Do people just forget that tact is a thing that exists?

That’s what I’ve done for years. Makes managing things much easier, and I run multiple APs (all with the same SSID/PSK) and you can just roam to the best one. One upstairs, one downstairs, one in the weird dead zone in my office, and one on the back patio (it’s not hardwired and uses the mesh connection for uplink).

These are all old Aruba APs running OpenWRT but that’s the plan for this Cudy Model. I may pick up a few more and just replace all of my trusty but very old Arubas.

I bought this one last month when it was on sale for $39: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRK3CYY3

Haven’t deployed it yet, but it’s fully supported by OpenWRT. I would only be using it as an access point, though. My router is a USFF Optiplex with an extra NIC and runs OpenWRT.

I have an Omega Molecule joke, but we’re not allowed to talk about it.

Yep, that’s the one.

I’ll reserve a phone but not a truck, lol. Looks like those are scheduled to be out late 2026, so probably at least next year before I can even think about getting my hands on one.

At least it’s still a thing.

I used to drive a 2004 Ranger and loved it. Would absolutely love an EV version even if the range isn’t super great. Mostly need a truck occasionally and for hauling stuff from the home improvement store or if I find furniture at a garage sale or something.

Need to check and see if that $20,000 no-frills EV truck is making any progress.

Lol, exactly that.

Lol, I was about to reply to the main post and make the same joke.

Audio transcribing should be the little “waveform” icon at the right of the text input:

Image generation, I’m not sure as that’s not a use-case I have and don’t think the small-ish models I run are even capable of that.

I’m not sure how audio transcribing works in OpenWebUI (I think it has built-in models for that?) but image generation is a “capability” that needs to be both part of the model and enabled in the models settings (Admin => Settings => Models)

I feel like I’m stepping around landmines replying this, but I never liked the analogy either. It works fine at a small scale, and I’m fine with that, but everyone here wants to apply it universally at a macro scale to the point it’s just ridiculous.

e.g. If a nazi moves in down the street, and everyone else doesn’t up and move, regardless of their financial situation, you live in a nazi neighborhood. Guess you and your kids should just go live in your car because…moral purity or something.

🤚totally guilty there.

I wish there was a way to mute or turn off replies, and I might post more. Sometimes / often I’ll want to post something but definitely do not want to be bombarded with the comments it would generate. Other times, I’ll like the community but not be involved enough in whatever hobby to post anything but still enjoy seeing other people’s work (e.g. HAM radio, sewing, etc).

New U.S. rules will soon ban Chinese software in vehicle systems that connect to the cloud

Seems to me that the easiest way to get into compliance would be to not make the car connect to the cloud/internet. I’m gonna drive my 2017 model until I can buy a new car that isn’t a smartphone on wheels.

which does not explain why this port or the others are blocked. I also lack the technical background to understand this decision.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but understanding the reason for that decision is pretty important if you’re planning to run your own email server. A misconfigured email server (which is very easy to do) becomes a problem for everyone else when it inevitably gets used to spam. There’s also a lot of ancillary things to configure correctly as well (DKIM, SPF, DMARC policies, spam filtering, etc) lest everything seems to work but no one is able to receive mail from you or it always ends up in their spam folder.

While I disagree with port 25 being permanently blocked on residential (and often even business-class) connections, I understand why in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t read Finnish, but here are the general reasons why:

1. Port 25 is for SMTP transport and typically only used for server-to-server (MTA) email traffic. This is unauthenticated between servers. Clients (MUAs) connect through a “submission” port which is pretty much expected to be authenticated/access-controlled. That’s why you can send emails to an email provider but you can’t be an email provider yourself. By blocking port 25, malicious people or people that have been compromised with malware cannot just blindly blast out spam email. This reduces spam considerably, though with a compromise of slightly restricting what a residential connection can be used for.

2. Most big email providers universally block emails that originate from an IP address that’s assigned to a residential IP/provider. Same reason as above. This means even if your ISP were to unblock port 25 for you, you likely wouldn’t be able to send email to any major email provider (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, etc) as they would just sinkhole any messages you send to users there.

That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.

Can you bypass that and host at home?

Yes, if you’re willing to work for it. You can setup a VPS (cloud server) and port-forward across a VPN connection to your home server. Your DNS records for your email server would point to the VPS’s IP, and the email server would need to be configured to use the VPS as its default route so all traffic goes in/out over the VPN connection. This is how my email server is configured.

Sounds easy enough, right? Well, good luck getting a VPS with a “clean” IP. Most VPSs you can get in public clouds are already on one or more public spam blocklists as well as many private/internal blocklists. You can clean up an IPs reputation and make it work with minimal to no delivery problems, but it’s a LOT of work and often requires finding hidden forms to submit the request (Microsoft/Outlook was a brute, and I only found the link to the form in a forum post). I’ve cleaned up two IPs like that, and it took 2-3 weeks of work before I was able to get reliable delivery.

Lol, touche. Also:

In order and in character:

1. [Chidi]: No, that would be highly unethical
2. [Eleanor] Of course. How else would you do it?
3. [Eleanor] Obviously they had it coming so no harm no foul.
4. [Jason] Nah, Pill-Boi said it was fine.
5. [Tahani] My heavens, no. I would never want to upset my friend Ray. Charles. Ray Charles was my friend.
6. [Jason] In Jacksonville we’re legally required to.
7. [Chidi] Given the ethical implications of restraining user freedom but also providing safety for the majority of people, we have to take into account several factors [ pulls out a blackboard, stomach ache intensifies ]…

I mean, it might if you did all 4 of those with the same post. lol. The Judge would invent “The Super Bad Place” for that.

Just seeing that is giving me a horrible flashback to Reddit and not being able to block “Superstonks”. By the time they eventually rolled out the ability to mute subs, I’d already learned there was a 1,000 user limit on the number of people you could block b/c I started blocking anyone who posted there lol.

I don’t even bother with local ports anymore. It’s just too much hassle when I switch providers, email services all seem to universally sinkhole anything originating from a residential IP even if I am able to convince them to unblock 25/TCP, and I refuse to pay extra for a static IP or upsell to business class at a massive price increase.

My ISP, while otherwise fine, still has not rolled out IPv6 yet and the DHCPv4 lease duration is short and will randomly assign a different IP rather than renewing the lease on the existing one. I don’t like relying on dynamic DNS or relying on running a daemon to update my public DNS records when my public IP changes. Been there, done that, and bought a crappy t-shirt at the gift shop.

I’ve had a VPS for close to 10 years now that is my main frontend and, through some VPN and routing trickery, allows me to have my email server on-prem but use the VPS for all inbound and outbound communication. A side effect benefit of this setup is I can run my email server from literally anywhere and from anything with an internet connection. I’ve got a copy of my email stack on a Pi Zero clone that stays in sync with my main one. During long power outages, I can start that up and run it from a hotspot with a power bank running it for almost 2 days (or indefinitely when I’m also charging the power bank from a solar panel lol).

Yep, same except being one of the first ones in the state.

The best part is it works when the power is out and doesn’t flap constantly if the electricity blips. Every cable provider I’ve ever had has failed spectacularly at maintaining the UPSs in the neighborhood nodes.