DeathByDenim

It seems impossible to log in right now. Emails with the verification code (valid for ten minutes) take many hours to arrive...

Good! I remember threatening to cancel my bank accounts last time they tried to charge me the NSF fee (which worked). I was fresh out of Europe and thought that was the most ludicrous thing. Payment couldn't go through, i.e. you literally did nothing and it cost $50 or whatever? That was over a decade ago and still mad about it. A shame it's still $10 but it's at least a manageable amount for most people.

I recently started playing Tanks of Freedom II because it was featured at yesterday's OnFOSS event. It's a fairly similar idea and fun too. Comes with a campaign as well as multiplayer. Open source too which is awesome!

Banshees of Inisherin was amazing!

Sort of. I wear a camera while cycling because there are a lot of angry people in cars that have some weird hatred towards people using a bicycle.

This is great, thanks! I've been looking for a VPS provider to get rid of Linode and had trouble find alternatives in my $8/month price range that I currently pay.

I only have the one ZBT-1 at the moment, but like you I was also thinking about getting a second for Thread (though in the form of a HA Yellow). There's this bit in the documentation for the Yellow about multiprotocol support and one of the things is that it's better to have a second wireless chip in some cases which I take to mean that you can have multiple ZBT-1, one for Zigbee and one for Thread.

For large networks it is advisable to add a second wireless chip. This allows to run Zigbee and Thread each on a dedicated wireless chip and on separate channels.

(source: https://yellow.home-assistant.io/guides/about-multiprotocol/)

Same to you and all reading this! Have a lovely ending of the year!

There's a protest coming up for this too (as well as to remember those killed and injured):

On Tuesday, October 22 join the active transportation community to remember those people using active transportation who have been killed or badly injured on Ottawa's roads in the past several weeks, and to protest Queen's Park's anti-cyclist proposed bike lane law. Meet on the north side of City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West at 5 pm for a rally and then protest ride.

I just use the built-in email function that comes with mdadm. If a drive fails, I'll know right away and replace it with a spare. You do need your server to be able to send emails with something like postfix.

If you have hardware RAID, there's often a monitoring tool that comes with it or at the very least a command-line utility that can report the RAID state which you can then use in a script.

Oh, you are going to love this one then if you haven't seen it before: https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/

I managed to fit an entire Matrix Synapse server on one of those. It works surprisingly well! You will need a domain for it though.