Ah yes that makes sense. I was taken aback by my latest install of freepbx. I feel it wasn’t as aggressive during the Digium days but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

I heard good things about free switch, although it seems like a paradigm change. I’ll have to check it out.

Interesting - why avoid asterisk?

I looked into fusion to play with but I’ve been using asterisk casually since like the 00s with no issues.

You may have facts but there are like 10 people here saying they won’t buy a Tesla so…

The NY Times no knead. It’s just so easy. It doesn’t make the best loaf but the effort to tasty ratio is pretty damn good.

And since you asked for biscuits - I’m in the north so I don’t know any better but these are so simple and come out so good. I do replace the shortening with cold butter though. I didn’t like the taste of vegetable shortening.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20075/basic-biscuits/

Excellent! Nice work.

I don’t know what dns rebind is but once DNS A records are pointed to the right place then it’s just a matter of setting up the rest of your stuff.

Is that expected? Otherwise check to make sure DNS settings for the domain are correct (eg ns records dig NS example.com IIRC).

First off - you don’t explicitly say so I just want to double check - you’re not using example.com as the actually domain correct?

If not the next thing to do would be to check out what DNS is doing. You can use the dig command to see what IP address is being returned for the domains you’re trying to hit.

dig +trace may be useful as well.

I like monit. It’s simple to setup and pretty flexible.

https://mmonit.com/monit/

I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:

https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration

“About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”

So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.

That includes countries other than South America:

“76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“

I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.

Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.

Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.

A little bit of a different tack but check out getting into ham radio. There are a lot of kits out there that are reasonably easy to assemble and provide some good documentation on what you’re assembling.

And when you’re done you can talk to people all over the world with what you made!

No man. McDonald’s used to be cheap, fast and decent. The original burger in 1955 was 15 cents, or about $1.75 today. Don’t forget how far things have fallen lol

Not a particularly helpful comment but I struggled with this kinda thing until switching to Node Red. It made complex things much easier to get working.

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/easy-no-knead-focaccia

I use this recipe and it is absolutely my most requested loaf of bread I make. More than one person calls me up to ask that I make it.

Make sure you make the butter topping, get some nice flaked salt (I use wild garlic flake salt).

If you’re new to bread the best thing you can do for yourself is get a scale and weigh your ingredients.

And practice a lot

This is all true ofc but holy crap - Jon is returning to the daily show.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/entertainment/jon-stewart-daily-show/index.html

I did 1300 queries which I think would put it at .007 cents per query. Sounds reasonable to me.

I always fear it comes across that way when I recommend it to people here. I’m just a very happy user and want to see them succeed.

They now have unlimited searches for $10/mo. That’s what got me to try it out.

You are correct though. I really do not like having all of my search history tied to my credit card (and then me). What helps me justify that is that instead of me being the product like google, by paying I’ve become the customer. Hopefully that incentivizes keeping them on the up and up.

I did come across searnxg in this thread. It looks like that can be self hosted so I’m gonna give that a try as well.

Come on over to Kagi! You do have to pay but I use a search engine dozens of times per day so I’m not too bothered by it.

There’s nothing really bad with PiHole but I moved from it to AdGuard, both on proxmox. The UI brought me in, makes management a bit easier. It also supports DoH right out of the box.

Try em both. See what you think.

I don’t know for hosting but if you want to get something running quickly Hugo has theme support:

https://gohugo.io

Otherwise you could whip up a few html pages and use tailwindcss to help make things look a little nicer.

https://tailwindcss.com

Or just do everything manually :)