WFM. Looks like you’re using Let’s Encrypt, which is fine, and everything seems to be consistent. I think you’re good.

<Sips licence like a fine wine served at a dinner party.> Ah, yes, GPLv3, exquisite choice.

I don’t know why but I thought they were some special inaccessible computers.

It’s their marketing. Marketing, marketing, bullshit and marketing. Macs get viruses, Macs have vulnerabilities, Macs crash. Doesn’t matter how much their indoctrinated fans might claim otherwise, Macs are just weird PCs. In that context, their refusal to allow their owners to control them is all the more jarring and makes owning the older models like you mentioned all the more sensible.

charmap.exe? Holy shit. Windows 95 called, but I didn’t have a 33.6k modem ready to answer.

No. Yes. Kind of.

My home setup is three ProLiant towers in a ProxMox cluster. One box handles all-the-time stuff like OpenWRT, file server, email, backups, and - crucially - Home Assistant and is UPS protected because of how important it’s jobs are. The other two are powered up based on energy costs; Home Assistant turns them on for the cheapest six hours of the day or when energy costs are negative and they perform intensive things like sailing the high seas, preemptive video transcoding, BOINC workloads and such. The other boxes in the photo are also on all the time basically being used as disk enclosures for the file server and they are full of mismatched hard disks that spend virtually all their time asleep. At rest the whole setup pulls about 35-40W.

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IPFS was my first thought. I’ve only recently started using it, but it’s pleasantly surprised me so far.

Hey. Heyhey. Heyheyhey. Have you ever noticed that your warships have giant barcodes on them? It’s so that when they return to port they can scan the navy in.

That was my first thought. I’d happily have one of these, but wall-mounted somewhere with high footfall, displaying a dashboard of some kind.

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I like my months fancy.

Without wishing to give too much away, I know a group of people who work at a public transport agency in the UK. They recently had a meeting with Google about “opening up our data” which amounted to Google wanting the agency to sign a contract that would give Google exclusive rights to realtime and scheduling data in perpetuity, then Google would decide if/when/how it would be made public. The agency didn’t say “fuck off”, but something to that effect.

Now, instead, they’re working with a group of students to create a public API with a permissable licence and a framework for other agencies to do the same.

So… maybe do hold your breath? Transit is one of those areas that attracts nerds and nerds love open source.

Primitive tribe discovers personal rights.

Man, that’s shitty.

I used Kodi with a Jellyfin plugin for media center duties.

Consider a refurbished USFF business PC.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=usff+pc

A unit from any major brand will be good and there are i5/8gb units available for well under £100 that will happily shunt 4K video about. Plus they have the advantage of coming in a nice case, lots of ports, included storage, etc…

That reminds me of one of those shit jokes from the eighties:

“There’s two new ladies in the typing pool who do a hundred times the work of anyone else.”

“What’re they called?”

“Daisy Wheel and Dot Matrix.”

Honestly any parts you buy today probably won’t be much good in 30 years.

Did you know the world naïve is written backwards on your water bottle?

Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.

It’s a fucking mess, if I’m honest.

You don’t need Android TV for that. There are options, but my preference is to use the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi and run Kodi with a nice skin.