There’s some confusing code there. What does it do?

Explain?

Mxroute.com look for a discount offer since they have lots of good ones.

The Python REPL was always sort of minimal when used from the command line, but is quite usable in an Emacs window. IDLE is also useful some of the time. I never felt the need for anything like Eclipse because of it.

There are 14 competing standards…

Can you verify with wireshark that the traffic is only going through your lan? I’m not hip enough for nginx but I used to have to run apache under gdb all the time to trace random errors from the server. That would be next, if the traffic is really local.

Is an extension cord really out of the question? Keeping a power bank running 24 hours a day means you will have to recharge it quite often, even if it is large, since the power bank circuitry itself consumes current proportional to its size, more or less. And a solar panel would have to be at least 1 foot on a side, maybe bigger, and facing the sun. Maybe not that practical for a window installation.

You might be better off scripting a phone. Maybe the phone can completely power itself off except for the minute or so per day where it would boot itself, take a picture, and power off again.

I wouldn’t count on google drive doing anything in particular after expiration, unless that is expressly part of the product description. Just because you can observe it happening now doesn’t mean you can expect it to keep happening. For that matter, Google cancels products all the time. So I wouldn’t even rely on the paid plan not being withdrawn at some inconvenient moment. If you really want to use it, then best strategy is probably use it as long as it lasts, but have some plan B in mind if it goes away.

Oneprovider.com shows lots of offers in Istanbul, though servers are expensive there compared to a place like Hetzner:

https://oneprovider.com/search?&cities[]=62&price=0&price_max=9999999999999999&price_any=0

1.1 USD/mo for 2TB is basically a giveaway or free plan, i.e. you’re the product not the customer. So I’d be suspicious. How much storage are you looking for? Hetzner unfortunately jumps from 3.2 euro/1TB to 11 euro/5TB. So 2TB is kind of a bad spot on that scale. But if google drive is working for you and your stuff is encrypted, why not keep it?

Tbh you get jerked around less with paid plans. I’m happy with Hetzner Storage Box. I have 5TB there for 10 euro/month. I’d never use Google Drive. borgbase.com has a 10GB “free forever” plan and I could see parking some stuff there, but 10GB is pretty small and IDK the conditions. Why not use a VPS provider with better storage options?

It was ok at the time, and if it isn’t ok now, that means you want to run something that is too bloated for its own good.

Really though, special hardware for this doesn’t make too much sense. A raspberry pi with two ethernet interfaces would be great, but if you can live with ethernet plus wifi, the current rpi’s will do it. Otherwise there are lots of similar boards that really do have two ethernet.

I have not really felt much use for self hosted server hardware at home. I use VPS’s for that and it’s less hassle. Maybe it doesn’t count as completely self hosted, but conceptually it’s a miniature colo box.

https://www.freedombox.org/ ?

About learning more Python? Code up something interesting, or join an existing project and contribute.

About starting freelancing without a track record? Right now it’s difficult, though maybe that’s cyclical. But basically look on Craigslist and so on for help wanted. Stay away from bottom feeders like Fiverr. There is a monthly “who is hiring” post on Hacker News and a similar post for freelancers (mostly work seekers) but the entry barrier there can be sort of high.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Lol, first Tim Peters and now Guido.

Edit: oh LOL2, now I see Guido’s comment at the top of this thread, and in case it went past anyone, it was a reference to Tim Peters.

If it’s like the Pico W, that will be like the regular version with a 3rd party wireless chip added, maybe even the same chip already used in the Pico W.

I’d like to see a Linux board in the Pico form factor, using Risc-V with appropriate MMU extensions, less powerful than a Pi Zero and hopefully still at the $5 price point. SIngle or double Risc-V core and 64MB of ram plus an SD slot makes a pretty nice embedded Linux board.

Oh man, what a mess. It is just not worth it if you’re only adding 1 or 2 TB. Also you don’t say what kind of data you want to store on this system. If it’s media files (static once written) that can simplify things.

I’d say don’t mess with external drives at all. Your simplest path is upgrade your 1TB internal SSD to 2TB or 4TB. Those aren’t too expensive, and you get SSD storage. Yes you may as well use LUKS unless you want to get fancier. I have some thoughts about key management but haven’t implemented them in practice, so talk about that would be theoretical.

RAID is for when you have data that changes, like databases where you frequently add rows or do updates, so you are up to date if a drive crashes just after an update. It also lets you keep the system running while you hot swap the crashed drive. If you don’t mind taking your storage offline while you restore from a backup, and you don’t mind having to recreate the most recent data, you don’t need RAID.

I simply keep my static stuff and backups on a Hetzner StorageBox, encrypted with Borg Backup. That eliminates all the hassles of RAID, buying hardware and keeping it at home, etc. I can remote mount it (read only) with sshfs with all cryptography happening on the client side (in practice I don’t do that very often). There’s no need to use an encrypted file system on the server, or for the server to ever see plaintext. Of course StorageBox is not self hosted, but you could do something similar with a bare iron storage server. Anyway I think it’s difficult to beat this for economy until you have tens or maybe 100’s of TB of data.

That’s if you have a regular domain instead of.internal unless I’m mixing something. Topic of thread is .internal as if it were something new. Using a regular domain and public CA has always been possible.

Right, main point of my comment is that .internal is harder to use that it immediately sounds. I don’t even know how to install a new CA root into Android Firefox. Maybe there is a way to do it, but it is pretty limited compared to the desktop version.

Yeah I know about that, I’ve done it. It’s just a PITA to do it even slightly carefully.

Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?