Since Proxmox was a pretty popular subject, anyone have anything that they host that has become essential to your day to day life? For me it's Vault Warden. It has been the best thing for me so far. All of my account's are managed through it and I control my data. It's great!

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Since Proxmox was a pretty popular subject, anyone have anything that
they host that has become essential to your day to day life? For me it's Vault Warden. It has been the best thing for me so far. All of my account's are managed through it and I control my data. It's great!

Nice, I hadn't used this but it seems cool. I use ProtonPass (from the ProtonMail people) and dig it, but there is a part of me that would prefer to selfhost something with such sensitive data. Maybe I'll just set something up and do that...

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It's based off of Bitwarden and still uses the same apps as Bitwarden but I just prefer Vaultwarden more. It's a bit more lightweight to run than the full stack of Bitwarden. You should definately try it out if you haven't :)

- Rayzer
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Since Proxmox was a pretty popular subject, anyone have anything that
they host that has become essential to your day to day life? For me it's Vault Warden. It has been the best thing for me so far. All of my account's are managed through it and I control my data. It's great!

Emby...

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Hi Esc,
In a message to Rayzer you wrote:

Nice, I hadn't used this but it seems cool. I use ProtonPass (from the ProtonMail people) and dig it, but there is a part of me that would
prefer to selfhost something with such sensitive data. Maybe I'll just
set something up and do that...

I just renewed with lastpass for year 16. (I can't believe it's been that long) I know there was a leak but it's so hard to migrate away from
something after that many years.

I did try the Eset one that came with the anti virus program, but I'm just
too used to LP at this point and if I did switch I would do a self hosted
thing anyway.

Shawn

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Rayzer wrote to All <=-

Since Proxmox was a pretty popular subject, anyone have anything that
they host that has become essential to your day to day life? For me
it's Vault Warden. It has been the best thing for me so far. All of my account's are managed through it and I control my data. It's great!

PiHole. Since running it, it's blocked over a quarter of all DNS
lookups.

And, the BBS. I was running 32-bit windows on a laptop with 8 GB of RAM
and hated the fact that 4gb of ram was sitting unusable. I put proxmox
on it and virtualized the BBS, and that started me down this particular
rabbit hole.



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esc wrote to Rayzer <=-

Nice, I hadn't used this but it seems cool. I use ProtonPass (from the ProtonMail people) and dig it, but there is a part of me that would
prefer to selfhost something with such sensitive data. Maybe I'll just
set something up and do that...

I use the Keepass, it's cross-platform. Store the key file on a
cloud share with strong encryption, and I can get to it from my phone,
windows desktop or my Linux laptop.

There's a world of plugins. One of the plugins I liked was one that
could auto-log you into RDP or SSH sessions, as I inherited an
environment with 120 Linux VMs with no centralized password management -
120 local passwords. :(



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PiHole. Since running it, it's blocked over a quarter of all DNS
lookups.

I have a pihole as well. Works great! Surpising how much of our traffic is just un needed junk.

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Hi Poindexter,
In a message to Rayzer you wrote:

PiHole. Since running it, it's blocked over a quarter of all DNS
lookups.

I installed this and was playing with it for a while. The stupid fibe "modem" just kept screwing with the network because it wasn't fully in control and
it would take over and fight with pihole. (Even though I had the feature disabled in the modem, set everyone up manually to get IP from pihole
etc etc)

When I try again I'll have to get a second router and throw the fibe thing in bridge mode I guess.

Shawn

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Tiny wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

I installed this and was playing with it for a while. The stupid fibe "modem" just kept screwing with the network because it wasn't fully in control and it would take over and fight with pihole. (Even though I
had the feature disabled in the modem, set everyone up manually to get
IP from pihole etc etc)

When I try again I'll have to get a second router and throw the fibe
thing in bridge mode I guess.

I've always run in Bridge mode - I've never wanted Comcast on my side of
the connection. I remember when they were floating around the idea of
charging by the LAN client, they could see on the routers how many DHCP addresses had been handed out, were active, and when you'd open a
service ticket they'd ask how many clients you had.

As far as I'm concerned, they're renting me an IP address. What's on the
other end of it is none of their concern as long as I'm not breaking any
laws.


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On Sun, Oct 27 16:50:00 -0500, you wrote:

I've always run in Bridge mode - I've never wanted Comcast on my side of the connection. I remember when they were floating around the idea of charging by the LAN client, they could see on the routers how many DHCP addresses had been handed out, were active, and when you'd open a
service ticket they'd ask how many clients you had.

As far as I'm concerned, they're renting me an IP address. What's on the other end of it is none of their concern as long as I'm not breaking any laws.

I'm the same way. I run the ISP modem/router combo thing in bridge mode and use my own router. Not so much because it's none of their concern (which it really isn't, nor do I think they care very much unless you're actually breaking laws), but because their stuff usually doesn't do very well with anything related to IPv6, or detailed port forwarding, etc.

They tend to go with stuff that just works, and can't really be messed with, because well.. 95% of their customers don't need any bells and whistles, and it's less support they have to actually give.

Regards,
Nick

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on 27 Oct 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said...

I've always run in Bridge mode - I've never wanted Comcast on my side of the connection. I remember when they were floating around the idea of charging by the LAN client, they could see on the routers how many DHCP addresses had been handed out, were active, and when you'd open a
service ticket they'd ask how many clients you had.

