m_randall

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude this is a great response. I’ve spent the last hour trying to piece together how it works and you nailed everything perfectly.

I’m a ham so familiar with radios and have been trying to setup some Wi-Fi links between friends but this seems a little more practical.

Is a few mile range possible with houses etc in the way? We’re all about a mile away from each other, although I may throw an antenna on top of my house (maybe 10m up)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The documentation is a little lacking. What exactly is the range of each decide? I see the record of 100+ miles but can I easily connect people within a few miles?

What exactly does this do? Is it just a messaging app?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The best (and simplest) thing I have running is AdGuard Home. It’s a DNS server you run that blocks ads on the entire network.

I also run a wireguard server on my router and clients on my laptops and phone.

With these combined when on the road on cell or Wi-Fi connections all my traffic goes right to my home internet and it’s like I’m home.

I have access to all internal services, devices, and I get no ads in apps and websites (where technically possible). Highly highly recommend. I couldn’t live without it.

I also have home assistant running but that is way more work than just installing a server. It’s almost a hobby in of itself.

Editing - I didn’t mention it but PiHole is an alternative to AdGuard Home. I didn’t mention PiHole to keep things simple but after years of using PiHole I’ve switched to AdGuard Home mostly because of the per client configs, ease of maintenance and UI. As always, check out both and choose what’s best for you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Linux has directories (folders) that contain programs. The two major conventions are /bin (short for binary which is another name for an executable program) and sbin (system/super user binaries).

Kbin seems like a play off of that, don’t know what the k implies tho.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is a good post.

As for why people don't like systemd, it follows the kitchen-sink approach to software and does a lot of things at once.

For people new to Linux I just want to point out - for better or for worse this goes against the Unix philosophy.

Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have firstnamelastna.me. Can you get a little creative with the TLDs?

To answer your question tho [email protected] would look better than [email protected]

You can also do a catch all and use [email protected] (eg [email protected]) but those get a little spam happy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I just looked at most (if not all) the apps I have. They all had the option to select what you see by default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Holy Necro….since I’m here tho I think kbin is more set up with this. It has a microblog section although I haven’t really explored it.