Mine is looking at the blocked domains in pihole and watching my TV trying to call home desperately without success.
I don't feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.
Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.
Third guilty pleasure is 10gbit/s fiber network at home.
Well, would you look at Mr Moneybags over here. LOL I wish tho. I just have a 1gbit connection.
I bought the server hardware 3 years ago, so when the prices of ram were also fine. Today it's not fun anymore.. I really hope those ram and nvne prices go down again! I can't upgrade anything now.
It's a trade off. Buy older equipment and DDR3 is cheap. I dropped 40 more gb on the server for about $45 USD. The downside is that older equipment is not as energy efficient and as fast as newer equipment.
Crying in 70Mbps copper.... 15 upload.
10gbit fiber locally doesn't mean I have this speed to the internet (I'm not).
Realistically, 1gbit connection is good for uploading and downloading huge architectural plans, but other than that, I rarely use anything close to it's max capacity. It's like having a killer sports car that will go 0 to 60 in a few seconds, but you rarely have the need to do that.
Fact. I only use more then 1gbit/s for file transfers internally between computers or between the server and a computer.
My proxmox dashboards make me feel tingly in my no no parts
Ahhhh I do like my grafana dashboards.
watching all the ads and tracking domains get blocked is not guilty at all for me. i could do it all day.
lol
Seriously, of there is a guide for how a newbie can set this up, please let me know. My little website is being bashed everyday.
Iocaine? I followed the instructions on the website which were fairly easy to follow. Depending on your skill level it might suffice.
Learning and experimenting with things
This is the part I really love.
Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.
... When it works, that is.
I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense....great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you'd say, 'at my level'. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.
Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.
....and how do you manage those speeds?
Three important factors:
Mine is seeing the "removed" and "started" when I update all my dockers
Can relate.
Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
We used to need tools like Hamachi back in the days. And it was awful, didn't work and caused me way too much headache
I get a good deal of satisfaction seeing my aliases of blocked connections.
Not really a guilty pleasure though.
Do you feel guilty if I'd asked you about that?
Do you feel guilty if I’d asked you about that?
Yeah I probably would because I spend a lot of time watching it, blocking new threats and unwanted guests. My goal is to achieve the cleanest stream possible.
Good luck on achieving that.
You'll be more successfull in whitelisting every possible connection instead ;)
Spend some time (IMO too much) mysealf researching ASNs and publicly accessible blocklists of datacenters/crawlers.
Not an easy task.
Edit: Grammar (lol)
Man, why you want to trample on my vision? LOL My default is 'deny all until something complains, and address PRN.' Some of my more productive lists are the Internet Storm set, a lot of Firebog lists, and some I've compiled myself. Tons of CIDR rejects, not a whole lot of passes.
No offense intended.
Like I mentioned earlier: I am doing that myself.
Also have some of the firebog lists, spamhaus and my very own which I have recently started.
Currently also in the progress of doing my own ublock origin blocklist.
It's all coming along pretty nicely!
No offense intended.
Just pulling your strings man.
I got jebaited
......oh you kids and your slang!! (We had plenty too) I had to look it up. Going to have to try to work that into conversation. Thanks. I have a fascination with the etymology of words, phrases, and their history.
Coming from here: https://youtu.be/d1YBv2mWll0
Actually it seems to be a twitch (or probably 4chan) meme.
Not sure and too lazy to research.
Have fun :)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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