I don't even use their router, personally.

Man, I don't remember hearing about (or I've forgotten about it) but that is some wretched bullshit, right there!

As far as I'm concerned, they're renting me an IP address. What's on the other end of it is none of their concern as long as I'm not breaking any laws.

This, 100%!

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I've always run in Bridge mode - I've never wanted Comcast on my side of the connection. I remember when they were floating around the idea of charging by the LAN client, they could see on the routers how many DHCP addresses had been handed out, were active, and when you'd open a
service ticket they'd ask how many clients you had.

My brother in law worked for Comcast for a long time. As soon as he left the company, he switched home internet providers. That tells you everything you need to know about Comcast lol.

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I'm the same way. I run the ISP modem/router combo thing in bridge mode and use my own router. Not so much because it's none of their concern (which it really isn't, nor do I think they care very much unless you're actually breaking laws), but because their stuff usually doesn't do very well with anything related to IPv6, or detailed port forwarding, etc.

I have to use Cox internet where I live. Their modems and routers are total pieces of crap. My wife got one of them hooked up and it was trash - I got our own stuff and hooked it up and our internet is great now. It's crazy that they'd spend enough to have a decent infrastructure with speed and service yet trash all of that for their customers by shipping crappy hardware to customer endpoints. Bizarre. So many people would have more positive things to say about Cox if the modems were decent.

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On Sun, Oct 27 21:59:00 -0500, you wrote:

I have to use Cox internet where I live. Their modems and routers are
total pieces of crap.

I have Spectrum here. I've luckily never had any issue with their modems, but never even gave them a chance to prove anything on their routers. I've always had my own. But yeah, if their modem sucked, too, I'd replace that as well. No matter what, it's better than renting their equipment monthly. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Hi Poindexter,
On <Mon, 27 Oct 24>, you wrote me:

As far as I'm concerned, they're renting me an IP address. What's on
the other end of it is none of their concern as long as I'm not
breaking any
laws.

I really don't think they could get away with that. I just checked and there are over 18 devices connected to my router. List:

Den: Desktop, my laptop, Andrea's laptop, my phone, my quest 2, firestick, echo.

Bedroom: Andrea's phone, kobo, andrea's e-reader.

In living room, add: Tablet, TV, photo frame, Switch, DVD player.

Kids room: Phone, TV, Playstation, Switch, Laptop, Tablet,

FIL's room: TV, Firestick, Phone, Tablet, Laptop.

That's just what's in the router logs. LOL I didn't think I was that bad. hahahaha

Shawn

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esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

My brother in law worked for Comcast for a long time. As soon as he
left the company, he switched home internet providers. That tells you everything you need to know about Comcast lol.

Yeah, they're back to their usual 5 minute scheduled outages at 10:30
and 3:30pm - seems like every day now.

I'd love AT&T fiber, but fiber is the lowest line on our utility pole.
It's got to come from across the street, so it hangs low across the
street. My next-door neighbor has it, and he's had his fiber knocked
down 3 or 4 times - and AT&T takes a week to fix it.

It's be nice to have symmetrical networking and back up my NAS to the
cloud automatically. Backing it up with Comcast's 20 mbps upload speed
would be amazingly slow.



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Tiny wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

I really don't think they could get away with that. I just checked and there are over 18 devices connected to my router. List:

Admittedly, this was some time ago, when people first started sharing
their connection with a router/firewall instead of running a line
directly into the house PC and running a software firewall like
Checkpoint. Remember those days?

I think they were looking more for a boogeyman to blame trouble tickets on rather than being able to realistically charge for multiple LAN
addresses.



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I have to use Cox internet where I live. Their modems and routers are

I have Spectrum here. I've luckily never had any issue with their

kind of a weird setup where i am. you subscribe to a carrier and an isp. by default they have separate billing though you can ask for combined billing. isp doesn't manage any of the lines, that's on the carrier. i kind of like this setup more even though it adds a lot of complication. if my isp sucks i can switch without having some jackass show up at my home.

in my current setup the carrier is ntt east and the isp is asahi. asahi is night and day better than the last isp i had which was plala. plala was rough. fucking 1992 style operation with integrations with yahoo. no joke they had ISP operated mail accounts that didn't support imap so you had to log in with either pop3 or their web interface just to find out responses to your service requests -- and they refused to use external mail providers for communication.

do not miss.

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Hi Poindexter,
On <Tue, 28 Oct 24>, you wrote me:

directly into the house PC and running a software firewall like Checkpoint. Remember those days?

Of course. Did it for everyone in my house at the time. Sure a lot
less devices then now.

Shawn

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My brother in law worked for Comcast for a long time. As soon as he left the company, he switched home internet providers. That tells you everything you need to know about Comcast lol.

Well.. When I left Microsoft in 2012 (or I was let go to be more honest), I had purchased iPhone, iPad and iMac and threw my Windows laptops out of a window..

I still don't use Windows on daily basis since as a bonus... but it doesn't say WIndows/MSFT is that bad in all fronts... all it says is that I was fucking frustrated to the extreme...

I believe your Brother in Law could feel just the same regardless of quality of products/services.

-h1

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