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themadcodger
Un Dorian Gray sin pasado, ni patria ni bandera.
I’m just a guy in the #pnw who likes going on adventures, and playing games with friends.
Three things I love: the Oxford Comma, irony, and missed opportunities.
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This is what I’ve been trying to figure out, so I’m glad you did it. I have a Synology too and I’ve outgrown it, but building my own server scratch is daunting so I just wanted to hook a DAS up to a mini PC and call it good. But there were a lot of people online saying it was a bad idea.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move
9·1 year agoThat’s the bar we’re at?
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politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court rules that immigration raids in LA can continue
20·1 year agoYup. Originally, Irish and Italian immigrants weren’t white. Syrians and Arabs have always been white though, because as they argued in court, if they weren’t white, neither was Jesus. So that case ended quickly.
themadcodger@kbin.earthto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp?
8·1 year agoI did the notification thing. If the outdoor temperature is lower than my indoor temperature and above 17° and the humidity is under 60% and the windows are closed, it sends me a notification to open them.
Same if the outdoor temps get above 24° and the windows are still open, it reminds me to close them.
I love the integrations with immich and owntracks, as well as having an OIDC login. What kind of resources does this need for a server?
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politics @lemmy.world•California Legislature approves Newsom's redistricting plan to counter Texas' new congressional map
17·1 year agoI think it was on the verge of going blue back in the early aughts and then they gerrymandered a majority for themselves ever since.
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politics @lemmy.world•ICE Arrests US Army Veteran, Husband of Former Congressional Candidate During Citizenship Interview
5·1 year agoNo, I think you should have done what you did. In this day and age, you can’t really tell any more.
themadcodger@kbin.earthto
politics @lemmy.world•Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke
7·1 year agoThey both were rather hoopy
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politics @lemmy.world•Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke
121·1 year agoElection, yes. Fair election, no.
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politics @lemmy.world•Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke
35·1 year agoThe major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
– Some hoopy frood
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politics @lemmy.world•Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas
30·1 year agoWe started finding out with the first run of Trump that our government still operates on gentlemen’s agreements and the pony express being cutting edge technology.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•What's your most pointless or silliest automation?
39·1 year agoI have an NFC take at the bottom of the stairs that I scan before going up for the night. It turns off all the appropriate lights downstairs, bedroom lights on upstairs, sets the air filters, etc. But it also has the voice assistant tell me good night and to sleep well. Because I apparently need that to happen.
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politics @lemmy.world•'The revisions are hard evidence': White House struggles to justify firing of BLS chief over weak jobs numbers
4·1 year agoSame thing during covid. If we stop testing, our numbers aren’t getting worse!
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politics @lemmy.world•One Thing Has Changed at Portland City Hall: The Socialists Are Setting the Agenda
9·1 year agoHe’s mine! I saw him talk when he came to our community center. It was refreshing having a politician who seemed ready to actually make positive change. Because after our last system of government, we definitely need it.
You have a CNAME record that points service.my.domain to machine-that-hosts-caddy.ts-domain.ts.net, and with tailscale enable it hits the caddy server and then reverse proxies it to the machine:port of “service”? Which may or may not be the tailscale IP address and port?
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politics @lemmy.world•Democrats try a new tone: Less scripted, more cursing, Trumpier insults
19·1 year agoNo! We should court the center vote! It worked in the 90s and it’ll work again any day now!
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to use a domain I own to self-host services?
71·1 year agoWe all got to learn somewhere!
Lot of good advice here, but sometimes people forget what it’s like to be a beginner. Since you don’t know what you’re doing, I would recommend not trying to host things on your home server and access it from the outside world. That usually involves port forwarding on your router, and that comes with a lot of risks, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. Others have mentioned it, but a better option when you’re starting off is to rent a vps and host your software there.
Squarespace might work, but my guess is it’ll be easier to transfer your domain elsewhere. You can follow guides for that online and it’s pretty straightforward.
Having a vps, a domain name, you’re most of the way there. On your vps, you’ll want to install a reverse proxy, which is what routes incoming urls to the right place (nextcloud.domain.tld goes here, calendar.domain.tld goes there).
Docker is another thing I’d recommend learning as a lot of what you’ll self host will likely be in a Docker container. I’d watch a few YouTube videos to see how it’s done. This channel has some great videos, and there are others out there.
It seems like a lot, but learn a little here and there and don’t expect to have this all working overnight. You’ll get there!

Tried to schedule a covid vaccine at Costco, but they have a note saying a Rx is required in the following states. Oregon was listed, but WA and CA weren’t. So I’m going to try my luck at one across the border in WA.