ladfrombrad 🇬🇧

not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yup!

    Things you should be aware of thou are a Rpi3 and below only have a 100Mbps ethernet port, whereas a Pi4 and above have gigabit ports so if you’re gonna be doing anything network related it might be better for you. A Pi5 again has one but then isn’t as powerful GPU wise (sounds weird I know) and no good for transcoding things unlike the Pi4.

    And saying that, I have two dinky Pi Zero’s with DVB HAT’s on them to give me my own HD Homerun TV tuners that I can access anywhere via Tailscale. They don’t require much processing power and only operate over WiFi 2.4GhZ, but they work good.

    If you want something to play with self hosting? Immich is a good start as the docs are as good as Tailscale’s. A Pihole is often a good start to understanding your network better and allows installation via a simple curl command. Have fun!



  • That’d be dependent on your works IT policy and I can hear the resounding NO from my IT dept here at home :/

    However if they’re fairly lax, you could install it on anything from a Pi to a spare laptop.

    Besides like I say it’s now saving me money, I’ve also got the bonus of having off site backup storage at a family member’s now since I gave them an old Pi4 of mine, setup the arrrr stack/Jellyfin/Jellyseerr etc and they love me so much now because of that, I don’t think they’d even notice they’re secretly part of my 3.2.1 backup solution (since they also get my remote IT support + their adblocker on their phone via Tailscale anywhere) ;)


  • Nah they’re connecting to their home network via a Tailscale exit node which basically runs all your requests traffic through your device/router at home/ external server, P2P encrypted.

    And if it’s got an adblocker on that network you soon notice if it’s not connected since all the ads come flooding in.

    I too third Tailscale, since it is literally now saving me money because work has give us pretty darn fast WiFi albeit with a nanny filter which the above exit node breaks you out of so I now don’t pay for as much data on my cellular plan.











  • Call it astroturfing, call it naivety, call it coercive behaviour or whatever.

    But you bought your phone which has the latest upstream release of updates from the OEM. People then coming in and telling you that Google is bad is fucking ironic to me.

    I get it; I self host a fair amount of things locally these days but not solely because of politics and more, frugality? But chiding others for sharing what is a simple post of “hey guys, I got this shit early” is bollocks and I’ll call each and every time.

    Shakes head.


  • Wow.

    So you can sleep well knowing that soon your data is going to be used for training AI that Mills children in Gaza?

    You really are that puddled in the head you need to bring in external politics to someone sharing that their device that they bought, without someone telling them to use third party software instead, getting an update early?

    It’s called projection and it smells worse than your mum’s knickers.