmox
  2. Use Proxmox to boot my Windows 10 drive (this I'm not sure about) so that everything continues as it's currently set up.
  3. Slowly migrate my services out of the Windows 10-hosted VMs and host-installed services
  4. I probably still have to deal with the RAID the way I mentioned above

Is there any other method I'm just totally not thinking of? Any tips/tricks for migrating those Hyper-V VMs? That part seems straightforward enough, but looking for any gotchas.

The reason I haven't done anything yet is because I only have so much time in the day, and I'm not trying to dedicate an entire weekend to this migration all at once. If I could split up the tasks it'd make it easier to do, obviously there are some parts that would be time-consuming.

Thanks in advance!

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[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

+1 for TrackerControl. Love blocking/allowing specific categories/domains for an app. If the app doesn't need it to do what I want it to do, I block it (looking at you, ads).

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I hate this. It needs to be a setting. It being on the left when I'm right-handed and have to reach all the way across will have me using a different app.

[-] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

My school had a web filter to block YouTube and various other sites that they didn't want students to go to. On the block page, there was a "report site blocked incorrectly" button, as well as a password override for admins to do a one time bypass.

One of my classmates registered a domain that all it did was log the IP address of whoever visited it. He then attempted to visit the site from class, it was blocked, and he clicked the report button. Later on one of the IT admins reviewed the report to see if the site should be unblocked or not, by visiting the site. My classmate then had the public IP address of the IT admin.

This IT admin must not have been very good, because he had a password unprotected, open, telnet port pointing to his computer. So we were able to telnet into his PC and poke around. He had an Excel file on his desktop with the web filter override passwords for every school in the district. That Excel file was promptly shared to as many people as who asked for it and we thought wouldn't rat us out.

We gloriously had unrestricted Internet for several months before the teachers caught on. We were told that anyone who used this password would be found out, and that the school was going to have a "volunteer" community service day for 4 hours on Saturday, picking up trash around the school. Anyone who attended would be pardoned for using the password, anyone who didn't attend and who was found out for using the password would have been "punished" (very ambiguously defined). I did not go to the volunteer day, nor was I punished in any way. I do think that it was just a bluff and they didn't have good enough logging to tell who actually used the password.

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