Why are taxpayers paying for office buildings that have been proven are not necessary ?

Don’t spread your legs for the cash

Nobody’s getting the cash except the billionaires. Too many people who think they’re temporarily impoverished billionaires in this world.

It may be simplest to move it to a hosted server. Depending on the length of outages, your comfort with electrical things, and your budget, you could get a bigger battery and use the inverter in the UPS (there are caveats-the inverter in the UPS is not rated for higher end of its load past the battery capacity it’s got and may burn itself out, and the charger may not work properly with the larger battery or with different chemistry), or get a battery/inverter box like a Ecoflow or that sort of thing. Solar may be a good bet too.

I don’t know about matrix but failing over between public IPs probably requires a HA sync of some type and also DNS failover.

She forced her way into a home while on duty.

She then behaved in a way that would suggest that she had lost her temper while assuming a threatening pose with her hand on her firearm.

She needs to be in prison. Meanwhile, the prosecution said that the charges should never have been laid in the first place.

Corruption.

The paragraph above discusses this:

It is not a commandment from heaven that all police forces need to be treated like the military, where one rises through the ranks and only uniformed officers can manage one another. Few other institutions in our society operate in this way. This is what creates the “thin blue line” culture where officers do whatever they can to protect each other, even at the cost of the public’s well-being.

I agreed but CFAA says prison time for counting in a URL. Thats just the first CFAA abuse that popped into my mind and I can’t find the reference, because it’s 20 years old now. iPhone users info leaked at AT&T by simply incrementing

&users=101020202

top of the line 5th gen

How many flight hours before a service requiring parts only sourced in USA? Aka the “not a killswitch” that just consists of making a hangar queen that needs a steady supply of unobtainable parts.

There is a reason that cloud services are popular with businesses. How does self-hosting this provide value to your customers in line with the time that you spend on IT tasks instead of your product? Do you have enough faith in your build that it will be secure and reliable? If you have downtime, does your business have flexibility to accommodate you doing IT work for hours without loss of revenue? If you go on vacation, who is on call?

I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but do consider the time investment and risks. There are alternatives to M365 and Google.

Pfsense is shady on the OSS side these days. I think. I haven’t gotten into the drama. Opnsense is a popular fork.

Yes. If there’s another open source project that has the coverage I’m not aware of it.

How much does this cost taxpayers in wasted real estate expenditure and road maintenance and

Just asking, is there anywhere that doesn’t have food cost issues? I hear about it from many countries. Inflation is bad.

Hadn’t considered that.

Social media is doing an absolute number on that culture.

Low tech options: a smart plug that power cycles if it can’t ping eg google and have your edge devices plugged in there, or a timer that reboots the firewall at 0200 daily. I haven’t implemented either of these, despite having a network other people rely on about 400km from my house. I should remediate that…

I have decided dual firewalls are silly without dual internet and dual power, as both those things go down more often than my FW.

I have two instances of pihole on two hosts, because I block dns outbound to the best of my ability.

I created a text file with all the IPs, server name, and function and some general notes. I don’t use good passwords in my home network, sue me. But my master password should go into the will stored with lawyer.

It’s enough to get started but my family will have to find someone to help them at some point as they don’t have the technical skills I do.

I have snort running on my firewall monitoring my LAN port. Does it help? No idea. Does it make me feel good because it blocks stuff? Yup. It does enforce IP blacklists from a feed, so it’s a start.

Keeping an loose eye on things and watching for extra network traffic, cpu, ram usage is what I do.

I get that. It’s never been easier to self host with minimal knowledge and people still say it’s too hard. I said terminal but I don’t mean that to limit to bash. It could be any server interface.

I deal with the tech all day. I get paid to. I’d rather spend my leisure time touching grass, but I’m at that point in my career where it’s difficult to get excited like I do in my 20s.

Well, like i said, I don’t wanna stare at a terminal at home. I’m running too many services as it is.

Automate the updates with a cron job and use family for outage notifications.

I get that but the setup investment up front. Wow. I’ve built out my services exactly once (over 10 years now), so I don’t really see the value for myself.