With any luck we are seeing a transition away from the US dollar as the standard. Countries are selling their US bonds, either buying or pulling their gold out of the US. Companies like the Google are starting to do more of their money stuff with the euro. We have seen this before, and the world will see it many times more in the future, until we as a species realize global communism is the answer.

We need to move away from visa and mastercard, and either join the EU’s new system or create our own. You know something like interact but for credit.

I just wish we had a real liberal leading the liberal party, but what I would like more is the NDP to be in power.

If only there was some alternative, sure it may cost a little more up front but than all their data is theirs and they do not need to worry about data being stolen. Google, Microslop, Amazon, Apple, etc. already hold so much power take that away from them and use FOSS.

So that means the government is going to stop using windows and MS 360 right? Right…

Maybe those buildings could be turned into something useful like a community centre, for people who need extra support.

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I have a Flint 2 with a vanilla install of openWRT, that hosts wireguard. I have 2 static IPs, because I thought hey running my own mail and smtp services cannot be that hard (turns out yes it is hard and not worth the time to deal). Any who I have Wireguard running on my firewall and Caddy running on one of my pi’s, it gets TLS from lets encrypt.

I have a couple of domains that Caddy uses to point things out to the world or my LAN/vLANs/VPNs. Very few of the things go out to the whole world, but if I wanted to share say a Jellyfin server with someone I could wip up a VPN that only allows Jellyfin through and points DNS to my piholes. Why do I mention my ad blocker? I mention pihole because that what hosts the A records to my domain names that Caddy can serve up, I do not remember why I set it up like this, I would have to look through my notes but pihole points “service”.domain1or2.xyz to caddy which than points to the right service.

Edit: went and looked A records are hosted on pihole for my LAN/vLANs/VPNs to prevent things needing to go out and come back just to tell devices where on my LAN services are.

I wish I had something better than a pi5 for ollama, and ripping my CD’s when I get those back out of storage.

I started using Navidrom as suggested by someone in the group. I do not have audio books but it has a spot for them. If you want to get all fancy like you can use the MusicBrainz Picard for tagging stuff differently (or something like that I am really feeling the glue and sealant they used to put down the laminate in my place right now) but AudioMuse-AI does something to (again really feeling it).

I think you mean conservative. Not a new liberal

I use a Flint 2, I think I have something like 5 AP’s On it and it covers my whole home. I have a bunch of vLANs as well for the APs and VPN’s. It came with some custom OpenWRT install but I flashed it with a vanilla version instead. I was using an Apple Airport Extreme prior to getting the Flint 2, but my place flooded and I got board so I took up the hobby of home labbing while I wait on insurance to get things rolling (after a few months the flooring is finally going in tomorrow) my original plan was going to be use the Airport as an extender but I did not need that, but yes APs with the same SSID will work together. My Flint 2 has SMB setup to back up its settings to a pi I have on my LAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

Why save the money on your own when you can pay more than what the phone is actually worth with monthly payments! Sure carriers have been doing this for years but with that you actually get the phone when the contract is up. Capitalism make the poor worse and make the rich richer, especially when they cannot innovate enough to make the peons want to upgrade.

It should be more than dozens, all of Alberta should be up in arms about this! Meta should eat rocks! All Meta does is provide you the opertunity to have ads served to you.

I decided that living on a hope and a dream of maybe someday seeing if my Mac Mini still worked I can now gleefully say it is working* if I cannot figure out how to update it further oh well I will just continue on with it as is and harden it the same way I do everything else. But right now it is downloading my music library, which I will promptly backup before trying to update it further.

*I need to figure out how to update it to the last OS version it can handle.

You should really have a good hardware firewall before you do that. Change ports, change ports for everything you can nothing I run is on the standard port I make sure of that other than 80 and 443 for unbound I would if I could but I like having access to the internet I should have mentioned that with pihole.

Thanks for letting me know.

🤣 I am going to guess they are not using windows, or if they are it is pirated the poop out of it.

You got to let us know if they get back to you.

I really want governments and businesses in Canada to go FOSS rather than paying big US tech money to harvest our data.