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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Mullvad is a great VPN though, if Mozilla branding gets more people to use it instead of any of the scummy ones that are everywhere these days, it’s a good thing for privacy, the open web, etc. - the causes Mozilla is supposed to represent. It’s way better aligned with their goals than a lot of the other non-browser stuff they’ve been doing. I’d rather see them profit from that than from nonsense like ‘sponsored stories’ on the homepage.

    Drop shipping is a great analogy though - branding and marketing is the only thing Mozilla is bringing to the table as far as I’m aware.


  • DeltaWhy@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPost your Servernames!
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    6 months ago

    My first VPS was for a Minecraft server so I named it cobblestone. I’ve kept using Minecraft related names for all my machines since then, and I try to pick ones that are at least vaguely related to the function or appearance of the machine. For example my cluster has brute for the master and piglin01-piglin04 for the workers, but those are the only ones I’ve numbered.

    The exception is my two Klipper RPi’s, one is octopi since that’s what it originally ran, and the other is named after the model of the printer. For some reason I never named my printers.

    I probably wouldn’t use a naming scheme like this for production servers though - I’d either go with functional hostnames or something like the periodic table which you can pick from arbitrarily. My home servers and clients aren’t cattle though, so I like having a little personality to the names there.


  • Backups. Cloud services like Backblaze B2 are so cheap for the durability they offer, it just doesn’t make sense for me to roll my own offsite solution with a Raspberry Pi at my parents’ house or something. Restic encrypts everything before it leaves my machine.

    Password manager- it’s too important and it’s the thing that has to work for me to recover when I break something else. I’m happy to support Bitwarden with a few bucks a year.

    Email- again, it’s mission critical and I have a habit of tinkering with things and breaking them. And it’s just no fun. The less I need to think about email, the happier I am.