I’ve ended up with a pretty decent vinyl collection doing this. A lot of artists sell record releases on their merch store.

yes

First set up your certificate in the SSL tab of NPM. You can either upload a traditional certificate or set up LetsEncrypt. Be aware that starting next spring the maximum length of a certificate will drop to 9 months and continue to decrease over the next few years until its 47 days.

I have mine set up so LetsEncrypt gets a wildcard cert for my domain (via DNS challenge). Some people go with per subdomain certs.

Once you have the cert, go you each of your hosts and switch to its SSL tab. Then select your cert. Then I usually turn on “Force SSL”

Every single story about windows 11 makes me hope I can convince IT to let me migrate my work laptop to linux before October.

I use Nginx Proxy Manager running as a docker container. Its a gui that makes administration more straight forward. It points at all my services (docker and otherwise) and handles the SSL for me. Because I don’t want to have any ports open I use DNS challenge ACME and NPM has built in support for a number APIs from large public DNS providers to automate that.

This is why I didn’t buy a wireless android auto adapter when I bought a different car. I figured Gemini was going to get stuffed down our throats there.

I thought I cancelled a couple years ago, so I appreciate them sending me an email telling me they were still getting my money.

China said they wouldn’t negotiate until tariffs came down. They didn’t, now tariffs are paused, and negotiations are starting. China is clearly in the driver’s seat and they just shoved trump’s binky in his mouth.

For those unfamiliar, Dawarich is a self hosted location tracker / timeline

Thank you for that. Its surprising how long that takes to answer when I see some release announcements. Especially over on Mastodon.

Is this like Publisher’s Clearing House? Will people show up at my door with balloons and big novelty hat to tell me I won?

Shortened lives, hastened climate change, and stunted development is a small price to pay for being able to see a nude version of any photo posted to xitter.

I can’t set my dryer to medium heat unless I do so with an app over the internet even though the controls exist to do it on the unit. I bought a window AC unit and the only remote control is an app - thankfully I was able to put that on a subnet with no internet gateway and it still works.

Coming soon (if not already): TVs with utility cellular connections or corpo network (like Amazon sidewalk) access that your neighbor may have not opted out of.

While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.

This first US company they (and everyone) needs to boycott is Meta.