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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • I would like to use tailscale for some services, but the ones I access from public computers, like nextcloud or blog hosting, can’t be behind a VPN.

    I would love the Synology to Synology backup to be behind the VPN, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to get it working, so that is lower down on my list.

    Things like Jitsi would be cool to have behind the vpn, but then I’d have to get everyone to install tailscale on their phones and configure access, so that’s going to be too complicated for me and my family unfortunately.










  • I used to bike like this when I was a teenager, and I try not to now. If someone was in the crosswalk, I’d slightly adjust my speed and path to pass behind or in front of them as space allowed, just like they were any other obstacle. Because I didn’t realize how unpleasant it feels to be startled by a bike going past, or even if you know they’re coming it’s still uncomfortable that they’re going fast.

    As a biker it took me a lot of life experience to realize that even if the situation was perfectly safe (I’ve always been in control and never hit anyone), pedestrians are not unreasonable for disliking bikes riding fast in their personal space.

    But in a lot of countries, bikes have to be like pedestrians sometimes because the bike infrastructure is so spotty or non-existant. You’ll try to use the bike path but it just ends. Or there’s so safe way to turn left, or whatever.

    But in other places, like Berlin, Germany, old people will yell at you if you’re biking in the wrong place and it’s pretty great because there’s usually a good bike path right there that you could be using.

    PS. In my walking experience, bikes are way more likely to see me if I’m crossing a crosswalk than cars. Sometimes cars drive right through when you’re waiting to cross, where a biker will usually acknowledge me and let me cross.




  • From reading the comments, I think you could be a lot leaner by selling the $100 setup fee, and telling people which “kit” is supported, and they buy that on their own.

    That way you don’t have to deal with any of the physical infrastructure of buying/selling/storing hardware, and people can do some customization.

    However I do think you’d need to put some restrictions in place so that people don’t buy cheap crap that doesn’t work and expect you to set it up and support it. They have to buy the kit or other compatible hardware.

    I’m not sure what services you’d support, but personally I’d be interested in something like a personal introduction and setup of

    • docker
    • proxmox
    • yunohost
    • backups / restore (practice restoring)
    • smb shared folder
    • pihole / pivpn (can you have wire guard and openvpn setup at the same time for different uses?

    Maybe migration of

    • nextcloud

    You could make different prices depending on what service they want, kind of like a bike stop.

    I wouldn’t want a perpetual subscription, but I could stomach something like $100 setup + $5/mo for limited support for a year.

    Best thing for me is that community support also exists for all these things too, but it’s hard to do it on your own sometimes.