Depends on the ISP, my old one just handed out Fritz box routers with nothing locked down. Still using it now with the new ISP!

Having two could be useful - allows you to separate anything that virtual you wants to host from anything real life you wants to host.

(Without having two domains pointing at the same IP)

Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?

Their problem is probably that they actually took too long to monetise it.

Before Discord, groups were often paying for hosted team speak, ventrilo or mumble servers. Then along came discord with it’s VC money and did what they did and more for free. Now most people probably are not willing to pay for what used to be a paid service.

BBC (pre launch): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55463366

After launch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/style/japan-wooden-satellite-hnk-intl/index.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LignoSat

Things fall into the thicker parts of the atmosphere because drag from the tiny amounts of air up there. if that is shrinking, then you can get lower before you have the same amount of drag? Therefore lower orbits might be more feasible?

Lower orbit means faster though, so it may not be linear? Would be interesting to see (someone else do) the maths.

Doesn’t that just mean that lower orbits can be used? Less air resistance?

With the obvious disclaimer that it will hike your electricity bill.

That’s a lot of useful info, thanks!

What do you want to run in a VM that can’t run in Docker?

a VM with torrent client and a killswitched VPN was the easiest way to get a secure setup. also meant if it ever got virused I could just roll it back. I need to look more into what docker can actually do by the looks of it.

You are the second person to suggest unraid - is it ok to sit on the perpetual license (for a few years at a time), or are the updates really required? It supports GPU passthrough right, so I can have a ‘normal’ linux desktop for gaming while running the other stuff in the background?

TY for the response!

I only know of it from LTT videos I think, not exactly the best endorsement!

That’s a lot of data (relatively)! Are you paying for the unraid license yearly, or just sitting on an old version?

Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/

oooh, TY! Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆

I guess I must as well have a play with some stuff like jellyfin to see if its useful. The ‘server’ in this case would have a 6 year old GPU in it, so should hopefully have enough grunt.

Thanks for the info!

ah sorry, my new ISP gave me a router, but it doesn’t have any VPN functionality on it (Edited OP to make that clear). My old one probably can’t support the speed, and for some reason doesn’t let me change its MAC address, so I can’t use it as the ISP facing device.

I’m paying for a static IP (and to get off cg-nat)

what benefit does a new router give over just putting the VPN software on the RP for example?

That’s some nice documentation - way overkill for what I need though.

Out of interest - Why is the VPS required, and why the mention of a non residential IP address? Could that not all be hosted locally if your ISP has given you a static IP address?

Wasn’t there a spate of phone camera stabilisers being broken/worn out because they were strapped to bikes?

You want them all in one place so that they can be uploaded in one go to your fitness tracking site. That lets you see what your HR, power and cadence all where on that specific hill for example.

I used to have a Fitbit that used my phone for GPS and it was awful and drained the batteries on both devices. I guess the idea of having 5G is that you don’t actually take your phone with you, one less thing to have to force into your pockets.

If your app uses silver light, VB6 or something like that where modern OSs, browsers etc just don’t support it and there is no upgrade path.

It could also be written in a language that is supported, but you just can’t hire Devs for.

I’m almost always of the opinion that refactoring is better than a rewrite as long as the tech stack is supportable.

Everyone wants to rewrite stuff, because the old system is ‘needlessly complicated’. 90% of the time though, they end up finding it was complicated for a reason and it all ends up going back in. It does allow a system to be written with the full knowledge of its scope though, instead of an old system that has been repeatedly bodjed and expanded. Finally, if your old tech stack is unsupportable (not just uncool, unsupportable) then it can be the most feasible way. It will take ages though with no/little return until it’s all finished.

Refactoring is more difficult, as developers need to understand the existing codebase more to be able to safely upgrade it in situ. It does mean you can get continuous improvement through the process though as you update things bit by bit. You do need to test that each change doesn’t have unexpected impact though, and this can be difficult to do in badly written systems.

Most Devs hate working on other people’s code though, so prefer rewrites.

(Ran out of time to go into more detail)