Treat it like an elephant you want to eat. One small piece at the time. I've unlocked tear 7 right now and have zero pieces for next stage of the space elevator even planned. I've spent evenings just running around, gathering mercer spheres, somersloops and hard drives. Spent few hours here and there on ziplining on power lines and setting up radar towers across the map (while gathering spheres, somersloops and drives), accumulated few stacks of various remains and just having fun on exploring the map.

Today I had few hours to spare on my save world and ran into an issue where my power network went down. I originally planned that I'd unlock nuclear power but instead I needed to debug my fuel generation farm (where majority of my power is coming from) and I found that I missed a belt on half of the refineries so they got filled with resin and after fixing that I found out that I might have miscalculated something since not all the generators became online, but that might be just that it takes a while to fill the pipes, so that's a chore I need to take care of at some point before proceeding.

But if that doesn't feel like fun I can run around and tinker with my other factories, install smart power switches so that I can keep the power generation on and at least some production running and keep the lights on in general. And when that's been taken care of I have still a ton of map to explore, a lot more tinkering to do (turbofuel power plant would be nice) and so on.

And that's what I've been doing so far. I'm just enjoying the gameplay. End game parts are a bit of a pain to mange, but I can split all of those into manageable parts and work with them whenever I feel like it. Like having enough copper sheets to run my computer production. I started on grassy fields and ran everything I need from couple of nodes from there with mark1 miners. That didn't take me too far, but I've had my fun on upgrading the existing stuff. Tearing down all the 'old' stuff from the start and building them up better, or just upgrading the bare minimum to get to the steamed sheets or something else.

Late game stuff requires a lot, but I've just ignored it and tinkered on with what I have and I have a ton of room to improve pretty much everything. Eventually I of course move on to the late game stuff, but before that I'm just having fun on trying different build styles, figuring out efficient use of blueprints, hunting down more spheres and loops and so on.

I know some people are just speedrunning the whole thing and others who meticulously plan every step even before starting the game and run it with a spreadsheet on second monitor, but my play style is just to do whatever feels like fun at the time. Sometimes it means to jerryrig an existing factory to accept mark2/3 miners, other times it means tearing down whatever I already had and doing it better and sometimes I just enjoy the world and gather more DNA capsules.

You do whatever you find fun, it's a game after all and rushing it to the finish line, at least for me, isn't the most important thing. I have only limited number of hours I can sink to this and if it's not fun then it's not worth of my time. I stopped previous save a bit before coffeestain froze the updates and started to focus on 1.0. I was almost finished everything, but forcing myself to build a mess just to complete another stage wasn't really fun anymore and I didn't even think of the game for a half a year or so. Obviously the 1.0 release was a big part of it, but if you feel like it, just create signs or other clues to help you get back and let it sit for a while if you feel like it.

NAS stands for 'Network Attached Storage' and there's dedicated hardware for that task from multiple brands. It's a somewhat spesific thing and from what I understand you have a multi-purpose server running on your network. For discussion it's better to use the established terminology to avoid confusion on what's what. Your generic server can of course act like a NAS, but a 100€ Synlogy NAS can't (for the most part) act as a generic server.

Similarly there's a dedicated hardware for routers and they are not the same than generic servers which can run whatever. Dedicated routers do some things way better/faster than generic server, and there's pretty much always a trade-off between the two. You can of course install hardware to your server to be as good as or even better than any consumer grade router and run a pfsense on virtual machine on top of it, but that's going to be at least more expensive than dedicated hardware.

So, your server is running pihole in a container on the same network address/hardware than the rest of your server, and I suppose you already gathered from other messages that the firewall component on it treats traffic coming from outside the server itself differently than traffic originating from the server itself. For this spesific case I'd say it's just simpler to configure the server to use DNS server as localhost:1053 than trying to work out firewall forwarding rules for it, if possible. If not, and you absolutely insist that your pihole runs on a unprivileged port and that your server also has to use pihole as DNS sever, then you need to dig out a firewall config for outgoing traffic which redirects the destination port. Or you could set up a dns proxy on the server which uses pihole as upstream and serves addresses to localhost only or one of the other multiple ways to achieve what you're after, but each of those have some kind of trade-off and there's too many to go trough in a single post.

I personally don't, but many do. But it doesn't matter, my employer isn't legally allowed to read my emails, unless it's a sort of an emergency. My vacation, weekend, short sick leave and things like do not qualify. And even then, if the criteria is met, it's illegal to read anything else than strictly work related things out of my box.

We even have a form where people leaving the company sign permission that their mailbox can be accessed by their team leader and without signature we're not allowed to grant permissions to anyone, unless legal department is on the case and terms for privacy breach are met.

If the firewall was running on a router then you'd need to DNAT back to the same network from which they originated and that is (in general) quite a PITA to get running properly. My understanding is that the firewall doing port forwarding is running on the NAS. And we don't have much information on what that 'NAS' even is, I tend to think devices like qnap or synology when talking on NAS-boxes, but that might as well be a full linux-system just running CIFS/NFS/whatever.

OP could obviously use his router as a DNS server for the network and set upstream DNS server for the router to pihole, but that's a whole different scenario.

