We have a local ‘battery’ store where you bring in your appliance with dead batteries, say a cordless drill, and they will refurbish it with a replacement battery. Sometimes the refurb process is more expensive than just outright buying a new appliance, so you have to use your judgement.

Things just seemed…simpler back then.

I do run a Searxng private instance and love it.

Usenet…boy that brings back some memories from back in the day. Surprised that it seems to still be going strong.

call Spectrum for a quote so I can then call AT&T and harass them into giving me the correct price for another year.

It’s a shitty business model. Over the years I’ve found that in order to get the most out of Spectrum it is necessary to be a royal asshole and live in their phones. Here in this locale, Spectrum contracted with the local schools to be their ISP, so Spectrum became a utility just like water, power, etc. We even have a complaint form on our official county’s website to facilitate being a royal asshole when necessary.

Wonky Coffee

Never heard of them, checked it out. That’s a noble cause. I think we Americans especially, waste so much food it’s downright embarrassing. Yet we make laws that say it is prohibited to feed the homeless. That’s unconscionable imho. I strongly feel, we as a society, have a moral obligation to our fellow man to help when help is needed, no matter who they are or how they came to be in need.

I could see that and I’ll graciously accept it if it happens.

That’s about all you can do. To me, if you are a selfhoster with an equipment question, who better to ask than selfhosters who utilize the same equipment. The absence of very active Lemmy instances dictates that equipment questions will get funneled to the most active communities. I had one deleted yesterday. No worries, it all got sorted out and I did get my question answered thanks to some very patient and knowledgeable users.

Kagi Duo

I understand the concept, free search engines aren’t free, but I’m just not there yet enough to pay for a search engine. I don’t have ads on my network period, haven’t in decades. I also filter heavily through pFsense and other means. So, while I am admittedly still contributing somewhat to a major search engine, at the very least I have still retained most of my data, and search results must be selected with prudence.

the missing sock ghost

This guy I have beef with. Also the missing keys fairy.

But if it’s for spoofing

Yeah. I just thu that in there thinking that in as an example. Of course, you’re right, you’d get clinked.

I appreciate that. A lot of it has to do with my TBI and being an old fart only compounds the problem. Meh What you gonna do? Keep on truckin’.

Tailscale is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) which is different than a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

ETA: Oops. I see your question has been answered multiple times. It seems you are a beginner at selfhosting and trying to get a grip on what’s necessary to start and trying to wrap your brain around all the acronyms. There is absolutely no shame in being a beginner. Everyone in this community was a beginner at some point in their life. So, don’t be bashful about asking questions. I’ve found the folks here to be patient and helpful.

A VPS is a Virtual Private Server, such as one would rent from a provider like digitalocean.com com or similar. Most of the crew here run their homelab off of equipment located in their residence. If a VPS is the path you’d like to take, then that would be a subscription. If you have equipment in your physical possession, that is yet another path. Either way, security is of utmost importance.

Ahhh fuck Wireguard. This old brain is not functioning today.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

• Wireshark Wireguard (VPN): free
• SearxNG (Search Engine): free
• Equipment: widely varies

The whole idea of selfhosting is to cut out corporate subscriptions and to retain your privacy, security, anonymity, and data.

Thank you very much for your patience in trying to tweeze out all the proper info out of me. I feel like a slightly educated dumbass now. LOL Thanks again.

Weird. It loads here:

Results of lsblk:

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

loop0 7:0 0 63.8M 1 loop /snap/core20/2866

loop1 7:1 0 63.9M 1 loop /snap/core20/2318

loop2 7:2 0 87M 1 loop /snap/lxd/29351

loop3 7:3 0 38.8M 1 loop /snap/snapd/21759

loop4 7:4 0 91.7M 1 loop /snap/lxd/38800

loop5 7:5 0 49.3M 1 loop /snap/snapd/26865

sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk

├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi

├─sda2 8:2 0 2G 0 part /boot

└─sda3 8:3 0 462.7G 0 part

└─dm_crypt-0 253:0 0 462.7G 0 crypt

└─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 253:1    0   100G  0 lvm   /

how do I resize my LVM LV to fill the rest of my LVM PV

Again, apologies for my confusion and not being able to articulate coherently or precisely.