FrederikNJS

While PETG certainly has a lot more moisture problems than PLA, PLA can still give you a lot of grief if it isn’t dry enough. Stringing, oozing, uneven extrusion, and many other weird problems. I would definitely try to dry the filament…

But this could also look a bit like over/under-extrusion… Have you tried calibrating your e-steps?

I’m at 1690 hours myself and really hasn’t delved too much into mods yet…

Factorio if you like building, optimizing and automating. Game is about 5 GB.

Outer Wilds is 8GB, and the best puzzle/mystery game I have ever played. The less you know about the game up front, the better.

Unifi gear can run both a Wireguard server, as well as a Wireguard client.

The containers in my setup are running in a Kubernetes cluster. My Kubernetes cluster consists of 3 physical servers (one old desktop computer and 2 Intel NUCs).

On that cluster I run many different things, Jellyfin, Plex, *arr-stack, downloader, Immich, zigbee2mqtt, home-assistant, audiobookshelf, calibre-web, Forgejo, ArgoCD, Homebox, Paperless, Factorio servers, Velero, and a bunch of other stuff.

Because I run so many different things on the same 3 physical machines, using containers, then there’s no way to split this into VLANs.

I could make a “kubernetes” VLAN, but everything else on my network would need to be connected with it anyway. All my computers, phones and TVs need to access Kubernetes (Jellyfin), and Kubernetes need to access everything else such as EV charger, heat pump, and the power monitoring in my power meter. Therefore I need to control my networking at a different level.

Yes, that does indeed sound like you have all the stuff necessary to make this work.

In my home network this wouldn’t work, as I’m running all my stuff in containers on multi-purpose servers, and therefore I can’t really split things per VLAN. Most other people in the homelab/self host community also use their servers for multiple purposes at the same time, so VLANs alone often doesn’t cut it.

Yeah, it’s lacking an avoidance system, as Slate will also tell you, so just make sure there’s nothing between you and your destination when you activate it.

That depends a lot on what you do with them…

VLANs work on a layer where devices can either reach each other or they cannot.

Let’s say you have your main desktop computer in the “main” VLAN, and your Jellyfin server in the “jellyfin” VLAN, and a third server for your home-assistant in the “home-assistant” VLAN, and finally some IOT devices in the “iot” VLAN.

You connect the VLANs as follows:

• “main” can reach the Internet, but you also want to access your jellyfin and home-assistant, so you connect it to those two VLANs (“jellyfin” and “home-assistant”)
• “Jellyfin” can reach the Internet (because you want updates), but Jellyfin doesn’t need to reach anything else on your local network… However since you already connected “main”, then “jellyfin” can reach it.
• “home-assistant” needs to reach the Internet, but also the “iot” VLAN where some of the devices it controls resides. You also already connected “main” because you wanted to access home-assistant from your computer.
• “iot” is blocked from reaching the internet, and it’s only connected to the “home-assistant” VLAN because home-assistant needs to reach it.

Remember that all connected VLANs much be bidirectional.

Now someone compromises your Jellyfin. They now control and has access to everything on the Jellyfin server, but they also have network reachability to your main computer, because your “main” and “home-assistant” VLANs are connected. They can now try to exploit your main computer.

If they are successful in exploiting your main computer, then they can use your main computer to jump to the home-assistant server because again, these two VLANs are connected. And you likely have the credentials for accessing home-assistant available on your main computer somewhere.

Now they are on your home-assistant server, and they can now start trying to exploit your IOT devices.

If VLANs are connected, they don’t care which direction the traffic flows.

If you want to control traffic flow directions you need a firewall. A firewall can sit between VLANs and block traffic coming from one to other, but not the other to the one.

If Jellyfin gets compromised, you risk everything else on the same server getting compromised, as well as everything that server can reach.

VLANs can certainly reduce what is at risk, but wouldn’t the machine running the Jellyfin client be reachable from the Jellyfin server? And if they manage to move laterally to the client machine, what could they then reach from there?

No, there’s never any shortcuts that doesn’t require you to fly to the other planets…

There is autopilot, so you don’t have to fly completely manually. But you will still have to take off and land yourself. And wait while autopilot flies to the destination.

For me, this bit became complete muscle memory, and a bit of time to reflect and contemplate what I had learned. Almost a bit meditative.

But yeah… If it only ever felt annoying and cumbersome to you, then I can certainly see why the game wouldn’t be enjoyable.

Sure… If someone managed to stream some of my media… They probably earned it… But then they exploit a vulnerability to perform arbitrary code execution, and leverage that to hack everything else on my network…

https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2023-30626

Fair enough, I must concede that it’s probably not for everyone…

It’s worth mentioning that most of the places that are hard to reach do have hidden shortcuts, that makes them much easier to get to, once you learn the shortcut.

Also you can enable a setting that pauses the game while you are reading Nomai text, or talking to people.

There’s an interesting video on YouTube by TeeHallums who investigated why some people bounce off of Outer Wilds, in the video he also interviews Alex Beachum (the creative director for Outer Wilds), and discovers an interesting pattern in all the people he has experienced bouncing off the game: https://youtu.be/msABa06aiT0

Outer Wilds is my favorite game yet…

What have you discovered?

The start of the game is rather confusing and aimless. What’s going on? Where am I going? Why am I going? What am I supposed to do?

In the mid game, the tempo picks up, as you see more and more pieces fitting together. You explore in a targeted fashion. Every new discovery is exhilarating.

In the late game the discoveries become fewer and further in between. The last bits of the puzzle seems to not quite want to fit together… Until it suddenly clicks… You understand what you must do, you know what is at stake, but not the consequences.

For me it was The Butterfly Effect.

Are you a software developer? And to you actually enjoy programming? Because Factorio is made especially for those people…

There’s a special place in my brain that kicks on the dopamine when I solve a tricky programming problem. Factorio hits the exact same spot.

If you like Factorio but are not a software developer: Have you considered becoming a software developer? Because you just might have what it takes 😉

And dogs… And most mammals actually

Well… Chocolate is also highly toxic to mice…

Additional bonus fact: Mice prefer raisins to cheese