cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you solve email?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Email’s not nearly as hard to host as people make it out to be. It is intimidating, yes, and there are a few very specific gotchas that make it infeasible or impractical from most if not all home internet connections, but if you’re willing to outsource just a little bit on that one particular point so that you have a static, commercial-grade IP address somewhere that you can get reverse DNS and open up SMTP ports on, the rest of it is mostly just fighting with your usual, standard self-hosting struggles of getting it configured and working at all, then making sure it’s secure and stays secure, and making sure your data is protected. The setup might be slightly more advanced than some other services just due to the number of moving parts, but it’s not fundamentally any different than a webserver. There are some other issues that might crop up a little later in the game, managing your mail server’s reputation for not sending spam (especially if, at some point, someone DOES get access and starts sending spam, you need to figure out how to recover your reputation). But overall it’s manageable, I’ve been self-hosting my email for like 30 years. It sucks, but it’s worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you isolate a printer in your homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of, there are some similar aspects to it. I refer to it as my “internet appliance gulag”. They can all live there in their big open-air prison and be as totally insecure as they want, spying on and hacking each other all day long and they can try to access my network or the internet all they want, none of them are getting out unless I have explicitly reviewed whatever the fuck it’s trying to do and where it’s trying to go and why.

  Do not phone home, do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to Gulag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop with non-funtional display... What do I turn it into⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hook it up to the TV and use it for big screen web/media/gaming/retro-emulation. Steam and/or Sunshine/Moonlight can be used for low-latency streaming to play games from another PC (in either direction). You can use controllers and keyboard/mouse through either streaming method or bluetooth/wireless. Also handy for occasionally streaming things that don’t have smart-TV-apps, or for services where the only functional apps are service-locked, shitty and/or “Freemium” (most IPTV apps for example). Set it up for Wake-On-LAN (or Wake-On-WiLAN if it supports it). Lots of things you can do with a PC in the living room.