Thanks for the tip. Just watched a bunch of 1.1 tutorial videos and it actually seems like it could be a better workflow for my use cases than Fusion, plus it also does BIM.

I’m nearly at the end of my journey to boycott Adobe and Autodesk for good. I dropped 3dsmax for Blender a while back after Autodesk attempted to audit me. They demanded I download an app that would collect detailed information about my computer, so I said go fuck yourself, uninstalled and canceled my paid subs, then downloaded Blender and besides missing V-ray and Forestpack, has been a much better experience.

Some of the other comments got me curious…

Is there a way to print the most recent accessed files (and time accessed and by which user) within a specific directory to terminal?

I’m not a huge fan of AI, but I consider myself pretty open minded and have been considering doing a demo of Claude to at least gain an understanding of the tech I’m constantly talking shit about.

Is there anything self-hostable that compares in quality to what vibe coders claim Claude Opus is capable of?

Careful. Almost every Firefox based browser still pings out to various google domains and sends out other telemetry.

Librewolf is fine though.

I’ve had these issues during high intensity GPU usage on an nvidia gpu. It’s the only times REISUB didn’t work and I’ve had to do a hard reset.

Not much I can contribute other than don’t rule out a nvidia driver problem.

It’s the plugins that cause me grief. Especially any that use ilok or weird licensing software.

I’m a fairly advanced user of gnu Linux distros at this point in my life. Fedora is no where close to straightforward for gaming. Bazzite is plug and play set and forget. Is it frustrating to deal with flatpaks and osm-tree instead of simply using a standard package manager? Sometimes, sure. But for an absolute beginner there really is no better option for gaming as a fresh convert from windows.

Audio problems and nvidia drivers can be an absolute nightmare on almost all major distros from Debian to Ubuntu, to fedora if you don’t have an absurdly advanced grasp of the processes underlying.

Bazitte takes all of that out of the picture. It’s absolutely not a meme distro. It’s perfect for an average tech literate person.

I use arch btw, Debian, fedora, Pop, lubuntu, Ubuntu, and a half dozen other distros on a daily basis across a handful of devices. So I’m not daily driving Bazitte, but for gaming and general purpose computing there’s no simpler distro imo and I’ll die on that hill.

I second this. Had nothing but headaches with duplicati.

Try Borg.

I’ve tried many distros, Bazitte is by far the best for gaming without having to tinker. Fedora is not a good option imo because nvidia drivers are a pain in the ass.

I’d recommend he dual boot. Bazitte strictly for gaming due to it’s lack of traditional package management. And arch, Debian, or Fedora for coding.

I personally use PopOS for work stuff as well.

I use Minica and it’s insanely simple to use. Terminal based though.

https://github.com/jsha/minica

There’s no certificate at the VPS level. It forwards everything to and from the self hosted reverse proxy.

Now that you mention it though, there may be a slight complication with pinning the reverse proxy to the domain API for cert renewals. I’ll have to check how I have mine configured but I may have given my reverse proxy a IPv6 and configured that for cert renewals.

That would mean some down time as you update the IP if your ISP rotates it.

This is fine unless you have a slightly higher threat model.

Me personally, I dislike the idea that if someone (VPS provider or LE) were to snoop inside my VPS, they would have all of my unencrypted data where TLS ends and wireguard picks it up.

I don’t do anything illegal, but I do have photos, personal files, and deeply personal journals/notes for which I enjoy the comfort of mind when kept private and secure.

My recommendation is always to have your TLS equipped reverse proxy on your own hardware. Then use a VPS as a SSL passthrough proxy that forwards requests to the locally hosted reverse proxy. You can connect the two via wireguard.

This has a few benefits. It keeps encryption end to end. It also allows you to connect to your server via your domain name even in you LAN. You can hijack your domain at the router level DNS menu to reroute to your local reverse proxy. And it keeps the TLS connection.

This is amazing. Thank you!

This is fine if the post is something insanely low effort.

But I do worry if this ends up being too aggressive.

One of the things that made reddit so awful is how over moderated it was.

I don’t really take issue with dozens of posts by newbies asking the same basic question over and over. I used to be one and am occasionally back there again if I start a new hobby. Hopefully newcomers don’t get pushed off by overly sensitive moderation.

It would be helpful if you could provide a hypothetical example of what is considered a “low effort” post.

I’ve tried close to a hundred various devices, both ZigBee and Z-wave, and I’ve never had an issue with a Z-wave device but many with ZigBee.

I still use them here and there (mainly Hue bulbs), but I prefer Z-wave whenever possible.

Another factor is ZigBee devices tend to respond much slower. Z-wave light switches are instant on/off when instructed whereas my ZigBee lights always have a delay between 1-4 seconds.

It’s fairly universal throughout developed countries. Might be called something different than GFCI though.

This is something I’ve been eyeing for the same use case: https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-zen15-power-switch/

Ive had great experiences with Zooz products in general, but haven’t used this one (yet).

It does also control, but I’m sure if it’s anything like their wall switches it has a setting to default to ON.

EDIT: Didn’t see the ZigBee part of your post. Adding a z-wave dongle isn’t too difficult if you’re open to it. ZigBee sucks IMO.

True. Also in newer homes the GFCI might be at the circuit breaker.

Either way, as long as it’s GFCI you shouldn’t have any concerns.

Your bathroom receptacles are protected by a GFCI safety mechanism. You can confirm by noticing if the receptacle has two small buttons usually stamped with “Test” and “Reset”.

If the smart plug had a malfunction due to humidity (unlikely), the GFCI receptacle it’s plugged into would instantly cut power.

You can toss a toaster in your bathtub as long as it’s plugged into a GFCI and 99.99999% chance you would be totally fine. Don’t try this at home.

+1 for Amcrest PoE.

I also use a Reolink Doorbell PoE and it’s better than any Nest or Ring doorbell, without the cloud bullshit attached.

My only issue with the amcrest is that they get bad IR pollution at night and are sometimes unusable. But that’s apparently an issue with most dome cameras at night.