gazter

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[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The router is set as a subnet router, that is how I am able to access other machines on my lan remotely.

I don't want to, and sometimes can't, install tailscale on every device I want remote access to.

So I may have duplicate routes- Does that explain the behaviour in my original post? And how would I go about avoiding that?

I could turn off subnet routing, and only turn it on when needed, but I'll be putting up a bunch of other services that will want to talk to each other- I'm assuming this will break whenever I turn subnet routing on.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I kind of follow what you're putting down.

I am not using an exit node. How do I go about splitting my routes?

What I want to achieve is 'normal' access for within the lan, as well as remote access over tailscale for things I cannot run tailscale on.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a commercial VPN, but I am not connected. What tinkering did you have to do?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I set up subnet advertisements by doing tailscale set --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24. I did not touch ACL.

The home PC is Windows, the context menu for the tray app give the option to 'use tailscale subnets' which is enabled- I assume this is the equivalent of accepting advertised routes.

From the home PC, tailscale ping 192.168.1.2 returns a pong, from the tailscale IP. tracert fails.

 

I encountered something I don't quite understand, and I was hoping someone could enlighten me.

I set up Tailscale on my router with subnets, so I could remotely access my home network. This worked great. Then, at home, I was happily browsing the internet on my main PC, and decided to dial into another machine on my network. It couldn't access it at all. Disconnecting Tailscale on my main PC restored lconnectivity.

I don't understand what is happening here- the only thing I can think of is that my internet traffic was being routed through Tailscale, but I don't have an exit node.

TL,DR: home PC sees Internet but not LAN when connected to Tailscale, why and how fix?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 27 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Linux newb here. What does this mean? My knowledge of systemd is that it is responsible for things like mounting disks and running networking. So does this mean I can ask systemd to grab a new IP address every x hours, even if the machine is asleep?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

You've got a shelf full of fifty boxes. Forty five of them are sold. You've got five people working in the store across three registers. You want to make sure that the people who ordered one get one, so you pre-allocate them by printing out all the orders and attaching them to the box.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand. This isn't really a subject I care much about, so forgive my ignorance.

Are you saying that an AI generated frame would be closer to the actual rendered image than if the image rendered natively? Isn't that an oxymoron? How can a guess at what the frame will be be more 'accurate' than what the frame would actually be?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was a little sad when I heard about it, as well as bittersweet while reading The Shepherd's crown. Then I closed the book, curled up in bed and wept myself to sleep.

I've found joy in passing his name on to the next generation.

Have you read Shaking Hands with Death? It's... cathartic.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

The cheaper ones are generally pretty finicky, and often introduce weird compression. You'll often find the stated achievable distances to require very good cabling with very good terminations.

If using cat cable was a necessity, I'd put the extra money down and get HDbaseT units. But I'd be pretty seriously looking into the various fully moulded active HDMI cables or even better, SDI solutions.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a thing, but it's either cheap and really sucks, or expensive and kind of sucks.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you from the future?

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Front load washing machines let you see, but it's a tease because they lock the door.

 

I've not been playing with my online gaming group for a few months, but when I was, I was playing a sentient gelatinous cube, who's just the happiest and friendliest thing ever. Last night I was able to rejoin, and we managed to pull off a great surprise. The PCs were led into a trap, and suddenly all sorts of oozes and jellies started appearing. The DM did a great description of an ominous, looming gelatinous cube approaching, and one side started to form into a face... Which oozed into a mouth and said.... Which is when I popped into the call and laid on the familiar happy, friendly voice and said a hearty hello and nice to see everyone again! Perfect timing, great build-up, everyone loved it. Such a great theatrical moment.

 

Vague title I know, but I'm enough of a beginner at this to not really know what I need to ask!

I would like to rent a server, that allows me to spin up different services, including things like Windows to use as a remote desktop. Ideally, I would then be able to just migrate this whole setup to my home server.

I thought it would be as easy as renting a scalable VPS, but apparently if you run something like Proxmox on those, you'll get terrible performance?

My understanding is that I'd need to rent a bare metal server, but then my 'scalability' will suffer- I can't just wind up and down the specs as needed, correct?

My user case: For the next several months, I'm on the road, without a proper computer. I may have some work doing some CAD drafting, hence Windows. I'd also like to have some containers to run some dev tools, databases, web hosting. I'd also like to use the same service to start building my future home server environment- nextcloud, *arr, etc. Once I'm back home, I'd like to easily migrate this setup to a local machine, then continue to use the server as my own cloud and public entry point. And further down the line, hosting a gaming server for friends. In terms of location, Sydney would be great.

Will a VPS do this? Or do I need bare metal? Is there a single service that will allow me to do both, with one billing? Or am I doing a Dunning-Kruger?

Thanks in advance for your hints.

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