I've got a Linux server running Xubuntu at the moment (It was a media player first), and it also runs two Minecraft servers for the family. It has two network cards that are both connected to the internet. Is there a way to bind the VPN to one of the cards and use the other one for regular use? I've got Surfshark as my VPN, and it doesn't allow port forwarding under Linux. I've got some software that I want to keep behind the VPN, but the lack of port forwarding is stopping me from sharing the Minecraft servers, and when the VPN is active, it slows down the connection to some of my services like Plex. I've tried to look it up, but I just don't know enough to get myself anywhere. I've found results that talk about name spaces and routing tables, but they assume a level of knowledge that I just haven't got yet. I want to use the Arr suite and qBittorrent as the main programs behind the VPN, and Plex, Mylar (a comic manager), Syncthing, and Minecraft as the main programs without it. If I set up qBittorrent and the Arrs as Docker containers, can I use Gluetun to bind just them to the VPN? The VPN is using OpenVPN connections if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance :)
Tippon 2d ago • 95%
I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻
Tippon 3d ago • 100%
You say you suspect that the camera is MTP, but have you tested it with anything else? It's worth checking the settings on the camera too, to check what it's set up to do when it's connected to something else.
As you've said, mass storage devices work with Xiaomi phones, so changing the camera to mass storage mode should work too, and will just mean that you have to browse to the correct folder 👍
Tippon 4d ago • 100%
This sounds similar to how it works for me too. I closed my eyes to try this.
I saw a very rough version of the table that's in the room with me. The table is a low rectangular coffee table with a coarsely threaded grey throw over it going lengthways, but I saw it as a rectangular shape with a vague grey top. The ball was featureless with no colour, and was about the size of my fist, so an adult man's fist.
I saw a low quality arm push the ball, but I really struggled to picture it, and while I knew what would happen in real life, I couldn't picture it happening in my head.
It's strange, as sometimes I can picture things fairly well, but other times I can't do it at all. I have very vivid dreams on the occasions that I remember dreaming, but I can't close my eyes and picture my family. I know what they should look like, in the same way that I know what a rotating cow should look like, but I very rarely get any sort of mental image of them.
Ironically, I was in a coma a bit over a decade ago, and while I was in it, the dreams that I had were so realistic that it took me months to get things straight in my head.
Tippon 4d ago • 100%
As I understand it, concrete plates, at least in the UK, tend to be quite big, like the road here:
You might find though that pavements / sidewalks are made up of smaller plates, as they're easier to transport and fit, rather than waiting for a large area of concrete to set. The only paths that I can think of right now that are concrete are on private property, so I can't link to them. They're things like garden paths and are continuous.
If you're not sure though, you can always tag as surface=concrete and let someone else add any extra detail in the future. At least then the basics are there :)
Tippon 4d ago • 100%
This is all very helpful, thank you :)
Any Creative Commons license will require the festival to list a credit for your work. That might not be an issue for the app or website, but the festival might not be interested in listing “poster by Tippon, used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license” every time they use something you created on social media, in print, or advertising.
I didn't know about that. I thought they might have to credit me, but didn't know that it would need to be on the work itself. I definitely don't want that. I hadn't thought about third parties either. I doubt that anyone would try to rip us off, but I don't want to leave that door open either, just in case.
I'm not overly concerned with future clients, as I'm medically retired and just doing this as a learning exercise. There's a tiny chance that I might get future work from this, but I'm more concerned with not cutting myself off from using the website / app template if I was to fall out with the festival at some point. As you say though, I don't want to leave either me or the festival open to having the content stolen either.
I've just realised that I need to double check how to handle third party images too. We have some local businesses who support the festival, so we use their logos as links on the site. If I include them in the repository, I don't want to accidentally give them away.
I've got some reading to do! :D
Tippon 4d ago • 100%
This is a good point, thank you :)
I was thinking along the lines of not restricting myself from using my own work in the future, but I hadn't thought about third parties being able to use it too. I'm not concerned about other people using the code behind the website, for example. I'm still learning, so it's probably more spaghetti than anything decent, but @jqubed@lemmy.world pointed out in their reply, I wouldn't be able to stop anyone from using graphics etc.
