every time I try to learn something, even laser targeted, I don’t get the full answer from the first thing I find, and the next answer I find introduces more complexity

Can empathize. Read a tutorial and think ‘Well, that seems pretty straight forward’. Read another tutorial about the same topic…‘Jebus that does not seem straight forward.’

That’s pretty cool. Nice UI. Seems simple to operate. I don’t have a use case, but damn good job. Maybe a couple of screenshots on the github page. Thanks for sharing and the demo.

Like last time, no real changes. Just maintaining and enjoying.

How do you guys test your backups?

The image backups I do of my server are tested in a VM

Probably better suited for this kind of thing

Yeah, the Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p’s would be the better option. Those are at least 12 years old, with a max RAM of 16gb, of which I can see some Lenovo RAM in the box so you’d be on your way.

Welcome to the exclusive club of selfhosting.

Well, the Compaq dc7900 is like 19+/- years old. That’s vintage. It would probably handle basic software as a server. If I remember correctly, the Compaq mobo had a RAM max of 8 gb.

Assuming the Lenova ThinkCenters are of the same era, again, not much you could do with them.

However, since it’s a Youth Center, you could set them up with a basic Linux distro and introduce Linux to the youngsters. That might be a worthwhile project.

That’s a gimmie. I test server image backups in a VM. So far, I’ve never had to resort of a backup, but I don’t want to find out that my image is worthless if I ever had the need.

Compuserve started offering limited internet access in '89 I believe. I hopped on board about that time. Boy it sure doesn’t seem like 37 years. Wow! I’m old. LOL

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OK cool.

I mean, that’s a decision only you can make. I did it, well… because I could. LOL

You’d typically see LAN IPV6/WAN IPV4 in an office situation where there are a large number of devices and WAN IPV6 isn’t available.

If you are asking if you can run n8n without AI, yes. That’s what I run. If you are asking whether n8n is free of any AI generated code used in it’s creation, I couldn’t speak to that.

Off the top of my head you would gain some things like superior P2P between devices like NAS because IPV6 doesn’t need NAT traversal. Better plug 'n play for devices, no ip conflicts as the probability of two devices generating the same IPv6 address is statistically zero. I guess you could throw in ‘future proofing’ your network so that when the rest of the world catches up, you’ll already be set up for it.

move to IPv6, if only for the learning experience.

I’m about the learning aspect. It is possible to have local IPV6 connectivity between devices, but only IPV4 for ingress and egress (IPv6-only LAN with IPv4-only WAN). Your router or access point will assign the IPv6 addresses to your devices usually via SLAAC or DHCPv6 and manages local IPv6 routing. Since there is no IPv6 route to the internet, it falls back to IPv4 if the application supports dual-stack or simply uses IPv4 if the OS is configured to prefer it. The router then translates or routes this traffic out via its IPv4 interface.

This is how I have configured my network. Not because my ISP doesn’t give me an IPV6 address, but because my commercial VPN does not support IPV6. In that scenario, there is a possibility of IPV6 ‘leaks’ outside of the VPN tunnel. I’m not sure about OpnSense, but pFsense has an option to enable IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling.

ETA: Did a little checking on OpnSense and it seems you can do IPV6 to IPV4 via a plugin called os-6in4.

Are you sure?

100%

Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders

The article doesn’t really say if the OneDrive or DropBoxe folders were on the physical drive that was being backed up. Backblaze has a restriction on how the backup operates. The drives must be physically connected to the computer being backed up. I have no experience with backing up Git but to date, all my back ups are what they should be. I know there is software that ‘tricks’ BackBlaze into thinking NAS drives are connected, but not sure what the actual names of the software are.

I don’t know the technology behind it, but back in the day, Google’s Picasa was pretty good at facial recognition and grouping.

Wow! Well, you can keep your attitude.

I’m not a slop jockey

Are you aware that you are not required to run AI with n8n? There are two flavors: With AI and without.