This is the same as complaining that my job puts a filter on my work computer that lets them know if I’m googling porn at work. You can cry big brother all you want, but I think most people are fine with the idea that the corporation I work for has a reasonable case for putting monitoring software on the computer they gave me.

European point of view: My work computer and the network in general has filters so I can't access porn, gambling, malware and other stuff on it. It has monitoring for viruses and malware, that's pretty normal and well understood need to have. BUT. It is straight up illegal for my work to actively monitor my email content (they'll of course have filtering for incoming spam and such), my chats on teams/whatever and in general be intrusive of my privacy even at work.

There's of course mechanisms in place where they can access my email if anyting work related requires that. So in case I'm laying in a hospital or something they are allowed to read work related emails from my inbox, but if there's anything personal it's protected by the same laws which apply to traditional letters and other communication.

Monitoring 'every word' is just not allowed, no matter how good your intentions are. And that's a good thing.

As it's only single device I'd suggest configuring DNS server for that to <ip-of-nas>:1053. Port forwarding rule on the nas firewall most likely applies only to 'incoming' traffic to the nas and as locally generated DNS request isn't 'incoming' (you can think it as 'incoming' traffic is everything coming via ethernet cable into the nas) then the port redirection doesn't trigger as you're expecting.

Erittäin hyvä ajatus. Suomi.fi:hin mastodon pyörimään ja kaikki kansanedustajat, mepit ja vaikka kuntapoliitikotkin sinne twitterin ja tiktokin sijaan niin tiedonkulku tulee varmistettua eikä tarvitse pitää arpajaisia että mitä Musk ja/tai kiinalaiset tänään sattuu sensuroimaan (tosin tiktokissa tuo ei tieten ole ollut niin iso ongelma, alusta on muuten vain hieman kyseenalainen).

Ja ei toki sillä, että Metan ja kumppaneiden tuotteet olisi yhtään sen parempia, twitteristä lähtö olisi ihan pirun hyvä ensimmäinen askel.

It takes Two (co-op puzzle)

Unravel 2 is a bit similar co-op puzzle game.

Bare metal server sounds like optimal solution for you and set up a hypervisor on top of it, so it's pretty trivial to migrate VMs to your own hardware when needed. But then for your 'long term' environment VPS would most likely be better and migrating a full VM from your hypervisor to VPS is a bit more work, but can be done.

I don't know about providers in Australia, but Hetzner has both and combined billing and my personal experience with them is pretty good. But I'm in Europe, so bandwidth nor latency is not a problem.

I am well aware of the situation and Russia is breaking laws of the war pretty much as fast as they can, by the means (among others) mentioned on the article. But without context this particular message plays directly to Russians and when message like that is spread around someone might take the bait and actually reveal positions of the Ukrainian military, but Russia has proven over and over again that they just don't care about civil casualties (or human life in general). If anyone there actually provides locations for fighters to the attacker the Russia would most likely attack them first and after that destroy the city and all the informants in it, like we've seen many times over last few years.

And that's what I'm referring to when calling for responsibility on spreading messages like this. Some poor soul might believe the message in fear/hope for the better/something else and that would really only make things even worse for them, as the cities are already being destroyed by the attacker and any intel to them is only going to weaken the force trying to stop them.

By all means, spread the information and reveal the lies Russians are offering, but do that with care and include the context with everything. Revealing information about Ukraine troops is not going to stop Russian drones from attacking childrens and their mothers on the playing field.

Someone more or less anonymous over the internet is saying that. I have no doubt that Russia would level entire city blocks if they have even a suspicion that there's Ukrainian fighters in the block (or just in case regardless of the intel), but in here we have a single telegram message and nothing else. It might be someone in command on the Russian side, maybe trying to get most out of their ammunition, or it might be something bigger, with the information provided we don't really know. And that's something to keep in mind when relaying these kind of messages. We, who are sitting in our chairs in warm glow of the monitor and a beer in reach, should have at least some responsibility on what information we spread and in what context.

But with the track record from Russia, I wouldn't be surprised if they shoot to anything given to them, so if people in that area happen to know that area between this street and that street is completely empty, it might be worth a try to get them to shoot at nothing and reveal their positions while doing it. Just take into account that their accuracy isn't really the best there is for multiple of reasons.

My experiences are few years old, so I don't remember excact models anymore, but some back-ups models (es series rings a bell, but as I said, it's been a while) had batteries with soldered connectors and form-factor which (at least at the time) wasn't available from anyone else than APC.

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I have older 1500VA FSP UPS, I don't think that exact model is available anymore, but it's been solid for several years. It currently has 3rd or 4th set of batteries and they are standard bulk batteries, so replacements are easy to find from anywhere. Only problem I've had with that is that on display it doesn't give out clear warnings when batteries degrade and it has crashed my system few times in a power outage, but I've been lazy and didn't bother to properly monitor it nor have scheduled battery replacements, so that's mostly on me.

Eaton seems to be pretty solid too, but I don't have a ton of experience on any of their models. Local suppliers had dirt cheap PowerWalker UPS's a few years ago, but one of them didn't survive when battery died, so maybe I got what I paid for. Those worked fine too, but apparently they cooked the carging circuit when battery degraded.

