Not all Australians. The gambling companies, and the political parties they support (Liberal & Labor) benefit from this legislation not implementing the Murphy Report recommendations.

Thanks for grappling with this @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus

As a tinkerer, I have tried Portainer a couple of times, and another similar thing, but I end up never looking at them, and revert to just jumping into the command line. A bonus of this approach is keeping a copy of all my compose files in a repo.

If OP is being drawn to this because they want to know everything’s running, what they’re really looking for is monitoring - probably Uptime Kuma.

Since the fuel price is set by market forces (rather than a cost plus model), and the law doesn’t prevent price gouging in energy (those laws only apply to supermarkets) we’ll likely see a drop (or at least a pause in the increases) when it’s first introduced, but then the fuel companies will slowly wind it back up till they are pocketing the excise change.

So no - there’s no framework forcing the saving to be passed on to motorists, and in the medium term it will go to fuel companies, funded by taxpayers.

Plus one for Kavita. Only slight bump is that it wants books to be in series because it’s quite manga focused.

+1 for Uptime Kuma, I use it with ntfy. If OP doesn’t want a self hosted solution, there’s UptimeRobot - essentially SAAS Uptime Kuma, but with a free tier.

Forgejo + Tailscale. Forgejo is the app behind Codeberg so it’s battle tested. I switched to it from Gitea after the controversy.

The people in that building at the back looking out their window: “Well this looks le fucking stupid”

Not enough people have watched Utopia

Yep - I feel that, especially after the branded hard disk carry on last year.

I’m a +1 on this. A secondhand Synology set up with some RAID will delay this decision for a few years and give you time to build your expertise on the other aspects without worrying much about data security. It’s a pity that you’re nearly at the limit of 8TB - otherwise I would have suggested a two bay NAS with 2x8TB, but if you’re going to use second hand drives (I do because I’m confident of my backup systems) maybe 4x6TB is better. Bigger drives are harder to come by 2nd hand - and plenty of people will not be comfortable with secondhand spinning rust anyway - if that’s you, then a 2 bay with 2x12TB might be a good choice.

The main downside (according to me) of a Synology is no ZFS, but that didn’t bother me until I was two years in and the owner of three of them.

Proxmox on the metal, then every service as a docker container inside an LXC or VM. Proxmox does nice snapshots (to my NAS) making it a breeze to move them from machine to machine or blow away the Proxmox install and reimport them. All the docker compose files are in git, and the things I apply to every LXC/VM (my monitoring endpoint, apt cache setup etc) are all applied with ansible playbooks also in git. All the LXC’s are cloned from a golden image that has my keys, tailscale setup etc.

https://petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/ahmad-al-ahmad-for-aussie-of-the-year

I’m as disappointed in our pollies as anyone, but if we don’t want corruption we need to treat them something similar to business executives. I’d go further than that - we should have generous superannuation to avoid them currying favour to work with powerful interests when they leave. Both these measures are insurance against corruption.

Thanks for posting, I’d never heard of the Joe Walker Podcast, but will be checking it out.

For anyone interested in an Australian focused take on international relations who hasn’t discovered the “Australia in the World” podcast yet, I highly recommend that as well.

100% this. And Lenovos and HPs designed for the business market generally are a pleasure to work on (in the hardware sense) if you need, with good manuals and secondhand spare parts.

I’m local first - stuff I’m testing, playing with, or “production” stuff like Jellyfin, Forgeo, AudioBookshelf, Kavita etc etc. Local is faster, more secure, and storage is cheap. But then some of my other stuff that needs 24/7 access from the internet - websites and web apps - they go on the VPS.

I just do one Docker container per LXC. All the convenience of compose, plus those sweet Proxmox snapshots.

Is there a reason not to use Tailscale for this?

When I switched to webdev, I dropped $20 on a system admin Linux course on Udemy. I highly recommended this approach.