IF anyone cares, the wallet is a $19 Hawx men’s bifold wallet in pecan, available from sheplers.com

kbin obviously!

Minimum open services is indeed best practice but be careful about making statements that the attack surface is relegated to open inbound ports.

Even Enterprise gear gets hit every now and then with a vulnerability that’s able to bypass closed port blocking from the outside. Cisco had some nasty ones where you could DDOS a firewall to the point the rules engine would let things through. It’s rare but things like that do happen.

You can also have vulnerabilities with clients/services inside your network. Somebody gets someone in your family to click on something or someone slips a mickey inside one of your container updates, all of a sudden you have a rat on the inside. Hell even baby monitors are a liability these days.

I wish all the home hardware was better at zero trust. Keeping crap in isolation networks and setting up firewalls between your garden and your clients can either be prudent or overkill depending on your situation. Personally I think it’s best for stuff that touches the web to only be allowed a minimum amount of network access to internal devices. Keep that Plex server isolated from your document store if you can.

Yeah, a company got toasted because one of their admins was running Plex and had tautulli installed and opened to the outside figuring it was read-only and safe.

Zero day bug in tat exposed his Plex token. They then used another vulnerability in Plex to remote code execute. He was self-hosting a GitHub copy of all the company’s code.

The crypto is decent, it’s electron so it’s source available. If you want to ignore their hosting solution, you can disable the syncing and just take the vault from its config directory and sync it yourself

The real downsides are that it’s not actual open source, so if they decided to screw around with the security or turn the crypto off somebody can’t just fork it.

I’d vote for anytype or obsidian

Anytype has a learning curve, But it has built-in encryption and IPFS syncing provided by the company. The templating system is really slick and the relational aspect is pretty solid.

Obsidian + syncthing fork is a really solid contender. It’s much easier to work with out of the box but the features are a little more generic.

Neither of these are really self-hosted, so much as they are contained in their own ecosystem. You get some measure of higher availability that you have to really work for if you’re really self-hosting a product.

I use Jellyfin for all my video but I use Plex for my audio. Plex app is just so much better than finamp.

Lol, That’s why I self-host so much crap. The only way I can give it to everybody is to make it a web app, or maintain three separate sets of clients.

I’m kind of apprehensive to open up a really small projects on my home network to the outside world. Kudos for maintaining unraid as a platform though.

I might consider running it at my house but my wife is Mac I’m Linux it would only help my kids.

Could It handle mod packages for Java Minecraft or something?

Make pizza dough. Over-develop the gluten a little so it’s nice and stretchy. Pull off a bit bigger than a golf ball. Flatten it to 5"x 7". Place two mostly overlapping 3" sandwich-sized pepperoni on one end, fold over the sides, and roll them tight into a burrito-like shape. pinch all the seams shut. Walmart’s deli pepperoni are ideal for this. You want something greasy and salty. Now is not the time for low fat or low sodium.

Cut to deep lines in the top of the rolls (at least 1/4 of the way through) so they can expand and vent when they cook.

Bake at 400 or airfry and 350 until just barely past blonde.

If the pepperoni is good, you won’t need to add extra salt or seasoning to the dough. The grease form the meat will flow through the dough while it rises. I tried adding red sauce, cheese, ham, mushrooms, sausage, even chicken pesto. Nothing beats sandwich pepperoni and two seem to be the ideal amount.

She’s getting there it’s not binary. Almost 24x7 were walking around in some constant state of yeah I could pee a little bit. She’s just got to find that point where it makes sense to her brain that yeah you should probably go pee now.

It’s a fairly difficult ask. We’re asking them to feel a slow increase in pressure throughout the day and to stop what they’re doing and go use the bathroom without having a direct trigger.

And trying to teach them to use the bathroom at regular intervals without being reminded isn’t any easier.

The first step is for them too feel the emergency and run to the bathroom.

Then slowly work back from there until they’re going to the bathroom when they’re transiting between things.

If they can’t figure out the emergency and run to the bathroom, they’re not ready yet.

I don’t know that it’s absolutely mandatory but it’s definitely pervasive.

He’s the only person I’ve known here in almost 50 years without a middle name. It’s quite possible other people haven’t had a middle name but it’s never come up.

I used to work with a guy that was from China. He only had a first in a last name. He was going to college here and the college required everyone to have a middle initial as part of their login. They just used his last initial as his middle initial.

I’ve been greatly over-making pizza dough. I stop at two punch-downs, separate it into golfball-sized lumps, throw them into deli containers separated with parchment squares, and freeze them. When I need some pepperoni rolls, I take out a couple and throw them in another deli container in the fridge the night before. They work exactly as fresh for a few weeks, after a month or so, you need to let them rise a bit more after thawing.

Next step will be to pre-make and freeze the rolls.

during cooking. If you want to make a fine-textured dish from canned tomatoes, check the labels and buy a brand that doesn’t list calcium among its ingredients

You can also buy canned “seeded, skinned, crushed” tomatoes which are already 90% of the way there. I generally don’t buy anything more processed than it needs to be, but in canned tomatoes, it doesn’t seem to matter.

Good quality canned is generally preferred.

You can make tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes, but it is a serious time investment, and you will, at best, end up with the same product quality as canned.

Here’s Alton Brown’s recipe for tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/tomato-sauce-recipe-1912571

It’s difficult to find quality, properly vine-ripened tomatoes. They have such a short shelf life and ship poorly when ripe, so almost everywhere that produces them picks them green and ships them to markets. They hit them with a little ethylene and bam, bright-red, blemish-free, bland, semi-unripe tomatoes. But places that produce canned tomatoes can pull them right when they’re perfect, skin them, seed them, cook and mill them and store them away.

If you can find a local farm with quality vine-ripened tomatoes, you still need to seed them, roast them, skin them, and mill them. You just want the flesh, and you want it to be cooked and smashed to death.

And for consistency, a good can of San Marzano will be the same every time.

Price Comparison depends on what you have access to and what season it is. If you buy local farm-grown tomatoes in bulk, you can probably make it somewhat cheaper. If you’re just buying them from the grocer and they’re out of season, you won’t be able to touch the quality for the price.

Carbon FP is an interesting take. They’ll spend less energy per tomato doing them in huge batches. But you’re not going to can them, But the cans are recyclable, but recycling uses electricity. Presumably, you’re going to get them hyper-locally, but the added shipping cost to send the few you’re using to market is marginal. I’d say it’s almost, but not quite a wash with it being a little better locally. You’d also be supporting local farms which is good for everyone. Of course, this also means you need to be getting them in growing season so they aren’t getting shipped up from equatorial countries.

TL;DR

It’s probably not noticeably cheaper, or higher quality than good quality canned, but that’s no reason not to do it.

Or just bury another line. Connect to speaker to each end, put a small mic/amplifier/push button on each end

;)

If you can find landline phones with that feature set, just get them. You can just wire them together and put 20 volts DC in the line. Of course you’re not going to want to do that over your single ethernet run but if you had multiple…

Telephone services really simple, 18 to 24 volts on hook should pull down to about eight or nine volts when you open the line. If you pulse a 90 volt signal, It will cause them to ring.