Tippon 5d ago • 100%
The Wiki is great for things like this. In this case the page on concrete has links to concrete slabs and concrete lanes, and both have pictures.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:surface%3Dconcrete
Hope this helps :)
Tippon 6d ago • 100%
Either that, or the page says that it's been updated in the last month, but the content is about how to connect to the World Wide Web '(WWW)' with a free AOL floppy disc
Tippon 6d ago • 100%
That's brilliant, thank you :)
Tippon 6d ago • 100%
This is very helpful, thank you both :)
As some of you may already know, I manage a website and app for a small music festival. It runs on a shoestring budget and helps to support the village I grew up in, so I volunteer my time and resources. Part of this is creating the site and things like posters using resources that I've made. Recently we had an issue where someone created a logo for us, and after we'd used it for a few years, they claimed it back. It turned out that when they created the logo, neither side thought to draw up any sort of agreement on how it could be used. I want to put something in place that makes it clear that anything that I create for the festival can be used by them forever, but without restricting myself from using it. My main concern is for the website and app, so that I can use the same structure in the future. I'm not concerned about the fine print, like saying that I can use this specific text layout or whatever, I just want to stop either side from restricting the other in the event of a major falling out, with the exception of things that are exclusive to one side or the other, like the name of the festival. What would be the best licence for that please? Thanks in advance :)
Tippon 6d ago • 100%
It was an air fryer for me.
I'm disabled, so I'm usually home alone, or cooking one meal for me and my kid. The oven takes about 10 minutes to preheat, and most things take 20 - 30 minutes to cook after that. The air fryer takes about half the time and doesn't need me to turn things.
On top of that, I get memory issues, probably related to ADHD, and sometimes forget that I've got something cooking. The air fryer has a timer and switches itself off. I literally can't burn the food and risk a fire. At worst it goes cold again 🤷🏻♂️
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
Michael Socha. He's been in some great series, and I think he could carry off a big role really well
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
I wasn't until I read the post 😁
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
I thought this was a different community for a minute, and got really excited 😫
Tippon 1w ago • 87%
I've heard that it's so bad that someone has to create accounts on lots of different federated communities just to create fake engagement about it.
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
Thanks 🙂
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
Not free for me in the UK either
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
I'm out of the loop now. Is this a follow up to Dragon Ball Super?
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
A friend of mine crashed her motorbike a few years ago and her face bounced off the road. Her chin bar flexed inwards so much that it broke her nose and chipped a front tooth.
She was furious that the helmet didn't protect her properly, until her husband who was riding behind her pointed out that she essentially landed face first at over 60mph, and that without the helmet, her face would have taken the full force of the landing.
Tippon 1w ago • 100%
I must be thinking of one of the other chat programs then, Pidgin maybe? I could have sworn it was Trillian though.
I remember using some form of AIM after I moved in to my first place in 1998, because I was keeping in touch with friends on it without having the full AOL software installed.
Kerbal Space Program is currently one of the free games through Amazon Prime with GOG, until Dec 18th >Manage your own space program and help the Kerbals conquer space. [https://gaming.amazon.com/kerbal-space-program-gog/dp/amzn1.pg.item.86a1a1cd-19c4-40d8-9f13-abeb3ed8b54c?ingress=amzn](https://gaming.amazon.com/kerbal-space-program-gog/dp/amzn1.pg.item.86a1a1cd-19c4-40d8-9f13-abeb3ed8b54c?ingress=amzn)
Update: I managed to get it working with the answers from [@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me](https://lemmy.max-p.me/u/Max_P) and this link: [https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-permanently-mount-a-drive-in-linux-and-why-you-should/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-permanently-mount-a-drive-in-linux-and-why-you-should/) ----------------------------------------- I've just installed Mint 22 on my laptop, and I've got two storage drives alongside my main drive. I want these drives to be available to all users on boot, and to be readable and writable. At the moment they're treated as removable drives, and are mounted under the individual user. As a result, any permissions that I'm setting as the owner are not sticking when they're mounted by another user. The first drive is synced with my main PC through Syncthing, and is synced to Onedrive from there. The second drive is my music, podcasts, and audiobooks, which are all synced through Syncthing only. I'm the only person using the laptop and accessing any of these files, so I'm not bothered about the wrong user accidentally opening them. I've read some posts about editing fstab to mount them at startup, but they don't cover whether the drives will be available to other users or not. Can I just add them to fstab and mount them somewhere that's available to all users, then sort out the permissions? If so, where's the best place to put them? Thanks in advance :)
It turns out that something has been watching the Earth in minute detail since before the solar system was formed, down to a sub molecular level. It can give you the answers to any historical questions, but not things like what someone was thinking or feeling. All the world's problems have been solved, and the information is only used with the strictest privacy, e.g. you can only get information on living people with their permission, or if you're a member of law enforcement solving a crime. The question is, if you have a hobby, job, or other reason to research the past, like being a geologist or genealogist, would you take the answers, or would you prefer to do the research yourself?
