Could’ve ended with “you’re ugly. And I’ll always love you.”

Anyway.

Is that part of gait measurement or separate from it?

I second this. If you’re busy and she comes in to talk or rant, stop what you’re doing and look at her and listen. Your face will show her that you’re listening intently.

One trick that always works - every time (or every other time) you go to the grocery store, get her flowers or a balloon. It doesn’t have to be fresh flowers - discount flowers work too.

It lets her know that you thought of her and that you want your shared space to look nice.

But, as others say - listen to her. If she hates flowers, get something else.

And listen, be cheap. It’s fine. Don’t buy the best flowers. They die after a while and beauty fades. So don’t sweat about getting expensive roses.

Added bonus - come valentines, you can skip flowers because they’re overpriced and she’s so used to them that she wants something else 🙂

Lemon juice? /s

It’s a growth driver. They don’t care if it actually amounts to something as long as it causes high tech data center and startup investments. The same as housing - they don’t care as long as housing is driving jobs and material sales. If the prices of houses instantly halve, suddenly everyone will be in favor of building more houses, to keep economic growth the same.

Please tell me more about this. I don’t know enough to know what to dislike him about.

I only saw him recently talking about his Omarchy thing. Seemed too opinionated.

Vinegar seems awesome. Thanks! Also, the dev’s other apps are pretty amazing too!

Huh. I made a big comment reply to this and missed a crucial detail. Are you trying to just make it so that sitting in your own home, you can go to plex.mydomain.xyz instead of the IP?

What are you running plex on? Windows or Linux? On Linux, you can run this thing called Avahi. With it, you can set it up so that your computer starts advertising locally as whatever domain you specify. So I have server.local and newserver.local internally. I just go to server.local on my browser inside my home and it takes me to the landing page of the server where I’ve got Heimdall running, which has links to plex and a bunch of other internal services I’m running.

I don’t know what the equivalent is in Windows, but we can jigger something up. Let me know what OS you’re running on what boxes.

TL;DR - don’t do this. Plex on Cloudflare is a bad idea. Read my last notes. Get the Plex Remote Watch Pass instead.

So, regular Cloudflare DNS is not the answer here. Your homelab is almost always natted. As in, there’s a public IP assigned to your home, but your internal network (192.168…) is… internal. Cloudflare doesn’t know of it.

One solution is to expose a port on your router. That would mean that if you go to plex.mydomain.xyz, Cloudflare DNS will send it to your home’s public IP and your router will send it to your internal computer based on that port request. This is NOT recommended. For one, your home’s public IP can change at any time. It’s your ISP’s choice what IP they want to assign to you. They can and will change it when they want to. Second, this opens up your internal network to a barrage of attacks.

Seriously, don’t do this.

A separate alternative is to use something like DynDNS (only if your router supports it). Then folks will go to yourplex.dyndns.io (or something) and that will send them to your router’s public IP, no matter how many times it changes. But if you want to use plex.mydomain.xyz then DynDNS charges you money and, afaik, it’s expensive. So no real point.

The better alternative is Cloudflared and Cloudflare Tunnels. This sits under https://one.dash.cloudflare.com/ → Networks → Tunnels.

Hit “Create a Tunnel” and select Cloudflared. Give it a name. Let’s call it “homeserver” (it doesn’t matter).

Once it’s created, click on the name and click Edit. (or maybe the instructions vary if you’re running it the first time). Select Docker, and it’ll give you instructions to run cloudflared as a docker container. The command will look like -

docker run cloudflare/cloudflared:latest tunnel --no-autoupdate run --token CLOUDFLARE_ASSIGNED_TOKEN

Then, you’ll have a tunnel. Once you have it up and running, go to Public Hostnames under the same “homeserver” tunnel edit option.

Add a Public hostname. Subdomain would be plex and domain would be mydomain.xyz (from the dropdown). No path.

For the “service” - type is HTTP mostly (unless you’re running SSL inside your home). And the URL is the internal IP address and port for you. So for Plex it’ll be

192.168.x.y:32400 (internal IP of the computer running Plex)

Once it’s saved and Cloudflare has propagated the change (usually a few seconds), you can go to plex.mydomain.xyz and it’ll show your application 🙂

What’s going on here? Cloudflare’s Tunnel solution sidesteps the Cloudflare DNS feature. You still need your domain attached to your Cloudflare account. Cloudflare gets the request, realizes it’s a Tunnel request, finds the cloudflared container which you’re running inside your network, establishes a secure connection all the way to it. From there, the connection is inside your home, from your cloudflared docker container to your Plex installation and back.

NOTE: Once you do this, everyone who can go to plex.mydomain.xyz (basically the entire internet) will be able to see your Plex setup. Make sure to include strong login credentials. If you do not have any login credentials, you can easily end up with complete strangers streaming your Plex library.

ALSO: This is against Cloudflare TOS. If you’re just using it once in a while, you might get away with it. But if not, Cloudflare will find out and boot your domain and might even close your account.

So… If you are building this for friends and family, get the Plex Remote Watch Pass. It’s $20/year and one possible way for you to give Plex access to people. In this method, you do not need to use cloudflare tunnels or expose a port. Everyone creates a free account on Plex (or you create one account for everyone, and they create their own profiles, whatever) and you grant them access to your libraries. Then they go to app.plex.tv instead of plex.mydomain.xyz, login, and get to your content.

Last Note: I use cloudflare tunnels a LOT. I use it for everything from RSS feeds to Calibre Web. All of my usecases are low traffic scenarios. Cloudflare is chill with those. Video streaming through their network is a whole different ballgame. Do NOT risk it.

This took me way too long to write. Cheers!

Federati.

IDs and computing devices.

Showing your ID at the store and sending a copy of your ID to an entity that will most likely not have the best cybersecurity are very different things.

Sure, many people are concerned about what you mentioned. But plenty of them are concerned that the idea that you have to give personally identifiable information to these companies is what’s the worst thing about these laws.

Hmm. I don’t care for black mirror beyond the first season or so. Then it just got into shock and awe. What does… NSFL mean?

Update: never mind. Found it. Wtf.

What is that thing?

Came here to say just that.

I bought a miniPC from AliExpress last year expecting 8GB RAM and Intel N100. The vendor sent an Intel N5095 with 4 GB RAM. I clawed most of my money back, but kept the machine for experimentation. Upped the RAM with the money I got back.

Alpine seems to work best for that machine. Though, I’m tempted to just put Debian on there so I can make docker and portainer agent work on it easily.

Update: Intel 5095, not Intel 50. My bad!

I second this. Get an iPod Classic on eBay or local marketplace. Go heavy on the storage. It works perfectly!

Heck, my teenie tiny iPod Shuffle 3rd gen still works and I have no idea how!

That feels correct, doesn’t it? There are always going to be special cases in all our human systems. Why not treat them as such? It’s so much easier to say 12 noon and 12 midnight (or even skip the 12 if you wanna).

Didn’t it happen that people in LA started calling the cops one time during the pandemic because they saw the Milky Way for the first time in their lives?