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I already live in NZ 😆

We had to travel to Iceland to find something that was sufficiently more impressive than what we have at home.

Funnily, a lot of people thought that the pictured Wharariki Beach was actually the (somewhat) similar looking Cathedral Cove, half the country away.

I haven’t actually seen the former in person, but it’s quite a trek from civilisation. Someday.

Except that people are also visiting it for real (this article posted a couple of days ago):

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/the-windows-10-lock-screen-photo-is-becoming-a-travel-destination-and-its-a-real-new-zealand-beach/

I said this to someone once and they accused me of being “elitist”. The simple fact is when I learned how to do this stuff, there was no such thing as a GUI for any of it. You did it on the CLI, or not at all.

(Almost the exact same experience with git, funnily enough)

I 100% agree though; the bones of the setup of my NAS (admittedly mine is Ubuntu, just because everything else I run is too) was done once 18 months ago, and most has never been touched again. Just software updates every now and then and ignore it the rest of the time.

I don’t feel like I’ve lost any functionality doing things this way, either. I discovered when a disk died that it even uses SES to light the error LED and turn on the annoying beeping noise on the JBOD, and I didn’t have to do anything to set that up. I call that a win.

Not that I know of, which means I can only assume it’ll be a timing-based attack.

With strategic use of sleep statements in the script you should stand a pretty good chance of detecting the HTTP download blocking while the script execution is paused.

If you were already shipping the kind of script that unpacks a binary payload from the tail end of the file and executes it, it’s well within the realm of possibility to swap it for a different one.

That, or the aspiring rich arsehole.

Not even a beneficiary, just a grossly misguided individual who hasn’t yet realised that will, in fact, not be them some day.

Forget no more!

https://youtu.be/evV05QeSjAw

At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn’t have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It’s relatively convenient that it’s self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.

(Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)

If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They’re cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.

Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you’ve got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.

(Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)

All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.

I’m considering a similar one.

Our kitchen ceiling lights now have a Shelly relay in their circuit. I’m considering a smart bulb in the rangehood - unusually, it fits a full-size A60/B22 bulb, so basically any standard smart lighting is an option - so it can be synced with the rest of the kitchen lights.

Also who wouldn’t want to be able to have green light while cooking?

Nearly 15 years, and still no progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsIz8xn3srI