This might sound daft, but something similar used to work with live discs. I've got Windows 10 and Mint 21.1 dual booting on my computer at the moment. Every so often I'll realise that I've missed something from my Windows installation. If it's important, I then have to boot to Windows to get the information, or the settings etc. Is there a way to virtualise my Mint installation so that I can run both the OSs at once to make sure that I've got everything? VirtualBox had a tool to do this with a live USB, but that was back in the MBR days, so it probably won't work with modern hardware. EDIT: Sorry, I should clarify, Mint and Windows are on the same physical disk, and the plan is to remove Windows once I'm done. Update: I'm giving up. It looks like it is possible if you have separate disks with separate boot partitions, but getting it to work with a shared boot partition is harder work than I'm willing to do right now. VMware Player can use a partition or disk, but might be in read only mode, I couldn't get far enough to check. Thanks for all the replies :)
I've just finished getting my laptop set up the way I like it, including maximising the RAM and upgrading the screen. I opened it up to use it, and the screws on the hinge tore through the plastic. To top it off, the plastic on the bottom of the laptop, the side that's been removed here, has also broken. My wife definitely didn't drop the laptop while she was tidying up though... EDIT: Apologies all, I'm having trouble with Lemmy today, and it's not letting me reply. I'll try to reply tomorrow, but in the meantime; It's a Stonebook branded Clevo n751BU, a 7th gen i5. It's held up respectably well until it appears to have been knocked in the corner where the hinge is. The plastics on both sides of the hinge have given out. I've ordered a replacement base, but the palm rest which is pictured is not available anywhere that I can find. I'm going to dismantle the hinge to clean and oil it, then reassemble it slightly less tightly, and epoxy the screws into place. The reason for taking it apart in the first place was to add a third hard drive. It has an nvme drive, and I had two HDDs going spare that can hold my documents and music. They're being synced now as I was having problems doing it remotely, but once they're in they can be managed with Syncthing. The laptop shouldn't need to come apart agin afterwards :) I've been building and repairing computers and laptops for about 30 years, so I'm comfortable with completely stripping it, and can use it as an excuse to give everything a clean again. Short of replacing these HDDs with SSDs, there's nothing else that can physically be upgraded, so I'm half tempted to glue it shut so that I don't get tempted again :D
Hi all :) I've recently watched the final episode of Discovery, and it's left me with some questions. I'm just posting a line of text here to avoid any spoilers from showing up on people's timelines. At the end of the episode, after the main story finished, Burnham went back to Discovery and spoke to Zora. She had a flashback, then took Discovery to some far off location to wait. Other posts I've seen have mentioned that this ties in to Calypso and seemed to suggest that Burnham's son also has something to do with it. The problem is, I have no idea what Calypso is, and that's made me wonder what else I'm missing. I've seen the posts about the academy series and Section 31 movie, but can someone fill me in please? EDIT: Thanks for the answers, looks like I need to watch the Discovery Shorts :)
Hi all, I need your expertise please :) tldr: I'm looking for something to create and share lists with my wife, but that also allows her to edit them, preferably with a WYSIWYG editor, on both our Android devices and Windows and Linux computers. To complicate things, I help to run a small music festival, and some sort of collaboration tool would be helpful there too. Joplin looks great, but I can't figure out the collaboration without using their server. The longer version is, I'm taking my family to visit the in-laws, and was making a list of things we need to take. I have complicated medical needs, and my kid is autistic, so there are things that we cannot forget. I realised that a list that we can both work on would be better, and would be something that we could use in the future for things like medical appointments. While I was looking for some software, I realised that it would also be helpful for the music festival committee. I'm looking for something that we can edit on any device, and have the changes show up immediately on any other logged in device. I want anyone with permission to be able to edit the document too. Ideally it needs a WYSIWYG editor, and needs to be simple to use once it's set up. Joplin looks great, but it's not clear whether collaboration is only available through Joplin Cloud, or whether it's available with a self hosted server. Etherpad and Padland look good, but Etherpad doesn't currently have mobile support, and I can't tell whether Padland is standalone or needs Etherpad to work. I'm happy to self host something, but the simpler it is to run and use, the better :) Thanks for reading through all of that :D
Hi all :) I'm setting up a small business in the UK, and need some accounting software to keep track of everything, and generate invoices, that sort of thing. I tried Wave a few years ago, and it looks like it does what I need, but is US based and proprietary. [https://www.waveapps.com/](https://www.waveapps.com/) It has the option of linking to your bank account too, and automatically pulling your transactions etc. This is quite important, as I'm trying to get diagnosed with ADHD, and have a terrible memory. I won't remember to manually enter transactions regularly. Being able to use it on Android and Windows / Linux would be ideal. I can self host it if there are any options that work. Does anyone have any ideas please?