This is of course just my own experience over a few models, but personally I wouldn't spend my money on APC. Propietary batteries and multiple failures after battery replacement at work few years back were enough to choose something else.

I don't have answer for you, but Alec over at Technology Connections made a video few days ago related to the topic. That might not have the answer for you either, but as his videos (and there's a ton of those, even for refridgerators) are among of the best at youtube that is worth cheking out.

But as a rule of thumb, new materials and hardware are better on pretty much every metric. And if your current one doesn't work properly anymore it'll most likely uses way more power than it should, as coolant flow/insulation/something isn't in fully working condition and thus compressor needs to run more often than on a new unit.

Effillä on varsin hyviä pointteja CSAMin(kin) osalta, mutta onhan tuo koko ChatControl niin kuolleena syntynyt ajatus että ei pysty ymmärtämään miksi se kerta toisensa perään nousee pinnalle. Rikollisen materiaalin levittämiseen on sen miljoona eri teknistä keinoa ja, kuten jutussakin mainitaan, nämä ennakkoskannaukset lähinnä helpottaisivat lapsipornon levittäjiä piiloutumaan entistä paremmin mutta siinä samalla kaivetaan kyllä melkoinen monttu ihan tavan sukankuluttajien tietoturvaan.

Ja tässä ei auta perinteinen 'jos ei ole mitään salattavaa'-mantra, sillä jos kryptoihin pakotetaan takaovia, niin niistä ovista pääsee kyllä sitten kulkemaan muutkin kuin länsimaisella moraalilla varustetut viranomaiset. Ja vaikkei pääsisikään, niin ainakin itänaapurille oletettavasti kelpaisi ihan hyvin että valtiolliset toimijat pääsevät nuuskimaan viestinvälitystä vielä nykyistäkin tehokkaammin.

Plus sitten vielä erilaiset harrastepohjalta toimivat alustat, kuten vaikka tämä meidän sopuli.xyz, joiden ylläpito joutuisi sitten pistämään resursseja (sekä aikaa että rahaa) tuon toteuttamiseksi, jolloin pienten toimijoiden mahdollisuudet kilpailla metaa, twitteriä, reddittiä ja muita vastaan heikkenevät entisestään. Ja tuossa on oletettavasti joku sanktio tarjolla, jos valvontaa ei toteuta riittävän hyvin, joka kyllä toimii tehokkaana pelotteena tarjota yhtään mitään yhteisöpalvelua kenellekään julkisessa verkossa.

Ja päälle kaikki sata muuta syytä, miksi tuo esitys on ihan oikeasti täysin susipaska, sekä teknisesti että ajatusmaailmaltaan.

I recommend Hetzner too. I've been a happy customer for a decade. Support, should you need it, works well and services are rock solid.

There's automotive plugs which use more or less standard spade connectors which you can wire yourself and they can easily achieve 10A and things like relay sockets can manage 40A or more. JAE is one of the brands manufacturing all kinds of connectors, with and without panel connectors, but there's a ton of manufacturers around. I suppose on marine stuff you can find connectors like that too.

But if it's for a LED strip and you don't need to constantly move them around, I'd suggest using a dirt cheap spade connectors with color coding (reverse male/female connectors on the live one so it's physically impossible to connect led strip in reverse polarity). Or even cheaper, use screw terminals and be extra careful when wiring the strip in.

And for the dupont-style connector commonly seen on LED strips, 10A feels like quite optimistic value. Obviously a LED strip can pull 10A and many times that, but quickly googled ballpark estimation for 2,5m 10A led strip calls for 2,5mm² wiring all the way trough and your cheap flexible LED PCB from amazon/ebay is pretty far from that. But that depends heavily on what you actually have and if you've measured 6A then it's pretty reasonable to have the rest of the setup to manage 10A.

My ecotank died just like all the other inkjets. It went few weeks without printing and blue nozzle dried completely up and on the pipes I can see dried up ink on other colors as well. So I had to dig up old Brother HL3040 back to the duty which I retired after print quality started to drop (it needs new fuse unit or something similar, so not that big of a deal) and I thought having an option to print nice color pictures would be nice.

So, if you plan to run ecotank (which does have pretty good printing quality when it works) set up a scheduled task on your computer to print something, in color, quite frequently even if it wastes some ink and paper. I think the main issue with mine was that even if I print stuff somewhat often there was a period where I only needed b&w documents so color nozzles went unused for a while.

I might get a new set of nozzles and ink tanks for my unit as it's a ton cheaper than a whole new printer, but if you're looking for a printer this is something to take into consideration, regardless of their marketing material.

Edit: Mine is Epson, didn't know that ecotank term is used by other manufacturers.

You can run clonezilla on your shell session, just apt install conezilla (or whatever variant you're using) and it can do the trick. Dd will almost surely work too, but that leaves a ton of responsibility to you instead of making any sanity checks on the way. That makes dd very powerful tool and it has saved my ass a multiple times, but if you already have a working partitioning schema clonezilla has a ton of options to make your life a lot simpler and a likely a bit faster than dd.