Watching the bots eat my iocaine poison. Its most of my traffic.
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Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.
... When it works, that is.
I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense....great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you'd say, 'at my level'. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.
Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.
....and how do you manage those speeds?
Three important factors:
- Gigabit ethernet
- SATA-attached storage
- My family not knowing what the fuck USB 3.0 is, and why blue USB is better than black USB.
Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.
Third guilty pleasure is 10gbit/s fiber network at home.
Well, would you look at Mr Moneybags over here. LOL I wish tho. I just have a 1gbit connection.
Crying in 70Mbps copper.... 15 upload.
Realistically, 1gbit connection is good for uploading and downloading huge architectural plans, but other than that, I rarely use anything close to it's max capacity. It's like having a killer sports car that will go 0 to 60 in a few seconds, but you rarely have the need to do that.
Fact. I only use more then 1gbit/s for file transfers internally between computers or between the server and a computer.
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I bought the server hardware 3 years ago, so when the prices of ram were also fine. Today it's not fun anymore.. I really hope those ram and nvne prices go down again! I can't upgrade anything now.
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Ahhhh I do like my grafana dashboards.
My proxmox dashboards make me feel tingly in my no no parts
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- Seeing the rising request count as ai bots circle around in iocaine
- Knowing where my photos and files are
- Having useful services that don't require a subscription to random company
- Learning and experimenting with things
Learning and experimenting with things
This is the part I really love.
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Mine is seeing the "removed" and "started" when I update all my dockers
Can relate.
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Sure, but why? If you've a simple router running OpenWrt or something with all WAN ports closed you basically have the same thing.
Maybe it's a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.
I too use my PiHole for this pleasurable activity
Look at all the bots and trolls that slammed against my Skynet OpenWRT module... and died.
It really is satisfying. I can't explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.
It reminds us we are on the side of The Good.
It is also wonderful schadenfreude to see scammers frustrated.
Why do I like to watch them? Can't explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I'm just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it's mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.
ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you'll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so......
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Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
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Mine is looking at the blocked domains in pihole and watching my TV trying to call home desperately without success.
I don't feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.
I get a good deal of satisfaction seeing my aliases of blocked connections.
Not really a guilty pleasure though.
Do you feel guilty if I'd asked you about that?
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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