Hi all :) I've been playing Minecraft with the family, and running a local PaperMC server for a while now, and last year set up an online server with the Oracle free tier. I've had a load of failed login attempts recently, and the server crashed. I don't know if they were related, but it made me realise that I've missed a few steps during the setup. I have a domain that points to the server through Cloudflare, so it's easier to share, and I've got a whitelist / allowlist of Minecraft users to keep it private. My thinking is that this is what I want: Domain name through Cloudflare to stop things like DDoS attacks, and to have https certificates (might need LetsEncrypt too?). PaperMC server running on an Ubuntu server on Oracle's free tier. 2 cores and 10GB RAM should be enough for less than a dozen players. Pterodactyl control panel to manage the server through a GUI from anywhere. Firewall / block to stop connections from outside the UK. Hopefully that should restrict bots and malicious login attempts. I've got a handful of plugins that I use, like Geyser / Floodgate and ViaVersion so the kids can log in from any client, and Dynmap so I can view the map and help them out if needs be. I've got CoreProtect and ServerBackup too. I've got OpenAudioMC so that the kids can speak to each other without putting them on something open like Discord, as they're too young for that. I'm looking into AutoPlug at the moment to keep the plugins up to date, but I don't know if it runs with Pterodactyl or not. Am I missing anything obvious? I'm happy with the gameplay side of things for now, but I could do with some advice on keeping everything secure. Thanks in advance :)
Hi all :) I manage a handful of websites and their emails using the PortableApps suite on Windows, so have a separate browser and mail client for each one. This has worked well for years, but now I'm switching to Linux, Mint specifically. I've read that I can set up profiles on Firefox and probably Thunderbird, or maybe run separate instances with things like AppImages, but it sounds like it's a messy solution, and could end up with me using the wrong profile by mistake What I want to do is set up a virtual machine for each site, and have a completely separate instance of the programs, and hopefully a way to easily transfer the machines to other systems if needs be. I'd prefer to use a Debian / Ubuntu based distro with Apt and the 'Windows' style desktop, as that's what I'm already used to, but am I better off installing Mint and stripping it down, or is there something more suited to this? Thanks in advance :)
Hi all :) I've just bought a Vitesse Force ebike. It was second hand, but brand new as the previous owner bid on two separate auctions and won both (he's someone I trust, so I believe him). Other than a few tweaks, the bike is great, but I want to make it even better if possible. The main thing I want to change is the walk assist speed. As I understand it, in the UK we can't have powered ebikes, they can only move very slowly when you're not pedalling. I tested the speed yesterday, and on a slope it's barely fast enough to stay upright. The main reason that I bought an ebike is because I'm disabled and overweight, and live in the middle of a load of hills. I'm hoping to get the walk assist speed up just high enough to get me up a hill to the nearest flat cycle path so that I can ride, or home again afterwards if I've overdone it. For now I can't pedal continuously for long enough to get to the top, and the pedal assist stops when I stop. The other thing I'm curious about changing is the number of gears. The bike is a seven speed, but I've never used an ebike before, so I don't know if that's enough for when I want to turn the pedal assist off. The bike is here for anyone interested: [https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/16183641/vitesse-force-mtb-wm-electric-bike-16183641](https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/16183641/vitesse-force-mtb-wm-electric-bike-16183641) I'd be grateful for any advice :)
Went out on a rare clear night to a wetlands near me to take some photos of the stars. As it was so dark, and the stars are so small, I had to rely on the focus peaking function of my camera to tell if the stars were in focus or not. I've got home and started to process the photos, and I've found out that despite the camera telling me that they were in focus, they clearly weren't. Hey ho, what's a wasted few hours in the freezing cold between friends...
Sorry, crooked isn't the best word, but I can't think of a better one. I'm still quite new to OSM, and I want to start adding the buildings in my town. When I open the edit option though, the map overlay is at an angle. It's not a massive amount, but it's enough that you can see one sometimes two sides of most buildings, so the roof isn't aligned straight down, if that makes sense? I live near Aberdare in South Wales, and you can see that where someone has added some buildings in the town centre at some point, they're now not aligned with the map overlay: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=20/51.71312/-3.44499](https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=20/51.71312/-3.44499) Do I draw around the roof that I can see on the map? Do I edit the existing buildings so that they line up with the overlay? I'm not sure what the best course of action is for something like this. Thanks in advance :)
Apologies if this is a simple question and I've missed something, but I'd like to be able to use Voyager on my PC. If I just log in on my browser, I only get logged in to my home instance. If I use wefwef.app, I can browse like I'm on my phone, but without my preferences and block list. Is there a way to use Voyager and sync my preferences, block list, subscriptions etc?
