so i got an email this morning reminding me to renew and they told me not to look at the breakdown. they told me "just donate and move on." but I looked.

these screenshots are proof that the "means of production" are heavily skewed toward one developer over another. someone get lenin on the phone, because this distribution of wealth is a joke. i’m not mad, i’m just documenting history for the proletariat uprising.

anyone know why my comments in this is thread disappear immediately after posting?

my home server that does everything died many weeks ago so i've been making due with VASTLY inferior backups that literally haven't received updates in over a decade because the manufacturers stop supported them.

i've rebuilt this server many times from old e-waste i had laying around and my last attempt to solicit feedback on the last rebuild yeilded some VERY useful advice so i'm hoping to lightening strikes twice.

my constraints are that i can only use hardware that i have on hand; with the exception of a motherboard since i don't have a functional one this time around, so i plan on buying one used off of craigslist or one of the many local repair shops.

also: deepseek tells me that this hardware are the only things i have on hand that are compatible with each other (and i'm crossing my fingers in the hopes that some of them still work):

• CPU: socket LGA1200 era Intel Celeron
• RAM: 64 gigs DDR4 3200 on 2 128 pin sticks
• CASE: mini itx steel case
• POWER: ATX standard
• DRIVES: 4 SATA, 1 PATA, 2 NVME

i also have a wifi3 router/ap and a wifi4 router/ap combo boxes; these are the backups i'm currently using and they are crazy slow.

i need this build to do the same thing its predecessor did which were (ranked in order of importance):

• router (i used a pfsense virtual machine last time)
• wifi access point (i last used a wifi nic in AP mode)
• DNS adblocking (i used pfBlockerNG last time)
• live kernel patching (used ubuntu last time)
• vlan segmentation (via pfsense)
• vpn routing (via pfsense)
• jbod drives (aka no raid nor HA and permanently mounted on the host)
• backup capabilities (last used rsync initiated server side to laptops & - gmail)
• per device firewall rules (for the robot vacuum and security cameras)
• IDS & IPS (via pfsense)
• home cloud storage (last used pfsense + nfs + sshfs + ddns)
• multimedia system (last used kodi + old plasma tv)

I see you. Lol

Shamelessly stolen from rednote

take it with a grain of salt; ramos [the guy in the pic next to his daughter] is a US imperialist to the core.

The initial answer was mild, condemning the repression in both countries but declining to call them "dictators." However, his campaign sent a much more contundent position days after the interview:

" I want to be clear on where I stand. I believe both Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, jailed political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press. And yet, our federal government's long history of punitive policies toward both countries, including extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans and the continuation of a decades long blockade of Cuba, have only worsened these conditions. Democratic socialism is about dignity, justice and accountability. And above all, it's about building a democracy that works for working people, not one that preys on them."

madeline pendelton playing out the typical conversation flow between a leftist and a liberal about american actions in destabilizing ukraine.

tldr: you get called a tankie for pointing out the things that the american gov't publicly admits it's doing to ukraine. lol

tldr: ex president AMLO's policies lifted 13+ million out of poverty; but the united states is going to reverse it soon.

What happens when you try to change the system from within. Lol

Funny representation of what's happening w Bernie & AOC's attempts to rally the Democratic party back into the prior status quo. Lol

i updated my email address in my efforts to de-google myself and i got the email asking to confirm my new email address; but when i do it it just hangs.

how can i find out if my new email address took?

I can see that sh.itjust.works has a conservative community like lemm.ee and lemmy.world does; but I'm not able to access it from lemmy.ml via federation. Does this mean that Lemmy now capable of federating at a community level?

my home server needs to be reconstructed and i'm seeking ideas on how to future proof it. here's some ascii art in a screenshot to help describe how it's currently setup:

description (left to right):

• laptops, smartphones, tables, etc connect to an access point configured on a windows 10 virtual machine (vm). the windows10 vm uses pci passthrough on the wireless adapter and this is done to get gigabit wifi speeds since intel's drivers won't allow linux to do this in ap mode; but will allow it just fine if you're using windows.
• requests from the wifi clients are passed via dns & ip masquerade to another virtual machine based on pfsense
• pfsense serves as the router, firewall, vpn, ad blocking & web hosting and it's also configured to use pci passthrough on the primary network interface to gap internet traffic from the server
• the center of the drawing shows how i perform data backups using a 3 gig wired connection with a hardware switch and i setup the host ubuntu server to manage dhcp on the secondary network interface & the devices that are connect to the switch. the data is stored using rsync and harddrives are setup to use an extremely large lvm made of several different types of hard drives.

i've rebuilt this server multiple times each time i encountered a "gotcha" or a surprise that i had not anticipated and it made some needful component stop working; so i'm seeking advice from Lemmy on how to redesign this to mitigate future surprises.

some of the surprises i've encountered so far are:

• the pfsense logs overfilled the root volume of the bsd based vm because logrotate was configured for linux. the image is hardcoded with a single volume so i will need to find a way to borrow some space from the backup volume using nfs and configure the logs to write there instead of locally.
• i have no key for the windows10 vm; so i'm forced to clone it's qcow image and manually configure the hotspot each time the 30 day free trial from microsoft expires. I intend to improve upon this creating an ansible job to rotate this virtual machine every 30 days automatically and include powershell based tasks to configure the hotspot in windows automatically
• intel limits the speed for linux native internet connection sharing to 100 megabits (already mentioned & fixed above)
• the local users home volume overfills when trying to take my google backups (already fixed)
• my cats & dogs LOVE the taste of cat6 capables and cat6 is required for 3 gigabit speeds (also fixed)

constraints:

• don't spend anymore $$$
• gigabit wifi speed is A MUST
• 3 gigabit backups speeds are a must too