Lemmy - RazBot

Hello everyone,

I'm thinking about a project and would like to ask for a second opinion from more experienced people. I sadly didn't find a community dedicated to that on Lemmy and here's the closest I know about. Let me know if I need to move the subject elsewhere, I understand this is on the fringe.

I have experience self-hosting many things on an old gaming PC at home.

Recently my phone which I use for music (navidrome) and satnav in car via Android Auto keeps crashing. The easiest solution would be to get a new phone but this one isn't even two years old so I'm frustrated with modern tech and want to build my own satnav solution.

One limitation I have is that my car only has one USB port to benefit from the car audio system and infotainment. I've chosen to give the USB port to an MP3 player with my music on it.

My idea is to then get a Raspberry Pi 5 or something equivalent , probably the Pi for the community resources for the satnav system.

Add a GPS receiver to it, a generic phone screen, a few physical buttons, maybe bluetooth dongle to connect a bluetooth speaker and potentially a foldable keyboard to type addresses and install something like BRouter for local satnav. Try to figure out how to add physical buttons for media control and also manual brightness.

I'd power it with external powerbanks. The screen would be the size of a phone, or maybe even and old phone or something, to benefit from the third party market of phone holders.

The goal is relatively simple: Local offline satnav with rerouting. Full control of the data, updates and tech used. Portable so it easily comes with me from car to car over the years. Modular, so I could potentially add stuff like rear cam later on.

Why not get a dedicated GPS device? Because I don't want to rely on a greedy corporations when I think I can do it myself (Garmin recently pulled a bad prank with a new subscription plan for instance.) And it's simply just fun to attempt a project like this.

I have plenty of free time to learn and figure it out, but if there's something obvious that I missed and makes the project a no-go, I'd love to know before I purchase everything.

Any feedback?

As a Bionicle fan, LEGO recently burnt me and the whole fandom pretty badly. So I'm pretty much giving the whole company the middle finger.

I know there are probably a bunch of good alternatives out there, and I remember some being mentioned to me previously, but I don't know where to find them.

I'm looking for LEGO and LEGO Technic alternatives/knock-offs of good quality. Preferable European in origin rather than Chinese.

They don't need to have popular or brand themes, or be copies of actual LEGO sets, just good parts at good prices.

I recovered from a small disaster today using the neko dockerised web-browser.

I set up a remote backup with Proxmox running on a HP mini and a Synology a month ago at a friend's house 3000 km away. I thought I'd reserved all the IP addresses, but last night the Synology IP address changed, so the NFS shares to Proxmox and Jellyfin broke. That wasn't to hard to fix remotely, but I don't want it to happen every time the DHCP lease expires.

So now I need to log into their router and reserve the IP addresses...

I can get on the local network there by ssh-ing into one of my entities (via Tailscale), but how do I get to the web interface of the router?

Enter neko. It spins up a browser in a Docker container that can be accessed over a web address. So I created an LXC, installed docker and spun it up, then was able to use that to open the local-only web interface to the router.

neko is intended for watch parties, so multiple people can be logged in to the same browser window at a time - there's a toggle to take control of the window for clicks and typing, but apart from that it's all pretty straight forward. There's a very noticeable lag, but it got the job done.

Perhaps there was an easier lighter-weight way of doing this? In the old old days there was a text browser called Lynx - so perhaps there's some modern iteration that could have done this job?

Edit: There is an easier lighter-weight way of doing this!

Thanks to @[email protected], @[email protected] and others who mentioned 'ssh tunneling' - TIL I could just connect a local port (8080 in my case) to port 80 on the router (192.168.1.1:80 in my case) via the VM I have ssh access to over tailscale ([email protected]) with:

ssh -L 8080:192.168.1.1:80 [email protected]

ssh -L <local port to use>:<remote machine to access with port> <ssh address of jump machine>

When executed, that looks like I've just ssh'ed into that machine, but until I log out of that connection I can open up 127.0.0.1:8080 in my browser and I'm in the router's web interface - still a tiny bit of lag, but way smoother experience with less carry on.

Amazeballs.

I'm sorry but it doesn't make sense TO ME. Based on what I was taught, regardless of the month, I think what matters first is to know what day of the month you are in, if at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of said month. After you know that, you can find out the month to know where you are in the year.

What is the benefit of doing it the other way around?

EDIT: To avoid misunderstandings:

• I am NOT making fun OF ANYONE.
• I am NOT negatively judging ANYTHING.
• I am totally open to being corrected and LEARN.
• This post is out of pure and honest CURIOSITY.

So PLEASE, don't take it the wrong way.

Edit: Thank you for your responses! I’ll be sure to upvote and check out everyone’s annswers even if I don’t reply to each one individually.

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I swear every thread has the same 100 people in it so my upvote counter is pretty high for most people. Wondering what it’s at for other people on Lemmy. You tell me my vote count and I’ll tell you what I have for you :)

I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?

xkcd #3096: Check Engine

Title text:

They say it's probably safe to keep orbiting for a while, but if it stays on or starts flashing we might have to call someone.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3096/

explainxkcd for #3096

I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I'd setup over time and I'd now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn't really show much so I'm either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30940470

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