Update: My wife has decided to go for the repair. I managed to find the parts for about £30, and we're getting it done in a local place next week. Thanks for the advice :) Hi all :) My wife has dropped her Mi 10t Lite 5g one too many times, and now as well as a cracked screen, it won't charge. As far as I can tell, the charging port has come loose. I'm hoping to get an estimate of the repair price, as all the local shops are closed until next week, but I'm also hoping to find some possible replacements to give her some options. She mainly uses it for Facebook, emails, and WhatsApp, and some of the farming games where you seem to just click crap randomly. She also connects it to her car for maps and music, and takes photos of our kid. A micro SD slot is essential, mostly due to the amount of music and photos she stores on it. I'm hoping to spend around £200, but that's flexible if there's a jump in quality or features. Thanks in advance :)
Hi all :) Apologies for the long writeup, but I'm not sure if the background is important or not. I've got a media server currently running Xubuntu (getting ready to be transitioned to a proper server OS before anyone asks), and I've been having a problem with static IP addresses. About a year ago I was having a problem with the ethernet card switching from a static IP to DHCP, and screwing up the services that depended on the IP address. It appeared to be a problem with my ISP router (BT SmartHub 2). I thought I'd fixed it, and didn't have any trouble for a while. I added a second ethernet card to split my traffic. My VPN doesn't allow split tunneling on Linux, and I wanted some traffic to go through the VPN while some bypassed it. I hadn't set anything up for that yet, but did give the second ethernet card a static IP address. I changed the DNS servers on both to go through my AdGuard installation on the same machine, and some other ad blocking DNS servers. When I first installed the second ethernet card I had a few problems, but my network switch died at the same time, and replacing it appeared to cure the issues. The issues were similar to before, in that I couldn't get a static IP to stick. To now - Last night we were having some power issues in the area, power surges and brownouts. In the time that it took me to get to my PC and log in to the media server to shut it down, it had rebooted at least three times. I shut everything down successfully, and after I turned everything back on this morning, the services like Plex that don't need the IP all seemed to be working properly. After my kid went to bed, I tried to log onto the server to check it. Nothing that needed the IP address would work. I tried the second IP address and that was the same. I managed to log in with NoMachine and saw that there were two new ethernet connections, both set to DHCP, and they were being used instead of the previous connections. The previous connections apparently haven't been used for the last six days. I tried deleting one of the new connections to see if it would force Xubuntu to use the old ones, and it seemed to work, but deleting the second one cut off the network connections completely. After connecting a monitor and peripherals to the server, I could see an option for an Auto Connection in the network dropdown menu, and that let me connect again. My previous connections are still in the network manager with all the static IP settings, but there are two new Auto Ethernet connections too, using DHCP. Can anyone give me a clue as to what's happened here please? I thought it was a problem caused by the power problems, but it's apparently been going on for almost a week. Apologies in advance if I'm slow to reply for the next few days, and thank you in advance for any help :)
A few years ago I became seriously ill. I was in a coma on heavy duty meds, and had a kidney transplant. I'm much better than I was, but I can't do a lot of things like I could before. We've now got quite a few kids in the extended family, so a while ago I wrote a short story to try to make it easier for them to understand. My wife and family like the story and have suggested making it into a picture story book. Problem is, I can't draw and my imagination isn't very good. How can I get pictures for the story if I can't do it myself and don't have the money to hire someone? I want to avoid using AI tools because of the potential copyright issues. I haven't tried the services like Fiverr because I've heard that they force a race to the bottom on prices, but does anyone have any experience, or have any ideas of what I can do please? Thanks in advance :)
A few years ago I bought an old Mac, PowerPC I think, but it doesn't work properly. If I boot normally only one of the two CPU cores works, but both work in safe mode. I imagine that there are ways to repair it, but as it's second hand, I would probably be better off with a clean installation. I've never owned a Mac before, so although it's outdated, I'd rather get it back to a default state than install Linux, and it also means that once I've finished with it I can pass it on to someone else who would appreciate it. Is there a way to get the installation media? From what I remember from the last time I tried to get it running, it can use either Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion (10. something?) Thanks in advance :)