Because fuck that tree in particular.

Tell the cows I said hi.

I always thought ABS stood for Antilock Braking System.

It’ll take a lot for me to move from silverbullet.md but I’m always up for checking out alternatives : D

I’ll give this a spin tonight

Yep. A few months ago the 1TB “King fast” m.2 that came in a $150 refurb tinyQ died. Replacement drive was… I want to say $160? (Locally, needed it ASAP)

I should’ve opened the case up when I got the PC and noticed the obvious knock off/garbage SSD but I can’t honestly say I’m surprised.

The Hotlines are great

Postman locked all my locally saved requests away after an update unless I created an account with them. I wasn’t updating very often because every update made it shittier.

Fuck postman.

I’ve been all in on Bruno ever since.

Primary is three (encrypted) rotating external drives with one always offsite. Secondary is occasional backup of the most important data to backblaze.

I have some debatably important text data like my Silverbullet.md notes and project code that also get auto pushed to a private git repo every night (if changed) in addition to the regular backups.

Thanks fri… wait, you’re not who I replied to. Do you have your own rolodex of websites?

Can you search your rolodex for “caddy tls configuration” for me?

I’m starting to feel like a silverbullet.md shill because I post it so often these days…

Time for me to add my tiny bit of semi related, but useless, knowledge : Galena can also form in cube shapes.

The only reason I know this is because we were crawling around in some old mines in the Ozarks and back in a little offshoot I found a few small, dark cubes in the dirt so I asked some of the geologists with us. Turns out the small mines were there specifically to pull out galena.

From wikipedia :

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

Also, don’t go crawling around in mines from the 1800s, it’s likely a bad idea.

You’re right, that was quite a hassle : )

Glad you got it sorted.

I haven’t truly needed to use windows in probably 4 years. And those few needs were specific to helping someone who was on windows figure out some windows tomfuckery. I don’t think I care anymore… I can just give them a Linux ISO and call it good now.

Good to know though. Just in case.

My secret is that I talk myself out of it before I even start : D

Checking in.

So glad I have two days off work next week… So I can do chores and home maintenance.

I still need to try this.

I downloaded and started seeding it when there was a post about it a few weeks back but haven’t had time to try it.

I assume the ISO live boots from a USB so I can poke around without installing? Surely.

I’ve got an old laptop that I kept windows on for the once every few years I had to use windows but I don’t think it’s supported anymore and I’d actually use it occasionally if I put Linux on it ;)

I want to preface this with the fact that I am definitely NOT a networking expert so… don’t trust anything I say.

My situation is a bit different because I am using Tailscale, though I have it on the list to be replaced in the future.

When you Wireguard to your LAN, do subsequent DNS requests go through the VPN? Sounds like you’re looking into that route based on your third point above. If so, can you just add a static DNS resolution to your LAN router that points to your Caddy SSL terminator/reverse proxy? This assumes a static IP for your host.

That’s what I’ve done. On my router I’ve set a static DNS entry of silverbullet.mydomain.com -> 10.0.0.101 (where *.101 is the static IP of my internal host/Caddy). This allows everything to resolve correctly when I’m physically attached to my LAN but also when connecting remotely via Tailscale.

It may not be elegant, but it avoids the hassle / extra config of a local DNS server as well as the need to manage host routes on each device.

EDIT: My router is running OpenWRT but I think most consumer grade routers support static DNS routes… but I could be wrong.

I’ve been doing the SSL with Caddy and Let’s Encrypt via CertBot. Extra work but not too bad once you figure it out (and take notes since I forget by the time the renewal comes around :)

I still need to find time to set up auto renewal… One day

Yeah, the smart ones do it from a road at night with a spotlight… no camo required there either.

… I honestly can’t decide if I should tag this with an /s or not because it is 100% a thing that happens (also 100% illegal, especially when off-season, no license, and you throw in the case of natty ice, but when has that stopped a determined redneck)