DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Yeah, this. I do the same with my Reolink cameras - block all external access and I use a Frigate docker container to record footage to my storage. Bonus is I have Frigate using a Coral TPU, so it’s got some really accurate, and fast, inferencing/recognition baked in.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard

https://reddrefuge.com/pictrs/image/3b691576-f5e2-4d6b-9e15-792610d24c5e.png

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

That’s Dashy. I’ve only just started using it recently. I like it because I can edit it on the fly - no need to dive into the YAML behind it (which I had to do when I was using Homer).

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

So young. Vale, Kevin. You taught so many of us that being inquisitive is a good thing, that pulling things apart isn’t to be feared and, above all else, there’s always some cool new shit to learn.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Piss off the mortgage first, then sit for a bit and think about the rest.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

I use Syncthing to get the photos and videos off our phones, and Photoprism as the photo library.

But I’m looking to see if there’s a decent replacement for the latter, as the promised multi-user support that was eventually delivered was made a paid feature, without any acknowledgement for those of us that were paid up Github supporters up to that point.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Are you using it with multiple users/devices syncing? I’m looking to get out of Photoprism, and Immich caught my eye a little while back.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Yeah, I haven’t gotten past using plaintext secrets in separate files (eg. using Home Assistant’s secrets files). I do the same for any Python scripts that need secrets too, like Slack auth tokens and stuff.

I haven’t really gotten around to looking into secrets management in my homelab, and I know I really should. As much as I have a lot of faith in my Nginx and Authelia config, it only takes one hole for someone to get in and get to those secrets files, especially if that hole is a security flaw in something like Home Assistant - one of the very few services I can access publicly, without using my Wireguard VPN.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

I had a dream about watching my dad die in a factory accident (he worked a lot of factory jobs in the 80s and early 90s).

I could smell the machine oil, hear the thump of the presses (feeling it in my feet, too), and even remember the brief bruised feeling in my shoulder when the paramedic shoved past me to get to him.

It felt so real and vivid, I felt very strongly for the longest time that I’d had a premonition about how my dad would die.

It somehow even sticks with me every now and then, despite him having passed from brain tumours 13 years ago this month.

Weird.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Yeah, well, sedans and hatchbacks don’t tow my caravan into the Victorian High Country.

I’ll gladly switch to an EV offroader once I know it’s capable of getting my family and I to where we’re going, and home again.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

I can’t speak for others, but I definitely do use mine for off-roading as much as I can.

Is it as much as I’d like? No - I have to earn the money to afford the hobby. But it’s absolutely worth it, especially when I get to show my daughter some of the awesome things we have to offer.

The reality is that we’re a rough, tough country, and getting to see lots of it requires special vehicles.

The reason this seems so recent is because, previously, 4WD vehicles were either purpose-built, or expensive if they were tricked out to be daily drivers. That made them uncomfortable or expensive.

With the death of our local car market, it’s opened up a much wider, cheaper, more refined set of offerings, so more people can afford to get into the hobby.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

What an ignorant thing to say

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Each to their own. We enjoy caravanning. Did our time in tents - too much fuckery setting up and packing up.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

It’s an off-road caravan, which I take off-road. Ergo, I need an off-road tow vehicle.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

I said my use case was off-roading in the Vic High Country. So your reply to that was ignorant. Simple.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Why do you say that? What’s so awful about seeing parts of our beautiful country that are hard to get to?

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Oh yes indeed I am (have)! I’ve even taken my van into Wonnangatta.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, righto. Look it up on Wikipedia, did we? If you can, read the words instead of just looking at the pictures - you’ll see it’s only accessible with 4WD, dirt bikes, on horse, or on foot.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Yep, from Melbourne. I generally get away once a month, sometimes twice. If there’s a long weekend in there, then definitely as long as that, and will often tack an extra day or two onto it. I also do a two week trip each year with the family, as well as a one week 4WD trip with mates (move each day).

So many favourite spots:

• Mt Lovick, camp right near the hut
• Just about any of the campsites north of Dargo are really nice places, especially in summer (just sit in the river)
• Pineapple Flat is a definite top three (north of Mt Buller)
• Wonnangatta Station - always fun getting in or out via one of the spurs

Of course, where we go depends on what we want to do. If we feel like tackling Billy Goat’s Bluff (for example), we’ll usually use Eaglevale as base camp, and head out on day trips to check out the sights.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Mate, did you even read my very first comment here? I said I’ll happily switch to an EV off-roader once I know it can get me in and out. Until they get to the point that I can get 400km+ from a single charge, towing my van (as I can with a full tank of diesel), there’s just no point.

The best reviews I’ve seen are mostly empty Rivian R1Ts getting maaaaaybe ~240kms off-roading, without the heavy payload.

PS: no one who ever lived or grew up in the High Country calls it the “high lands”.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Don’t forget the roof pod on the suburban hatchback! ;)

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Lol - it seems the Fediverse has lower standards :D

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Yeah, kinda reminds me of my early tech career days - dial-up internet, DOS, Windows, OS/2. Scrappy.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

Lol - thanks. As the instance’s byline says, it’s just a small, closed instance for some people I know, so we can do our little bit by keeping load off the popular instances. We don’t even have any communities of our own here! :D

DeltaTangoLima, 10 months ago

One show I watched where the genius “tech” girl told the hero she’d just “hacked the open source TCP port”.