If you're not looking to sail the high seas, I highly recommend Libro.fm. They have had almost any audiobook I have ever wanted (e.g., Andy Weir's books in English are only available on Audible), and you can choose a local library to support with your purchase.
I subscribe to their monthly plan, $14.99/month, which gets me 1 credit per month. If you buy one audiobook a month that's $14.99, using that credit, it pays for itself. I really like using my credits on expensive audiobooks, like $25 or something (I'm basically getting the book at a discount) and then I buy cheaper audiobooks using my credit card.
You can stream your purchased books with their app, but I download the files (everything is DRM-free) and move them into Audiobookshelf. Most of their older books are just ZIP downloads of MP3s, but newer books come in M4B format (one large file with chapter markers). Both work flawlessly with Audiobookshelf.
If you buy an audiobook on Audible (e.g., Andy Weir), you can download the AAX file from Audible and use a converter to convert the file to M4B (this strips the DRM and makes it work with Audiobookshelf). This is in a legal gray-area, depending on your jurisdiction.
The 3 gigabit ports unsells this off the bat. Proposing its openness as something special is a joke because reality is that there are better hardware alternatives already available within the same price range that can have OpenWrt ported to if not already.
If you’re going to try to sell the hacker mentality, why not take it to a platform such as the Alta Route10 (available yesterday with much better specs incl. PoE).
And anyone who has dealt with Freescale IP will also tell you it’s a dumpster fire. There is no longevity here, only gimmicky marketing. OpenWrt is also tooting the same bs horn with their OpenWrt One, yesterdays specs for tomorrow.
So far, the Equinix Metal shutdown affects Freedesktop, Alpine, WireGuard, and Flathub. Why can't these organizations use VMs? Is there something special about bare-metal services, or has Equinix not offered their VM service to these organizations?
VMs introduce security issues that bare metal don't have. Those security issues are mostly academic for most people and many projects, but not for software where a supply chain compromise could severely impact all users of that software.
Imagine if Wireguard were backdoored because someone working for the ISP that runs the VMs compromised their VMs through the hypervisor. How would a project audit an ISP? How could anything be trusted? Bottom line: it can't. ISPs don't give that kind of information to customers unless you're special (government, spend crazy money).
While it's still possible to compromise a machine through physical access, it's MUCH more difficult. How do you bring it in to single user mode to introduce a privileged user without people noticing that it's down, even momentarily, or that the uptime is now zero? Compromise like this is possible, but worlds more difficult to pull off than compromise through hypervisor.
Possible I'm just not remembering the history right, but I think this is from when "Equinix metal" was packet.com. I think this is a handshake deal they had from before they were bought, and it's going away as packet.com becomes more integrated into Equinix.
How are VMs solving this issue? You cannot just snapshot them and migrate them to another provider. You'll get different local-IPv4 and different IPv6, etc.
TL;DR: apples and oranges. Plus, monitoring is hard.
"urllib.request" sends an HTTP request. It implies that the thing you want to monitor is an HTTP endpoint. Even if that's true, you still have to decide whether you're okay with just getting a 200 status code back, or whether you want to scrape the page for a certain result as your signal of healthy or broken.
"ping" is an ICMP echo/reply. Ignoring that ICMP messages can be blocked by routers, an ICMP reply can tell you that the host's network interface is alive and that's about all. It doesn't mean any service on that host is online. I have seen hosts that send ICMP replies but were otherwise fully hung by some storage or kernel issue.
Man, this is cool! I would love if each tile would be clickable! I have a homelab and this would be a great landing page to be able to give out to family to see the status and links to all services in the house.
If you’d like something with a GUI for configuration, I’ve been using [Uptime Kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) for a couple years now with an “internal” status page for all services in my homelab, and a “public” page for family to see the few services they would care about. I also think [Homepage](https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage) might be a good fit since it links to the services on the page, and has a little indicator dot for if it’s online or not.
>All units and projectiles are simulated in real-time. The game offers fully simulated projectile ballistics, explosion physics and terrain deformation.
I switched to Planka after Focalboard went community-supported[1], but failed to appoint any community leaders. So far, I'm very happy with Planka for my needs at home.
There are more self-hosted options in this link[2].
I'm not the parent-level poster but I've stood-up a Mattermost instance a few times and it's really easy to get going and is good for a text-IM/DM channel/group service. The desktop app or web-based interface work quite well and the architecture is pretty sane, Javascript front-end, golang-based "backend", Postgres database.
But, there are some frustrating aspects.
LDAP is only available in the "enterprise" edition which is kind of crazy and there is no price-break for < 10 users. So for personal / non-commercial usage if you want LDAP you're placed into an enterprise bucket. I reached out to Mattermost and pointed this out and even said "Hey, what about offering a 10-user license for some reasonable fee?" No response.
I subscribe to their monthly plan, $14.99/month, which gets me 1 credit per month. If you buy one audiobook a month that's $14.99, using that credit, it pays for itself. I really like using my credits on expensive audiobooks, like $25 or something (I'm basically getting the book at a discount) and then I buy cheaper audiobooks using my credit card.
You can stream your purchased books with their app, but I download the files (everything is DRM-free) and move them into Audiobookshelf. Most of their older books are just ZIP downloads of MP3s, but newer books come in M4B format (one large file with chapter markers). Both work flawlessly with Audiobookshelf.
If you buy an audiobook on Audible (e.g., Andy Weir), you can download the AAX file from Audible and use a converter to convert the file to M4B (this strips the DRM and makes it work with Audiobookshelf). This is in a legal gray-area, depending on your jurisdiction.